Streaming on demand the films of the 13th edition of The Screen of Art

Confirmed the 13th edition of The Screen of Art - Film and Contemporary Art Festival to be held on streaming on demand on the Più Compagnia platform in collaboration with MyMovies.it. The films will be viewable from November 10 to 22, 2020 with a standard subscription of €9.90 or a supporter subscription of €50. More than forty films including artists’ cinema, documentaries and short films, and live streaming meetings will be on the program.

“In this very difficult year, the proposal of the Art Screen wants to be a kind of reminder for the future,” says Silvia Lucchesi, director of the Festival. “It is important to reflect on the experience of this chaotic, uncertain, irregular present. And we wish to do this by streaming films that we consider a selection of the best recent production and that we have loved very much. But we also want to continue exchanging ideas together with artists and curator friends with whom we share a path. Comparing and working together is an even more essential matter today. And we will do this together with our audience connected online from the hall of La Compagnia Cinema. Because although closed, the cinema is our home.”

In addition, the Art Screen is organizing the 9th edition of the research and residency program VISIO. European Program on Artists’ Moving Images and the exhibition Resisting the Trouble - Moving Images in Times of Crisis, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, produced with NAM - Not A Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi’s contemporary art program. The exhibition will open on Nov. 9 and will be on view until Dec. 8, 2020.

At the center of this edition of The Art Screen is the artists’ cinema. Their participatory or critical gaze, the telling of personal experiences, the poetic transfiguration of marginal and marginalized stories, and the reflection on the use of the medium and technology represent possible ways of reading the reality that surrounds us. International artists who will present their films in the Italian premiere include Greek Janis Rafa, present with two works, Palestinian Emily Jacir, Vietnamese Thao Nguyen Phan, Israelis Omer Fast and Dani Gal, German Rudolf Herz, Taiwanese Musquiqui Chihying, and American John Menik.

The festival also pays special attention to Italian production with works by Riccardo Benassi, Anna Franceschini and Flatform.

Also streaming, Mascarilla 19 - Codes of Domestic Violence, the first production project of video works by international artists promoted and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film and curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Alessandro Rabottini and Paola Ugolini. The program takes its name from the code word that in Spain is used by women victims of domestic violence to denounce the abuse they have suffered and brings together the works of artists Iván Argote, Silvia Giambrone, Eva Giolo, Basir Mahmood, MASBEDO, Elena Mazzi, Adrian Paci, and Janis Rafa, who are invited to confront this theme.

The online proposal is also enriched by the live content of the Festival Talks by artists and curators: Riccardo Benassi with Andrea Lissoni, director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich; Anna Franceschini with Milovan Farronato, curator of the Italian Pavilion at the last Venice Biennale; Flatform with Silvia Lucchesi, director of the Festival, the artists of the Mascarilla 19 program with curators Leonardo Bigazzi and Paola Ugolini.
From the Manifattura Tabacchi also streaming the curatorial collective Francesco Urbano Ragazzi with Kenneth Goldsmith, poet, critic, founder of the online archive UbuWeb; the panel discussion on Commissioning Artists’ Moving Images in which Beatrice Bulgari, president of the In Between Art Film Foundation; Han Nefkens, president of the Han Nefkens Foundation; and Mason Leaver-Yap, associate curator at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art will participate.

Italian premiere documentaries include one dedicated to JR, creator of celebrated public art and film projects; to architect Alvar Aalto and his first wife Aino, a couple whose iconic creations defined the mark of Scandinavian design; and James Crump’s portrait of controversial artist Jordan Wolfson, whose disturbing and provocative works provoke extreme reactions; a portrait of Keith Haring, made on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death, which traces his life and work through some previously unseen footage from the archives of the Haring Foundation; the film dedicated to Hans Hartung, which brings together interviews and footage filmed inside the house-studio in the Antibes hills where the master of European Informal lived with his wife, the painter Anna-Eva Bergman, and which today houses the foundation dedicated to their work. Also, Simone Manetti’s film on Pippa Bacca, which, through family testimonies and video images of her last performance Brides on Tour, reconstructs the tragic story of the Milanese artist who was killed in Turkey on March 31, 2008.

The Festival dedicates, as it does every year, a specific residency program to young international artists under 35, conceived and curated by Leonardo Bigazzi: twelve young European artists or artists residing in Europe who use moving images in their art have been selected through an open call in collaboration with some of the most important European academies, art schools and artist residencies. Their works will be exhibited in the exhibition Resisting the Trouble - Moving Images in Times of Crisis, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi and produced together with NAM - Not A Museum, Manifattura Tabacchi’s contemporary art program, which will run from November 9 to December 8, 2020. It will be a reflection on the most urgent issues generated by the current world crisis, proposing alternative visions to rethink the present and imagine the future.

The Art Screen also promotes the collecting of video installations, films and artist videos through the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (now in its sixth edition), which consists of the acquisition of a work by one of the participating artists by the Seven Gravity Collection, a private Italian collection entirely dedicated to video works by contemporary artists.

Some previews of the program of the 13th edition:

A preview of Francis Alÿs’ latest film, Sandlines, the Story of History. Children in a remote mountain village near Mosul, Iraq, play, as if in a role-playing game, characters who have marked a century of their country’s history. Despite the dramatic events, the children seem to retain carefreeness and innocence as they play among the desert dunes.

Greek artist Janis Rafa is present with the premiere of the film Kala Azar, her first feature film with whose project she won the 2017 Feature Expanded Distribution Award. It centers on the lives of a young couple working in an animal crematorium. Their sincere gestures of affection manage to shine a light into an otherwise seemingly dark existence, which they spend in the desolation of Greece.

Emily Jacir, who lives in one of the most critical areas of Bethlehem, launches with Letter to a friend an appeal to the London-based research group Forensic Architecture, asking them to conduct an investigation to reconstruct the history of the street where the house that has belonged to her family for more than a century is located, before Israeli soldiers can commandeer it.

The main subject of Becoming Alluvium, a short film by Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan, is the Mekong River, which flows through six nations and supplies water to countless fish farms and rice paddies in Asia. Phan frames the river, observes its changes, imagines its past lives and its reincarnations to trace Vietnam’s past and to question the uncertain future of the river, which has been altered in its cycles by climate change and numerous human interventions.

Flatform’s latest work, History of a Tree, is the story of an oak tree born about 900 years ago, also known as the Oak of the Hundred Horsemen, which is located in the town of Tricase, in the province of Lecce. This area has been crossed by numerous migratory flows, and the tree, like a silent witness, has offered shelter to travelers and pilgrims over the centuries, ideally collecting their stories. The short dialogues imagined and written by the film’s authors offer a narrative about the cultures and people who over nearly a thousand years have stopped or passed by the oak tree.

In Phonemenology, Riccardo Benassi analyzes the impact of technology in the everyday relationship with space, reflecting especially on how technological devices have radically altered the structures for experiencing and organizing the real, from architecture to politics, from cultural production to consumption.

De Oylem iz a Goylem, by artist Omer Fast, is a representation of the relationship between the human and the supernatural. It stars a lone female skier who encounters the ghost of an Orthodox Jew. The viewer finds himself pondering his own sphere of beliefs and wondering if the world is a Golem.

Rudolf Herz ’sSzeemann and Lenin Crossing the Alps is a long interview with curator Harald Szeemann that offers, years after Szeemann’s death in 2005, an intense portrait of him.

BUSTROPHEDIC is the short film that Anna Franceschini made as a special event for the closing of the Italian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Bustrophedic is the writing that changes direction with each line, from left to right and vice versa. Bustrofedico is the movement of the camera through, in a circular and frenetic manner, the spaces of the pavilion, partially repurposed for filming, just as the sculptures and installations of the three artists Enrico David, Chiara Fumai and Liliana Moro have been freely interpreted.

Lo Schermo dell’Arte is produced with the contribution of MIBACT - Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze, Fondazione CR Firenze, Cinema La Compagnia, Manifattura Tabacchi, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, in collaboration with NAM - Not A Museum, Fondazione In Between Art Film, MYmovies.

The films will be streamed from Italy on PiùCompagnia in collaboration with MYmovies: https://www.mymovies.it/ondemand/schermodellarte

Pictured is Becoming Alluvium by Thao Nguyen Phan.

Streaming on demand the films of the 13th edition of The Screen of Art

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