In Florence from Nov. 13 to 18, the 11th edition of Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival

A new edition of"Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival," the 11th to be exact, returns to Florence from Nov. 13-18, 2018.This is an international project dedicated to the multiple interactions between cinema and art.

Among the premieres of films by Italian artists, 100 Piper. A Brief History of Turin’s Piper (1966-1969) in 100 Fragments by Rä di Martino, dedicated to Turin’s legendary Piper Club, and Zeus Machine by the Zapruder collective, a film version of a 12-channel installation project dedicated to the figure of Hercules. Also: Heather Lenz’s Kusama-Infinity (2018), dedicated to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama; Barbara Visser ’s The End of Fear (2017), which reconstructs, more than 20 years later, the story of the 1986 destruction of the famous painting Who is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III by theAmerican abstractionist Barnett Newman preserved at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Love, Cecil (2017), which chronicles the personality and talent of designer and fashion photographer Cecil Beaton, Queen Elizabeth’s official portraitist, through rare archival materials and excerpts from his diaries.

The festival’s program also features screenings of Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) by Australian artist Gabrielle Brady, and Moryama-San (2017) by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine, dedicated to Yasuo Moriyama, an urban hermit from Tokyo who is passionate about noise music and lives in a small pavilion house designed by architect Ryue Nishizawa.

Shorts include Monelle by Italian artist Diego Marcon, winner of the 2018 MAXXI Bulgari Prize, Who Was the Last To Have Seen the Horyzon? by young artist Driant Zenel, who will represent Albania at the next Venice Biennale, and Blue by Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

More than fifty guests are expected to attend this edition of “The Screen of Art,” including artists Dani Gal, Jumanna Manna, Ila Beka, Driant Zeneli, Barbara Visser, Gabrielle Brady, Diego Marcon, Jordi Colomer, Phil Collins, director Lisa Immordino Vreeland, curators Sarah Perks, Andrea Lissoni, and Hila Peleg, and producers Yorgos Tsourgiannis, Beatrice Bulgari, and Anna Lena Vaney.

Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. will also open at Le Murate. Contemporary Art Projects, the exhibition"European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi.

During the Nov. 14 opening night, British filmmaker Peter Greenaway will present The Open Air lecture dedicated to the project of his upcoming film, entitled Walking to Paris: the story of the journey Constantin Brancusi made on foot from Romania to Paris between 1903 and 1904.

Full program at this link

For all info: www.schermodellarte.org

In Florence from Nov. 13 to 18, the 11th edition of Lo Schermo dell'Arte Film Festival

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