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Nina Felshin

Nina Felshin

(United States)
Nina Felshin is a curator of contemporary art, writer, activist, and race walker. Her exhibitions include: Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament, Global Warning: Artists and Climate Change, Black and Blue: Examining Police Violence, Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, and Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub.

She is also the editor of But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism. She lives in New York City.
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pedinamento

A highly influential ideologue of neorealism, scriptwriter and director Cesare Zavattini suggested “pedinare,” the Italian word for stalking or shadowing, as a technique for filmmaking. Pedinare in cinema entailed “tailing someone like a detective, not determining what the character does but seeking to find out what is about to ensue.” The etymology of the word in Italian suggests “legwork” as it is derived from the Italian word for foot, “piede.” It is possible to suggest that the proliferation of images of walking in Italian Neorealism is closely linked to the technique of pedinamento, not because all neorealist filmmakers were followers of Zavattini, but because going out onto the street to encounter the everyday life of post-war Italian cities and creating cinematic tools to articulate these encounters were major concerns for the filmmakers of that era.

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