Lo schermo dell’arte, 13th edition

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Spit Earth: Who Is Jordan Wolfson?
by James Crump, US, 2020, 55’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
Jordan Wolfson is a controversial artist whose disturbing and provocative works elicit extreme reactions from both his critics and supporters. Through the use of technologies such as virtual reality, animation and robotic models, Wolfson’s works raise issues that affect contemporary society: homophobia, misogyny, racism, nationalism, anti-Semitism and violence.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Szeemann and Lenin Crossing the Alps
by Rudolf Herz, Germany, 2019, 18’46’’
vo: German; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
German artist Rudolf Herz, who was invited by Harald Szeemann to participate in one of his exhibitions in 2003, involved the Swiss curator in his project Lenin on Tour, in which a gigantic sculpture of Lenin and two other Russian Communist heroes is transported by truck to various European cities. The film is a long interview and an intense portrait of the multifaceted and highly cultivated curator years after his death in 2005.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Recoding Art
by Bruno Moreschi & Gabriel Pereira, Brazil, 2019, 15’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
Brazilian artist Bruno Moreschi and digital media researcher Gabriel Pereira have asked seven different types of artificial intelligence, usually used for the recognition of commercial images, to reinterpretate works of the collection of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Among the findings, Moreschi and Pereira looked for glitches, errors and unexpected readings by the AI to understand if these could be a new way of interpreting art.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Sandlines
by Francis Alÿs, Iraq, 2020, 61’
vo: Arab, English; sub: Arab, English, Italian
Italian premiere
Belgian artist Francis Alÿs moves in the interdisciplinary space between art, architecture, performance and social practice. To film Sandlines, the artist worked in a remote village near Nineveh, Iraq, with a group of children who, as in a role-playing game, become characters who have marked their country’s history. Despite their country’s devastation, the children seem light-hearted and innocent while playing in the desert dunes.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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#JR
by Serge July, Daniel Ablin, France, 2018, 52’
vo: French; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
In this documentary, well-known French artist JR traces his artistic career: from New York to Shanghai, from Palestine to the border between United States and Mexico, where JR intervened with his gigantic photographs, involving artists and inhabitants of the area in the belief that art can help change the world.
Film available for streaming until November 14, 2020

Manifattura Tabacchi
3:00 pm
FESTIVAL TALK
Duchamp Is Our Lawyer. Francesco Urbano Ragazzi in conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith
The curatorial collective Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, authors of the exhibition Hillary. The Hillary Clinton Emails (Venezia, 2019), and Kenneth Goldsmith, poet, critic, founder of the online archive UbuWeb, reflect on the storage, consumption and diffusion of works of art on the Internet.
Available for live streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte Facebook page

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The Sculpture
by Musquiqui Chihying, Taiwan, 2020, 28’
vo: Mandarin; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
In this experimental documentar, Taiwanese artist Musquiqui Chihying investigates geopolitical relations between Asia, Africa and Europe. In a succession of black-and-white images, the film portrays Xie Yanshen, a Chinese collector and philanthropist (director of the Private International Museum of African Art in Lomé, Togo), who recently donated part of his collection of more than 5,000 African artefacts to the National Museum of China in Beijing.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Na Sima Ya Mask Ya Pembe
by Matondo Matondo, Belgium, 2020, 9’8”
vo: Lingala; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
What if Congolese masks and statues, imprisoned behind glass, could speak back? What would they say? In this essay film, Aimé Césaire’s sharp critique of Discours sur le colonialisme, published in 1950, is being translated for the first time in Lingala, the lingua franca spoken in north-west of Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Congo, in Angola and in Central African Republic.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Hans Hartung, la fureur de peindre
by Romain Goupil, France, 2019, 52’
vo: French; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
This documentary is dedicated to Hans Hartung, a leading exponent of the European informal movement. The documentary’s narration is based on texts from his autobiography, together with interviews and footage shot at his house-studio near Antibes, where he lived with his wife, the painter Anna-Eva Bergman, which has become a foundation dedicated to their work.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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History of a Tree
by Flatform, Italy, 2020, 24’
vo: Arbaresh, Romanès, Griku, Byzantine Greek, Albanian, Yiddish, Turkish, Spanish, French and Salentino; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
History of a Tree is the story of the oldest oak in Europe. Around 900 years old, known as Quercia dei Cento Cavalieri, it is located near Lecce. This territory has long been crossed by migrations. The tree, a silent witness, has long sheltered travellers and pilgrims, and collected their stories.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Becoming Alluvium
by Thao Nguyen Phan, Spain, Vietnam, 2019, 16’40’’
vo: French; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
The Mekong River, which crosses six countries and supplies water to numerous fish farms and rice fields in Asia, is the main subject of this short film. The artist observes its changes, imagines its previous lives and reincarnations, retracing Vietnam’s past and questioning the Mekong’s uncertain future, its cycles altered by climate change and human intervention. The film is produced by Han Nefkens Foundation.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
by Ben Anthony, UK, 2020, 53’
vo: English; sub: Italian
On the thirtieth anniversary of Keith Haring’s death, unreleased films from the Haring Foundation’s archives trace his life and work, intertwined with interviews with family members, artist friends and curators. The film is an immersion in 1980s New York’s underground scene: rap and graffiti merged with the new wave aesthetic. Haring’s accessible art was a figurative vocabulary that became a global icon, exhibited in public spaces. The documentary will be broadcasted on the television programme Art Night on Rai 5.
Film available for streaming until November 14, 2020

FESTIVAL TALK
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7:00 pm
Flatform, authors of the film History of a Tree in conversation with Silvia Lucchesi, director Lo schermo dell’arte.
Available for live streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte Facebook page

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Haunting
by John Menick, US, 2020, 32’
vo: English, Japanese, Italian; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
Haunting is a found footage horror film: clips from fifty international horror films from the last seventy years, projected on two side-by-side screens. Realised during the lockdown, Haunting is also a response to the pandemic, in which domestic space has been transformed, for many, into a disturbing place.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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from 3:00 pm
letter to a friend
by Emily Jacir, Palestine, 2019, 43’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
Artist Emily Jacir lives in Bethlehem, Palestine. Construction and military intervention by Israel have disrupted the geography and economy of the city, as well as the lives of its inhabitants. In this short film, Jacir launches an appeal to London research group Forensic Architecture to reconstruct the street where the house that has belonged to her family for over a century is located before Israeli soldiers requisition it.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Kala azar
by Janis Rafa, Netherlands, Greece, 2020, 91’
vo: Greek; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
Kala azar is Greek artist Janis Rafa’s first feature film. Focused on a young couple who work in an animal crematorium, the film is set in the countryside around a southern European city that the two young people drive through to recover the carcasses of animals. Their affectionate gestures shine light on what would otherwise be a dark existence in a desolated Greece, whose abandoned landscape bears signs of devastating economic and social crises.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Sono innamorato di Pippa Bacca
by Simone Manetti, Italy, 2019, 79’
vo: Italian;
On March 8, 2008, the artist Pippa Bacca left Milan with her friend Silvia Moro, both dressed as brides, to embark on their Brides on Tour trip / performance to Jerusalem. The performance involved hitchhiking, to bring a message of peace to war-torn, conflicted territories, but the trip ended in tragedy near Istanbul, where Pippa was brutally murdered by a man who’d given her a lift. Through interviews with her family, and thanks to the montage of materials filmed by the two artists, Simone Manetti’s film reconstructs the story, leading us into the depths of the Pippa’s work.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Made you Look. A True Story About Fake Art
by Barry Avrich, Canada, 2020, 96’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
A documentary on an international thriller, the story of a huge contemporary art scam. The case broke out when two unknown collectors invaded the market with unknown works, later found to be fakes, which sold for millions of dollars at New York’s Knoedler Gallery, which has been in business for over 160 years. Made in Chinese artist Pei-Shen Qian’s Queens home, many of these fakes allegedly by Abstract Expressionists such as Rothko, Pollock and Motherwell ended up in some of the world’s most important museums.
Film available for streaming until November 14, 2020

Manifattura Tabacchi
3:00 pm
FESTIVAL TALK
Commissioning Artists’ Moving Images
Round table with: Beatrice Bulgari (Fondazione In Between Art Film), Han Nefkens (Han Nefkens Foundation), Mason Leaver-Yap (KW Institute for Contemporary Art), moderated by Leonardo Bigazzi.
Available for live streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte Facebook page

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De Oylem iz a Goylem
by Omer Fast, Austria, Germany, 2019, 24’
vo: Yiddish, German; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
In a mountain resort, a lone skier meets the ghost of an Orthodox Jew, who appears sitting next to her in the chairlift and tells her a Jewish fairy tale. The film is a representation of the relation between human and otherworldly, which pushes the viewer to reflect on his own beliefs and wonder if, as the title says, the world is a Golem.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Mascarilla 19 – Codes of Domestic Violence, 1st SLOT
Four films of the first project by the Fondazione In Between Art Film, that includes 8 artists’ shorts on the subject of domestic violence, how it has increased due to the pandemic and the resulting social containment measures.

Flowers blooming in our throats
by Eva Giolo, Italy, 2020, 8’42″
vo: Sound
The artist films a group of her female friends in their own homes, performing various small actions in accordance with her instructions. The mechanical insertion of the filter over the lens thus becomes the simulation of a violent act, immediately changing the way we perceive and remember an action we have seen before.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

Espacios Seguros
by Iván Argote, Italy, 2020, 19’ 57’’
vo: Spanish sub: Italian
The Colombian artist films the inscriptions that have been posted around his neighborhood by Collages Feminicides, an anonymous collective of women artists who highlight the pervasiveness of gender violence and femicide in France. Over the collages, we hear the voice of Diana Rodriguez Franco, head of the city’s department of women’s affairs, charged with implementing public policies for preventing domestic violence and supporting victims. Interviewed by the artist, this official explains how the program Espacios Seguros was developed in response to the growing number of cases of domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

Lacerate
by Janis Rafa, Italy, 2020, 16’ 21’’
vo: Sound
In a series of mises-en-scène shot only in natural light, we see a domestic setting overrun by a pack of dogs that roam around restlessly, attacking objects and furniture. Historically symbols of loyalty to their master, the dogs here rebel and become the woman’s guardians, supporting and protecting her in the process of liberation from her persecutor.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

Vedo rosso
by Adrian Paci, Italy, 2020, 11’ 38’’
vo: Italian; st: English
The screen is filled with a pulsating red that, for just a few moments, is interrupted by the appearance of an eye. A text written and performed by playwright and actress Daria Deflorian provides the narrative structure: the power of storytelling turns the absence of images into a dramatic space of listening that captures the audience.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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BUSTROFEDICO
by Anna Franceschini, Italy, 2019, 14’47’’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Made as a special and closing event of the Italian Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, in this film the camera moves and crosses the pavilion, which was partially adapted for filming, in frenetic circles. Sculptures and installations by artists invited to the pavilion – Enrico David, Chiara Fumai and Liliana Moro – have been freely interpreted by Franceschini.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Three Works for Piano
by Dani Gal, Germany, 2020, 34’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
The film re-enacts three episodes in the history of avant-garde music. The events play against the words of an Israeli soldier about the violence carried out against Palestinian protesters. Tension pervades the film, between witnessing, silence, and listening, and leads to an unexpected reflection on dominant national narratives.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

FESTIVAL TALK
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7:00 pm
Artist Anna Franceschini, author of the film BUSTROFEDICO, in conversation with the curator Milovan Farronato.
Available for live streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte Facebook page

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Phonemenology
by Riccardo Benassi, Italy, Germany, France, 2018, 94’
vo: English; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
In this video essay, objects, 3D animations and textual parts make the artist’s thoughts explicit on the screen at several levels, in a continuously changing setting. Riccardo Benassi analyses technology’s impact on our relationship with space, reflecting on how technological devices have radically changed structures for living and organising reality, from architecture to politics, from cultural production to consumption.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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from 10:00 am
Mascarilla 19 – Codes of Domestic Violence, 2nd SLOT
Four films of the first project by the Fondazione In Between Art Film, that includes 8 artists’ shorts on the subject of domestic violence, how it has increased due to the pandemic and the resulting social containment measures.

Daily Routine
by MASBEDO, Italy, 2020, 11’
vo: English st: Italian
The protagonist of Daily Routine lives in a bare house of glass and concrete, where just a few minimalist furnishings punctuate an otherwise empty space. From dusk into the night, her solitude is interrupted only by a sequence of ordinary actions that seem to have become routine. It soon becomes clear that the austere, see-through architecture is actually an instrument of control: everything is visible from outside, and a distant gaze seems to detect every movement taking place inside this structure of surveillance.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

Muse
by Elena Mazzi, Italy, 2020, 13’30”
vo: English st: Italian
In the video Muse, Elena Mazzi leads viewers into the nightmare of gender violence through the disorienting beauty of the Greek and Roman statues in the Antiquarium of Palazzo Grimani in Venice. The video begins by showing details of the interiors as if they were still inhabited, while a voiceover ushers us into the private world of the person who lived, or perhaps still lives, in those solitary rooms.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

Sunsets, everyday
by Basir Mahmood, Italy, 2020, 14’ 55’’
vo: Sound
For Sunsets, everyday Mahmood commissioned a production team in Lahore to create and film, in his absence, a repeated scene of domestic violence, based on his instructions and some reference images. The process of staging violence is what generates the images on the screen, but the act itself is almost completely hidden from the viewer. Rejecting spectacularization, the artist focuses instead on the cinematic process and the codes of its language.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

Domestication
by Silvia Giambrone, Italy, 2020, 15’
vo: Sound
Two characters, a man and a woman, who have absorbed this paradigm of violence into their own relationship, move in an evocative, poetic way through a domestic setting. They are always shown alone in that shared environment, as if each were a projection or memory in the other person’s mind, but the objects they use serve as tangible signs of their actual presence. The boundary between victim and abuser is so blurred that it becomes hard to say which is which; the whole video is pervaded by a tension that always seems on the point of erupting, having festered within the domestic space as well as in the psyche of the people who live there.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

FESTIVAL TALK
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3:00 pm
The artists of the programme Mascarilla 19 in conversation with the curators Leonardo Bigazzi, Alessandro Rabattini and Paola Ugolini.
Available for live streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte Facebook page

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Aalto
by Virpi Suutari, Finland, 2020, 103’
vo: English, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Swedish; sub: Italian
Italian premiere
A documentary about the life and career of one of the great architect and designer Alvar Aalto and his first wife Aino, with unpublished archival materials. The couple’s iconic creations defined Scandinavian design. An exchange of letters between the two Finnish architects is alternated by images of some works by Aalto, united by the importance of light and a close relationship with nature, an architecture on a human scale.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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from 6:00 pm
New Acid
by Basim Magdy, 2019, 14’18’’
vo: sound
In New Acid, a group of animals exchange text messages filled with GIFs and emojis. Their surreal dialogue is marked by irony and sarcasm that hint at conflict and rivalry among the species. This curious mix of meme culture and analogue film structure gradually reveals typical human behavior and the paradoxes inherent in a form of communication to which we have all become tragically accustomed. In 2019 New Acid was shown at 72 Locarno Film Festival. The film is part of the programme Around Coexistence, organized by Gucci Garden in collaboration with Lo schermo dell’arte that explores the complex dynamics involved in the coexistence of humans and the animal kingdom.
The film was commissioned by La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France. Courtesy the artist and König Galerie, Berlin
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

FESTIVAL TALK
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7:00 pm
Artist Riccardo Benassi, author of the film Phonemenology, in conversation with the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich Andrea Lissoni.
Available for live streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte Facebook page

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Stray
by Jonas Brinker, Egypt, 2020, 5’37’’
vo: sound
In a rocky, dystopian desert landscape, stray dogs move in packs among abandoned buildings.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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MURCIÉLAGO (Bat)
by Claudia Claremi, Cuba, 2018, 9’57”
vo: sound
Murciélago (bat) is a video essay based on the human body and sound.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Gestures of Collapse
by Helen Anna Flanagan, Great Britain, 2019, 11’7’’
vo: English
The video uses the television news format to reflect on how contagion, rumors and beliefs spread.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Presente
by Valentina Furian, Italy, 2018, 4’
vo: sound
A white donkey strolls through a museum under construction, wandering among objects left by construction workers.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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The Politics of Choice and the Possibility of Leaving
by Megan-Leigh Heilig, South Africa, 
2019, 15’
vo: English
An intimate diary of the artist’s private life and the last days she spent with her partner before a forced move from South Africa to Belgium.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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What is man?
by Edson Luli, Italy, 2014, 6’55’’
vo: Italian, English, Albanian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch
What is man? consists of anonymous answers by participants in an interview whose main question is: What is man?
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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In Landscape Mode
by Marcin Liminowicz, Finland, 2018, 7’17’’
vo: Mandarin; sub: English
The video documents a cruise on an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea, a tourist attraction but also an emblem of climate change.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Re-Building Ruins in Reverse
by Olena Newkryta, Ukraine, 2020, 25’36’’
vo: Ukrainian; sub: English
A public installation is built from the bricks of a typical socialist building in a village in southern Ukraine.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Make Me Safe
by Peter Spanjer, Great Britain, 2020, 7’
vo: English
An immediate reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, the video’s author reflects on the circulation of images of the idea of blackness.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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The Hole’s Journey
by Ghita Skali, Holland, Morocco, 2020, 16’13’’
vo: Arab, French; sub: English
In the office of the director of a Dutch art institution, a portion of parquet flooring is removed and brought back to Morocco.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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Sonzai Zone
by Emilia Tapprest, 2019, 22’56’’
vo: Dutch; sub: English
The protagonists Yún and Souvd meet and interact through “Sonzai-kan”, a portable device that mediates human contact.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020

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I’m thinking about this whole world; clouds below, space above
by Tora Wallander, Sweden, 2019, 33’
vo: English
Using the narrative structure of nature documentaries, the video explores how theories can shape our behavior in the world.
Film available for streaming until November 22, 2020