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HYDROSPACE - The other half of the Planet
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Will be the underlying theme of the
Festival 2007.
The theme considers water
with a broad gasp, with times and volumes being overlooked by our every day life.
Carved in the rocks are our absolute proofs of wide oceans which mastered our planetís
surface yet billions years ago, as well as startling fauna and flora inhabited waters.
Precisely these underwater organisms have been the supporters of what we all know
to be essential for life on earth, oxygen air.
Considerations which lead us to bethink the importance that water had throughout
the global development of Planet Earth up today.
Explorations which enabled us to discover continents and the countless archipelagos
in our globe took place through seas, in appreciation of the desire to widen wisdom
and horizons, yet to the venturesome spirit of captains and navigators who ploughed
Oceans.
Oceans which for centuries have been considered an unknown and redoubtable entity.
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To beseech dangers and snares, ships were endowed with figureheads, who acted as
propitiatory and guarding figures, which were nearly able to act as an intermediary
between the ship and the sea.
www.museotecniconalvale.it
It is just in the 20th century, all through second world war, the equipment utilized
for diving activities expanded. These techniques brought us to the discovery of all
that the deepness seascapes preserve.
Thus, the sea has lost its monsters, starting to unveil its amazements. |
These matters put beside the ONU choice to devote triennium 2007-2009 to Planet Earth
ó or better to the Globe ó with the purpose of sensitizing the population about the
delicate natural equilibriums and their interactions with resources, essential for
everyone.
http://www.yearofplanetearth.org/proclamation.htm
Special attention is owed
to fresh water which has, and always will have, immense importance for our everyday
life, for the worldís survival in general.
To Planet Water other areas belong, which ranges in numerous branches, different
among themselves, occasionally subsidiary and of great interest, as biology, environment,
scientific research yet also aesthetics, photography, movies.
During the Biannual progress some of these topicsí features will be expanded thanks
to the participation of experts and researchers; however, the vastness of the Globe
will be recounted also by images which will enable the viewers to dream. |
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Guests
of Honor
There are
four figures, who have been faithful to the Underwater Picture Biannual of Lugano.
Their contribution has been a determining factor for the outcome of every single
edition. Excitement, mastery, inventiveness have been the components of their contribution
to make the Diaporama - core of our exhibition -exciting and fascinating.
 Pierfranco
Dilenge
lives in Milan. Underwater
photographer of great success, bright author of diaporama, yet attended the first
edition in 1987; together with his wife Renza, walked step by step the Biannual,
dragging themselves in, enthusiastically every single time, involving a new generation
of photographers.
Bernhard
Rothan lives in Pertuius
in the South of France. Tireless and generous figure, always on the go with a projector,
or a camera in his hands, nay, with two cameras. Thanks to his technical skills,
at the Biannual, we could find out and admire the ever first 3D underwater pictures
and the amazing 3D diaporama effects.
Lionel
Pozzoli lives in Paris.
At the Biannual, he stood for the CMAS (world underwater activities union) for several
years. Excellent and fortunate underwater photographer, first with his french colleagues
and then with his wife Tally, took part to the creation of diaporama and multivisions
of great impact.
Raymond
Sahuquet lives in Paris. Skillful photographer, producer and great professional
accomplisher of multivision shows, includes among his client some of the greates
airlines companies and travel industries. His technical contribution to the Biannual
as his bright works, have contributed to exalt the quality of the show.
Special
Guest
John Boyle
Shark Bay Films is John Boyle and Fionn Crow Howieson.
From a specialized underwater filming unit, we have grown into an internationally
respected filming and production team, although our first love remains the ocean.
John started diving back in 1971 when he was 17 and made his first film in 1990 since
when he has produced around twenty underwater documentary films that have sold to
television stations worldwide and won dozens of International awards.
Fionn has been diving for 10 years and is in his eighth year working full time with
John as editor and cameraman.The "Critters" trilogy filmed during thousands
of hours diving in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait has won multiple international awards
worldwide including the unprecedented accolade of a double Palme d'Or at the Antibes
festival. New films for release to television in 2007 include Secrets of the Giant
Sharks about the intriguing secret lives of the planet's greatest sharks, and
"Klin Warra" which is an intriguing look at the underwater world
of Papua New Guinea.While still underwater filming specialists, Shark Bay Films
take on a wide variety of other work, and our corporate client base includes various
national tourist boards, airlines, a helicopter company, hotels, resorts and cruise
ships. Among other prestigious contracts, we have produced all Seychelles and Papua
New Guinea's current tourism promotional films.
Recently we have started work with the UK's top surfing magazine Carve
and O'Neill on a film about big wave surfing in Britain.
John's articles have been widely published and he is author of the definitive guide
to underwater film making -"A Step By Step Guide To Underwater Video. John is
a trustee of The Shark Trust, and a regular guest presenter at film festivals
worldwide.
Projects for 2007 include production of a definitive multi language DVD about the
underwater world of Papua New Guinea, a similar project in Seychelles and a film
closer to home about the underwater life in the seas around Cornwall. Shark Bay
Films is also establishing an underwater stock shots library.
Shark Bay Films has an extensive underwater stock footage library with hundreds
of hours of footage compiled during 15 years of filming throughout the oceans of
the world and we have provided footage to BBC, Granada, and a number of other international
broadcasters.
John Boyle
presents the première of his films
Klin Warra
means clear water in pidgin.
The place is Papua New Guinea.
A huge mysterious land of jungle cloaked mountains and pristine tropical islands.
A society of isolated tribes where almost one third of the world's languages are
spoken, and where strange and gruesome traditions survive.
An ocean where huge shoals of giant fish gather over remote sea mounts.
An ocean of massive biodiversity, home to the most bizarre sea creatures on the planet.
And where the debris of WW2 is scattered throughout the jungle and across the sea
floor.
Over 3 years John Boyle has explored the high mountains and great rivers of this
last frontier and dived the remotest islands and even deep in the jungle,
capturing images of underwater splendour and of creatures never filmed before. This
film is the result of those explorations. It's possibly John's greatest film to date.
Secrets of the Giant Sharks
The two biggest fish on the planet ó the whale shark and the basking shark.
Yet until now we have known virtually nothing about their secret lives. All our knowledge
of them has been based on encounters at the ocean surface; once they disappeared
back below the waves the lives of these giant sharks have been total mysteries to
us. Where they go for most of the year -how they spend their lives when out of our
sight ó is one of natureís greatest unsolved riddles.
The ultimate ocean predator ó the great white shark ó the very pinnacle of the food
chain. Found in specific regions, are these just localized groupings ó or is there
a worldwide network of great whites scouring the worldís seas?
At opposite ends of the planet small groups of scientists are using the most modern
technology to uncover the secrets of the worldís greatest sharks ó and with intriguing
resultsÖ
Multi award winning Shark Bay Films have been given exclusive access to film
the research projects ó and to the results, which totally demolish the currently
held theories about these ocean giants.
This hour long documentary has everything the audience wants -
-sharks ó giant sharks up to 20 metres long ó plus everyoneís ultimate shark the
Great White
-genuine ocean research against the fabulous backdrops of Seychelles and Cornwall
-use of the most modern technology to unravel natureís secrets
-real answers to mysteries that have intrigued science until now
-but answers that are not what was expectedÖ
Itís a film that everyone will be talking about.
www.sharkbayfilms.com |
Conventions
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Someone likes it warm : life alongside
oceanic dorsal
Spokesman :
Stefano Bernasconi, born in 1961, grew up in Neggio. He achieved his high
school diploma in Lugano, he pursued his degree in 1986 and, in 1991, his Doctoral
Degree in Geology from the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. "The origin of Mountain
San George's bituminous schist" was the topic of his doctoral thesis. Since
1992 he has been facilitator and researcher at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich.
His main scientific interests encompass the studies of carbon's cycle, nitrogen and
sulphur, in lakes and seas, as well as pale climatology. He joined a deep drilling
expedition in the Mediterranean Sea and various international projects. Among these
the study of hydrothermal springs in "Lost City" , a submarine city located
in the Atlantic Ocean, of great scientific interest. Stefano Bernasconi is coauthor
of more than 80 releases on favorably regarded international magazines.
The Sepik Skill
Spokesman :
Francesco Paolo Campione, graduated from University of Milan in Letters, has
specialized his anthropological studies at the International Center of Ethno History
in Palermo. Since 1990-1992 he has taken part to the exposition research and planning
team, prepared in Genoa in the event of America's Discovery fifth century anniversary.
From 1992 to 1996, he performed field researches in New Guinea (in the regions of
Sandaun and East Sepik). He then performed scientific counsels activities for museums,
publishing firms, public and private foundations. He managed for several years International
Institutions dealing with art, anthropology and communications. Since 2004 he has
been a facilitator for the University of Insubria (Como and Varese) and for the Professional
University in the Italian part of Switzerland. Since 2005 he has been commissioned
as trustee for the Lugano Extra European Cultures Museum.
Since 1991 he has hold more than hundred conferences, seminars and different kind
of training classes, he has presented the results of his studies and researches producing
five volumes, seven catalogues, and about fifty articles on magazines and others
writer's works. Furthermore, he's working on the planning and curatorship of fourteen
different interim anthropology and art exhibitions. |
Projections
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Broad space will be given as usual
to Diaporama-Projections, the core of the show. It is a projection technique,
though complying with the beauty of every single image, allows to develop an audiovisual
speech which will give free play to oneís imagination.
Furthermore, the aim is to involve viewers, inform them on the difficult equilibrium
of these ecosystems, which need to be protected in order to keep them vital.
In addition, three-dimensional projections (3D), videos and movies will be
shown.
The authors invited in Lugano will present pieces of work which the organizers regard
valuable and of particular interest.
| Friday 2 |
Diaporama - Projections - Hall A |
| 09.15 - 10.30 |
Programme for schools |
| 14.15 - 15.30 |
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| 20.30 - 23.00 |
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| Saturday 3 |
Diaporama - Projections - Hall A |
| 10.00 - 12.00 |
For the public |
| 14.00 - 18.30 |
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| 20.30 - 23.00 |
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| Host Gino Buscaglia famous movies-projections critic-expert |
| Friday 2 |
Projection video
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For the public |
| Saturday 3 |
Projection video
+ 3D - Hall B |
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For the public |
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Exhibitions - Main
Hall
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Hydrospace - compilation,
The exhibition may be visited:
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February 1st 2007 |
20.30 - 22.00 |
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February 2nd 2007 |
09.00 - 23.00 |
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Saturday 3rd 2007 |
09.00 - 23.00 |
Figurehead
Look out - To welcome visitors.
The amazement
pool ñ Images and reflections
on water
Woods rustle
and river whisper ñ Exhibition
of fresh water in mountain setting
( Settings produced by Fredy Bachmann ñ Photography by Mauro Bernasconi )
Lost City :
a wonderful metropolis in the deepness of Atlantic Ocean.
Huge and reminiscent calcareous formations created by hydrothermal springs, which
are located in the Atlantic long crested ridge, discovered in the year 2000, during
a research expedition.
Stromatolites
Throughout the Biannual the public will have the chance to view a few living
stromatolites in aquarium, excellent witnesses of Hydrospace's development. These
organisms, made up of an intricate symbiosis of primitive microbes, are the most
ancient traces of life on Earth.
Today we know these living being inhabited the oceans of our planet already 3450
million years ago, an exorbitant period if we consider that dinosaurs showed up 200
million years ago, whereas Homo Sapiens date back only 0.2 million.
As no one
else, stromatolites know the history of the submerged world, in which they survived and fitted themselves into
new changes and environmental disasters.
In the last decade scientific world paid a lot of attention to these organisms. As
a matter of fact, by closely studying them, it was possible to gain valuable data
on the development of primeval Planet Earth.
With so many years of expertise on underwater area, stromatolites will visit the
Biannual thanks
to the cooperation of the Geo-microbiology team of EHT in Zurich, world sole research Team, which lab-breed
stromatolites for the purpose of study-research.
 
Giants
of the Sea 3D
- Big Sea animals on tri-dimensional
pictures by Lionel Pozzoli
Water music
and sounds - Rino Rossi
Double Bass and Elisa Netzer Celtic Harp
At the conclusion, the hydrospace-
compilation show and a projection serials will be available to visitors at the Lugano
Cantonal Natural History Museum. |
Special event
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Papua
New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, located
just north of Australia, is an independent State since 1975. The population, very
nearly 4,5 million, is predominantly
Melanesian. In the country, abundant of cultural diversity, people speak over 700
languages and dialects. The English language is the business language and is taught
in every school. Pidgin (an adjusted English) is the outspoken language.
PNG holds a big class of plants and animals, hence it is been visited for its natural
beauties or for its interesting cultural elements which feature these populations.
The most amazing attraction is though formed of the abundance of its diving scenes.
PGN is surrounded by Bismarck Sea, Coral Sea and Solomon Sea; where scuba divers
can meet an astonishing and amazing selection of all different sort of sea animal,
in a color glee.
Papua New
Guinea
In words : a convention hosted by Dr. P. Campione
Visualization : - Daily nature and celebrations- The Sea and biodiversity
(Photography by Pierfranco Dilenge and Mauro Bernasconi)
Exposition : - Sepik River's Craft Figureheads
- Kina : Basic unit of money extracted from Tridacna gigas
(Objects courteously lent by Extra European Cultures Museum in Lugano) |
Expositive Spaces
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Foreign and Swiss Institutions and Organizations, whose activity is connected to
water, to marine world, especially underwater; will have the opportunity to offer
their activities to the public :
Cantonal Museum Of Natural History in Lugano
Genova Aquarium
The ancient history of the Genoa Sea
Fondali Puliti del Ceresio Association www.asfopuce.ch
Swiss underwater sport Federation
www.susv.ch
Softedge Production-Stumpfl
Zurich
Swiss Stereoscopic Union |
Contests
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The Hermann Heberlein Award is
offered in memory of a great Swiss pioneer of photography and scientific underwater
research.
The following competitions
will be organized:
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the "International"
of underwater Diaporama(Digital
and analogical) |
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the "International"
of underwater video |
The award of prizes will take
place during the Biannual, in the afternoon of Saturday February 3rd. |
Translation by Karen Gallo |
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Programme
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