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Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival. Notti di mezza estate
5th edition

Curated by Leonardo Bigazzi

This is a programme of documentaries on contemporary art and its protagonists. This year’s program is dedicated to self-teaching artists – the so-called ‘outsiders’ – who ignore the dynamics of the global system of contemporary art. Almost always discovered by chance, sometimes even after their death, they are mostly characterized by obsessive elements, yet extremely poetic. In a world where too often the art canons are established through economic speculations, these artists’ works offer the deepest and most authentic reasons of artmaking.

The project is realized within the Estate Fiorentina 2014 organized by Comune di Firenze. In collaboration with FST-Mediateca Toscana Film Commission.

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Open-air Cinema in Piazza SS. Annunziata, Florence
July 7, 14, 21, 28

Free admission
All films are shown in original language, with subtitles in Italian
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[mini-icon icon=”time”] Monday, July 7 – 9.30 pm
Finding Vivian Maier
by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, USA 2013, 84’
With the same avidity with which she collected objects of all kinds and newspaper fragments, with her Rolleiflex always around her neck, Vivian Maier produced thousands of photographs, including numerous portraits and self-portraits However, until John Maloof bought an anonymous box at a Chicago auction filled with her old negatives, all that was known about her was that she worked as an au pair for several of the city’s prominent families. The documentary investigates the mysterious photographer’s story, starting with the astounding discovery that led to the posthumous recognition of her work in the area of street photography.

[mini-icon icon=”time”] Monday, July 14 – 9.30 pm
Turning the Art World Inside Out
by Jack Cocker, UK, 2013, 70′
Beginning with the Biennale di Venezia curated in 2013 by Massimiliano Gioni, this documentary reconstructs the history and fortunes of so-called “outsider art”: from the formation of Jean Dubuffet’s Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne till the more recent birth of institutions such as the Museum of Everything. In an attempt to define the plurality of experiences behind this lone label, the creative director of the BBC ventured into production centers, galleries and private studios to meet the fascinating protagonists of this parallel creative universe, which appears increasingly integrated into the official art system.

[mini-icon icon=”time”] Monday, July 21 – 9.30 pm
Worldstar
by Nataša von Kopp, Germany/Czech Republic, 2007, 76’
Introduction by Guido Costa, Italian gallerist of Miroslav Tichy
Miroslav Tichy never concerned himself with the things of the world, or about the belated international success garnered by his photographic work, which was produced with rudimentary cameras and largely devoted to the women of his city. Unpopular with many, due to his extravagant character and appearance, imprisoned many times for being considered a rebel under the communist regime, Nataša von Kopp filmed him as an old man at his home in Kyjov (Czech Republic), where the solitude of his existence is only interrupted by occasional visits from his few friends, or by the occasional tenacious curator or gallerist.

[mini-icon icon=”time”] Monday, July 28 – 9.30 pm
Marwencol
by Jeff Malmberg, USA 2010, 83′
Marwencol is the name of the toy-village situated in WW2 Europe which Mark Hogancamp created in the garden of his home in order to get over the psychophysical traumas he suffered after being attacked by a gang of oaves. Gulliverian creator of the romantic and cruel adventures of this small world – where Barbies and toy soldiers stand in for himself, his relatives and friends – Hogancamp is also its extraordinary photojournalist. When his pictures win a place in a New York gallery, the self-therapy generated by Marwencol shows itself to be a real art form.
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Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present

Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival and Odeon Firenze present the Italian Premiere of the film Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present by Matthew Akers, USA, 2012, 106’

Interview to Marina Abramović
by Fulvio Paloscia, realized at PAC/Milan on March 13, 2012 in the occasion of the preparation of the exhibition “The Abramovic Method”

INFORMATIONS

Thursday March 22, 2012 – 8.30 pm
Odeon Firenze, Piazza Strozzi

Original language / with Italian subtitles

On Thursday March 22, Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival and Cinema Odeon Firenze will present the Italian Premiere of the film Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present by Matthew Akers (USA, 2012, 106′), an extraordinary portrait of an iconic woman artist of the last 40 years, international master of performance art, Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennial, 1997.

The film shows preparations for the most important moment of her career, the retrospective presented by MoMA New York in 2010.
In the middle of a square of light in the museum’s atrium, for 7 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 3 months, Marina Abramović silently graced whoever felt like sitting before her with her presence, while in the exhibition spaces 30 young performers re-executed several of her historic actions.

The film, that won the “Panorama Audience Award” at the 62nd International Cinema Festival in Berlin, 2012, is co-produced and distributed in Italy by GA&A and Feltrinelli Real Cinema.
It will be presented on March 22 as an Italian premiere at Odeon Cinema in Florence and at Cinema Apollo in Milan, on the occasion of the exhibition Marina Abramović. The Abramović Method which will be shown at PAC Milano from March 21 (curated by Diego Sileo and Eugenio Viola) until June 10.

Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present takes us live to the most recent effort by Marina Abramović, international performance master, who won the Leone d’Oro at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, and has made time the fulcrum of her art.

In the middle of a square of light in the museum’s atrium, for 7 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 3 months, Marina Abramović silently graced whoever felt like sitting before her with her presence, while in the exhibition spaces 30 young performers re-executed several of her historic actions. If the footage of the artist’s face places the viewer directly in the center of the performative situation, the footage shot during the long preparation for the show and the workshops with the young artists to whom she entrusted her past works restores several fundamental aspects of her working methods and her own life: the importance of methodical preparation and the rigorous practice of concentration, listening, silence, to prepare oneself physically and mentally to create and experience emotion. Strongly committed to her personal research in the recognition and management of performance art, whether with an historic view, in pieces such as Seven Easy Pieces (2005), or with regard to the future, such as the plans for a Center dedicated to Performance Art. At 63, at the high point of her career “Lady Performance” faces the present with awareness, profundity, irony, allowing certain images and presences to rise to the surface, including Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen), who for 12 years symbiotically shared her artwork and her daily life.

The meeting of their gazes, their finding themselves one in front of the other again, at the proper distance after their long separation, becomes one of the film’s most touching moments. The film won the “Panorama Audience Award” at the 62nd International Cinema Festival in Berlin, 2012.

Events

Masters of photography on the big screen

Program of documentary films dedicated to great masters of photography organized by Fondazione Fotografia di Modena in collaboration with Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival

INFORMATION

October, 5th – December, 21th 2014
Foro Boario
via Bono da Nonantola, 2
Modena

Fondazione Fotografia Modena
allestimenti@fondazionefotografia.org
fondazionefotografia.org

All films are shown in original language, with Italian subtitles

Program

Sunday, October 5th at 5pm

Viaggio in Italia. I fotografi vent’anni dopo
by Maurizio Magri, Italy, 2004, 60’

Sunday, October 26th at 5pm

Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up
by Jan Schmidt-Garre, Germany, 2009, 60’

Sunday, November 16th at 5pm

How to Make a Book with Steidl
by Jorg Adolph, Germany, 2010, 86’

Sunday, November 30th at 5pm

The Woodmans
by Scott Willis, USA, 2010, 82’

Sunday, December 21th at 5pm

Thomas Ruff
by Ralph Goertz, Germany, 2011, 50’

Art on Film 2015 Events Notes on Orientalism

Notes on Orientalism
Video Practices at the Age of Radical Difference

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 introducing the idea of Orientalism, Said unveils in an extremely analytical and polemical way that typical European modality of establishing relationships with its geopolitical otherness through the affirmation of Europe as a special pole of the processes of identity construction. In the frame of the analysis of European colonial dynamics, Orientalism emerges as a cultural and political project aiming to dominate and exercise influence on East – understood as a metaphor of everything that is not Europe – thanks to economical, political and military power structures. This idea of the positional superiority of Europe, which seems to be supported by the imagination of a factitious Eastern World and by its partial and non radical difference, supports in fact the priority given to Europe in the field of geopolitical identity-making.

Starting from an attentive analysis of the pivotal work of Edward Said and its segmentation, Notes on Orientalism takes the shape of a program of screenings of artists that try to undermine, rectify or denunce the predatory and coercitive process of the “vampirization” of the difference, taking into account its actuality.

INFORMATION

May 14th – June 9th 2015
Viafarini
Milan, Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4

Free entrance /
All films are in original version

Program

Thursday, May 14th at 7:00pm

Lettres du voyant
by Louis Henderson, 2013, 40′

Spectres
by Sven Augustijnen, 2011, 104’

Tuesday, May 19 at 7:00 pm

Travelling Amazonia
by Marine Hugonnier, 2006, 24’

Home Movies Gaza
by Basma Alsharif, 2013, 24’

Now Eat My Script
by Mounira Al Solh, 2014, 25’

Tuesday, May 26th at 7:00pm

Colony
by Mieke Bal, 2006, 33’

Episode 3 – Enjoy Poverty
by Renzo Martens, 2009, 90’

Tuesday, June 9th at 7:00 pm

Malù – Lo stereotipo della Venere Nera in Italia
by Invernomuto, 2015

Latent River
by Emilija Škarnulytė/Como Clube, 2015, 38’

Ming of Harlem
by Phillip Warnell, 2014, 71’

Events Notes on Orientalism

Notti di mezza estate
III edizione

Un programma di film di documentari dedicati all’arte contemporanea e ai suoi protagonisti. La rassegna intende confermarsi come uno degli appuntamenti più seguiti dell’Estate Fiorentina proseguendo l’importante percorso di collaborazione tra Lo schermo dell’arte e il Comune di Firenze.
Il programma proposto per l’Estate Fiorentina 2012 sarà interamente dedicato al cinema documentario con quattro film che raccontano le storie di uomini e donne che hanno consacrato le loro vite all’amore e alla tutela dell’arte.
A cura di Leonardo Bigazzi.
Il progetto è realizzato in collaborazione con FST-Mediateca Toscana Film Commission e con il contributo del marchio di design Opinion Ciatti.

NOTTI DI MEZZA ESTATE
2, 9, 16, 23 luglio 2012
Le Murate Firenze, piazza delle Murate
dalle ore 21.30

Tutti i film sono in versione originale sottotitolati in italiano e saranno proiettati con audio in cuffia.

di Megumi Sasaki, Stati Uniti, 2009, 87’
Il film sarà presentato per la prima volta a Firenze.

di Don Argott, Stati Uniti, 2009, 101’

di Jörg Adolph e Gereon Wetzel, Germania 2010, 88′

di Amanda Pope e Tchavdar Georgiev, Federazione Russa, Stati Uniti, Uzbekistan 2010, 80′

ARTE e FILM Events

Palazzo Grassi invites Lo schermo dell’arte
1st edition

The Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi hosts a selection of works presented during the 2013 edition of the festival

Venice, March 6-9, 2014
Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi
San Marco 3260 – Venice
Vaporetto stops: San Samuele (L.2), Sant’Angelo (L.1)
www.palazzograssi.it

All the films are in original language with Italian subtitles
Free entrance until capacity is reached

by Mitra Farahani – USA/France, 2012, 96′
Language: Farsi; subtitles: English, Italian.
Screening and discussion in presence of the director

by Chris Teerink – NL, 2012, 72′
Languages: English, Dutch, Italian; subtitles: English, Italian.
Screening and discussion in presence of the director

by Juan Carlos Martìn – Mexico, 2013, 75′
Languages: Spanish, English, French; subtitles: English, Italian

by Simon Starling – UK, 2012, 28′
Language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Alain Fleischer – France, 2013, 26′
Language: French; subtitles: Italian

by Marco Del Fiol – Brazil, 2011, 27′
Language: English; subtitles: Italian.

by Jane and Louise Wilson – UK, 2012, 21′
Language: English; subtitles: Italian.

by Deimantas Narkevičius – 45′
Languages: Lithuanian, Russian, Polish; subtitles: English, Italian
Screening and discussion in presence of the artist

by Yuko Nakamura – Japan, 2011, 85′
Languages: Japanese, English; subtitles: English, Italian.

Events

Palazzo Grassi invites Lo schermo dell’arte
2nd edition

The Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi hosts a selection of films presented during the 2014 edition of the festival

Venice, March 5th – 8th 2015
Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi
San Marco 3260 – Venice
Vaporetto: San Samuele (L.2), Sant’Angelo (L.1)
palazzograssi.it

Original language with Italian subtitles
Free entrance until capacity is reached

by Pascal Goblot, France, 2014, 53’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Liam Gillick, UK, 2014, 28’
language: English

by Doug Pray, USA, 2013, 88’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Amie Siegel, USA, 2013, 40 e 6′

by Cherica Convents, Belgio, 2012, 30’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Iwan Schumacher, Swiss, 2014, 86’
lingua: Swiss/German, English, Chinese, French; subtitles: English, Italian

by Phillip Warnell, UK, Belgium, USA, 2014, 71’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Barbara Makkinga, The Netherlands, 2012, 15’
language: Dutch; subtitles: English, Italian

by Zachary Heinzerling, USA, 2013, 82’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Maria Anna Tappeiner, Germany, 2014, 54’
language: German; subtitles: Italian

by Invader, France, 2012, 24’
language: English; subtitles: Italian

by Daniela Schmidt-Langels, Germany, France, Swiss, The Netherlands, Sweden, 2013, 56’
language: German, English; subtitles: Italian

by Grit Lederer, Germany, 2014, 52’
language: German, English, Chinese; subtitles: Italian

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Q.I. Vedo Sostenibile

September 26th – October, 19 2014

Quartiere Intelligente
Scale di Montesano, Naples

October, 7 at 7.30 pm
screening of the film winner of the 2010 edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Prize
Ladies and Gentlemen by Luca Bolognesi

6.30 pm, conversation
Adriana Rispoli, curator of the exibithion
Eugenio Viola, Museo MADRE (Napoli)
Leonardo Bigazzi, Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival

Q.I. VEDO SOSTENIBILE is an exhibition program curated by Adriana Rispoli in which 12 International and Italian artists interpret through video environmental issues, ecological sustainability and the relationship between man and nature.

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Events Internet Festival 2014 Yes Men Fix the World

Station to Station at Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi

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 the tracks to meet strangers, artists such as Ed Ruscha, Olafur Eliasson, Urs Fischer, Lawrence Weiner, Christian Jankowski and musicians, among which Beck, Patti Smith and Thurston Moore. These encounters gave life to unique performances but also to intimate moments and conversations.

Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi
San Marco 3260 – Venezia
Vaporetto: San Samuele (L.2), Sant’Angelo (L.1)

Original version with Italian subtitles
Station to Station is distributed in Italy by Wanted.
Institutional partner PINAULT COLLECTION

ARTE e FILM Events Palazzo Grassi

The World According to Kapoor – A Portrait of Anish Kapoor

As part of the Contemporary Marathon FOR the LOVE of CONTEMPORARY, Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in collaboration with Comune di Firenze, Assessorato alla Cultura e alla Contemporaneità, Fondazione Sistema Toscana Mediateca presents the Italian Premiere of the film The World According to Kapoor – A Portrait of Anish Kapoor by Heinz Peter Schwerfel (Francia/GB, 2011, 52’).

INFORMATIONS

Saturday June 11, 2011 – 9.00 pm
Odeon Firenze, Piazza Strozzi
Free admission

Co-produced by Schuch Productions and ARTE France, Schwerfel’s film is an interview, full of suggestions and reflections, in which Anish Kapoor, one of the most famous artists in the world, recounts his search for new forms, his thoughts about sculpture and the metaphysical conception of the spaces with which he interacts. His words are a commentary on the images shot in his studio-laboratory in London, at Millennium Park in Chicago, where his extraordinary Cloud Gate has become one of the city’s most-visited monuments, and at his shows in Bilbao, Mumbai, Delhi and Paris.

The World According to Kapoor – A Portrait of Anish Kapoor
A film by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
2011, 52’, video

Coproduction Schuch Productions / ARTE France

A multicultural magician, an aesthetic perfectionist, and an engineer of the impossible, sculptor Anish Kapoor thrives on new artistic and technical challenges, such as his enormous inflatable structure with which he took over the Grand Palais in Paris at the Monumenta 2011 exhibition.
Kapoor, who was born in India but has lived in England since the 1970s, is an enchanting artist – his enormous mirrors capture the clouds, his pigment miniatures are sculptures of monochrome colour, and his wall hangings pull us into a sublime void.
This documentary recounts the world according to Kapoor, via a journey, from his London studios to the permanent installations of Chicago and Naples, to exhibitions in Bilbao, Mumbai and Delhi. The artist is given the opportunity to talk personally about his perpetual quest for new forms, which are always deeply moving.

Image: Marcel Neumann
Editing: Philippe La Bruyère
Original music and sound conception: Ulrich Lask

Among the most famous artists of our time, Anish Kapoor is a multicultural wizard, an aesthetic perfectionist and an engineer of the impossible who constantly recharges himself with new artistic and technological challenges, such as Orbit, the 100 meter-plus tower he designed for the London Olympics of 2012, whose construction has just begun.

Kapoor, who was born in Mumbai in 1954 and moved to London in the 70s, is currently on the scene with three shows in as many cities. In Paris, at the Grand Palais, as part of the Monumenta 2011 project, he created Leviathan, a gigantic PVC installation based on forms halfway between dragon and serpent, taken from the Book of Job, a creature that suggests an imminent catastrophe. In Milan, he inaugurated a one-man show at the Rotonda della Besana at the end of May and created Dirty Tunnel, an enormous steel tunnel which visitors can walk through in complete darkness, at the Fabbrica del Vapore. In Venice, in the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, he installed Ascension–a steam jet, almost an insubstantial column, but also a “breath” that suggests the pneuma, the divine breath of Christian tradition, as the artist says.

ARTE France & SCHUCH Productions
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The World According to Kapoor

un film de Heinz Peter Schwerfel
Image Marcel Neumann
Montage Philippe La Bruyère
Musique originale et conception sonore Ulrich Lask
Productrice Anne Schuchman
Production exécutive Laurence de Rosière
Chargée de production Alexandra Riegel
Prise de son Benjamin Ehlers, Richard Berdich
Machiniste Bilbao piki-piki – Ernesto Nunez
Régie Inde
. Mindseye Entertainment
. production: Lalit Kholi, Youla Khurana
. machinistes: Kishore Lingam (Mumbai), Rajesh Kumar (New Delhi)
. caméra vernissage Mumbai: Vikramjit Singh Ba
Mixage et enregistrements L’ENVOL – Roger Dupuis
Post-production Artcore Film
Voix doublage et commentaire Laurent Natrella, Andrea Schieffer
Nous remercions
. Anish Kapoor ainsi que son équipe de Londres avec Lucy Adams et Clare Chapman
. Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao
. The Royal Parks, London
. Serpentine Gallery, London
. Millenium Park, Chicago
. British Council, London
. Ministry of Culture, Government of India
. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
. Amrita Jhaveri / Mark Prime, Mumbai
. Alice Branche
. Jean de Loisy
Une coproduction SCHUCH Productions, Anne Schuchman
ARTE France Unité Culture et Spectacles
Directrice adjointe à la Culture Emelie de Jong
Chargé de programmes Ali Delici
Administrateur Pascal Aron
Chargée de Post-Production Stéphanie Lanois
Avec le soutien du Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée
Distribution ARTE France

Events

Transmedia/Transgender, video-cine-tv beyonds media and genders

Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival is present at
Transmedia/Transgender

Organized by the Centro Teatro Ateneo della Sapienza University of Rome,
curated by Valentina Valentini and Antonella Ottai,
in collaboration with Milo Adami and Walter Paradiso.

INFORMATION

March 4 – May 13 2013
Centro Teatro Ateneo della Sapienza Università di Roma
Aula Levi, Via dei Volsci 122

FREE ADMISSION
From 8.30 pm

Program

Monday March 25

The Ashes of Pasolini
by Alfredo Jaar, 2009, 38’ – Language: Italian; subtitle: English

This work is an homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, the artist and intellectual who wrote the celebrated poem Gramsci’s Ashes. Alfredo Jaar (Santiago del Cile, 1956) explores Pasolini’s critical and poetic research on the subject of awareness. Pasolini’s words, taken from various interviews and documentaries, appear extraordinarily prophetic for the social and political reality of contemporary Italy. This work was previewed at the 2009 Venice Biennale as part of the exhibition The Fear Society – Pabellón de la Urgencia at the Arsenale Novissimo.

marxism today (prologue)
by Phil Collins 2010, 35’ – Language: German, English; subtitles: English

Produced for the Berlin Biennale 2010, the film narrates the stories of three former teachers of Marxist-Leninist philosophy shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall and German Reunification. Monologues by the three protagonists are interspersed with archival TV footage and are accompanied by an evocative soundtrack by Nick Powell and Laetizia Sadier of the group Stereolab.

A conversation with Silvia Lucchesi will follow

> For the entire program

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Video PLAYER

Program of films curated by Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival dedicated to the artists featured in the show “The Player. Journey into contemporary passions”. Works from Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo’s collection.

INFORMATIONS

February 20 and 21 / March 14, 20, 21 2013
Marino Marini Museum
Piazza San Pancrazio, Florence

– From 9 p.m.: free admission
– The exhibition will be open from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Program

Wednesday, February 20th

Our Hobby is Depeche Mode

by Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams, UK, 2007, 72′
Language: English, Russian, German; subtitles: English

In this film, Jeremy Deller, the artist who won the Turner Prize in 2004, and director Nick Abrahams describe the fanaticism which surrounded the English group Depeche Mode during the 1980s. With the stories and voices of fans from around the world, Our Hobby is Depeche Mode reveals extraordinary stories of faith and devotion, from Russia, where “Dave Day”, dedicated to singer Dave Gahan, has become a national holiday, to the USA, Romania, England and Germany.

Thursday, February 21th

Film (Tacita Dean)
by Zara Hayes, UK , 11′
Language: English

Produced on the occason of Tacita Dean’s 2011 commission for the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, Film is a short documentary which introduces the artist’s poetics and the evolution of her project. First film of the Unilever series on the cinema, the installation is a visual poem in 35mm dedicated to the specificities of the analog medium.

Thursday, February 21th

Damiàn Ortega: Do It Yourself
by Branka Bogdanov, USA, 2009, 20′
Language: English, Spanish, subtitles: English

Damiàn Ortega is one of the most significant among the new generation of Mexican artists, along with Gabriel Orozco. Noted for dismantling objects for everyday use, like the famous Volkswagen Bug, and putting them back together, the artist playfully and imaginatively explores the parts that make up an automobile, a body, a dwelling or an economic system. Do It Yourself presents interviews with the artist, along with footage shot at his studios in Mexico City and Berlin, and images from his collaboration with a Tuscan artisan for the producion of several blown-glass sculptures.

Marepel
by Marco Del Fiol, Brazil, 2006, 22′
Language: Portuguese; subtitles: English

The first Brazilian artist to obtain a one-man show at the Centre Pompidou, Marepe was born in1970, at Santo Antônio de Jesus, in the Recôncavo Baiano region. His research is based on the elaboration of local traditions, from the history and objects for everyday use typical of his homeland, in order to make sculptures capable of calling into question the institutional status of a work of art while at the same time investing these commonplace objects with an almost spiritual value.

Meeting with Olafur Eliasson
by Marco Del Fiol, Brazil, 2011, 27′
Language: English

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, for his first one-man show in Latin America, presented several new site-specific pieces directly inspired by his impressions of Saõ Paolo. In the film, the genesis of the pieces, which invite the public to experiment with the perception of colors and spatial orientation, is narrated by the artist in person, during the show’s production.

Thursday, March 14th

Open Field (Gabriel Orozco)
by Juan Carlos Martìn, Mexico, USA, France, UK, 2012, 75′
Language: English, Spanish, French; subtitles: English, Spanish

Director Juan Carlos Martìn has followed Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco for the last 12 years, concentrating on the period in which he became a key figure in the international art scene. The film is a collage of interviews with artists and curators, and of sequences which record the development of his work, and other moments in which the camera enters into a direct relationship with several of his most extraordinary pieces.

Wednesday, March 20th

Urs Fischer
by Iwan Schumacher, Switzerland, 2010, 98′
Language: English, Swiss German, Italian; subtitles: Italian

Produced on the occasion of Urs Fischer’s first USA exhibition, at the New York Museum, this documentary reconstructs the creative path of one of the most interesting artists of the contemporary scene, who won high acclaim at the Venice Biennale this year. The images of the preparation for the American event, which Fischer orchestrated as a global artwork, interweave with those from previous shows in Venice, London, Sydney, Zurich and Shanghai, and with dialogues with the artist himself, with his collaborators and with Massimiliano Gioni, curator of the museum.

Thursday, March 21th

Rineke Dijkstra
by Branka Bogdanov, USA, 2001, 10’
Language: English, Dutch; subtitles: English

This short film follows Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra in her studio to reveal the thought behind her photographic series starring adolescents, families and women shortly after childbirth. Objectivity and formal rigor are the principal characteristics of these shots. However, especially in the poses of the adolescents, what emerges is their sense of unease, of waiting, and their difficulty in defining their own role.

Mona Hatoum
by John Wyver, UK, 2001, 26′
Language: English

Lebanese artist Mona Hatoum produced three new works in 2002 for the inauguration of the Tate Britain. Shown under the title The Entire World as a Foreign Land, these pieces show her interest in the theme of the relationship between individual identity and the notion of cultural identity and, more generally, the sense of belonging.

Thursday, March 21th

Two Melons and Stinking Fish (Sarah Lucas)
by Vanessa Engle, UK, 1996, 49′
Language: English

Filmed with a small portable videocamera, Two Melons and Stinking Fish is an intimate portrait of artist Sarah Lucas, one of the preeminent figures of Young British Art, of the early 1990s. The film, which includes interviews with Jay Joplin, Barbara Gladstone, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Gary Hume and Damien Hirst, recreates the seemingly spontaneous lifestyle and approach to art with characterizes the artist’s work.

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VideoLibrary
2nd edition

Films from archives of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival

INFORMATION
2012 April 12 / May 31
EX3 Centro per l’arte Contemporanea
Florence, Viale Giannotti 81/83/85

/ Thursday from 9.00 pm
/ Sundays from 11.00 am

All films are shown in original language with Italian subtitles.
The access to the Video Library is reserved for EX3 registered members.
Anyone can become a member at the reception of the Centre or through the web site: www.ex3.it

Program

Thursday, April 12 / Sunday, April 29 / Thursday, May 17

The World According to Kapoor, 52′

William Kentridge. Anything is Possible, 54′

Sunday, April 15 / Thursday, May 3 / Sunday, May 20

How Are You, 70′

The Treasure Cave, 43′

Thursday, April 19 / Sunday, May 6 / Thursday, May 24

Urs Fisher, 98’

Sunday, April 22 / Thursday, May 10 / Sunday, May 27

The Desert of Forbidden Art, 80′

Thursday, April 26 / Sunday, May 13 / Thursday, May 31

How to Make a Book With Steidl, 88′

Events

Women without men

Iran, 1953. Against the background of the violent CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of four women flow together in a splendid country garden, where they find independence, comfort and friendship.

The acclaimed video artist Shirin Neshat makes her cinematic debut with elegant, incisive camera work and a penetrating reflection on a crucial moment in her country’s history, which led to the Islamic Revolution and the Iran we know today.

Interview with Shirin Neshat
Ilaria Gadenz for Radiopapesse interview Shirin Neshat

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Cinema Odeon, Florence

6.00 pm meeting with Shirin Neshat
coordination by Silvia Lucchesi

ore 21.00 Movie preview
in the presence of the author
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