Source: China News Network
According to the Italian edition of the European Times, the University of Naples in Italy has been named "Universitàdegli Studi di Napoli Federico II" since 1992 after Frederick II, to emphasize its long history dating back to June 5, 1224. There have been many setbacks in the history of the University of Naples, but there are also many innovative initiatives that have attracted the attention of European universities and academia, such as the digital mermaid that appeared at the closing ceremony of the Fifth Italian Chinese Film Festival on the 27th, which is an innovative masterpiece of cooperation between the university and a number of related units in Italy.
Matteo Lorito, Rector of the University of Naples. Photo courtesy of the film festival partners
At the closing ceremony of the 5th Italian Chinese Film Festival, the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, delivered a video speech congratulating the festival on its successful hosting and successful conclusion. In his video speech, Zhang Xiaobei, chairman of the Italian Chinese Film Festival, thanked the universities in Italy who participated in the film festival tour, thanking them for providing fertile soil for Sino-Italian cultural friendly exchanges, arranging for students and audiences to watch movies in an orderly manner, and also disinfecting and entering quarantine and other epidemic prevention work according to the needs of local epidemic prevention and control, ensuring the smooth screening of the film festival in various places. Zhang Xiaobei also said that although the film festival is closed, the 'China Film Week' screening activities will continue until the end of 2021, so that more mainstream people can feel and understand China's light and shadow culture, and contribute to the exchange, cooperation and innovation of the Chinese and Italian film culture industries. Matteo Lorito, president of the University of Naples, also spoke, expressing the hope that the two sides can further strengthen cooperation and jointly promote Sino-Italian cultural exchanges.
The mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi. Photo courtesy of the film festival partners
At the event site, the staff demonstrated the shape of the digital mermaid for the audience, and introduced that the digital mermaid is made by holographic technology and can project a stereoscopic image only through a device such as a smartphone or tablet without using professional equipment. The vivid three-dimensional mermaid danced while singing the famous Neapolitan folk song with Chinese, which was refreshing and breathtaking, and won the warm applause of the audience. Lello Savonardo, a professor of cultural and technical sociology at the University of Naples' Department of Social Sciences, excitedly told reporters that he hoped to bring the digital mermaid to China and make her a messenger of Sino-Italian friendship. (Zhang Rui)