Lo schermo dell’arte is dedicated to promoting moving images to young audiences through the Oltre lo schermo project.
Between 2024 and 2025, four activities will be carried out to introduce children to the language of cinema and the production of short films. These activities are designed for preschool, primary, and lower secondary school students from the Istituti Comprensivi Pirandello in District 4 of the Municipality of Florence and Pelago (FI).
The project is carried out as part of the Piano Nazionale Cinema e Immagini per la Scuola, promoted by MiC and MiM.
Additionally, the initiative Come in un film has received support from Fondazione CR Firenze as part of PARTECIPAZIONE CULTURALE, the thematic call dedicated to supporting cultural programs aimed at enhancing active community participation and promoting social inclusion in peripheral areas.
Cinema La Compagnia, Florence, November 13-14, 2024
Cinema Italia, Pontassieve, December 11-12, 2024
Lo schermo dell’arte Young is a film series curated by Anna Ricciardi, aimed at second and third-year students of lower secondary schools from the Istituti Comprensivi Pirandello and Pelago. The series took place during the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte at Cinema La Compagnia in Florence and continued with two additional days of screenings at Cinema Italia in Pontassieve.
The selected films spanned various genres and formats—feature films, animated shorts, documentaries, and fiction—and address social issues such as environmental sustainability and migration, inviting students to reflect on these topics.
The project involved collaboration with Milo Adami, a filmmaker and instructor at ISIA in Urbino, a CIPS trainer, and the founder of the 24FPS association. It also included the participation of students from the Universities of Pisa and Florence: Marco Abbenante, Camilla Bomberini, Francesco Chiavacci, Giovanni Giacomazzo, and Eleonora Pilia.
Educational Kit – Classroom Follow-Up Activities
In the days following the film screenings, an educational kit will be shared with the teachers of the participating classes. This kit includes proposals for activities to deepen the exploration of the films’ content (civic education) and exercises for visual text analysis (audiovisual education).
The activities can be tailored to the specific needs of each class, depending on the teachers’ creativity and the time they wish to dedicate to them. They can adopt a single-disciplinary focus or take a multidisciplinary and cross-curricular approach.
CALENDAR
Cinema La Compagnia, Florence, 13 – 14 November 2024
projections for second and third-year students of the lower secondary school at I.C. Pirandello
Cinema Italia, Pontassieve 11 – 12 December 2024
projections for second and third-year students of the lower secondary school at I.C. Pelago
La Cassetta degli strumenti – Vedere per insegnare è accessibile con password privata cliccando qui: LINK
Contenuti per docenti:
– registrazioni delle lezioni
– presentazioni PDF delle lezioni
– link per la visualizzazione di film
– bibliografia e sitografia su cinema d’artista e documentario sull’arte
Questionario di valutazione (riservato ai/alle docenti che hanno seguito il corso): https://forms.gle/1e9CvyCfZFjjTUui7
Giovedì 27 ottobre
Le origini del cinema, un’unità didattica interdisciplinare
Giovedì 3 novembre
Il cinema come racconto interiore/esteriore, uno strumento attivo, alcuni casi studio
Giovedì 10 novembre
Il cinema racconta la scuola / una storia per immagini
Giovedì 17 novembre
Cinema e archivi online / usi didattici e riusi creativi
Giovedì 24 novembre
15:00 – 17:00
Silvia Lucchesi, Cinema e arti visive
Giovedì 1 dicembre
15:00 – 17:00
Valeria Mancinelli, Le immagini in movimento come pratica artistica contemporanea
Milo Adami è filmmaker e docente presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna e ISIA di Urbino. Ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Arti dello Spettacolo presso l’Università La Sapienza di Roma. Negli ultimi anni la sua ricerca è stata orientata verso una panoramica storica sui rapporti tra arte e immagine in movimento.
THURSDAY 14, 10:00 AM
There Are People In The Forest
by Szymon Ruczyński
Poland, 2023, sound, 10′
An animated short that tells the story of the terrible migration crisis ongoing since 2021 in the forests along the border between Poland and Belarus, using a simple, direct 2D drawing style.
Following
Manodopera
by Alain Ughetto
France, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, 2023, 70′
An autobiographical film born from the director’s personal need to rediscover his origins by retracing the difficult life of his paternal grandparents, born at the end of the 19th century and forced to emigrate from their small town to France due to both the miserable living conditions and the rise of the fascist party.
The same program was repeated at Cinema Italia, Pontassieve, on December 11-12 for the second and third-year students of the lower secondary school at I.C. Pelago.
Cinema oltre lo specchio
January – March 2025
A workshop aimed at fifth-grade students of the I.C. Statale Pirandello primary school, led by artist Maria Pecchioli. The students will tell their own stories by filming each other, using both fictional and non-fictional narrative tools.
La Cassetta degli strumenti – I bambini filmano il loro gioco è accessibile con password privata cliccando qui: LINK
Contenuti per docenti:
– video tutorial e dispense PDF con tecniche base di regia, ripresa e montaggio
– video conferenze TED sullo storytelling
Contenuti per studenti:
– estratti di film d’autore sul tema del gioco
– tutorial semplificati su tecniche di disegno dello storyboard, inquadratura, regia
Il calendario con i contenuti e le date del laboratorio sono consultabili a questo LINK.
Maria Pecchioli (Florence, 1977) is an artist and filmmaker working with various languages and media: filmmaking, performance, and workshops. She is a co-founder and member of the artistic-curatorial duo Radical Intention (2009), the collective Fosca (2006), and manager of the interdisciplinary residency space Corniolo Art Platform (since 2010). She teaches Design, Techniques, and Technologies of Decoration at NABA, Rome. In 2014, she made the film Lei disse sì – Just Say Yes, which won the Jury Award and Public Award at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna (2014) and the Public Award at the Gender Film Festival in Rome (2015). In 2023, she presented her exhibition Pop Show at studioamatoriale in Milan.
Come in un film
January - March 2025
A workshop aimed at third-year students of the I.C. Statale Pirandello lower secondary school, led by artists Roberto Fassone and Giacomo Raffaelli. The final result will be a short film that creatively develops the format of the interview, which will be screened in May 2025 at Cinema San Quirico in Florence.
La Cassetta degli strumenti – Guida immaginaria dell’Isolotto è accessibile con password privata cliccando qui: LINK
Contenuti per docenti:
– scheda del libro H. U. Obrist e H. P. Feldmann, Interview by Hans-Peter Feldmann (Walther Konig, 2009)
Contenuti per studenti:
– estratti di film e video realizzati con il found footage; immagini tratte dal mondo degli youtuber e creatori digitali e dalle banche di stock images copyright free
– mappe, carte e planimetrie, documenti testuali e fonti iconografiche sul quartiere Isolotto (propedeutici all’esplorazione urbana)
– tutorial tecnici e dispense con tecniche base di regia, ripresa, montaggio e post produzione
Incontro introduttivo
Laboratorio di ripresa video
Roberto Fassone (Savigliano, IT, 1986) lives and works in Florence. His research focuses on the strangeness of our existences. In recent years, he has exhibited and performed his work at both Italian and international institutions, including: Maison du Savoir (2023, Luxembourg); MAXXI L’Aquila (2022); Ars Electronica (2022, Linz, AU); Vision du Rèel (2022, Nyon, CH); 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor & Satire in Art (2022, Gabrovo, BG); Lo schermo dell’arte (2021, Florence, IT); Istituto Italiano di Cultura (2021, Paris, FR); Fanta-MLN (2019, Milan, IT); MAMbo (2018, Bologna, IT). His practice is open to collaboration: over the years, he has developed projects with Ai Lai, Federico Tosi, Carolina Cappelli, Riccardo Banfi, Mattia Pajè, Kasia Fudakowski, Jacopo Jenna, Friends Make Books. He founded the publishing house Roi de Coupe. As of Wednesday, April 26, 2023, his favorite artist is Agnes Varda.
Giacomo Raffaelli (Rovereto, 1988) is a cultural practitioner and educator. He initially trained in visual arts, earning a degree in Fine Art Photography from Camberwell College of Arts, London, before specializing in political science at the Experimental Program in Arts and Politics at Sciences Po, Paris. As an artist, he has presented his works at institutions and festivals such as MART, Galleria Civica di Trento, Viafarini DOCVA, Centrale Fies, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, South London Gallery, Mediterranea 17 – Young Artists Biennale, VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Festa do Cinema Italiano Lisboa. He has also collaborated with prominent scientific research centers such as the National Physical Laboratory in London, the Danish Institute of Fundamental Metrology in Copenhagen, and VIRGO – European Gravitational Observatory in Pisa. Today, he mainly focuses on education in visual arts and environmental humanities. He has lectured and participated in conferences at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Cité Internationale des Arts, CCW Graduate School, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Glasgow. Since 2018, he has been a tutor for undergraduate courses in Multimedia Arts, Arts Curating, Fashion Styling and Creative Direction, and for the annual Master’s programs in Digital Media Arts and Fashion Styling, Creative Direction and Digital Content at Istituto Marangoni Florence. In 2014, he participated in the 3rd edition of the Lo schermo dell’arte project VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, and since 2016, he has been conducting video interviews with guests of the Lo schermo dell’arte festival.
CineKIDS
January - April 2025
A workshop aimed at the preschool students of I.C. Pirandello, carried out in collaboration with Taartrovers Amsterdam, a partner of the Cinemini Europe network. It includes in-class film screenings and the completion of workshop activities using the kit provided by Cinemini Europe.
In April 2025, the multimedia installation MiniCine, created by Taartrovers, will be set up in the school’s spaces. Through this installation, children will have the opportunity to playfully explore the world of moving images using devices such as the magic lantern, thaumatrope, creating stop-motion videos, and producing live soundtracks.
Stills dei video
Ciak&Play
di Maria Pecchioli con gli alunni e le alunne delle classi VA e VB Locchi, VA Calvino, V e IV Ambrosoli dell’I.C. Statale Pirandello
I bambini e le bambine hanno lavorato sul tema del gioco ispirati dall’opera audiovisiva Children’s Game dell’artista Francis Alÿs, presentata al Padiglione del Belgio della Biennale di Venezia 2022, composta da 33 video sulla relazione tra i bambini e le loro modalità di gioco in aree del sud del mondo. Attraverso il laboratorio di Maria Pecchioli si sono cimentati nelle riprese di un breve video sui loro giochi. Divisi in gruppi – “troupe riprese”, “troupe backstage”, “fonici”, “trucco e parrucco” –hanno potuto sperimentare i vari ruoli della produzione audiovisiva.
L'isolotto che non c'è
di Roberto Fassone e Giacomo Raffaelli con gli alunni e le alunne delle classi III della scuola secondaria di primo grado dell’I.C. Statale Pirandello
Durante il laboratorio, i ragazzi e le ragazze hanno imparato le nozioni base di tecnica di ripresa e con delle videocamere messe a loro disposizione hanno creato un ritratto inedito dell’Isolotto, il quartiere dove vivono e studiano, rispondendo per immagini ad alcune domande che gli artisti hanno posto loro. Il montaggio realizzato dagli artisti è avvenuto seguendo i suggerimenti degli allievi nel contesto di un esercizio fatto in classe dal titolo “Vorrei che…” in cui ogni partecipante poteva esprimere le proprie aspettative sul film. Ne è emerso un video con una struttura che spazia tra mood differenti, con momenti energetici e altri più poetici e toccanti sia per quanto riguarda le immagini scelte che per la colonna sonora.
OLTRE LO SCHERMO 2024/2025
is possible thanks to the support of:
- Ministero della Cultura and Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito as parto of Piano Nazionale Cinema e Immagini per la Scuola
- Fondazione CR Firenze as part of “PARTECIPAZIONE CULTURALE”
in collaboration with:
- I.C. Statale Pirandello – Firenze
- I.C. Pelago
- Taartrovers, Amsterdam
- UNIPI DISCO Discipline dello Spettacolo e della Comunicazione
- UNIPI CoMeTe Comunicazione, Media, Tecnologie
- UNIFI DAMS Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo
- Quartiere 4 Comune di Firenze
