Visions of Art: great art cinema in March at Mudec in Milan

The sixth edition of Visioni d’Arte, the art film festival promoted by theSilvia dell’Orso Cultural Association, will be held from March 5 to 26, 2017. Four appointments, all on Sundays (at 4:30 p.m.), all at Mudec in Milan (in via Tortona, 56), all with free admission. The festival, which has garnered a total of five thousand spectators in its first five editions, enjoys the patronage of Milan City Hall 6 and has received support from the Cariplo Foundation.

The aim of the project, which this year will focus on the theme of art and politics and will be curated by Paola Scremin, is to “tell,” in the words of the Association’s Silvia Dell’Orso, “with the effectiveness of the film medium, how the ability to narrate the issues related to our cultural heritage has changed over time, using the works chosen for their characteristics as serious documents of dissemination.”

This is the detailed program of the documentary screenings (all lasting a total of 90 minutes):

Sunday, March 5, 4:30 pm
Walls. The posters of our history. Screenings: Meeting Picasso [The Dove of Peace], Italy, 2000, by Luciano Emmer (8’) / The Catacombs of New York, Italy, 1980, by Gianni Minà (11’) / David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Artist and the Warrior, Mexico, 1998, by Hector Tajonar (33’) / Diego Rivera. The Age of Steel, USA, 1978, by Shelby Newhouse (16’) / Luciano Lama and a fresco of Ben Shahn, Italy, 1972, by Anna Zanoli, directed by Luciano Emmer (14’)

Sunday, March 12, 4:30 p.m.
Resistance is the Ideal. Images of the revolutionary people. Screenings: Delacroix. Freedom leading the people, France, 1989 (15’) / Majakovsky and his time, Italy, 1973, by Luigi Perelli (20’) / Lucania dentro di noi [Carlo Levi], Italy, 1967, by Libero Bizzarri (13’) / Cose concrete. Renato Guttuso, Italy, 1974, by Alfredo Di Laura (21’) / Le facce buffe, Italy, 1971, by Ernesto G. Laura (19’)

Sunday, March 19, 4:30 p.m.
My weapon is a paintbrush. At war against denied politics. Screenings: Expressionism, France, 1979, by Carlos Vilarderbo (27’) / Europe after the Rain, Great Britain, 1978 (27’) / Guernica, France, 1950, by Alain Resnais (14’) / Honest John, Italy, 1963, by Osvaldo Piccardo (4’) / Protest Rebellion Subversion. Fluxus, Germany, 1997, by Heinz-Peter Schwerfel (20)’

Sunday, March 26, 4:30 p.m.
Let’s Architect a Better World. Ideal cities, utopia and urban politics. Screenings: Architecture and Repression, Italy, 1975, by Roberto Schiavone (13’) / The Familistero. A radiant city of the 19th century, France, 1996, by Catherine Adda (26’) / The worker’s village of Crespi d’Adda, Italy, 2016, by Alessandra Conforti and Lucrezia Lo Bianco, directed by Stefano Lorenzi (18’) / South as North, Italy, 1957, by Nelo Risi (18’) / Pasolini and the shape of the city, Italy, 1974, by Paolo Brunatto (17’)

Source: press release

Image: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830; oil on canvas, 260 x 325 cm; Paris, Louvre)

Visions of Art: great art cinema in March at Mudec in Milan

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