Sanremo - Song and Lyrics Discussion

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Videos of the Month - October 2019

Promonews - 5th Nov 2019

https://www.promonews.tv/playlists/videos-month-october-2019/61688

 

 

Another month, another fantastic collection of work, in terms of quality, variety, sheer volume - in the world of music video production.

As the nights draw in, perhaps this was a month with fewer blockbustery 'event' videos. But October saw the welcome return of Saam Farahmaand in his superb video for Mark Ronson ft Yebba; music video legend WIZ's second transformative piece for Mika; and the next self-directed FKA Twigs video.

It was a notable month for the directors steadily building their reputations and bodies of work, who, in the month of the UKMVAs, you could say are moving from competing for Newcomer and New Director awards to Best Video and Best Director awards: Thomas James for Sam Fender, Will Hooper for Slaves, CC Wade for Michael Kiwanuka, Zhang & Knight for Eden.

And of course, new talent finds its way onto Promonews too, and it was another strong month: Newcomer MVA winner Lucrecia Taormina's latest clip for Ashnikko, Henry Dean for Devon, I Am Here for Eli Moon, Kes Glozier for Stereophonics (above). And as we always say, much more besides...   

 

 

David Knight - 17th Oct 2019

Mika 'San Remo' by WIZ

https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/10/17/mika-san-remo-wiz/61411

 

Mika's San Remo is all upbeat sparking froth, about a Italian seaside town that was a popular destination for the beautiful people in the age of La Dolce Vita. But WIZ's video explores the flipside of that era, when homosexuality was illegal, and freedom of expression invited ruin.

WIZ uses brilliant technique and economy of shots to tell the story of a man who is caught between desire and fear - and features an excellent performance from Mika himself in the main role.

The use of a radio interview is crucial in establishing the scenario before we even here a note of the song. But when we do hear it, it becomes far more evocative and poignant as we already have some insight into Mika's character.  

WIZ has achieved this apparent alchemy before - transforming pop stars you may dismiss as being one-dimensional as intriguing, even heroic figures. But it does not make it any less remarkable when he does it. And this is a remarkable video - beautifully shot by Catherine Derry. It has a heart as big as San Remo itself. 

 

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The behind the scenes video is here

https://music.apple.com/it/post/sa.1d7a8d60-07b4-11ea-8760-5360e7fe327e

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SANREMO (Behind the Scenes)

 

''Sanremo'' is a pretty special song. It makes me feel like you're transported to another time. On one hand it talks about childhood memory, the first place that I went to in Italy with my family, we would drive over from the south of France, in our Toyota Previa, the whole gang: my 3 sisters, my brother, my mother, my father, my gran. It talks about that childhood memory, but it also talks about in a way where it's something that you want to go to, you want to kind of refine that, like that feeling, that warmth, but you know that it's kind of impossible, so it's about a feeling or desire that is impossible to attain, and it's that sweet frustration that I wanted to capture in this song.

 

I play the role of an architect: well-to-do, apparently successful, married, with a daughter that he loves, but also with this other life that he's been forced to suppress. But he just can't control and he can't resist going and seeing what's out there. Cruising 1960 style.

 

So here we are in Croatia, in Rijeka, this beautiful seaside town, and we're making a music video about intolerance and around homosexuality in the late 1960s, when homosexuality was not illegal, but it was dealt with so much intolerance that the punishments had massive repercussions. Wiz is extremely fussy when it comes to casting, he's extremely creative, there's a lot of street casting that happens, which means that you'll get performances that feel more urgent or more fragile, but emotionally provoke a lot more. Most of the people that you see in this video were casted in the streets or through friends and a lot of them, I realized once I was speaking to them, a lot of these croatian guys decided to come and make this video, because they wanted to make a statement about intolerance and homesexuality, and a lot of these guys are actually part of activism groups based in Belgrade and around Croatia, and they were happy to take up this opportunity.

 

Actor #1: Hello, my name is [...] I was born in Slovakia, I am living in [...] studying Philosophy, and I also work in a casino, so I can kind of understand this kind of situation.

 

Actor #2: Hello, I'm Tommy and I'm a singer. (starts to sing)
I didn't force him to do that. (grins)

Do you have any special powers?

 

Actor #3: Uh...(laughs)
That means yes.
Actor #3: Yes, I do have special powers.
What's your special power?
Actor #3: I can dance.
Go on, dance.
Actor #3: (dances smiling)

 

Actor #4: The reason why we are doing this, is because we feel we live in a society where gender equality and gender expression is in constant attack by right-wing populist organizations, and it's a thing, a very big hit in Croatia, so we want to give people the alternative and show they can live differently, in a different, any expressive selves the way that they want, whenever they want, or whatever they want.

 

Through the course of the day, we moved through various scenes and finally we get to the moment where the police come and catch me in, that is when the flash light flashes into my face and, it's this idea that gay men back then, when they were caught were humiliated, but that humiliation was not all, I mean there were very real physical, social, and professional consequences to being caught out, your life would fall apart, it doesn't matter who you are.

 

It's important to make statements. Statements and engaging yourself with a narrative, is really important, especially a narrative like this one that is close to my heart. I think tolerance is something that is earned, that is provoked, that has been provoked by many many people before me, and I can reap the benefits of that, but I think from time to time, it's important also to talk about intolerance and to remind ourselves that that was really not very long ago, and also that is happening in so many countries right now.

Edited November 27, 2019 by BiaIchihara

[Paoletta]

 beautiful song and video

[Kumazzz]

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This is the behind the scenes video I filmed for Mika's new song Sanremo. Shot in the beautiful city of Rejika in Croatia.

It is very crucial to understand the importance of video clips like that, made by director WIZ, which talks about homosexuality in the old days and how homosexuals were feeling lost even in their own life they created. It was very brave by Mika to make this step as a famous artist.

While everyone was expecting the Sanremo video clip to have a summer/dance vibe, MIKA saw in the lyircs the loneliness of a homosexual man.

 

Mika - Sanremo Behind the Scenes Video

 

https://vimeo.com/379757286

 

 

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This is a part of the Behind the Scenes video I filmed for Mika’s track, “Sanremo” from the album “My Name is Michael Holbrook”, shot in the beautiful city of Rijeka in Croatia.

 

Sanremo’s videoclip - directed by WIZ - is of great importance, as it is Mika’s first time touching the subject of homosexuality through his work. While everyone expected the Sanremo video clip to have a summer/dance vibe to it, Mika and WIZ saw through the song’s lyrics the loneliness of a homosexual man and the fear of being himself.

 

 

 

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https://vimeo.com/379757286

 

 

[giraffeandy]

3 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

it is Mika’s first time touching the subject of homosexuality through his work.

 

[krysady]

32 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

it is Mika’s first time touching the subject of homosexuality through his work

[Stefyferrari]

SANREMO PRIDE 1972 – 2022

Fifty years of Pride

 

https://www.sanremo2022.it/en/sanremo-5-10-aprile-2022-english/

Sanremo April 2-10, 2022

Arcigay presents an exhibition and a series of events to the City of Sanremo to celebrate the fifty years since the event on April 5, 1972.
On the occasion of this very important anniversary for the Italian LGBTI+ movement, the first Sanremo Pride will be held on Saturday 9 April 2022!

On April 5, 1972, the Italian LGBT movement came out!

On April 5, 1972, the 1st International Congress of Sexology of the CIS, the Italian Center of Sexology, began at the casino of Sanremo, on the theme “Deviant behaviors of human sexuality”.

Il FUORI! (Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano, Italian Revolutionary Homosexual Unitary Front) born in Turin less than a year before, took the news as the first concrete opportunity to go public, both as people and as a movement.

They presented themselves in front of the Congress building on the morning of the meeting inauguration and welcomed the delegates with flyers, posters and slogans, in Italian, English and French.

For the first time homosexuals women and men presented themselves no longer as victims but as protagonists of their lives, determined to “no longer allow” that others could decide for them.

Today Sanremo 1972 is considered the first demonstration in Italy for the defense of the dignity and rights of homosexual people, or, as it was said at the time, against oppression and for the liberation of the revolutionary homosexual.

The Italian Stonewall, as some have defined it.

 

 

 

 

Sanremonews.it

 

https://www.sanremonews.it/2022/03/27/leggi-notizia/argomenti/eventi-1/articolo/sanremo-convegno-a-50-anni-dalla-prima-manifestazione-pubblica-in-italia-del-movimento-lgbt.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZNz5GMp-GqJ0vHhOkRC8MdbhOoJhsg2mYmg8ndTCw9-H6rHXontB8SGE

Sanremo: convegno a 50 anni dalla prima manifestazione pubblica in Italia del movimento LGBT+

Martedì 5 aprile un’intera giornata di discussione e tavole rotonde al Teatro del Casinò

 

A cinquant’anni dalla prima manifestazione pubblica in Italia del movimento LGBT+, AGEDO Nazionale e il Coordinamento Liguria Rainbow organizzano un convegno e una mostra.

“Precisamente, il 5 aprile 1972 – spiegano gli organizzatori - ebbe luogo a Sanremo la protesta contro il ‘Congresso Internazionale di Sessuologia – Comportamenti devianti della sessualità umana’, organizzato negli spazi del Casinò dal CIS – Centro Italiano di Sessuologia. I contenuti di questo congresso avevano di base un approccio alla sessualità omolesbobitransfobico, poiché alcuni comportamenti umani erano indicati come devianti e patologici: infatti era dato spazio alle cosiddette ‘terapie riparative’, ovvero una serie di procedure psicologiche e psichiatriche credute capaci di debellare l’omosessualità. L’idea è di organizzare quest’anno un ‘controconvegno’ che risponda storicamente ai pregiudizi dell’epoca.

Il 5 aprile 2022 torneremo al Teatro del Casinò di Sanremo con esperti del mondo della psicologia, sessuologia, sociologia e dell’attivismo LGBT+ per fare il punto, a partire da quell’evento storico, sull’evoluzione che le diverse discipline scientifiche (sessuologia, psicologia, sociologia e medicina) hanno messo in atto in questi 50 anni, anche grazie al contributo del movimento LGBT+ e per illustrare i cambiamenti sociali e culturali che ancora oggi stiamo attraversando.

Il movimento LGBT+ in Italia conquistò a Sanremo il suo primo momento di visibilità. La celebrazione di tale evento risulta di estrema rilevanza culturale e sociale, poiché si propone di ribadire ciò che, lungo queste cinque decadi di lotte per i diritti civili, è stato riconosciuto a livello scientifico e culturale, ma non ancora adeguatamente integrato dalle istituzioni e dalle agenzie educative e da alcune aree delle società: gli orientamenti sessuali, le identità di genere, i comportamenti affettivo-sessuali delle persone LGBT+, sono varianti della realtà umana, provviste di dignità: per questo vanno rispettate e vanno garantite loro pari opportunità e possibilità

Dal 27 maggio al 10 luglio a Genova presso Primo Piano di Palazzo Grillo, Vico alla Chiesa delle Vigne, 18 R – Genova, sarà allestita la mostra, un percorso per immagini e installazioni. Tutto ha inizio nella città di Sanremo, per poi espandersi molto al di là dei confini geografici.

Quel giorno un gruppo di militanti del neonato Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano decisero di convergere da diverse parti d’Europa per dire ‘adesso basta!’. I manifestanti del FUORI si travestirono da psichiatri e interruppero quel convegno per dare a tutti una lezione di civiltà. Cinquant’anni dopo un gruppo di curatori (Carlo Antonelli, Anna Daneri, Marco Fiorello, Francesco Urbano Ragazzi) mettono a mostra la portata rivoluzionaria di quella giornata, attraverso documenti storici e opere d’arte realizzate per l’occasione.

 

[dancinginsanremo]

Yay for their first pride!! That’s so exciting, thank you for sharing.