On Sky Arte the event film about Venice discovering its artistic and cultural heritage

On Saturday, April 23 at 9:15 p.m. Sky Arte is showing the event film Venice. Infinite Vanguard, which aims to tell the story of the lagoon city on the notes of composer Hania Rani and through the words of Carlo Cecci.

The documentary was already released in Italian theaters last year, only for three days (Oct. 11-12-13, 2021) on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the founding of Venice. And now everyone will be able to see it on TV.

Based on a subject by Didi Gnocchi, with a screenplay by Sabina Fedeli, Didi Gnocchi, Valeria Parisi, and Arianna Marelli, and directed by Michele Mally, the feature film starts from the immense Venetian heritage to tell the story of the palaces that house masterpieces and historical objects, the artistic and cultural connections, and the visual nexuses that make up the portrait of the oldest city of the future. Produced by 3D Produzioni and Nexo Digital with the collaboration of Villaggio Globale International with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo and with the special collaboration of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, viewers will be led through the city by Carlo Cecchi, a master of Italian theater who has studied, met and worked with the great intellectuals, directors, writers and actors of twentieth-century culture. A young, talented Polish pianist, Hania Rani, will move through the sights of Venice: looking for inspiration and suggestions to compose the film’s soundtrack, in a game of cross-references and reflections among museums, calli and Venetian wonders. Holding the thread between these two different gazes and, above all, between two different generations is the narrative voice of Lella Costa.

The Grand Canal, the Correr Museum, Canaletto’s views, the works of Francesco Guardi, Pietro Longhi, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, Vittore Carpaccio, those of Bellini at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. Also, Ca’ Rezzonico | Museum of the Venetian Eighteenth Century, the Grand Tour, Canova’s sculptures, Carlo Naja’s period shots that conquered Europe, the ancient crafts portrayed in Enrico Fantuzzi’s photographs, Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei, Emilio Vedova and his struggle to save the Magazzini del Sale, Carmelo Bene reading the Futurist Manifesto “Against Passatist Venice,” the transgressions of Carnival, the ancient furnaces now laboratories of experimentation by Adriano Berengo, the arrival in town of the Togni Circus with its elephants on the historic bridges, Goldoni’s pièces, the Art Nouveau villas, the elegance and fashion of the Lido, the Venetian parties at the home of American composer Cole Porter and his wife Linda, the age of jazz, the social evenings of American journalist Elsa Maxwell, the mysterious works of Banksy, John Ruskin’s notebooks thick with notes, the chromatic and meditative vibration of water as recounted by Turner, the tombs of Sergei Djagilev and Igor Stravinsky, the charms of the Giudecca, the Caffè Florian and the birth of the idea of the Biennale, the Venice Film Festival and the first nude in the history of cinema, Wagner’s Venetian insomnia, the painters Giulia Lama and Rosalba Carriera, Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman graduate in history, the determination of the courtesans, Murano glass and the masterpieces of Giuseppe Lorenzo Briati, Casanova’s escapes, MOSE and the environmental emergency, the love for the city of Hugo Pratt, the Napoleonic spoliations, the sojourn of Empress Sissi, the inlays of Andrea Brustolon whom Balzac dubbed the “Michelangelo of wood,” the textiles and dresses of Mariano Fortuny and his wife Henriette, the Marchesa Casati Stampa, Peggy Guggenheim, the allure of La Fenice Theater, among the world’s most beautiful temples of music.

Venice. Infinite avant-garde is proposed as a labyrinth of stories, works of art, palaces, personalities of social and cultural life, places, extravagances, traditions. Alongside connections and suggestions flow the accounts of art historians, urban planners, sociologists, philosophers, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, artists, our contemporaries.

On Sky Arte the event film about Venice discovering its artistic and cultural heritage

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