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[tab title=”SECTIONS”]/ Sguardi, documentaries dedicated to the protagonists and to the stories of contemporary art
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[accordion open=”1″][accordion-item title=”Wednesday, November 12″]10:00 am – 1:00 pm / 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Villa Romana
VISIO
Artists Presentation
The partecipating artists present their artistic practice
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11:00 am – 5:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Villa Romana
VISIO
Screening Program
Program of videos made by the partecipating artists
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[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
6:00 pm
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
Watermark by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Canada, 2013, 90’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
According to the peculiar formula devised by prize-winning filmmaker Baichwal and wellknown photographer Burtynsky, this overwhelming cinematographic project on water combines stories from around the world with exceptional aerial footage and bears witness to the impact on the landscape caused by human intervention.
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9:00 pm
SGUARDI
Cutie and the Boxer by Zachary Heinzerling, USA, 2013, 82’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere in the presence of the author
In love for over 40 years, extravagant painter Ushio Shinohara and his timid wife and assistant Noriko have shared a difficult day-to-day existence. The dynamic of their life together changed when Noriko suddenly started drawing the autobiographical cartoon characters Cutie and Bullie. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, 2012.
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10:45 pm
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
Art4Space by Invader, France, 2012, 24’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
Invited to Florida for a one-man show in 2012, French artist Invader was finally able to realize his most daring project: to send one of his mosaics, inspired by the aliens in the videogame Space Invaders, on an outer space mission.
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[accordion-item title=”Thursday, November 13″] 10:00 am – 3:15 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Institut français Florence
FESTIVAL TALK
in collaboration with Institut français Florence
Naissance d’un musée – Le Louvre Lens by Alain Fleischer, France, 2013, 225’
language: French; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
Conversazione Alain Fleischer e Isabelle Mallez, direttrice Institut français Firenze
Naissance d’un musée – Le Louvre Lens is a unique experience of the cinematic gaze on the creation story of a new museum that’s inadequate in every way: geographically, historically, museographically and architecturally. The film follows the Louvre Lens affair from site selection– in a region of old coal mines in northern France– to the first anniversary of its inauguration; an exhaustive cinema project, which explains the unusual length of this extraordinary visual document.
The film also deals with recent delocalization operations involving cultural institutions in northern France’s Pas de Calais region, such as the Château et Musée de Versailles; and with other examples of the removal of major museums from their original sites, such as the Fondation Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Centre Pompidou in Metz and the Musée du Louvre at Abu Dhabi, in an attempt to understand the circumstances, the logic and the problems correlated to such choices
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11:00 am – 5:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Villa Romana
VISIO
Screening Program
Program of videos made by the partecipating artists
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12 am -3:30 pm; 5:00 pm – 11:30 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Palazzo dell’Arte dei Giudici e Notai
VISIO
Residency Program
Installation by the artist in residence with screenings
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2:30 pm – 7:30 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Le Murate
In collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea
99 Dom-Ino by Space Caviar, Italy, 2014, 90’ loop
language: Italian; subtitles: English
The film arises from a residential architecture project, “Maison Dom-Ino” (Domus – Innovation), published in 1914 by Le Corbusier: a structure of prefab panels and pilasters destined to redefine architecture through the use of new, highly economical reinforced concrete technology. The video 99 Dom-Ino documents the project’s impact on Italy’s post-war boom: the public housing projects of the 70s, and the rise of real estate firms in the 80s. What emerges is a map of Italy’s architectural landscape, and a detailed, nuanced picture of Italy’s relationship with modern family life.
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3:45 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
In collaboration with Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana- Pinault Collection and Gucci Museo
FESTIVAL TALK
Opere dalla Collezione Pinault
A Declaration by Yael Bartana, 2006, 7’ 30”
O Século by Cinthia Marcelle & Tiago Mata Machado, 2011, 9’ 37”
Faezeh by Shirin Neshat, 2008, 13’ 42”
Conversation | Martin Bethenod, director Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana-Pinault Collection and Philippe-Alain Michaud, curator Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou
Simultaneus translation French/Italian and French/English
A Declaration
by Yael Bartana, 2006, sound, 7′ 30”
Pinault Collection © Yael Bartana. Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Yael Bartana, one of Israel’s most famous artists, works between Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. With this film, she proposes a critical and poetic reflection on the question of national symbols and on the utopia of a divided State.
O Século
by Cinthia Marcelle & Tiago Mata Machado, 2011, sound, 9′ 37”
Pinault Collection Courtesy: the artists, Sproviery Gallery and Galeria Vermelho.
In an apparently quiet street, someone out-of-frame throws something. The hurled object is soon followed by many others, which smash to pieces and accumulate, gradually filling the frame. Stones, boots, helmets, uniforms, broomsticks, steering wheels, tires, tubes, a sink, buckets – a whole world comes to light and becomes something like ruins
Faezeh
by Shirin Neshat, 2008, 13’42”
language: Persian; Subtitles: English
Pinault Collection © Shirin Neshat. Courtesy Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris
The work is part of a series of five videos inspired by the novel Women Without Men (1998), by her compatriot Shahrnush Parsipur, from which the famous Iranian artist adapted her film of the same title, which won the Leone d’argento at the Festival del Cinema di Venezia 2009.
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6:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
SGUARDI
Blick zurück nach vorm. Künstler über Deutschland by Maria Anna Tappeiner, Germany, 2014, 54’
language: German; Subtitles: English
Italian Premiere
A journey into German contemporary art, in search of how modern German history influenced the thoughts and actions of a generation, through interviews with protagonists of the scene, from the 60s to today: Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Perjovschi, Gerhard Richter.
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7:00 pm
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
Hamilton: A Film by Liam Gillick by Liam Gillick, 2014, 28’
language: English
Italian Premiere
Produced on the occasion of Hamilton’s exhibition at ICA in March, 2014, Gillick’s film uses different materials and technologies – including animation, performance film, computer modeling and footage of the show – to render a personal portrait of the master of European Pop. In the second part of the film, the voice-over is Marcel Duchamp being interviewed by Hamilton himself in 1959.
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7:30 pm
SGUARDI
My Summer 77 with Gordon Matta Clark by Cherica Convents, Belgium, 2014, 30’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
Stored for years in the Convents archive, the film shows Gordon Matta-Clark at work in Antwerp, during the realization of Office Baroque (1977). The genesis of this “arabesque” of curvilinear cuts, among the last interventions on architecture the artist made, is explained by its author in a long video-interview.
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9:00 pm
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
In collaboration with Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi
Parade by Shahryar Nashat, Germany, 2014, 38’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
Introduction by Eugenio Carmona, curator Picasso e la modernità spagnola
In his re-elaboration of the third theatrical presentation of the ballet created in 1917 by Jean Cocteau, with sets and costumes by Picasso, Nashat films its revisitation by choreographer Adam Linder, with special regard to the dancers’ interpretation, and the spectacle’s multimedia impact.
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10:00 pm
SGUARDI
Ulay Performing Life by Damjan Kozole, Slovenia, 2013, 91
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Ulay – a pioneer of body and performance art – was Marina Abramović’s long-time companion. Shortly before shooting began, the artist was diagnosed with cancer. Between Slovenia and Berlin, New York and Amsterdam, the film records his reflections on what he built, and what he left behind.
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[accordion-item title=”Friday, November 14″]11:00 am – 5:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Villa Romana
VISIO
Screening Program
Program of videos made by the partecipating artists
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12 am – 3:30 pm; 5:00 pm – 11:30 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Palazzo dell’Arte dei Giudici e Notai
VISIO
Residency Program
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2:30 pm – 7:30 am
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Le Murate
in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea
99 Dom-Ino by Space Caviar, Italy, 2014, 90’ loop
language: Italian; subtitles: English
The film arises from a residential architecture project, “Maison Dom-Ino” (Domus – Innovation), published in 1914 by Le Corbusier: a structure of prefab panels and pilasters destined to redefine architecture through the use of new, highly economical reinforced concrete technology. The video 99 Dom-Ino documents the project’s impact on Italy’s post-war boom: the public housing projects of the 70s, and the rise of real estate firms in the 80s. What emerges is a map of Italy’s architectural landscape, and a detailed, nuanced picture of Italy’s relationship with modern family life.
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3:45 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Le Murate
FESTIVAL TALK
Conversation | Joseph Grima, author 99 Dom-Ino and Giacomo Pirazzoli, coordinator iCad International Course on Architectural Design Università degli Studi di Firenze
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6:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
SGUARDI
Levitated Mass by Doug Pray, USA, 2013, 89’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
American artist Michael Heizer moved a gigantic stone block from an Arizona quarry to LA’s LACMA for an installation of the same name in the museum’s park. The film documents this exceptional undertaking, to the music of Akron/Family.
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7:45 pm
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
Apicula Enigma by Marine Hugonnier, 2013, sound, 26’
Italian Premiere in the presence of the author
Starting from an observation of a colony of bees, shot in the Austrian mountains, the artist has produced an enchanting naturalistic essay, and a fascinating metaphor of the creation of images.
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9:00 pm
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
Ming of Harlem. Twenty One Storeys in the Air by Phillip Warnell, UK, Belgium, USA, 2014, 71’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
Winner of the G. de Beauregard Prize at FID Marseille 2014, Warnell’s poetic film deals with the theme of the relationship between man and animal. It’s the true story of a man’s cohabitation with a tiger and an alligator in a 21st floor apartment in Harlem. Voice-over by philosopher Jean Luc Nancy.
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10:30 pm
SGUARDI
Ai Weiwei Evidence by Grit Lederer, Germany, 2014, 52’
language: English, Chinese, German; subtitles: English, talian
Italian Premiere in the presence of the author
Under constant surveillance by the Chinese government, under house arrest, Ai Weiwei works and organizes shows. The director follows a visit to Beijing by Gereon Sievernich, director of the Martin-Gropius Bau, to select works by the artist to be shown in Berlin at his major one-man show in Spring, 2014.
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[accordion-item title=”Saturday, November 15th”]11:00 am – 5:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Villa Romana
VISIO
Screening Program
Program of videos made by the partecipating artists
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12 am – 3:30 pm ; 5:00 pm- 11:30 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Palazzo dell’Arte dei Giudici e Notai, Firenze
VISIO
Residency Program
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2:30 pm – 7:30 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Le Murate
in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea
99 Dom-Ino by Space Caviar, Italy, 2014, 90’ loop
language: Italian; subtitles: English
The film arises from a residential architecture project, “Maison Dom-Ino” (Domus – Innovation), published in 1914 by Le Corbusier: a structure of prefab panels and pilasters destined to redefine architecture through the use of new, highly economical reinforced concrete technology. The video 99 Dom-Ino documents the project’s impact on Italy’s post-war boom: the public housing projects of the 70s, and the rise of real estate firms in the 80s. What emerges is a map of Italy’s architectural landscape, and a detailed, nuanced picture of Italy’s relationship with modern family life.
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3:45 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
FESTIVAL TALK
The Secret Museum
Lecture performance by Hito Steyerl
Simultaneous translation English / Italian
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6:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
FOCUS ON Hito Steyerl
In the presence of the author
Guards, 2012, 19’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
The video’s protagonists are two security guards at the Art Institute of Chicago, both with military pasts. They speak of their past experiences while, in the museum’s rooms, a series of projections accompanies them through the simulation of a military action..
Abstract, 2012, 7’ 30”
language: English; subtitles: Italian
In one frame, Steyerl is in Berlin, in front of the Brandenburg Gate; in another, she’s in Kurdistan, where her friend, PKK guerrilla Andrea Wolf, was killed in battle. Using her own iPhone, the author demonstrates the speculative nature of cinematographic concepts such as shot and counter-shot, insisting on the ambiguity of the English terminology, to create a parallel between aesthetic violence and the violence of war.
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6.45 pm
SGUARDI
Tim’s Vermeer di Teller, USA, 2013, 80’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Tim Jenison, a Texan inventor and electronic engineer, tries to unravel one of art history’s greatest mysteries: what’s the secret behind the realist paintings of Dutch master Jan Vermeer? The director, Teller, the American illusionist and magician, followed his experiments for five years, and interviewed David Hockney about his studies on the use of optical instruments in Renaissance paintings.
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9:00 pm
FOCUS ON Hito Steyerl
In the presence of the author
Liquidity Inc., 2014, 30’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Incorporating visual research and philosophical-existential theorizing, Steyerl reflects on the global concept of liquidity. The film centers on the emblematic experience of an ex-financial consultant, who reinvents himself as a martial arts expert after the recent global economic crisis.
How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational. Mov File, 2013, 16’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Based on a famous sketch by Monty Python – from which it derives its title – this video, produced for the Venice Biennale 2013, is a tongue-in-cheek set of instructions (replete with demonstrations and virtual simulations) on how to achieve invisibility in the digital age.
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10:00 pm
SGUARDI
La Cité Etrange des Kabakov by Heinz-Peter Schwerfel, France, 2014, 26’
language: English Russian; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere in the presence of the author
An intense interview with Ilya and Emilia Kabakov in their Long Island studio, during the planning stage of their imposing installation L’étrange cité for Monumenta 2014 at the Grand Palais in Paris.
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10:45 pm
SGUARDI
Meret Oppenheim ou le surréalisme au féminin by Daniela Schmidt-Langels, Germany, France, Swiss, The Netherlands, Sweden, 2013, 56’
language: German, English; subtitles: English, Italian
Italian Premiere
She knew Breton, Giacometti, Duchamp and Max Ernst. She was photographed by Man Ray. Meret Oppenheim was a sculptress, writer, poetess, jewelry designer and feminist during the Surrealist years. The film presents, through interviews with fellow-artists and friends, the rich personality of an artist who became an icon for many generations of women.
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[accordion-item title=”Sunday November 16th”]11:00 am – 5:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”]Villa Romana
VISIO
Screening Program
Program of videos made by the participating artists
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12:00 am – 3:30 pm; 5:00 pm – 11:30 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] Palazzo dell’Arte dei Giudici e Notai, Firenze
VISIO
Residency Program
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6:00 pm
[mini-icon icon=”map-marker”] CINEMA ODEON
SGUARDI
Guido van der Werve by Barbara Makkinga, The Netherlands, 2012, 15’30”
language: Dutch; subtitles: Italian
Italian Premiere
Interviewed in his home in Finland, the Dutch artist explains his working mode, which is to document his performances on video. They become independent works, whose titles are progressive numbers in chronological order.
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6:20 pm
PREMIO Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2013
The Mesh and the Circle di Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, 2014, sound, 30’
World Premiere
A collection of visual testimony, linked to work and practices of everyday life in several regions of Portugal. The two artists have created a fragmented film, immersed in the idea of the transformation of material, capable of generating a whirling movement of connections and interactions which evolve over time
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7:10 pm
In collaboration with Museo Marino Marini Florence
SGUARDI
Feuer et Flamme by Iwan Schumacher, Swiss, 2014, 86’
language: Swiis/German; English, Chinese, French; Subtitles: Inglese; Italian
Italian Premiere in the presence of the author
Artisanal mastery and art at work in the St. Gallen Foundry, in Switzerland and Shanghai, China. Urs Fischer, Fischli/Weiss, and Paul McCarthy work with its founder, Felix Lehner, and his young workforce, to transform their projects into small- and large-scale sculptures, such as Hahn/Coq, Katharina Fritsch’s controversial Blue Cock, which she mounted on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.
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91:00
CINEMA D’ARTISTA
Provenance by Amie Siegel, USA, 2013, sound, 40’
to follow: Lot 248 by Amie Siegel, USA, 2013, sonoro, 6’
This last work by the American artist Amie Siegel explores a Modernist symbol – objects in great demand on the market: furniture and decorations designed in the 1950s by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for the Indian city of Chandigarh. Sofas, chairs, armchairs and tables produced according to democratic and rationalist principles are now prominent features in the houses of rich collectors. The film re-traces the provenance of these artifacts, back to the place for which they were originally intended. Attached to the film is the short Lot 248, which documents, with controversial evidence, the auction sale for the film Provenance itself.
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10:00
SGUARDI
The Competition by Angel Borrego Cubero, Spain, 2013, 99’
language; English, French, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Japanese: subtitles: English, Spanish, Italian
Italian Premiere in te presence of the author
Five of the world’s most powerful archistars (Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid e Dominique Perrault) vie for the prize in a competition for the design of the National Museum in the tiny city-state Andorra. Following the grueling challenge, the film documents the professional performance of the various teams, enmeshed in crazy rhythms and interminable workdays.
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[tab title=”FOCUS ON”]Saturday, November 15
Cinema Odeon
Focus on Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl is among the most highly acclaimed artists working with video today. His documentary essays and writings–which take on themes such as feminism, the proliferation of images, the technological aspects of globalization, and visual culture- -represent one of the most influential contributions to contemporary criticism. His artistic practice also includes the form of lecture performance: conferences in which the artist, reading a text, interacts with live images and video.
Films in the program
Guards, 2012, 19’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
The video’s protagonists are two security guards at the Art Institute of Chicago, both with military pasts. They speak of their past experiences while, in the museum’s rooms, a series of projections accompanies them through the simulation of a military action..
Abstract, 2012, 7’ 30”
language: English; subtitles: Italian
In one frame, Steyerl is in Berlin, in front of the Brandenburg Gate; in another, she’s in Kurdistan, where her friend, PKK guerrilla Andrea Wolf, was killed in battle. Using her own iPhone, the author demonstrates the speculative nature of cinematographic concepts such as shot and counter-shot, insisting on the ambiguity of the English terminology, to create a parallel between aesthetic violence and the violence of war.
9:00 pm
Liquidity Inc., 2014, 30’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Incorporating visual research and philosophical-existential theorizing, Steyerl reflects on the global concept of liquidity. The film centers on the emblematic experience of an ex-financial consultant, who reinvents himself as a martial arts expert after the recent global economic crisis.
To follow:
How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational. Mov File, 2013, 16’
language: English; subtitles: Italian
Based on a famous sketch by Monty Python – from which it derives its title – this video, produced for the Venice Biennale 2013, is a tongue-in-cheek set of instructions (replete with demonstrations and virtual simulations) on how to achieve invisibility in the digital age.
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[tab title=”FESTIVAL TALKS”]Thursday, November 13
10:00 am – 3:15 pm Institut français Florence
In collaboration with Institut français Florence
Naissance d’un musée – Le Louvre Lens by Alain Fleischer, France, 2013, 225’
Conversation with Alain Fleischer and Isabelle Mallez, director Institut français Florence
10:00 am introduction Alain Fleischer
10:15 am first part / Geographie Histoire, 66’
to follow conversation between Alain Fleischer and Isabelle Mallez
11:45 am second parte / Ailleurs et ici, 90’
1:30 pm brunch
2:00 pm third part / L’art et la manière (de la montrer), 67’
Free entrance
Thursday, November 13
3:45 pm Cinema Odeon
In collaboration with Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana -François Pinault Foundation and Gucci Museo
Opere dalla Collezione Pinault
A Declaration by Yael Bartana, 2006, 7’ 30”
O Século by Cinthia Marcelle & Tiago Mata Machado, 2011, 9’ 37”
Faezeh by Shirin Neshat, 2008, 13’ 42”
Conversation with Martin Bethenod, director Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana-Pinault Collection and Philippe-Alain Michaud, curator Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou
Free entrance
Friday, November 14
3.45 pm Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea
On the occasion of the presentation of
99 Dom-Ino by Space Caviar, Italy, 2014, 90’ proiezione loop
Conversation with Joseph Grima, author 99 Dom-Ino and Giacomo Pirazzoli, coordinator iCad International Course on Architectural Design, University of Florence
Free entrance
Saturday, November 15
3:45 pm Cinema Odeon
The Secret Museum by Hito Steyerl
Lecture performance
Simultaneous translation English / Italian
Free entrance
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[tab title=”THE PLACES”]Cinema Odeon
Piazza Strozzi 1
Villa Romana
Via Senese 68
Institut français Florence
Piazza Ognissanti 2
Palazzo dell’Arte dei Giudici e Notai
Via del Proconsolo 16r
Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea
Piazza delle Murate
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[tab title=”INFO/TICKETS”]CINEMA ODEON
Tickets
/from 6 pm to 8:30 pm € 5 full ticket, € 4 reduced
/from 9 € full ticket, € 5.50 reduced
Daily ticket € 10 full ticket, € 8 reduced
Seasonal ticket
from November 12 to 16 € 35
Advanced tickets
on line from Wednesday November 5
www.50giornidicinema.com
from Sunday November 9 at Cinema Odeon
FESTIVAL TALKS
Naissance d’un musée – Le Louvre Lens
Opere dalla Collezione Pinault
99 Dom-Ino
The Secret Museum
Free entrance
VISIO Screening
VISIO Residency Program
Free entrance
Festival clip Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2014
Robert Pettena
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Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2014
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