Programme 16th Edition - Lo schermo dell'arte

Palazzo Strozzi - Strozzina

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

by Micol Roubini, 4-channel video installation, 2023, super 16mm transferred to 2K, sound, 24'30''

Investigation of the ecosystem of the largest asbestos quarry in Europe in Balangero (TO), currently being at the centre of an extensive decontamination project.
Developed in collaboration with anthropologists and scientists, the work highlights the processes of reconversion and the dreams of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

Palazzo Strozzi - Strozzina

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

by Micol Roubini, 4-channel video installation, 2023, super 16mm transferred to 2K, sound, 24'30''

Investigation of the ecosystem of the largest asbestos quarry in Europe in Balangero (TO), currently being at the centre of an extensive decontamination project.
Developed in collaboration with anthropologists and scientists, the work highlights the processes of reconversion and the dreams of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

Cinema La Compagnia

15/11/2023

7:00 PM

Thanks to Festival delle Colline Torinesi and Fondazione Teatro Emilia Romagna

The Pixelated Revolution

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.

FOCUS ON Guido van der Werve

Cinema La Compagnia

15/11/2023

9:00 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Cinema tickets

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.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

An Excavation

by Maeve Brennan, 2022, 20’21’’

The artist documents an investigation into a series of looted vases, discovered at Geneva Freeport in 2014. Made in the 4th century BC by Apulian artisans, these vases remained buried in tombs for 2500 years before they were clandestinely brought to light. The objects’ journeys through the hands of looters, smugglers, restorers and dealers are counterpointed by the hand-painted stories that adorn them.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Farming

by Federica di Pietrantonio, 2023, 14’

The video is entirely shot within Farming Simulator 22, incorporating personally programmed or community-provided mods. The script is verbatim excerpts from online testimonies, with no alterations. The video's audio features ambient in-game sounds and a narrating voice generated using AI voice cloning technology, emulating the artist's voice.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Gerundi Circular

by Claudia Pagès Rabal, 2021, 14’15’’

The narrative is set around three sites related to the past and present of Barcelona’s commercial port: the ship-shaped business hub of the World Trade Center, the 19th-century customs building, and the harbour breakwater.
Global maritime routes, legal jargon, and the relentless flow of commerce and people compose a seamless 360-degree loop, in which the footage blends the rhythmic gestures of three performers and layers of handwritten texts into a series of music-video sequences. 

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Pacific Club

by Valentin Noujaïm, 2023, 16’37’’

In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense - the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France but who soon came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and heroin.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Raised in the Dust

by Andro Eradze, 2022, 8’12’’

In the Georgian poem The Snake Eater (1901) by Vazha-Pshavela, the protagonist has a supernatural talent for understanding the language of nature. Taxidermized animals appear in a forest, disturbed by an uproar of New Year’s Eve fireworks. Critical of the human carnival that is disruptive, toxic, and fatal for wildlife, Eradze’s film repositions fireworks as an entry point into the dark and mythological side of the forest, a world of plants, animals, and phantoms.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Terra incognita

by Timotheus Anggawan Kusno, 2022, 22’

The artist's re-enactment of mass mobilization during the succession to the Indonesian regime is accompanied by a narrator's recitation of an anachronistic poem. The production of this work of fiction reveals the overlapping and obscuring of memories, resulting in a cacophony of voices and distortion of memory.
Produced by Han Nefkens Foundations-Loop Barcelona.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Twice upon a while

by Marina Xenofontos, 2020, 3’52’’

Made with an open source digital animation program - follows an ideologically befuddled teenager failing to complete her tasks, stumbling through her childhood bedroom into a dreamlike vision, which drops her onto a rocky seaside via a space of kaleidoscopic darkness. The excerpts read out during the video come from an untitled poem by Cypriot poet Andriana Ierodiakonou; lyrics from two Greek folk songs as well as notes from the artist’s diary.

VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2023

November 15 – 26, 2023

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Only available in streaming

Wuhan Punk

by Chris Zhongtian Yuan, 2020, 12’01’’

The Chinese city of Wuhan is evoked through a voice-over that recalls characters and events: from the story of a missing former member of the punk group Si Dou Le to the Autonomous Youth Center, from the anarchic, illegal performance venues to the epic flood of 1998. Between drone footage and computer-generated imagery, the mythologized industrial city appears to glow in a post-apocalyptic smog.
Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella.

Palazzo Strozzi - Strozzina

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

by Micol Roubini, 4-channel video installation, 2023, super 16mm transferred to 2K, sound, 24'30''

Investigation of the ecosystem of the largest asbestos quarry in Europe in Balangero (TO), currently being at the centre of an extensive decontamination project.
Developed in collaboration with anthropologists and scientists, the work highlights the processes of reconversion and the dreams of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2023

5:00 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Cinema tickets

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 - who passed away on October 25, 2023 - 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.

FOCUS ON Guido van der Werve

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2023

6:45 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

FOCUS ON Guido van der Werve

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2023

followed by

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2023

8:10 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2023

9:00 PM

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Bloodlines

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2023

10:40 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Palazzo Strozzi - Strozzina

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

by Micol Roubini, 4-channel video installation, 2023, super 16mm transferred to 2K, sound, 24'30''

Investigation of the ecosystem of the largest asbestos quarry in Europe in Balangero (TO), currently being at the centre of an extensive decontamination project.
Developed in collaboration with anthropologists and scientists, the work highlights the processes of reconversion and the dreams of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

NYU Florence, Villa Sassetti

17/11/2023

11:00 AM

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

English language

Amie Siegel
Masterclass

Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2023

5:00 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

VISIO Production Fund 2022

Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2023

6:20 PM

Cinema tickets

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

Bliss Point

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.

VISIO Production Fund 2022

Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2023

followed by

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

Look On the Bright Side

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2023

7:30 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2023

9:00 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2023

9:30 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Palazzo Strozzi - Strozzina

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

by Micol Roubini, 4-channel video installation, 2023, super 16mm transferred to 2K, sound, 24'30''

Investigation of the ecosystem of the largest asbestos quarry in Europe in Balangero (TO), currently being at the centre of an extensive decontamination project.
Developed in collaboration with anthropologists and scientists, the work highlights the processes of reconversion and the dreams of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

H 11am

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

Free entrance

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.

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

FOCUS ON Guido van der Werve

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

5:00 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

FOCUS ON Guido van der Werve

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

followed by

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

5:30 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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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.

VISIO Production Fund 2022

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

7:20 PM

Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Seven Gravity Collection

Razeh-del

by Maryam Tafakory, Italy, 2023, 14’
World premiere

A new step in the artist's research on the representation of women and forbidden bodies in post-revolution Iranian cinema, the first chapter of which, Mast-del, premiered at the 55th Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.

VISIO Production Fund 2022

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

followed by

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

Single File

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.

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

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

9:00 PM

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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.

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

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

followed by

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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.

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

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

followed by

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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.

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

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

followed by

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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.

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

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

followed by

Streaming on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies until November 26

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

18/11/2023

10:00 PM

Twittering Soul

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.

Palazzo Strozzi - Strozzina

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

by Micol Roubini, 4-channel video installation, 2023, super 16mm transferred to 2K, sound, 24'30''

Investigation of the ecosystem of the largest asbestos quarry in Europe in Balangero (TO), currently being at the centre of an extensive decontamination project.
Developed in collaboration with anthropologists and scientists, the work highlights the processes of reconversion and the dreams of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages.

Cinema La Compagnia

19/11/2023

4:00 PM

Man in Black

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

19/11/2023

5:15 PM

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

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

19/11/2023

7:15 pm

I Am Hymns of the New Temples
أنا تراتیل المعابد الجدیدة

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.

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Cinema La Compagnia

19/11/2023

9:00 PM

Under 30 Audience Award

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.

Cinema La Compagnia

19/11/2023

followed by

Inside

by Vasilis Katsoupis, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom, 2023, 105'
vo: English; st: Italian
Italian theatrical premiere in the presence of the author 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.