Moving Archive 2nd edition September 5 – November 17 2018

On the occasion of the second edition of Moving Archive, Lo schermo dell’arte presents a selection of artist’ films and documentaries with Italian subtitles from its archive, that counts more than 900 titles, in libraries and institutions based in 9 towns of Città Metropolitana di Firenze.

The project is realized with the support of Città Metropolitana di Firenze  and has the aim to reach new audiences thank to the engagement of cultural institutions and study places. All the partners give their own tablets, pc, screening rooms, monitor in order to contribute to the creation of a new films’ distribution model far away from the canonical movie theatre. In this way, a big audience can enjoy movies that are rarely screened

The libraries and the institutions involved are: Associazione culturale di volontariato onlus “La casa del sole e della luna” e Biblioteca comunale di Londa | Associazione Fiera di San Luca e Biblioteca comunale di Impruneta | BeGo Museo Benozzo Gozzoli, Castelfiorentino | Biblioteca civica di Calenzano | Biblioteca comunale Pablo Neruda di Capraia e Limite | Biblioteca comunale di Vaglia | Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi onlus, Pelago | La biblioteca di Scandicci | “Le Muratine” Biblioteca comunale di Pontassieve.

PROGRAM

Megunicaby Lorenzo Fonda, Italy 2008, 55′
Megunica is a unusual documentary and an hybrid artwork. It is the diary of an adventurous voyage of self-discovery that the notorious street artist Blu, together with film maker Lorenzo Fonda and two other friends (Silvia “Sibe” Siberini and Ivan Merlo) took towards the end of 2006 across five South American countries – Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Argentina – hence the title’s acronym.

Episode 3 – Enjoy Poverty by Renzo Martens, Netherlands 2008, 90′
For two years, Dutch artist Renzo Martens traveled across the Congo Democratic Republic videotaping the population’s dramatic living conditions and observing how poverty has become one of the country’s economic resources, even more profitable than the markets for natural resources such as cacao and gold.

The Great Contemporary Art Bubbleby Ben Lewis, UK 2009, 90′
Exploring the boundaries between business and real passions for art, the documentary reveals the unusual practices, speculations and secrets that are hidden behind the complex and impenetrable phenomenon of the “great bubble”.

Le ceneri di Pasolini by Alfredo Jaar, Italy 2009, 38′
Jaar tells the story of Pasolini’s life and of his tragic death in a documentary film constructed with excerpts shot by Jaar and others shot by Pasolini.

Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy, USA, UK 2010, 87′
Exit Through the Gift Shop is one of the most provocative films about art ever made, it is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale… with bolt cutters.

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA 2015, 97 ‘
The film follows the stages of Peggy’s life: the openings of her famous galleries – Guggenheim Jeune in Paris, and Art of This Century in New York; her relations with the artists she passionately supported – Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dalí, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock.

#ARTOFFLINE by Manuel Correa, Norway, Colombia, Canada 2015, 58′
Today visitors’ experiences in museums is increasingly mediated by screens of the devices in their possession. If everything can be experienced on-line, what is the current meaning of a museum exhibition? Will there be a new role for galleries and museums?