Dr. Vito Adriaensens, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Film Department, invites you to a book presentation of Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema at NYU's Casa Italiana on Friday 19 October at 6.30 pm. The presentation will be followed by a screening of the beautiful Italian silent film Il Fauno (The Faun; Febo Mari, 1917. 70 mins.) with live music by stellar woodwindist Tal Shtuhl. 

Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media, from early film’s eroticized tableaux vivants to enigmatic sculptures in modernist cinema. The book is currently available for pre-order in paperback. 

Il Fauno is a silent film from the peak of Italian pictorialism, in which a statue of a faun comes to life to console an artist's model. The film was directed by and stars Febo Mari, the heartthrob powerhouse who acted alongside Eleonora Duse and the great Italian divas of the 1910s, and is a poetic reflection on the theme of Pygmalion and Galatea. 

The event is free and open to the public, seats are assigned on a first-come basis unless you are a member of the Casa Italiana.