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PAN cinema and photography
      Association Muralto was born from a meeting between the cultural
      operator Jean Olaniszyn and the artist Liberio Bianchi, when,
      each one with their respective contributions to knowledge and
      skills, decided to found this new association involving since
      its beginning the artist-director-musician Emanuel Dimas de Melo
      Pimenta and the cinema critic Davide Rossi. Beyond them, there
      are photographer Roby Imfeld, director Misha Tognola and video
      maker Yanik M. Marcolli. Others will be involved in the project,
      each one bringing his or her own specific contribution.

      
 

      
Direction

      
Liberio Bianchi, president:
      libe@bluewin.ch

      Jean Olaniszyn, operations director: jeanolanisky@gmail.com

      Davide Rossi, artistic director: annaseghers@libero.it

      
Responsible for the
      experimental cinema section
      "Baladrüm"

      Emanuel Pimenta: edmp@emanuelpimenta.net

      
 

      
The name PAN appeared from
      a question and a research. What idea could, in some way, synthesize
      all activities of the association? The answer was clear: thought.

      Then, we walked back, to the origins of the word "thought",
      which is pensiero in Italian, penser in French and similar in
      all Romance languages.

      The Romance words for thought appears from the Latin "pendere",
      linked to the idea of weight. When we think, we "weight",
      in some way, our sensory inputs.

      If we go further in the past, we discover that the Latin "pendere"
      emerges from the radical P in the Indo European which was a set
      of languages disappeared about 20.000 years ago, and that originated
      Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. The Indo European P meant the idea
      of purification - from it we have our word "pure",
      for example. It is very interesting that purity and purification
      are in the deepest origins of our Romance word for "think".

      From the radical P we have a short Indo European word: PAN which
      means "vital blow and purification" - as if we could
      imagine in it the formation of thought. Something pure is a clear,
      identifiable thing, which is precisely the sense of the word
      intelect: to "select among".

      
The visual form of PAN
      was also fruit of a research made by Emanuel Pimenta. The challenge
      was to have some simple and clear image that could transmit the
      essence of the association's activities. Always when we are looking
      to the future, obligatorily, we are also looking at the past
      - if not, we would be looking at something different. And the
      future is present in all times. It is the challenge of knowledge.
      The philosopher Emanuel Kant said that "the hand is the
      visible part of the brain". And we were dealing exactly
      with that: thought! Then, in a kind of archeological experience,
      Pimenta made a large photographic essay at one of the two oldest
      Romanesque church in Ticino: Colleggiata San Vittore il Moro,
      in Muralto, which the old documents of its existence are from
      the year 879. There he found a formidable fresco dated of around
      the year 1140. It was the hand!