VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet curated by Leonardo Bigazzi Palazzo Strozzi November 13 – December 1, 2019 Opening: Tuesday, November 12 at 6.00 pm November 13 – 17, 2019 daily from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm/Thursday 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm November 18 – December 1, 2019 daily from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm/Thursdays 12:00 pm to 11:00 pm Free entrance Four years after its first exhibition, Lo schermo dell’arte returns to Palazzo Strozzi with VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet. The exhibition presents the works of the twelve artists selected for the 8th edition of VISIO offering an insight into the practice of […]
FOYER CINEMA LA COMPAGNIA November 15 – 17, 2019 from 7:00 pm until closing time Lo scherzo dell’arte is a parasitic short film festival curated by artists Roberto Fassone and Kasia Fudakowski, featuring the works of Julian Rosefeldt and Piero Steinle, Pilvi Takala, Lukas Geronimas and David Horvitz, Martin Skauen (Slideshow Johnny), Marie von Heyl, Kasia Fudakowski and Roberto Fassone. The festival focuses on the role of humor and comedy in contemporary art, featuring seven short videos, each exploring mimicry, repetition, play and trickery in unique and unexpected ways. Displayed in an unconventional presentation, namely on a screen held by either Fassone […]
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 […]