Alessandra Lischi was born in Pisa (1951) and was educated in the History of Art, writing a thesis on Video. As a journalist and critic of cinema, she has collaborated on numerous publications and since 1985 has run Ondavideo in Pisa, a permanent festival/activity of sound and vision.
Sandra, as she is mostly known, is going to talk about the video of Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips, TV Dante (showed at the 8th Videobrasil). It all started with the publication of The Inferno, a work illustrated by 139 pictures by Tom Phillips, who became a partner of Peter Greenaway.
"In the same way that Dante superimposed many meanings within his texts, we tried a similar technique on the videoscreen, by merging several superimposed images", explains Phillips. "The idea of a TV version of Dante's Comedy comprised pat of a bigger project, where artists and authors were invited to interpret classic masterpieces of literature on video", explains Sandra.
The title of the conference was borne out of one of Phillips's phrases: "Some time ago I thought cinema was capable of using all the letters of the alphabet and video could only use the vowel. Today I think that television has its own vocabulary, its own alphabet".