On the occasion of Estate Fiorentina 2018 Lo schermo dell’arte presents a programme of three documentaries and three artists’ films. The Foreigner’s Home, Koudelka Shooting Holy Land and China’s Van Goghs highlights the importance of contemporary art and its characters in problematizing cultural identity and racial and religious tensions. Using different poetic and ironic approaches the artists Adrian Paci, Alterazioni Video and Nico Angiuli reflect on topics that influence their and our ordinary life such as migration and integration. The programme, that will take place in the special frame of Piazzale degli Uffizi, is part of the strategic project of […]
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival is part of the third edition of Secret Florence – a strategic event of Estate Fiorentina supported by Comune di Firenze and Pitti Immagine – with a tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat thirty years after his death. The 12th of June Lo schermo dell’arte presents at Cinema La Compagnia two films that tell the story of the famous writer who brought graffiti from the street to the art gallery: the postmodern fairy tale Downtown 81 by Edo Bertoglio and played by Basquiat himself. And the Italian premiere of the documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage […]
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival collaborates with Museo Salvatore Ferragamo at the exhibition Italy in Hollywood, dedicated to the relationships and the role played by Italians and Italian art in the birth of cinema. Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival has involved two young Italian artists based in Los Angeles, Yuri Ancarani and Manfredi Gioacchini, which have realized two new productions exploring the theme of the exhibition: One hundred years have passed and who are the Italians working in Hollywood today? What is it about California that strikes artists arriving from Italy? Filmmaker Yuri Ancarani realized a video installation editing several clips filmed at […]
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival and Art House present the second edition of Ekrani i Artit. From May 25 until 27, 2018 at Shkoder (Albania) will be held a screening program, meeting and musical performances. For the occasion will be invited personalities from Albanian and Italian art world, to create a connection among the countries thanks to arts and culture. One of the main goal of the festival is also to revitalize the role of the Cinema Millenium in Scutari that will host a screening program of film’s from Lo schermo dell’arte’s archive and a selection of video presented in […]
VISIO. Next Generation Moving Images Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi 17 November–20 December 2015 Opening: Tuesday, November 17 at 6:30pm The exhibition VISIO. Next Generation Moving Images, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will take place at the Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi and will present a video work for each of the 12 participating artists at the IV edition of VISIO. The exhibition offers an insight into the film and video production of a new generation of artists, all born in the eighties, which lived the full transition from analogue to digital. This exhibition aims at featuring the multiplicity of codes and themes used by these young […]
VISIO. Outside the Black Box curated by Leonardo Bigazzi Cinema La Compagnia November 16 – 20, 2016 Opening: Wednesday November 16, 6.00-8.00 pm Thursday 11.00 am – 3.00 pm Friday – Sunday 11.00 am – 5.00 pm VISIO. Outside The Black Box offers an insight into the lm and video production of a new generation of artists working across Europe. This exhibition aims at featuring the multiplicity of codes and themes used by these young artists and, at the same time, it reflects on the relations between video formats and exhibition space. The exhibition will take place at the Cinema […]