HIGHLIGHTS
Florence, November 13 – 17, 2024
Cinema La Compagnia, Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Gucci, NYU Florence, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Online until November 26
FREE ADMISSION FOR THOSE UNDER 30
Opening night with the world premiere of Edge of Life (2024), a live performance by John Menick, and the film Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck (2024), at Cinema La Compagnia.
The Focus is dedicated to the American artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley, featuring five works created between 2017 and 2022.
Special event Exergue – On Documenta 14 by Dimitris Athiridis (2024), Palazzo Strozzi, La Strozzina.
The winner of the Under 30 Audience Award is Among the Palms, the Bomb, or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic.
Selected from over 150 applications, 8 artists were in residency at Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence, from November 13th to 17th. Three of them will receive support for a new work thanks to the VISIO Production Fund (€35,000), realised in collaboration with Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Fondazione In Between Art Film, FRAC Bretagne and thanks to the further support of Human Company.
They are: Sarah Brahim (1992, Saudi Arabia), Abdessamad El Montassir (1989, Morocco), Gala Hernández López (1993, Spain), Peng Zuqiang (1992, China), Charmaine Poh (1990, Singapore), Young-jun Tak (1989, South Korea), Philip Ullman (1992, Sweden), Leyla Yenirce (1992, Germany/ Kurdistan).
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The first activity was Lo schermo dell’arte Young, a film series curated by Anna Ricciardi, aimed at 7th and 8th-grade students from the Pirandello and Pelago Comprehensive Institutes. It took place during the 17th edition of Lo Schermo dell’arte at Cinema La Compagnia in Florence and Cinema Italia in Pontassieve.
Oltre lo schermo will continue between January and April 2025 in the preschool, primary, and secondary schools of the Pirandello Comprehensive Institute with three additional workshops curated by artists Maria Pecchioli, Roberto Fassone, and Giacomo Raffaelli, as well as the Taartovers Amsterdam association.
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The 2025 presentations of the book VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s
The presentations of the book VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will continue in 2025 in museums and institutions across Europe.
The presentations will take place as follows:
- January 16, 6:00 PM
Mart, Rovereto – as part of the series Altri Quadri – Artisti e immagini in movimento. Following the event, there will be a screening of four films created between 2023 and 2024 by artists who participated in the VISIO program. - January 17, 7:00 PM
Centro Pecci, Prato – as part of Centro Pecci Night – e se ci entrassi dentro?. Following the event, there will be a screening of four films created between 2023 and 2024 by VISIO artists. - February 4, 7:15 PM
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam – as part of the series Eye on Art. Following the event, there will be a screening of four films created by artists who participated in the VISIO program over the past 10 years. - February 21
CCA Berlin – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Berlin - March 20
Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici - April 1
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels - April 16
MAC Lyon – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Andro Eradze’s Film Flowering and Fading at MoMA PS1 in New York
Lo Schermo dell’Arte is pleased to announce that the film Flowering and Fading (Italy, 2024, 14’) by Andro Eradze, co-produced by Lo Schermo dell’Arte with Fondazione In Between Art Film and with the support of SpazioA Pistoia, will make its U.S. debut in the exhibition The Gatherers, that will take place at MoMA PS1 in New York, April – October 2025.
The film was created following Eradze’s participation in the 12th edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, during which the artist was awarded the VISIO Production Fund. Drawing on surrealism and magical realism, Flowering and Fading resonates with Eradze’s practice in revealing an alien sense of otherness through narratives introduced in the outskirts of human habitation.
After Colossus by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno Competing at the Berlinale
The Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from February 13 to 23, 2025, has selected the film by the Indonesian artist and director to compete in the Berlinale Shorts category.
After Colossus (Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, 2024, 29′) was co-produced by Lo Schermo dell’Arte in collaboration with the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, thanks to the support of the VISIO Production Fund 2023. The film followed Timoteus’s participation in the 12th edition of the VISIO program and had its world premiere at the 17th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte.
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno will also be featured in a dedicated focus at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which will run from January 30 to February 5, 2025.
Congratulations, Timoteus!