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Lo schermo dell’arte in collaboration with Fondazione Sistema Toscana Mediateca, Pier Francesco Aiello for P.F.A. FILMS and Feltrinelli Real Cinema and thanks to the support of GOLD and OPINION CIATTI, presents the film: Exit Through the Gift Shop by BANKSY

INFORMATIONS

Thursday, May 12, 2011
9 p.m. (Second show at 11 p.m.)
Odeon Firenze, piazza Strozzi

Original sound with Italian subtitles

The italian premiere of the film Exit Through the Gift Shop, by Banksy, the most mysterious street artist in the world.

Banksy is world-famous, but nobody knows his real identity. All that’s known is that he was born ca. 35 years ago in Bristol, that he creates his art through guerrilla-style assaults on symbolic locations in cities throughout the world, and that his work, despite his highly critical take on the art world, is desperately sought-after by collectors, including the stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

With this premiere at the Odeon Cinema in Florence, Lo schermo dell’arte continues to present films in which the themes of cinema and art converge, as happened in 2010, with Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s intense film Women Without Men, and, later, with British director Duncan Ward’s corrosive Boogie Woogie.011.

Exit Through the Gift Shop is distributed in Italy by P.F.A. Films, and soon to be available on home video in Feltrinelli’s Real Cinema series, the film garnered extraordinary acclaim at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival, and has been nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar, 2011.

This is the inside story of Street Art – a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world’s most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film.

Exit Through the Gift Shop is one of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale… with bolt cutters.
The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. The world’s first street art disaster movie.

Quote by Banksy “It’s the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed”.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

A Banksy Film
Produced by JAIMIE D’CRUZ
Narrated by RHYS IFANS
Edited by CHRIS KING & TOM FULFORD
Executive Producers HOLLY CUSHING & JAMES GAY-REES
Sound JIM CAREY
Music Supervision & Original Score GEOFF BARROW
Original Music Composed & performed by RONI SIZE
Online Editor ADAM EDDY
Colourist ADAM GLASMAN
Additional Filming AIKO NAKAGAWA
Dubbing Mixer ALAN SALLABANK
Supervising Sound Editor JACK GILLIES

Life Remote Control
Directed and Edited by THIERRY GUETTA
with JOACHIM LEVY
Featuring (in order of appearance)

BANKSY
THIERRY GUETTA (aka MR. BRAINWASH)
DEBORA GUETTA
SPACE INVADER
MONSIEUR ANDRE
ZEUS
SHEPARD FAIREY
RON ENGLISH
SWOON
BORF
BUFFMONSTER

Events

Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival and Odeon Firenze present the Italian Premiere of the film Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present by Matthew Akers, USA, 2012, 106’

Interview to Marina Abramović
by Fulvio Paloscia, realized at PAC/Milan on March 13, 2012 in the occasion of the preparation of the exhibition “The Abramovic Method”

INFORMATIONS

Thursday March 22, 2012 – 8.30 pm
Odeon Firenze, Piazza Strozzi

Original language / with Italian subtitles

On Thursday March 22, Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival and Cinema Odeon Firenze will present the Italian Premiere of the film Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present by Matthew Akers (USA, 2012, 106′), an extraordinary portrait of an iconic woman artist of the last 40 years, international master of performance art, Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennial, 1997.

The film shows preparations for the most important moment of her career, the retrospective presented by MoMA New York in 2010.
In the middle of a square of light in the museum’s atrium, for 7 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 3 months, Marina Abramović silently graced whoever felt like sitting before her with her presence, while in the exhibition spaces 30 young performers re-executed several of her historic actions.

The film, that won the “Panorama Audience Award” at the 62nd International Cinema Festival in Berlin, 2012, is co-produced and distributed in Italy by GA&A and Feltrinelli Real Cinema.
It will be presented on March 22 as an Italian premiere at Odeon Cinema in Florence and at Cinema Apollo in Milan, on the occasion of the exhibition Marina Abramović. The Abramović Method which will be shown at PAC Milano from March 21 (curated by Diego Sileo and Eugenio Viola) until June 10.

Marina Abramović. The Artist is Present takes us live to the most recent effort by Marina Abramović, international performance master, who won the Leone d’Oro at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, and has made time the fulcrum of her art.

In the middle of a square of light in the museum’s atrium, for 7 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 3 months, Marina Abramović silently graced whoever felt like sitting before her with her presence, while in the exhibition spaces 30 young performers re-executed several of her historic actions. If the footage of the artist’s face places the viewer directly in the center of the performative situation, the footage shot during the long preparation for the show and the workshops with the young artists to whom she entrusted her past works restores several fundamental aspects of her working methods and her own life: the importance of methodical preparation and the rigorous practice of concentration, listening, silence, to prepare oneself physically and mentally to create and experience emotion. Strongly committed to her personal research in the recognition and management of performance art, whether with an historic view, in pieces such as Seven Easy Pieces (2005), or with regard to the future, such as the plans for a Center dedicated to Performance Art. At 63, at the high point of her career “Lady Performance” faces the present with awareness, profundity, irony, allowing certain images and presences to rise to the surface, including Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen), who for 12 years symbiotically shared her artwork and her daily life.

The meeting of their gazes, their finding themselves one in front of the other again, at the proper distance after their long separation, becomes one of the film’s most touching moments. The film won the “Panorama Audience Award” at the 62nd International Cinema Festival in Berlin, 2012.

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