Lo schermo dell’arte in collaboration with Fabbrica Europa and MYmovies presents
two evenings of screenings featuring films from the Lo schermo dell’arte channel on MYmovies ONE
PARC Performing Arts Research Centre
Florence, Piazzale delle Cascine 4/5/7
Monday, December 16, 2024
6:00 PM ‘Lolo y Sosaku’: The Western Archive by Sergio Caballero, Spain, 2024
8:30 PM Among the Palms, the Bomb, or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty
by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic, Austria, Germany, 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
6:00 PM Dead Dance by Domenico Palma, Italy, 2023
8:00 PM Gallant Indies by Philippe Beziat, France, 2020
The films are screened in their original version with Italian subtitles.
Free admission
Lo schermo dell’arte launches its own streaming channel on MYmovies ONE, dedicated to artist cinema and documentaries about contemporary artists. The channel offers a selection of films that blend genres, successfully presented in various editions of the festival, focusing on the use of moving images and urgent contemporary themes.
The films feature portraits of famous figures from the art world, rediscoveries of lesser-known or forgotten personalities, narratives of well-known or distant events, and stories that introduce us to the thinking and practices of artists and curators, guiding us through the process of creation.
Street artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy, sculptor and painter Ettore Spalletti, one of the most influential and reserved figures in contemporary Italian art, Fabrizio Fiumi, co-founder of the Florentine radical architecture group 9999 seen through the eyes of his daughter Elettra, the extraordinary experiences of female artists from the Bauhaus, the versatile Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, new wave master Jean-Luc Godard, and prominent Iranian new wave director Ebrahim Golestan in an intimate epistolary correspondence are just some of the names featured in the films that kick off the channel’s programming.
And then there is the cinema of reality, which takes hold of stories and reveals them to our eyes. The life of a workshop in southern China where young proletarian painters make a living by producing copies of Van Gogh paintings; the two films shot in Congo by artist Renzo Martens, which provocatively address the themes of poverty and exploitation of the African country by the West, from which the exhibition project for the Dutch Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale arises; the extraordinary contemporary interpretation of the baroque opera Les Indes Galantes by French artist Clément Cogitore for the Opéra Bastille, who in 2019 decided to challenge the conservative canons of that institution by involving hip hop, krump, break, and voguing dancers and choreographers from the Parisian suburbs; the Videomobile project by the artistic duo Masbedo, produced in 2018 for Manifesta in Palermo, dedicated to the historical relationship between the Sicilian city and Italian cinema; and finally, the travel experience of a community of artists, featuring happenings, improvised concerts, and site-specific interventions, in the first feature film by American artist Doug Aitken, Golden Lion winner at the 1999 Venice Biennale.
The streaming is available in Italy only.
by Barbara Visser
Netherlands, 2023, 82′
ov: Dutch, English; st: English, Italian
by Yu Haibo, Yu Tianqi Kiki
China, Netherlands 2016, 80′
vo: Chinese st: Italian
In a workshop in southern China, young proletarian painters make a living by producing copies of Van Gogh paintings.
by Lukas Marxt e Vanja Smiljanic, Austria, Germany, 2024, 85’
ov: English; st: Italian
The Salton Sea, in California, is an ecosystem where the water level has dropped by half a meter in just four years. This is where the U.S. tested numerous atomic bombs.
by Zeca Brito
Brasil, 2023, 91′
ov: Portoguese, English; st: English, Italian
A forgotten gesture of cultural diplomacy: the presentation of Brazilian modernist art at the Royal Academy in London in 1944, during the height of World War II.
by Chris Moukarbel
USA, 2014, 80′
vo: English st: Italian
by Domenico Palma, Italy, 2023, 54’
ov: Italian; st: English
The film follows Giulia Cenci’s installation, Dead Dance, throughout the entire creative process. A detailed account of the genesis of the artwork.
by Renzo Martens
Netherlands, 2008, 90′
ov: Dutch, Lingala, French, Swahili st: Italian
A provocative film about the poverty conditions of the Congolese population and how art can be a tool for change.
by Alessandra Galletta
Italy 2019, 89”
vo: Italian, English; st: English, Italian
by Tamra Davis
USA, 2010, 90′
vo: English st: Italian
by Philippe Beziat
France, 2020, 108′
vo: French; st: Italian, English
by Sergio Caballero
Spain, 2024, sound, 66′
A surreal, dialogue-free narrative that revisits the western genre, blending fiction, documentary, and auteur cinema.
by Elettra Fiumi
Switzerland, Italy, 2022, 91’
vo: English, Italian; st: English
The visionary spirit of Fabrizio Fiumi, co-founder of the Florentine radical architecture group 9999, narrated by his daughter Elettra.
by Mitra Farahani
France, 2022, 96′
vo: Persian, French, English st: Italian
by Doug Aitken
USA, 2014, 71′
vo: English st: Italian
From New York to San Francisco on a train that hosts performances by 62 artists and musicians in the first film by American artist Doug Aitken.
by Rudolf Herz
Germany, 2020, 18′
vo: German; st; Italian
by Susanne Radelhof
Germany, 2019, 43′
vo: German, st: Italian
Tribute to the women artists, designers, and architects who studied and worked at the Bauhaus but have been forgotten by history.
by MASBEDO
Italiy, 2019, 75′
vo: Italian; st: English
Through archival materials, interviews, and performances, the film by the artistic duo MASBEDO explores the relationship between the Sicilian city and cinema.
by Renzo Martens
Netherlands, Belgium, 2020, 79′
vo: Lingala, French, English, Dutch; st: English, Italian
