12 Sept 2025 |“Camera con Paesaggio” public screening of Landscape Videomaking

On September 12th, the screening of 3 selected documentaries for “Camera con Paesaggio” was held, a section of the Euganea Film Festival dedicated to the Landscape Videomaking laboratory, supported by our MobiLab, active at the Landscape Studies Degree Course.

Thanks to the work of professors Mauro Varotto, Marco Toffanin and Michele Trentini, the event highlighted the work of 3 short films:

Creating and recreating the homeland (8′) by Wang Yimei, Skibeach (13′) by Marco Toffanin and Michele Trentini, Via Melograno (7′) by Francesco Casari.

Euganea Film Festival has become a very consolidated stakeholder for the Landscape Studies Degree Course.

We see great potential in this collaboration because it involves our MoHu in its 3 missions: teaching, research and third mission.

From the teaching perspective, thanks to the Camera con Paesaggio section, the festival allows us to enhance the visibility of our students’ work from the degree course in Landscape Sciences. Students participate in the Landscape Videomaking Laboratory, also thanks to the equipment and software developed by our Laboratories. The best products have the opportunity to be presented at the festival.

But Euganea Film Festival also obviously stimulates our third mission, because it allows us to go beyond academic walls and get in touch with the territory, particularly addressing environmental sustainability issues, which is crucial both for the message that the Festival wants to convey to citizens and for the disciplines we study and teach at DiSSGeA.

This partnership with the Festival means a lot to us not only in terms of teaching and third mission, but also in the field of research. With this collaboration we nurture interest in film, in audiovisuals, as a method for scientific research in human and social sciences, a method that allows us to use alternative languages to interrogate the landscape, mobility, the environment, to explore its complexity and transformations, to find “new ways of looking”, which are always also “new ways of saying” materiality and the meaning of geographical space.

We are very grateful to all the personnel involved, to the laboratory professors, to our laboratory technicians, and above all to the students who put themselves out there every year.