Programme 17th Edition - Lo schermo dell'arte

13/17-11-2024

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

exergue - on documenta 14

SPECIAL EVENT
by Dimitris Athiridis, Greece, 2024, 848'
ov: English
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

Almost a thriller, the film with an extraordinary 14-hour duration is an unprecedented exploration behind the scenes of the institutional world of contemporary art. Dimitris Athiridis spent two years documenting the preparation of documenta 14, capturing the meetings and site visits of artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team.

Special event Gucci Visions

Gucci Visions, Sala CINEMA, Palazzo Gucci

From 11-11-2024 to 12-01-2025

10:00AM - 7:00PM

€8 / €5 reduced for students and over 65

'CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY'
Alone by Garrett Bradley

SPECIAL EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH GUCCI

Screening of the film Alone by Garrett Bradley as part of the series ‘CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY’ and within the framework of the 2024 Focus dedicated to the artist.

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Cinema La Compagnia

13/11/2024

7:30 PM

Edge of Life

by John Menick, 2024, 40’
ov: English; st: Italian
World premiere
Live performance, commissioned by Lo schermo dell'arte

In Edge of Life American artist John Menick speaks with a sentient computer about the possibility of digital immortality. A kind of Turing Test in reverse, the computer quizzes the artist for purposes which may or may not include the cloning of his consciousness.
A “live” performance about undead subjects, Edge of Life is a strange inquiry into how the digital transforms the boundaries of the living.

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Cinema La Compagnia

13-11-2024

9:00 PM

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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

by Raoul Peck, France, USA, 2024, 106'
ov: English; st: Italian

South African photographer Ernest Cole (1940 - 1990) was the first artist to courageously expose the horrors of apartheid. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was just 27 years old, forced him into exile in New York and Europe for the rest of his life. Raoul Peck recounts the challenges Cole faced, both as an artist and as a Black man, in a deeply racist world, starting from the discovery in 2017 of 60,000 missing negatives in a bank vault in Sweden.

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Palazzo Strozzi, Strozzina

13/17-11-2024

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

exergue - on documenta 14

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Special event Gucci Visions

Gucci Visions, Sala CINEMA, Palazzo Gucci

From 11-11-2024 to 12-01-2025

10:00AM - 7:00PM

€8 / €5 reduced for students and over 65

'CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY'
Alone by Garrett Bradley

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Festival Talk

NYU Florence, Villa Sassetti

14/11/2024

3:00 PM

Free admission by reservation via email to: lapietra.events@nyu.edu

English language

Garrett Bradley
Talk

Garrett Bradley in conversation with Rosella Calabrese, NYU Florence professor.

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Cinema La Compagnia

14-11-2024

5:00 PM

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Arte Povera, Appunti per la Storia

by Andrea Bettinetti, Italy, 2023, 93’
ov: Italian; st: English
In the presence of the director and producer Michele Bongiorno

A film about the subversive power of a movement and a group of young artists who profoundly influenced the contemporary art scene, not just in Italy. Featuring iconic masterpieces, original footage from the period, and interviews with its key figures, the film presents an incredible account of Arte Povera and its innovative language.

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Cinema La Compagnia

14-11-2024

6:40 PM

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The Book of Flowers

by Agnieszka Polska, Romania, 2023, 9’35’’
ov: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

An alternative history of human-plant ecology in which floral species and humans have coexisted in close symbiosis for millennia. The film, combining AI-generated digital animations and 16mm footage in a montage of static and animated sequences of flowers in time-lapse, reflects on the notion of environment as both an organic and social construct.

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Cinema La Compagnia

14-11-2024

7:00PM

Streaming on Lo schermo dell'arte on MYmovies One until November 24

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Club Bunker

by M+M (Weis/De Mattia), Germany, 2023, sound, 7’37’’
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

The duo M+M returns to the Schermo dell’arte with the second episode of a trilogy featuring praying mantises as its protagonists. They move in a perfectly reconstructed miniature environment blending the architecture of a bunker with that of a club, where a looming danger resonates, though its nature remains unknown.

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14-11-2024

7:20 PM

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Those Sweet Murky Waters

by Driant Zeneli, Albania, 2023, 13’16’’
ov: Albanian; st: English, Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

The ichthyologist Sabiha Kasimati, the first woman scientist in Albania, was arrested by the communist regime in 1951 and executed a few days later without trial, then thrown into a mass grave along with 21 other intellectuals. Through art, memory, ecology, and technology, Zeneli pays tribute to a woman who chose to challenge politics, social stereotypes, and even death in the name of science and freedom.

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Cinema La Compagnia

14-11-2024

7:50 PM

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Mangrovia

by Low Jack e Invernomuto, France, 2024, 9’12’’
ov: French; st: English, Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artists

The film is shot in Martinique between land and sea, in the heart of the mangrove tropical forest. Dancer and choreographer Rayna, a leading figure in the dancehall movement of the French West Indies, moves through the marshy landscapes performing the head top, a dance move in which she balances on the top of her head. Her stiff body collapses to the ground, establishing a dialogue with the surrounding natural elements.

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FOCUS ON Garrett Bradley

Cinema La Compagnia

14/11/2024

9:00 PM

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In collaboration with The Recovery Plan

America

by Garrett Bradley, USA, 2019, 30'
ov: English; st: Italian
At the presence of the artist

Bradley’s cinematic omnibus America (2019) reimagines a lost history in American cinema. Inspired by the earliest surviving feature-length film with an all-black cast, Bert Williams’ Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913), the acclaimed director conjures a series of stunning black-and-white vignettes of joy, domesticity, and triumph.

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14/11/2024

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AKA

by Garrett Bradley, USA, 2019, 8’17’’
ov: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

AKA is the first in a trilogy about relationships between women, in this case relationships between mothers and daughters born into mixed-race families or families of the same race with varying skin tones. Like many of Garrett Bradley's films, the experimental short developed out of hours-long conversations between Bradley and her female protagonists. She began with a series of questions regarding race, upward mobility, and the relationship between white women and black women, which the artist posed to friends, family, and social media—an ongoing resource in her work. In one instance, one of Bradley’s subjects repeatedly asked her mother, “Are you color struck?” The term, made famous by Zora Neal Hurston’s 1925 play of the same name, refers to the notion of “colorism,” which describes both interracial and intraracial forms of discrimination based on the color of one’s skin. Bradley subsequently used the phrase to shape the visual and sonic landscapes of the film-specifically AKA’s prismatic and shimmering effects, which contribute to the film's hallucinatory and dream-like atmosphere. Her dialogues with mothers and daughters would also determine much of the choreography and locations of scenes, articulating an approach of filmmaking that both honors and issues from the visions of its subjects.

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14/11/2024

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Safe (Excerpt)

by Garrett Bradley, USA, 2022, sound, 3’15’’
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

Safe (2022) is the second film in a trilogy exploring the overlap between women’s interior and exterior lives. Following AKA (2019), which examined intergenerational relationships, Safe delves into inner worlds, depicting them as vivid and parallel to the outside world. Featuring Donna Crump and Aloné Watts, the film captures the ineffable nature of interior emotions, treating them as a radical space of Black life. The excerpt was screened at a symposium organized by Hilton Als at The Brooklyn Museum.

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14/11/2024

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Naomi Osaka: Rise

by Garrett Bradley, USA, 2021, 38’
ov: English; st: Italian
First episode of three of the Netflix docuseries
In the presence of the artist

The first of three episodes of the Netflix docuseries, Naomi Osaka: Rise offers an intimate look at the life of Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, the highest-paid female athlete in the world, who won four Grand Slam titles by the age of 23. Far from the rhetoric of traditional sports films, Bradley presents Osaka both in moments of success and in more opaque and complex times, highlighting her honesty and her reflections on profound themes such as identity and gender politics.

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Cinema La Compagnia

14/11/2024

10:30 PM

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE until November 24

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Radical Women

by Isabel Nascimento Silva, Brazil, 2023, 71’
ov: Portuguese, English; st: English, Italian
Italian premiere

In 2017, the exhibition Radical Women at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles was the first survey of the radical and feminist practices of women artists in Latin America and Latinx artists in the United States, who created pivotal works between the 1960s and 1980s. Eleven of them come together in the film to discuss their work, opening a new chapter in the history of 20th-century art.

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Palazzo Strozzi, Strozzina

13/17-11-2024

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

exergue - on documenta 14

Tags: Dimitris Athiridis Documenta Festival 2024

Special event Gucci Visions

Gucci Visions, Sala CINEMA, Palazzo Gucci

From 11-11-2024 to 12-01-2025

10:00AM - 7:00PM

€8 / €5 reduced for students and over 65

'CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY'
Alone by Garrett Bradley

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Festival Talk

Palazzo Strozzi, Strozzina

15/11/2024

10:30 AM

Free Entrance

English language

Dimitris Athiridis
Masterclass

Masterclass by Dimitris Athiridis, filmmaker, photographer and director of exergue - on documenta 14.

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Festival Talk

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Sala Pretoni

15/11/2024

3:00 PM

Free Entrance

Italian language

Bill Viola: le tecnologie dell'intangibile
Presentation of the book

The author in conversation with Alessandra Cigala, professor Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence

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FOCUS ON Garrett Bradley

Cinema La Compagnia

15/11/2024

5:00 PM

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Time

by Garrett Bradley, USA, 2020, 81’
ov: English; st: Italian

In this intimate yet epic love story filmed over two decades, indomitable matriarch Fox Rich strives to raise her six sons and keep her family together as she fights for her husband’s release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola. Time which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival was Bradley’s first documentary feature and what the artist calls a “sister film,” to her 2017 short, Alone.

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Cinema La Compagnia

15/11/2024

6:45 PM

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The Invisible Worm

by Rosalind Nashashibi, UK, 2024, 17’06''
ov: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

The film revolves around the friendship between Danish sculptor Marie Lund and Nashashibi herself. While working with different media, the two artists share a similar methodology in conceiving and reflecting on their works. The Invisible Worm is a playful exploration of the myth of the artist and the dynamics of friendship among artists. The title refers to the poem by William Blake, The Sick Rose (1794), in which the poet addresses the rose, warning her that an invisible worm has made her sick.

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VISIO Production Fund 2022/2023

Cinema La Compagnia

15/11/2024

7:20 PM

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Razeh-del

by Maryam Tafakory, Iran, UK, Italy, 2024, 27'
vo: Farsi, st: English, Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist
Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Seven Gravity Collection with the support of VISIO Production Fund

Zan(Woman), the first Iranian women’s magazine published briefly in the 1990s under the regime, inspires two young students to write a screenplay for an impossible film. Through the use of saturated colors, whispered sounds and archival images, the film questions the presence of women in Iranian cinema and more broadly in Iranian society.

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VISIO Production Fund 2023/2024

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15/11/2024

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After Colossus

by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, 2024, 29'
ov: Bahasa Indonesia; st: English, Italian
Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci with the support of VISIO Production Fund
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

The reconstruction, blending fiction and reality, of a mysterious secret project run by the Indonesian army that began after the collapse of Soeharto's authoritarian regime in 1999, in which children from rural areas were kidnapped, subjected to dreamlike experiments, and indoctrinated.
Kusno’s fiction utilises a blend of formats—including Super 8mm, Hi8, Video8, digital 35mm, and AI-generated images trained on historical and family photo archives—to speculate on the blind spots of Indonesia’s turbulent history.

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Cinema la Compagnia

15/11/2024

9:00 PM

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE until November 24

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Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz6xp3vOxvw

La Gola

by Diego Marcon, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, UK, 2024, 22'22"
ov: Italian; st: English
In the presence of the artist

An epistolary tale between two hyper-realistic digitally animated dolls that innovatively explores the visual storytelling of melodrama. Through a series of letters, Gianni tells Rossana about the dishes his chef friend is preparing for him. In her responses, Rossana, while caring for her sick mother, informs Gianni about her mother’s worsening condition.

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Cinema La Compagnia

15/11/2024

9:40 PM

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Duck

by Rachel Maclean, UK, 2024, 16'30''
ov: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere

Through deepfake images and audio, the artist who plays all the characters swaps her voice and face with those of Marilyn Monroe and Sean Connery, brought to the screen via artificial intelligence. Sean Connery, as James Bond, gathers clues, disorients the attackers, and attempts to eliminate the femme fatale Marilyn Monroe, only to ultimately uncover that nothing is as it appears.

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15/11/2024

10:20 PM

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Alreadymade

by Barbara Visser, Netherlands, 2023, 82'
ov: Dutch, English; st: English, Italian
In the presence of the artist

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, considered one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century, was first shown at an exhibition by the Society of Independent Artists in New York in 1917. The film investigates the theories attributing it to the Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 - 1927).
We thank Pordenone Docs Fest for the collaboration.

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Palazzo Strozzi, Strozzina

13/17-11-2024

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

exergue - on documenta 14

Tags: Dimitris Athiridis Documenta Festival 2024

Special event Gucci Visions

Gucci Visions, Sala CINEMA, Palazzo Gucci

From 11-11-2024 to 12-01-2025

10:00AM - 7:00PM

€8 / €5 reduced for students and over 65

'CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY'
Alone by Garrett Bradley

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Festival Talk

Altana di Palazzo Strozzi

16/11/2024

3:00 PM

Free Entrance

English language

Adam Szymczyk in conversation with Salvatore Lacagnina
Talk

Adam Szymczyk, curator of documenta 14, in conversation with Salvatore Lacagnina, curator and co-creator of the Studio14 program for Athens documenta

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VISIO Production Fund 2023/2024

Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2024

5:00 PM

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To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion

by Valentin Noujaïm, France, 2024, 14'30''
ov: French; st: English, Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

La Défense, the Parisian financial district, is a futuristic labyrinth that traps souls between concrete and glass with its towers and empty promises of liberal prosperity. A businesswoman is designing a new skyscraper. The gray, cold workplace amplifies her loneliness, pushing her to the brink of collapse. The office becomes a prison, and the only way out is to set it on fire.

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VISIO Production Fund 2023

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16/11/2024

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Flowering and Fading

by Andro Eradze, Georgia, Italy, 2024, sound, 14’
World premiere in the presence of the artist
Produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Fondazione In Between Art Film with the support of VISIO Production Fund

Drawing on surrealism and magical realism, Eradze’s practice resonates in revealing an alien sense of otherness through narratives introduced in the outskirts of human habitation. Gathering winds echo through the shadowiness of a still and quiet house. The night envelops a dog and human asleep when a sudden gust knocks over a jar of honey. The boundaries between the imaginative and the real begin to blur.

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Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2024

6:15PM

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Among the Palms, the Bomb, or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty

by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic, Austria, Germany, 2024, 85’
vo: English; st: Italian
Italian premiere in the presence of the artists

In the Salton Sea, south of California, the water level has dropped by half a meter and is destined to dry up. But this is also the place where the United States tested numerous atomic bombs during World War II in anticipation of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and during the Cold War.

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16/11/2024

9:00 PM

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'Lolo & Sosaku' The Western Archive

by Sergio Caballero, Spain, 2024, sound, 66'
Italian premiere in the presence of the author

A surreal narrative without dialogue that revisits the Western genre, blending fiction, documentary, and artist cinema. Caballero explores the universe of Lolo & Sosaku, a duo of sound artists who create installations of sound sculptures using a combination of self-made instruments, small rotating robots made of wood and metal, wires, pistons, tape, and nails, pushing the automatism of art to new extremes.

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Cinema La Compagnia

16/11/2024

10:30 PM

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Tempo di viaggio

by Andrej Tarkovskij, Tonino Guerra, Italy, 1983, 63'
ov: Italian, Russian; st: English, Italian
New international version restored in 4K by the Andrej Tarkovsky International Institute in collaboration with Fixafilm and Polish National Film Archive
In the presence of Andrej A. Tarkovskij and Daniel Bird

Tarkovskij and screenwriter Tonino Guerra embark on a journey to find locations for the film Nostalghia. The film takes the viewer on a discovery of the creative process of a great master of cinema and his relationship with his collaborator and friend. The Tuscan town of Bagno Vignoni, with its thermal bath in the square immersed in an archaic and decadent atmosphere, profoundly impresses the Russian director, becoming not only the central location of this film but also the spiritual symbol in Nostalghia.

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Palazzo Strozzi, Strozzina

13/17-11-2024

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

exergue - on documenta 14

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Special event Gucci Visions

Gucci Visions, Sala CINEMA, Palazzo Gucci

From 11-11-2024 to 12-01-2025

10:00AM - 7:00PM

€8 / €5 reduced for students and over 65

'CONTROLUCE: STORIES OF BEAUTY'
Alone by Garrett Bradley

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Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2024

4:00 PM

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Wolfgang Laib - Here, Now and Far Beyond

by Maria Anna Tappeiner, Germany, Italy, India, 2023, 80’
vo: German; st: English, Italian
Italian premiere

Since his early trips to India in the 1970s, German artist Wolfgang Laib has been influenced by Eastern philosophies that have shaped his artistic practice and worldview. Through the use of a few essential natural materials—pollen, milk, rice, wax—he creates simple installations that blend art, nature, and daily life, inviting meditation on what is truly essential in our frantic and overstimulated era.

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17/11/2024

5:20 PM

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Daphne Was a Torso Ending in Leaves

by Catriona Gallagher, UK, Italy, 2024, sound, 13'27''
Italian premiere in the presence of the artist

Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree, is celebrated here as a heroine and the author of her own destiny. In the film, shot in a contemporary Rome rich in references to the tree-woman, the representation of the myth becomes the very essence of the film, which the artist subjects to a development process using an infusion of laurel.

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17/11/2024

6:00 PM

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Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves

by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, France, Lebanon, 2024, sound, 8'
Italian premiere

In Lebanon, power cuts are not an isolated event but a daily reality. The National Museum of Beirut, home to its precious artworks, often faces electricity outages. Nevertheless, visitors remain undeterred and are eager to explore the museum, illuminating the artworks with their phones.

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Cinema La Compagnia

17/11/2024

6:15PM

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Ramallah Old Town 30th April 2024

by Jeremy Deller, Palestine, Italy, 2024, 13’14”
Italian premiere
ov: English; st: Italian

Shehadeh Shalalda is the only luthier in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. To craft his violins, which are now in the hands of many soloists around the world, he sources the finest wood from Italy. However, each return to Ramallah is fraught with challenges due to the mandatory passage through various checkpoints. Deller captures a poetic glimpse of the dramatic daily life amid wartime.

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17/11/2024

6:30 PM

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The Speech

by Lina Lapelytė, Lithuania, 2024, sound, 21'
World premiere in the presence of the artist

The latest performative work by Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė expands her exploration of the connection between sound and community. The film is a result of her performance, which took place in September 2024 in Paris as part of the Festival d'Automne, hosted at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. A group of children and teenagers imitate the sounds of nature through vocalizations that resemble the calls of animals and birds. It serves as a reflection on the failure of language and the disconnect experienced by younger generations, who are increasingly urbanized and distanced from natural environments.

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17/11/2024

7:15 PM

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Con i denti tra i coltelli

by Roberto Fassone, Italy, 2024, 35’
vo: Italian; st: English
World premiere in the presence of the artist

An amateur basketball team from Florence is seen through the lens of one of its players, the artist Roberto Fassone. The life of the group, encompassing practices, games, and locker rooms, is interspersed with materials sourced from the internet. A blend of the author’s love poetry towards his friends, diary, and mixtape, the film shows the joys and dramas of personal and collective daily life.

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17/11/2024

9:00 PM

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Art of Diplomacy

by Zeca Brito, Brasile, 2023, 91'
ov: Portuguese, English, st: English, Italian
European premiere in the presence of the author

At the Royal Academy in London in 1944, during the bombings of World War II, the art of the Brazilian modernist movement was presented to the world for the first time. The film narrates the story of a gesture of cultural diplomacy forgotten for decades. The proceeds from the sales of the exhibited works were donated by the artists themselves to the Royal Air Force as their contribution to supporting the fight against Nazism and Fascism.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

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Being Strong Is Hard

di Leyla Yenirce, Germany, 2021, 4’13’’

The film is a rapid flow of images, gathered online or created by the artist, featuring Kurdish activists, journalists, and fighters—mostly women—facing the camera, often smiling, accompanied by electronic music. The work, which the artist herself describes as an "image machine," combines concepts of solidarity and resistance and serves as a tribute to those who have been killed or who are still fighting.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE November 13 - 24, 2024

Galb’Echaouf

by Abdessamad El Montassir, Marocco, 2021, 18’43’’

While investigating an event that profoundly changed the landscape of the Sahara, El Montassir was faced with the silence of previous generations who remain haunted by a history that they are unable to tell. With Galb’Echaouf, El Montassir focuses the viewer's attention on landscapes, plants, and poetry, in search of answers or elements that could participate in the reconstruction of this amnesia and the transmission of the narratives

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

13 - 24 Novembre 2024

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE November 13 - 24, 2024

Good Morning Young Body

by Charmaine Poh, 2023, 6’23’’

The video uses as its basis found footage and material of the artist’s time as a preteen TV actor in the early 2000s in Singapore, a time of an unregulated internet and nascent image distribution. Through the use of a deep-fake, the video resurrects the series character, E-Ching, to address the politics of the gaze, the femme-presenting body, and agency. By compressing time and space, the eternal 12-year-old E-Ching offers a revisionist narrative that holds a yearning for freedom.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

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He Said, We Must Forget

by Sarah Brahim, 2023, 9’22’’

Originally conceived as a two-channel installation, He Said, We Must Forget uses images collected over the course of an entire year, two films run in parallel; they intersect and oppose each other, one undoing what the other brings forward with a technique based on hand-painting. Through fragments of images, Brahim tries to understand involuntarily whether it is possible to forget certain things in order to move ahead and how memories, and access to them, become blocked. An invitation to contemplate about the limits of human memory, its longevity, and the delicate boundary between reality and imagination.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE November 13 - 24, 2024

La Mécanique des Fluides

by Gala Hernández López, France, Spain, 2022, 38’

In 2018, an incel (i.e., an involuntary celibate) posts a suicide note on the Reddit platform with the title “America is responsible for my death”. La Mécanique des Fluides is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift on the Internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between two connected solitudes.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE November 13 - 24, 2024

Preoperational Model

by Philip Ullman, Netherlands, 2023, 13’10’’

La principessa antropomorfica Sophie e la sua cameriera Jessica si preparano per un nuovo giorno alla corte reale. La lotta di Sophie per svolgere il suo ruolo spinge le due protagoniste avanti e indietro nel tempo, attraverso mondi e identità, per trovare un modo per vivere insieme. Una storia di privazione di potere dal punto di vista dei potenti.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE November 13 - 24, 2024

Sight Leak

by Peng Zuqiang, Cina, 2022, 12’15’’

Sight Leak, filmed in 16mm black & white, reconfigures Roland Barthes’ memoirs of his 1974 journey to China, published posthumously, from the perspective of a local tourist visiting Changsha; the artist’s hometown.
Barthes' judgments about China are refracted in the film as fragments of dialogues on class, queerness and desire, responding to the reflections on the same matters elicited alongside Barthes’ sense of eroticism.

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VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 2024

November 13 - 24, 2024

Streaming on Lo schermo dell’arte on MYmovies ONE November 13 - 24, 2024

Wish You a Lovely Sunday

by Young-jun Tak, 2021, 18’45’'

Two choreographers and two dancers collaborated to create new choreography for the church “Kirche am Südstern” and the queer club “SchwuZ” in Berlin, each assigned a different Bach piano piece for four hands. After rehearsals, the venues were swapped, and participants learned their performance locations only on the actual day of filming, requiring them to adapt their choreographies to the new spaces. This juxtaposition of distinct settings aims to explore the coexistence of religious practice and club culture, highlighting the dancers' struggles and commitment to fitting their movements into these new contexts.

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