… i.e. : A public reading of texts of the book of Pascal Corrazza, “Voyage en italique” dealing with his investigation about the Italian origins of his family, more precisely about his grandfather having emigrated from Venezia-Trieste area to Charente-Maritime in the 1920’s. .

He started only recently to investigate about this Italian origin of his family and so started to learn Italian lately, this led him to go and work in Italy , mainly Sicilia, to meet Mimmo Cuttichio, the Sicilian “puppi” (puppetry) master.

And for this reason, as it is the rule of this 22th evening event “A writer chooses a movie“, and also because his personal concern with “migrants”, “frontiers”,…, Pascal Corrazza choose as a movie, “Terraferma” of Emanuele Crialese in which the main character, the old fisherman Ernesto, is wonderfully played by Mimmo Cuttichio.

Pascal Corrazza introduced the “Terraferma” movie with a special short and recent interview movie of Mimmo Cuttichio, shot in front of his “puppi”, explaining how sharing the everyday life of the people of Linosa, the island between Lampedusa, Sicilia and Malta where the movie was shot, how playing this “fisherman” role, similar to the old fishermen whom the Comenius Italian students showed to us in their slide-show in Malta, changed his life and how this tiny island’s problem with depletion of fisheries, impact of tourism, African migrants and others, were nowadays of “universal concern“…

During the after movie talk, Pascal Corrazza told a lot about “the art of the puppi” in Palermo and Catania (about which we knew nothing …before “Comenius” with what Licia and Pasquale told us about…) and that he was until recently working as “French language attaché culturel” in Sicilia, knowing, among other sicilian high-schools, a certain high-school named IPSIA Enrico Fermi… and was involved in some Sicilian schools European projects…

To know more about:
• About “Terraferma“:
http://www.terrafermailfilm.it/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5m-RFhaJxk
to see the sequence with the “old law of the sea and modern law” debate similar to the one in “Antigone” of Sophocles, with French-subtitles, and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_vlaGx4aE
more complete, titled “l codice del mare“ (= “The code of the sea“), but only in Italian.

• About “L’opera dei Pupi di Mimmo Cuticchio“, that we might maybe see during the coming next 4th Comenius “The Sea” meeting in Sicilia :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0bQu2AAKw

• About the “nowadays migrants in the Mediterranean sea” issue, and it’s relation with “Aquaculture”…, see “The Unwanted“, of the Maltese journalist and graphic writer, Joe Sacco, first published in The Gardian (see here) in July 2010, then as part of the comics book, “Journalism“, (Joe Sacco, Jonathan Cape Random House publisher, 2011) or in french “Les Indésirables“, first translated in Courrier International, in 2010, then as part of the comics book “Reportages“, -see here in French-, (Joe Sacco, Futuropolis publisher, 2011), nominee at the “Festival international de la Bande dessinée d’Angoulême 2012”,

that the students, having been in Malta, might read during their next visit to the “Cité internationale de la bande dessinée” in Angoulême, on 2013 December 5th.