Programme 16th Edition

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

15/11/2023

9:00 PM

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Nummer achttien, the breath of life

by Guido van der Werve, Netherlands, 2023, 94’
V.O.: Dutch, English, German; S.T.: English, Dutch, Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

In 2016, following a serious car accident, the author remained in a coma for a month. Film recounts his rehabilitation by intertwining scenes from his childhood in which difficult relationships with his parents emerge. It is composed of numerous elements, also from other previous videos by the artist: 8 mm films and paintings made by the artist's father, a choir and an orchestra, an alter ego of the artist himself impersonated by a little red-haired girl, the family home in Papendrecht, his home in Finland and the medical center in Berlin where he stayed after the accident.

Tags: Festival 2024 Guido van der Werve

a non-academic lecture by Rabih Mroué, 2012, 60’

In 2011, at the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué started collecting low-quality images recorded by demonstrators protesting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Mroué questions the relationship between the act of documenting the 'here and now' with death and the way it is perceived by the rest of the observing world. Moving between visual arts, theatre and historical research, the artist critically reflects on the aesthetics of violence.

15/11/2023

7:00 PM

Thanks to Festival delle Colline Torinesi and Fondazione Teatro Emilia Romagna

The Pixelated Revolution

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November 14 – 19, 2023

Opening Tuesday Nov 14th 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Daily 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Free entrance

Project supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022)
Promoted and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte
With the contribution of nctm e l’arte
Curated by Gabi Scardi

The magic mountain

Tags: Festival 2024 Micol Roubini

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

16/11/2023

10:40 PM

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Canyon - Katharina Grosse

by Heinz Peter Schwerfel, France, 2023, 16’20’’
vo: French, German; st: Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the author

Katharina Grosse (Freiburg 1961) is known for her site-specific installations, which create immersive environments through the use of brightly colored acrylic paints. Among these Canyon, inaugurated in 2022 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, is an imposing suspended installation, an object capable of making painting a spatial experience. The film follows the artist in the conception and realization of the work as she explains the motivations behind his work.

Tags: Festival 2024 Heinz Peter Schwerfel Katharina Grosse

by Amie Siegel, United States, United Kingdom, 2022, sound, 82'
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

Bloodlines follows the movement of paintings by English artist George Stubbs (1724–1806) from their homes in private aristocratic country estates and public institutions across the UK, to a Stubbs exhibition in a public gallery, and their subsequent return. As the film unfolds, Siegel draws out connections between her subjects and those of the paintings; people, property, animals and objects move between the real and the represented, creating a mirror of human, equine and artistic bloodlines, and highlighting both lineages of ownership and the constructs of image-making itself. Offering a window into the world of cultural heritage, Bloodlines exposes structures of cultural ownership, labor and inherited wealth which continue to shape British society today.

16/11/2023

9:00 PM

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Bloodlines

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16/11/2023

8:10 PM

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Capital

by Basma al-Sharif, Egypt, Italy, Germany, 2023, 17'
vo: Italian, Arab, French; st: English; Italian

A woman on the receiver of a white telephone is seduced by a male voice promoting new apartments for sale. A ventriloquist (played by artist Diego Marcon) makes puns. These scenes alternate with commercials for luxury residential complexes.
The title Capital refers to the colossal project for a new Egyptian capital, planned during the 1970s.
The film, in a satirical style, makes connections between fascist "white telephone" propaganda cinema and new urban construction in Egypt.

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16/11/2023

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Nummer veertien, home

by Guido van der Werve, video 4k, 2012, sound, 54’
In the presence of the artist

The cemetery of Père Lachaise is the place where Frédéric Chopin is buried, minus his heart, which his sister secretly took to a church in Warsaw to fulfill the composer's last wish. The artist embarks on a journey from Poland to France as if it were a triathlon. The film is a requiem in three movements and twelve acts in which three narratives intertwine: the journey completed as an Ironman marathon, an unreal return to his native Holland and some scenes inspired by the journey that Alexander the Great made from Macedonia to Babylon.

Tags: Festival 2024 Guido van der Werve

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16/11/2023

6:45 PM

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Nummer acht, everything is going to be alright

by Guido van der Werve, 16 mm transferred to HD, 2007, sound, 10'10"
In the presence of the artist

In the Finnish Gulf of Bothnia, the artist is filmed while walking on an ice field in front of an enormous icebreaker. There is no music, only the dull thuds of the ship as it travels along its trajectory. In the wide shot, van der Werve seems fragile and tiny, about to be swallowed by the immense ship behind him.

Tags: Festival 2024 Guido van der Werve

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

16/11/2023

5:00 PM

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Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling

by Jennifer Lane, USA, 2022, 94’
vo: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere

The film traces the long career of the Californian artist Robert Irwin (Long Beach 1928) known for his site-specific installations, ephemeral interventions that play with the perception of space and light. Part of the film consists of archival material and unreleased interviews showing the artist’s famous installations, and part follows the creation of an impressive permanent installation for the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas desert, which presents itself as a radical ode to the evanescent elements of light and space.

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Festival Talk

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, aula Ghiberti

16/11/2023

3:30 PM

Free entrance

English language

Guido van der Werve
Lecture

The Dutch artist presents his work through a combination of performance and video.

Tags: Festival 2024 Guido van der Werve talk

November 14 – 19, 2023

Opening Tuesday Nov 14th 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Daily 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Free entrance

Project supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022)
Promoted and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte
With the contribution of nctm e l’arte
Curated by Gabi Scardi

The magic mountain

Tags: Festival 2024 Micol Roubini

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

17/11/2023

9:30 PM

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Dearest Fiona

by Fiona Tan, Netherlands, 2023, 102’
vo: English; st: Italian
In the presence of the artist

A journey through time and space that connects distant places and events. The film is made with archival footage depicting scenes of everyday life in the Netherlands in the early 1900s, while a voiceover reads letters the artist's father sent to her from Australia in the late 1980s -a correspondence about the small events of everyday and local life that weaves together epochal events. Through a hypnotic montage, the juxtaposition of word and image merges micro and macro history, in a journey suspended halfway between dream and reality.

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17/11/2023

9:00 PM

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Message from Mars

by John Menick, United States, 2023, 15'
vo: English; st: Italian
World premiere in the presence of the author

Film essay of 3D and 2D animation, archival footage and historical documents that reflects on humanity's desire to colonize Mars. The narrator is an android who's been stranded on Mars for 200 years. He spends his days in the vast underground complex built to house human colonists who never arrived. Alone and unable to contact Earth, he examines humanity's expansion plans on the red planet through images and narration from the history of cinema.

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17/11/2023

7:30 PM

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Ragnar Kjartansson: I'm Not An Authentic Human Being

by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen, Denmark, 2023, 44’
vo: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere

Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavík, 1976) is known for performances and large-scale video installations which explore the border between reality and fiction, melancholy and parody. The artist traces his career from his first videos Colonization (2003) and Mercy (2004), through the experience of 2009 at the Venice Biennale where he represented his country, Iceland, to the extraordinary 9-channel video installation The Visitors (2012) exhibited at the HangarBicocca in 2013.

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by Yuyan Wang, Italy, France, 2023, sound, 16'30
World premiere in the presence of the artist

In the age of wire and string, the light emitted from our digital extensions has roots traversing millions, even billions of years. Much like a chrysalis, the world unfolds into a realm of enigmatic brilliance, a seamless blend of circulation, spectatorship, and materiality.

17/11/2023

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Produced by Petit Chaos, co-produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with FRAC Bretagne

Look On the Bright Side

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by Gerard Ortín Castellví, Italy, United Kingdom, 2023, sonoro, 26’
World premiere in the presence of the artist

Gerard Ortín Castellví focuses on the transformation of food into moving images by documenting the new regimes and infrastructures of distribution. From the advanced technologies of circulation in AI-managed warehouses to commercial perception and representation in food photography studios, the journey portrays fragmented coexisting realities.

17/11/2023

6:20 PM

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Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Fondazione In Between Art Film

Bliss Point

Tags: Festival 2024 Gerard Ortín Castellví

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17/11/2023

5:00 PM

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Dead Dance

by Domenico Palma, Italy, 2023, 54'
vo: Italian; st: English
World premiere in the presence of author and artist Giulia Cenci

In her studio in the Tuscan countryside, Giulia Cenci talks about the realization of the work Dead Dance exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2022. The film is a detailed account of the genesis of the work and the episodes that fueled it. Cenci seamlessly mixes art history references and memories which merge with reflections on ecological themes, and intricate inter-species dynamics: an appeal for awareness of the role that humanity plays in the natural world.

Tags: Domenico Palma Festival 2024 Giulia Cenci

Festival Talk

NYU Florence, Villa Sassetti

17/11/2023

11:00 AM

Free admission by reservation: lapietra.events@nyu.edu

English language

Amie Siegel
Masterclass

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November 14 – 19, 2023

Opening Tuesday Nov 14th 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Daily 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Free entrance

Project supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022)
Promoted and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte
With the contribution of nctm e l’arte
Curated by Gabi Scardi

The magic mountain

Tags: Festival 2024 Micol Roubini

The 3D feature film stages a story of his country's folklore set in the microcosm of a remote village in the woods at the end of the 19th century, when daily communication was characterized by archaic/esoteric expressions full of symbolism. Among the protagonists are two girls and two itinerant musicians who observe disturbing events, unable to discern fantasy from reality. The scenes are accompanied by flutes and the dialogues of the protagonists, an enchanted fairy tale in which man and nature live in harmony.

18/11/2023

10:00 PM

Twittering Soul

Tags: Deimantas Narkevičius Festival 2024

Tribute to Diego Marcon in occasion of his solo exhibition Glassa at Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (until Feb. 4, 2024)

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

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ToonsTunes (Four Pathetic Movements)

by Diego Marcon, soundtrack, 2016, mono audio, 10'
In the presence of the artist and of Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro Pecci

Musical composition in four distinct movements, obtained by assembling sound fragments from Donald Duck cartoons.

Tags: Diego Marcon Festival 2024

Tribute to Diego Marcon in occasion of his solo exhibition Glassa at Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (until Feb. 4, 2024)

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

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Ludwig

by Diego Marcon, Italy, 2018, video, CGI animation, color, sound, 8'
In the presence of the artist and of Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro Pecci

Ludwig is Marcon's first CGI video. Sitting on a box inside a ship in a storm, a child sings while trying to keep a lit match between his finger.
The video is accompanied by an original musical composition inspired by the Lied, a genre developed in Germany in the 19th century.

Tags: Diego Marcon Festival 2024

Tribute to Diego Marcon in occasion of his solo exhibition Glassa at Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (until Feb. 4, 2024)

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

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Il malatino

by Diego Marcon, Italy, 2017, 16 mm film, color, no sound, 2'22''
In the presence of the artist and of Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro Pecci

Short film designed as a loop in which the first and last frame coincide. Made through animation, the video portrays a sick child breathing laboriously in a bed.

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Tribute to Diego Marcon in occasion of his solo exhibition Glassa at Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (until Feb. 4, 2024)

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

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Monelle

by Diego Marcon, Italy, 2017, 35 mm film, CGI animation, color, sound, screening version: 16'
In the presence of the artist and of Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro Pecci

Young girls lie asleep in the Casa del Fascio by Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni, near Como. Disturbing animated CGI figures engaged in mysterious activities wander in space. They are only visible when their images are revealed by the flash. Then this goes out and throws them back into darkness.

Tags: Diego Marcon Festival 2024

Tribute to Diego Marcon in occasion of his solo exhibition Glassa at Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (until Feb. 4, 2024)

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

9:00 PM

Untitled (All Pigs Must Die)

by Diego Marcon, Italia, 2015, 16mm film, "Winnie-the-Pooh" found footage, red film leader, acrylic paint on optical sound track, color, sound, 46’’
In the presence of the artist and of Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director Centro Pecci

A fragment of Winnie the Pooh, in which Piglet slams against Uffa the owl's window, waking him, is edited with clips of 16mm film in different shades of red. Some graphic signs drawn on the optical sound band generate noises that mix with the two characters' noises. The video was conceived as a loop in which Gufo is continually woken up when Piglet crashes into his house.

Tags: Diego Marcon Festival 2024

by Simon Liu, Italy, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States, 2023, sound, 11’
World premiere in the presence of the artist

In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s new Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious sequence of analogue darkroom practices and dense shrouds of video processing techniques which actively work to both conceal and reappraise approaches to personal expression in the face of censorship. Times ahead and behind collide - a new linearity is in need of; the glittering lore of the way things were, generations lost to resolution errors. Sifting through new realities of misinformation, digital consciousness, and cultural disappearance, Single File seeks new lexicons of civil disobedience through formal experimentation.

18/11/2023

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Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci

Single File

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By Maryam Tafakory, Iran, 2023, 17'17''

The first chapter of the artist's exploration into the representation of women and the censorship of their bodies in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, premiered at the 55th Directors' Fortnight in Cannes.

18/11/2023

7:20 pm

Mast-del

Tags: Festival 2024 Maryam Tafakory

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

5:30 PM

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We thank Pordenone Docs Fest for their collaboration

White Balls on Walls

by Sarah Vos, Netherlands, 2022, 90’
vo: Dutch; st: English, Italian
In the presence of the author

Rein Wolfs, the director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and his team are working on the process of renovating the museum's exhibition rooms. Like many western museums, the Stedelijk has long been a place of representation of white, western patriarchal power. From 2019 to 2022, the museum has undergone a process of updating and reorganising the collections to give visibility to female and non-white artists. The documentary is a remarkable account in which the successes but also the failures of this difficult process are shown.

Tags: Festival 2024 Rein Wolfs Sarah Vos

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18/11/2023

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Nummer zes, Steinway grand piano, wake me up to go to sleep and all the color of the rainbow

by Guido van der Werve, 35mm transferred in HD, 2006, 17’09”
vo: English, Dutch; st: English, Italian

Sitting on a stool at his upright piano, the artist is immersed in his thoughts while a voice-over tells the story of the Steinway & Sons grand piano and how very few pianists still have the privilege to play this instrument. Wandering dejectedly through the streets of Amsterdam, he continues to think of the Steinway. In the next scene, a crane hoists the large piano through the window of the narrow room of his apartment. Here an entire chamber orchestra accompanies him in the performance of Chopin's first piano concerto.

Tags: Festival 2024 Guido van der Werve

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

18/11/2023

5:00 PM

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Nummer twee, just because I’m standing here doesn’t mean I want to

by Guido van der Werve, 16mm transferred in HD, 2003, sonoro, 03’08”

Standing on a suburban street, the artist slowly walks backwards until he is hit by a car. A blue police van stops. Five young dancers emerge and dance Arcangelo Corelli's Concerto grosso per la notte di Natale in front of the artist's inert body.

Tags: Festival 2024 Guido van der Werve

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18/11/2023

H 11am

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Radical Landscapes

by Elettra Fiumi, Switzerland, Italy, 2022, 91’
vo: English, Italian; st: English
Special event in the presence of producer Laura Romano and of Pino Brugellis

The documentary recounts the visionary spirit of her father Fabrizio (Florence 1943 - Los Angeles 2013), co-founder of the Florentine radical architecture group 9999. Archival documents, collages, photographs and interviews accompany the viewer on a journey between the United States and Florence in the late 1960s.
The film depicts the deep connection between art and life present in Fiumi and the other members of the 9999 group, their vision able to connect technological innovations with an attention to environmental issues.

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Festival Talk

Palazzo Strozzi, Altana

18/11/2023

3:30 PM

Free entrance

English language

Sharing, Connecting and Creating. Moving Images and their Communities

Starting from the research of the book that celebrates 12 years of VISIO European Programme on Artists' Moving Images (2012-2023), a panel of experts will discuss the ever-changing landscape of institutions and professional’s communities operating in the field of moving images.
Participants: Barbara Casavecchia, critic and independent curator
Bianca Stoppani, editor of the In Between Art Film Foundation
Valentine Umansky, curator at Tate Modern
Moderated by Leonardo Bigazzi, curator Lo schermo dell’arte

Tags: Festival 2024 talk

November 14 – 19, 2023

Opening Tuesday Nov 14th 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Daily 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Free entrance

Project supported by the Italian Council (11th edition, 2022)
Promoted and produced by Lo schermo dell’arte
With the contribution of nctm e l’arte
Curated by Gabi Scardi

The magic mountain

Tags: Festival 2024 Micol Roubini

by Vasilis Katsoupis, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom, 2023, 105'
vo: English; st: Italian
Italian theatrical premiere in the presence of the author, of protagonist Willem Dafoe, and of producer Giorgos Karnavas

An art thief, played by Willem Dafoe, is trapped in a luxury penthouse with views of the New York skyline when his heist goes wrong. He's locked in the apartment and he finds himself in a prison full of contemporary artworks. Both the luxurious apartment and the collection, specifically put together for the film, play a fundamental and active role in the story as real characters. The days pass, his mental state worsens. This psycho-thriller has a surprise ending, in which claustrophobia, restlessness, brutalization and hallucination coexist.

19/11/2023

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Inside

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The under-30 audience will be able to vote for the best film through the new Lo schermo dell'arte App, soon to be available for free on the App Store and Google Play.
The winning film will be awarded an artist's book created by Roberto Fassone published by the Roi de Coupe publishing house.
Among those who vote, two names will be drawn to receive a 50 euro voucher for purchasing books at the Todo Modo bookstore, located in via de’ Fossi, 15r, Florence.

19/11/2023

9:00 PM

Under 30 Audience Award

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by Wael Shawky, Italy, Egypt, 2023, 57’,42”
vo: Classical Arabic; st: English, Italian
In the presence of Andrea Viliani, co-curator Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Materials

The film was produced in the context of Wael Shawky's participation in the Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Materials, originally conceived by Massimo Osanna and Andrea Viliani, who oversaw the production of the film.
For the Egyptian artist, Pompeii is a symbol of the end and the beginning, a matrix of history and story, a natural ecosystem and a thousand-year-old witness to the stratification of Mediterranean cultures. The archaeological area therefore becomes a theatre of the constant mutual regeneration of memories and narratives, in which the temples of the Greco-Roman religion and those of Egyptian mythologies coexist, continuing to tell our relationship with what is human and what is divine, with our idea of justice, with our origins and how they have mixed together, leading us to here and now.

19/11/2023

7:15 pm

I Am Hymns of the New Temples
أنا تراتیل المعابد الجدیدة

Tags: Festival 2024 Wael Shawky

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies from 8:00 PM, November 19th to 7:59 PM, November 21st

19/11/2023

5:15 PM

Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV

by Amanda Kim, United States, 2023, 109’
vo: English, German, Korean; st: Italian
Italian premiere

Considered the father of video art, Nam June Paik (Seoul 1932 - Miami 2006) is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. With his art he created new forms of expression and communication in the era of the television boom.Through rare archive footage, the documentary recounts interviews and excerpts from works and Paik's incessant experimentation with technology: from the use of the first TV monitors to the creation of anthropomorphic robots and portable video cameras.

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by Wang Bing, France, USA, UK, 2023, 60’
vo: Chinese; st: English, Italian
Italian premiere

The Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris resonate with the voice and naked body of the eighty-six-year-old Chinese composer Wang Xilin as he recounts the painful trajectory of his life, from a member of the Communist Party to his departure, until he became a political dissident defending freedom of expression. From his words we understand how the wounds found their symbolic representation in some of the symphonies he composed, the soundtrack of the film. A lucid portrait of a man who has made art his form of protest and resistance.

19/11/2023

4:00 PM

Man in Black

Tags: Festival 2024 Wang Bing Wang Xilin