The 10th edition of The Screen of Art Film Festival arrives in Florence.

The 10th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, a unique project in the Italian and international scene dedicated to the multiple interactions between cinema and contemporary art, directed by Silvia Lucchesi, will take place in Florence from November 15 to 19. The event will bring together for five days in Florence the community of artists, directors, curators, producers and directors of institutions working in the field of moving images with more than 70 international guests. The common thread running through many of the selected films is a reflection on the social utility of art and on burning current issues seen through the eyes of artists and filmmakers: freedom of expression, migration, politics, the art-human-nature relationship.

Over the course of the festival there will be 26 artist films and documentaries with many Italian and 3 world premieres, an exhibition curated by Leonardo Bigazzi featuring the works of more than 20 artists, two training projects, and five artist awards. The Festival will begin on Wednesday 15 at La Compagnia Cinema with a live set by Egyptian artist and musician Hassan Khan, Silver Lion winner at the last Venice Biennale, followed by the Italian premiere of 24 Frames, the latest work by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.

Through Sunday, Nov. 19, the calendar will involve the city’s main cultural institutions with which the festival has collaborated during its years of activity, such as Palazzo Strozzi, Le Murate. Contemporary Art Projects, CANGO Cantieri Goldonetta.

There will be previews of artist films, the 2017 Focus dedicated to Hassan Khan, documentaries on the protagonists of contemporary art, including Andres Veiel ’s Beuys and Gilad Baram’s Koudelka Shooting Holy Land; the Moving Archive project with archival films repurposed in libraries and institutions in the Metropolitan City of Florence; the 3rd edition of Feature Expanded. Art Film Strategies - a training program directed by Sarah Perks and Leonardo Bigazzi and funded by the European Community - that will bring to Florence international artists wishing to make their first feature film; the 6th edition of VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images to support the younger generation of artists working with video and film.
Also, the exhibition Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, which will open on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, will be a further moment of reflection on the work done in these 10 years of activity but also an open look at the future.

“The Screen of Art Film Festival has grown in these ten years, not only in terms of economic support but also in terms of thought and planning,” says director Silvia Lucchesi, who adds, “we have involved more than 280 artists and 50 institutions from the international network that have allowed us, among other things, to organize important training projects, which bring together, artists, filmmakers, curators and operators in the film and art sector. Among the goals for the future is to create a new distribution model not only in theaters but also in museums, schools, libraries, networking.”

Festival guests include Shirin Neshat (winner of the 2017 Imperial Prize for painting) who will present her latest film Looking for Oum Kulthum, producer Ahmad Kiarostami, son of director Abbas, theartist Rä Di Martino and actor Corrado Sassi who will introduce Controfigura with Filippo Timi and Valeria Golino, James Krump with the premiere of the film dedicated to fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, Rosalind Nashashibi with thepremiere of her Vivian’s Garden, Roee Rosen with her latest video The Dust Channel and Adrian Paci who will bring Interregnum, director Heinz Peter Schwerfel with the world premieres of films dedicated to Philippe Parreno and Adrian Villar Rojas, and choreographer Virgilio Sieni with the premiere of his latest short film The Garden of Weeds.

Joining the project partners this year is In Between Art Film, a production company founded by Beatrice Bulgari with the desire to develop and promote films that are based on interdisciplinarity and exchange between different artistic languages of our time. For those who would like to participate, all information can be found at www.schermodellarte.org

Pictured: Antonio Lopez 1970 Sex Fashion & Disco by James Crump; Antonio Lopez, Corey Tippin and Donna Jordan, Saint-Tropez, 1970. Photograph by Juan Ramos. © Copyright The Estate of Antonio Lopez and Juan Ramos, 2012. From Sex Fashion & Disco, directed by James Crump.

The 10th edition of The Screen of Art Film Festival arrives in Florence.

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