On the occasion of Estate Fiorentina 2019 Lo schermo dell’arte presents a programme of four films: Controfigura, Christo – Walking on Water, Moriyama-San e The Price of Everything. The programme, that will take place in the special frame of Piazzale degli Uffizi, is part of the strategic project of Estate Fiorentina 2019 “Apriti Cinema”, film festival oraganized by Quelli della Compagnia di Fondazione Sistema Toscana and associazione Quelli dell’Alfieri.
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival takes part in the fourth edition of Secret Florence and presents a preview of Diamantino, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, on Monday the 10th of June at 9:00 pm at Cinema La Compagnia. The film, already winner of 2018 Cannes Semaine de la Critique, is an ironic and surreal commedy on the highly topical matters of immigration and nationalist politics, that tells the story of a world-renowned but quite dumb soccer player, his two cynic sisters, scientific experiments, the secret service and a love story. Diamantino will be out in Italian cinemas the 22nd […]
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival takes part in the 3rd edition of Ekrani i Artit , from the 16th until the 19th of May in Shkoder (Albania). The Festival, organised by Art House, will include a series of screenings of art films and documentaries, talks and musical performances selected by Lo schermo dell’arte, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the Van Abbemuseum. Lo schermo dell’arte will present two films from the 11th edition of the festival: Wild Relatives by Jumana Manna (2018, 70’) and The Price of Everything by Nathaniel Kahn (2018, 98’). It will also present the video […]
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival presents Island of the Hungry Ghosts by Gabrielle Brady at Cinema La Compagnia, Florence. The film was born in 2015 within the project Feature Expanded, and it won the award for best documentary in 7 international festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Mumbai International Film Festival in 2018. Island of the Hungry Ghosts is set on Christmas Island, a small Australian island located in the middle of the Indian ocean, where every year 50 millions of red crabs migrate from the heart of the jungle to the sea. On the same island, hundreds […]
For the sixth consecutive year, Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi hosts a selection of films presented during the 2018 edition of the Festival, from March 6 until 10, 2019
European Identities New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video curated by Leonardo Bigazzi Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea November 14 – 18, 2018 Opening: November 13 at 6.00 pm opening times: 11.00 am – 7.30 pm free entrance This year VISIO presents a new exhibition project, European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video in the space of Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, a monumental complex that was a men’s prison until 1984. Recently restored by the City Council in order to host exhibition and research projects, the building maintains the structure of the 19th Century prison, including maximum […]