A program of art films and documentaries dedicated to contemporary art Cineporti of Puglia, Lecce October 6 – 8 2015 The programme, financed by Apulia Film Commission, is curated by Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Assay, will present eight films, in their original language, with Italian subtitles: documentaries on protagonists of the international art scene such as William Kentridge and Anish Kapoor; and films produced by artists whose work is characterized by an innovative and original use of moving images, such as Yuri Ancarani, Flatform, Doug Aitken and Luca Bolognesi. The screenings will be introduced […]
Station to Station di Doug Aitken in the presence of the artist In collaboration with Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana hosts the screening of Station to Station, the first feature-length film directed by American artist Doug Aitken – Golden Lion for Career Achievement at the 1999 Venice Biennale. In Station to Station, through 62 one-minute films Doug Aitken tells of a journey aboard a train he designed and conceived as a sculpture of light in 2013. The train crossed the United States in 24 days, filming the American landscape as well as stopping along […]
Lo schermo dell’arte and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi present Les statues meurent aussi by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, and It For Others by Duncan Campbell. The program is organized within the Estate Fiorentina 2015, and on the occasion of the exhibition Sculpture Also Die (Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, until July 26). The films will be introduced by Lorenzo Benedetti, curator of the exhibition, and Silvia Lucchesi, director of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival. Les Statues meurent aussi by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet, France, 1953, 30’ It For Others by Duncan Campbell, 2013, 54’ The courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi Piazza Strozzi, Florence Thursday July 16 2015, at 9.00 […]
A series of art films and documentaries dedicated to contemporary art and its protagonists. The films in this year’s program tell of projects and works by artists who make interaction with public spaces a central theme of their artistic practice. The political and social implications of their actions, the dialogue with the urban space and the landscape, and the complex interactions with a large and diverse audience are all factors which these artists have chosen to confront, subverting schemes of all-too-often over-self-referential artistic institutional contexts. The program is curated by Leonardo Bigazzi The project is realized within the Estate Fiorentina […]
Curated by Silvana Fiorese and Simone Frangi Notes on Orientalism. Video practices at the age of radical difference is a temporary cinema organized into four different sessions, 2 hours long each, that will be screened at Viafarini space, Fabbrica del Vapore. Taking as a starting point the physical and virtual archives of Lo Schermo dell’arte, the selection curated by Silvana Fiorese and Simone Frangi attempts to re-enact the notion of Orientalism as formulated by the theoretician of Palestinian origins Edward W. Said in 1978, trying to intercept it in recent audiovisual productions which deal with postcolonial issues and anti-imperialist postures. While […]
