Florence: 12th edition of The Screen of Art Film Festival kicks off

From November 12 to 17, 2019, the 12th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival will be held in Florence.

Not only films, but also meetings, panel discussions and an exhibition will make up the rich program of the festival, which brings to the Tuscan city an international community of artists, directors, curators, museum directors, producers, and distributors working with moving images. It is also a highly anticipated moment for the festival’s lively audience of young people, students, contemporary art lovers, cinephiles, and collectors.

On the program will be a selection of documentaries and artists’ films with an important focus on Italian production. Central to the films is the growing interest of artists in the social, geo-political and environmental changes and issues affecting the contemporary world.

The world premiere of Luca Vitone ’s Romanistan (2019, pictured), a project promoted by the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, winner of the fourth edition of the Italian Council call (2018), a competition conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, to promote contemporary Italian art in the world. The film, which will be presented in conjunction with the opening of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Pecci Center (Nov. 7, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020), recounts his road trip undertaken between May and July 2019 with a film crew to retrace backwards the emigration route begun in the 8th century by the Roma people fromnorthwestern India toEurope.

The Italian premiere of That Which Is To Come Is Just A Promise by the Flatform collective (2019), presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at the last Cannes Film Festival. In a long sequence plan on the island of Funafuti, the state of drought and flooding alternate fluidly, without interruption. The island, in the Polynesian archipelago of Tuvalu, has for the past few years been the scene of a unique phenomenon with dramatic consequences: as a result of the unnatural warming of the sea, salt water rises from underground, gushes through the porosity of the land and floods it, jeopardizing the future of life on the island and leaving the inhabitants in a continuous state of waiting and suspension.

Among the documentaries, the Italian premiere of Ettore Spalletti by Alessandra Galletta (2018), which, on the one hand, dwells on the daily, methodical, contemplative reality of the artist defined as “the artist of artists” also for his legendary use of color, and on the other, accompanies him to Abruzzo to immerse himself in the inexhaustible expansion of his works, between Rome, Naples, Bologna, Paris, London, Madrid and Strasbourg.

The 2019 Focus on will be dedicated to Turner Prize 2004 artist Jeremy Deller, who returns to the festival, after the success of Bom Bom’s Dream in 2017, with a talk with the audience and a selection of his works, in which the connection between music and art emerges but also an interest in the mechanisms that regulate contemporary society and the relationships between individuals.

Among the works that will be presented is the film commissioned and produced by Frieze and Gucci Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018) in which Deller explores the contemporary legacy of the "Summer of Love," recounting the birth of the cultural phenomenon of house music in the United Kingdom and relating it to the major social changes that shook the country in the 1980s. Rare or never-before-seen archival materials tell the story, from protest movements to rave parties in abandoned warehouses, workers’ unrest overflowing into chaotic outbursts on the dance floor (Courtesy of the Artist, Gucci, Frieze and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow).

And again The Bruce Lacey Experience, made with Nicolas Abrahams in 2012, inspired by the original figure of English artist and performer Bruce Lacey, an avant-garde inventor, painter, sculptor and filmmaker who collaborated with many musical bands, including the Beatles.

The Festival’s commitment to the younger generation is confirmed with the 8th edition of VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, aimed at artists under 35 working with video and film. As part of the project, the VISIO Young Talent Acquisiton Prize from Seven Gravity Collecton will be awarded and an exhibition will be held featuring the works of the participating artists.

Lo schermo dell’arte is produced with the contribution of Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, FST Mediateca Toscana Film Commission, and with the support of In Between Art Film, ottod’Ame, Findomestic, Unicoop Firenze, Famiglia Cecchi, B&C Speakers.

Source: release

Florence: 12th edition of The Screen of Art Film Festival kicks off

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