HIGHLIGHTS
The video interviews recorded in November 2024 by Carolina Cappelli during the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte are now online.
These interviews offer an exclusive look at some of the films presented, through the voices of the creators who share reflections on the genesis of their works, the themes explored, and how audiovisual language can expand the perception of reality.
In addition to the latest interviews, the Video Library also features a rich archive of conversations recorded over the years with numerous artists and filmmakers who have participated in the Festival since 2012. A journey through the history of Lo schermo dell’arte, told through the voices and ideas of those who have contributed to making it a reference point for the dialogue between contemporary art and cinema.
Selected from over 150 applications, 8 artists were in residency at Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence, from November 13th to 17th. Three of them will receive support for a new work thanks to the VISIO Production Fund (€35,000), realised in collaboration with Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Fondazione In Between Art Film, FRAC Bretagne and thanks to the further support of Human Company.
They are: Sarah Brahim (1992, Saudi Arabia), Abdessamad El Montassir (1989, Morocco), Gala Hernández López (1993, Spain), Peng Zuqiang (1992, China), Charmaine Poh (1990, Singapore), Young-jun Tak (1989, South Korea), Philip Ullman (1992, Sweden), Leyla Yenirce (1992, Germany/ Kurdistan).
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The first activity was Lo schermo dell’arte Young, a film series curated by Anna Ricciardi, aimed at 7th and 8th-grade students from the Pirandello and Pelago Comprehensive Institutes. It took place during the 17th edition of Lo Schermo dell’arte at Cinema La Compagnia in Florence and Cinema Italia in Pontassieve.
Oltre lo schermo continues until April 2025 in the preschool, primary, and secondary schools of the Pirandello Comprehensive Institute with three additional workshops curated by artists Maria Pecchioli, Roberto Fassone, and Giacomo Raffaelli, as well as the Taartovers Amsterdam association.
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The 2025 presentations of the book VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s
The presentations of the book VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will continue in 2025 in museums and institutions across Europe.
The presentations will take place as follows:
- February 4, 7:15 PM
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam – as part of the series Eye on Art. Following the event, there will be a screening of four films created by artists who participated in the VISIO program over the past 10 years. - February 21
CCA Berlin – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Berlin - March 20
Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici - April 1
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels - April 16
MAC Lyon – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Andro Eradze’s Film Flowering and Fading at MoMA PS1 in New York and at IFF Rotterdam
Lo Schermo dell’Arte is pleased to announce that the film Flowering and Fading (Italy, 2024, 14’) by Andro Eradze, co-produced by Lo Schermo dell’Arte with Fondazione In Between Art Film and with the support of SpazioA Pistoia, will make its U.S. debut in the exhibition The Gatherers, that will take place at MoMA PS1 in New York, April – October 2025 and will be projected at IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam on February 3-4, 2025, as part of the main programme Spectral Simulacra: Symbols, spectacles, traditions and trances.
The film was created following Eradze’s participation in the 12th edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, during which the artist was awarded the VISIO Production Fund. Drawing on surrealism and magical realism, Flowering and Fading resonates with Eradze’s practice in revealing an alien sense of otherness through narratives introduced in the outskirts of human habitation.
After Colossus by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno Competing at the Berlinale
The Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from February 13 to 23, 2025, has selected the film by the Indonesian artist and director to compete in the Berlinale Shorts category.
After Colossus (Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, 2024, 29′) was co-produced by Lo Schermo dell’Arte in collaboration with the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, thanks to the support of the VISIO Production Fund 2023. The film followed Timoteus’s participation in the 12th edition of the VISIO program and had its world premiere at the 17th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte.
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno will also be featured in a dedicated focus at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which will run from January 30 to February 5, 2025.
Congratulations, Timoteus!