Floating Cinema returns to the Venice lagoon. 2022 edition theme the surreal

From August 25 to September 10, 2022, the appointment with Floating Cinema - Acque Sconosciute returns to the Venice Lagoon. Films, videos, musical and theatrical performances involving both international and local authors are presented on a stage and screen in the waters behind the island of Giudecca, at the Rio de Sant’Eufemia. The public can access and watch the programming from their boats and from a platform designed to accommodate viewers without a boat.

The theme of the third edition is the surreal, dreamlike and hallucinatory visions, and the absurd. Programming 2022 thus aims to amplify the perception that goes beyond the ordinary. Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection introduces Loris Gréaud’s The Snorks: a concert for creatures (France, 2012) anticipated by a short sound excerpt produced by the environmental protection foundation The Sense of Silence, for which Loris Gréaud is an ambassador. TBA21-Academy-Ocean Space’s contribution stems from research conducted during The Current III - Mediterraneans and includes the world premiere of an animation from a collective trip to the island of Asinara supported by the Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission. The In Between Art Film Foundation, active in the lagoon with its group exhibition Penumbra at the Ospedaletto Complex, presents a selection of video and film works from its Collection, a collection that investigates the boundaries of time-based media between film, video and installation. Chantal Crousel Consulting is participating with Ferdinandea: Uncertainties, the central film of Clément Cogitore’s multimedia installation Ferdinandea (France-Italy, 2022), currently on display at the Madre Museum in Naples. The National Pavilion of Uzbekistan presents the silent film Azhal Minareti by Vyacheslav Viskovsky (Uzbekistan, 1925), based on a 16th-century Bukharian mythical tale, set to live music by Abror Zufarov accompanied by Shamshod Isaev. Resonating with the exhibition Surrealism and Magic, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection selects surrealist director Germaine Dulac ’s silent film La Coquille et le clergyman (France, 1928), accompanied live by Rita Brancato (percussion), Giovanni Claudio Di Giorgio (violin) and Gabriele Tai (cello). Pentagram Stiftung continues with its selection linked to film masterpieces and this year chooses Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936, USA).

Among the entities collaborating in the program is the Closer Association, active in the Giudecca Women’s Prison House not far from the floating cinema, which presents a reading of transcripts of the dreams of women prisoners. Also participating for the first time is Venice Open Stage, the international theater festival that has been creating an ephemeral stage space built in the open air in the heart of Venice for the past 10 years, which features a performance by the Malmadur theater company. Athens-based Stoa42 presents a video and performance by Despina Charitonidi made in collaboration with Naiads, a synchronized swimming team composed of former Greek national team athletes. The final evening opens with a catwalk of sonorous sculptures, created through the use of moving figures constructed and animated by artists Ornella Cardillo and Simone Carraro (Venice, 2022), followed by Microclima and Combo presenting the silent medium-length film La guerra e il sogno di Momi (Italy, 1917) by Segundo de Chomón, one of the first Italian films to use stop-motion as an animation technique that is set to live music by DJ Gruff. A new feature of the third edition is the introduction of three days of sound experimentation on Sept. 16, 17 and 18, during which Microclima and Combo present a meditative form of amphibious settlement. From the afternoon hours until dusk, musicians are invited to dialogue with an interactive sound installation by Turin-based artist Alessandro Sciaraffa. The public can freely access the platform that houses the installation and the musicians via a rowing ferry service for the duration of the event. The participation of partners and realities from previous editions is reconfirmed, with an involvement of more than fifty authors from around the world, more than thirty local and international cultural realities, a participatory, experimental and local food and wine program, and the presence of Venetian rowboats that ferry viewers to the floating cinema. The full program of Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters is available at www.cinemagalleggiante.it

Cinema Galleggiante- Acque Sconosciute is a project by Edoardo Aruta and Paolo Rosso presented by Microclima, in collaboration with TBA21-Academy - Ocean Space, Pentagram Stiftung, Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection, Fondazione In Between Art Film joined by four new partners, Chantal Crousel Consulting, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, National Pavilion of Uzbekistan and Combo. In addition to the collaboration with the eight partners, Cinema Galleggiante - Acque Sconosciute benefits from the contribution of institutions invited to supplement the programming with a selection of content. Cinema Galleggiante is also supported by OGR Torino and the Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation.

The associations ASD Gloria Rogliani, Soralai and Remiera Ponte dei Sartori are providing rowboats to accompany the audience from the Venice Development Consortium Ex “Cantieri Lucchese” to the floating pontoon, will ensure deliveries of orders placed at the kiosk and access to services. Venice Calls, an association founded in 2019 that promotes sustainability, volunteerism and innovation, is actively involved in the logistical organization of the floating cinema and together with LUSH is in charge of distributing nets to the boats present to incentivize garbage collection in the lagoon. The event is part of City in Celebration, City of Venice.

Reservations are required to participate, both for private boats and public on foot, from www.cinemagalleggiante.it

Photos from the 2021 edition: Riccardo Banfi

Floating Cinema returns to the Venice lagoon. 2022 edition theme the surreal

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