Bodies and shadows: from noir to black chronography
Description
Bodies and shadows: from noir to black chronography Sunday 12 October | h. 18:00 | Piazza del Sole, Bellinzona Sconfinare Festival 2025
How does the criminal narrative - be it literary or audio-visual - explore the body as a boundary? What is the relationship between the representation of violence and the emergence of new forms of identity, both real and digital? Giancarlo De Cataldo and Stefano Nazzi meet for a dialogue that explores the boundary between truth and fiction, between reality and narration, starting from two universes that investigate the body in its most bloody and disturbing dimension: noir and crime fiction.
At the Sconfinare Festival, the two authors will reflect on how the body - as an instrument of violence, as a symbol of dehumanisation, as an object of desire or fear - is treated and represented in their respective genres; straying between literature and podcasts, where the narrative becomes more immediate and the bodies of victims, perpetrators and investigators come to life through the voice, creating a direct and intimate interaction with the audience.
Full: CHF 25 AHV/IV: CHF 20 Students, children 6-16 years: CHF 15 AG Culture holders and children up to 6 years: free of charge
Giancarlo De Cataldo, author of celebrated crime and noir novels, is known for his ability to recount the darkest nuances of the human body: from violence to corruption, from physical wounds to moral ones. His writing delves into the boundaries between justice and vengeance, legitimacy and illegality, drawing a portrait of the body as a vehicle of power, suffering and redemption.
Stefano Nazzi, creator of some of the most popular podcasts on the contemporary scene, is a master at interweaving crime reporting and storytelling. His approach to the body in his stories is scientific and analytical, but not without an emotional component that confronts the listener with a profound reflection on the boundaries between justice and punishment, between the reality of crime and its media perception.