Turin's National Cinema Museum celebrates Tonino De Bernardi and his avant-garde cinema

Hosted from April 24 to September 9, 2024 on the reception floor of the Mole Antonelliana, the National Cinema Museum of Turin celebrates Tonino De Bernardi , with the exhibition Tonino De Bernardi. Cinema Without Borders, curated by Alberto Momo.

The exhibition will offer acomplete immersion in De Bernardi’s creative universe in a multi-layered project that combines different formats tracing sixty years of experimental cinema. Organized in synergy with the Museum’s Cineteca and Cinema Massimo, the exhibition offers a complete immersion in De Bernardi’s creative universe and is part of an articulated project that includes the preservation and digitization of his works, the staging of an exhibition, a theatrical performance, the publication of an unpublished volume and a retrospective, as well as a selection of works subtitled for circulation.

Divided into two sections, “The House” and “The World” or “Here and Elsewhere,” the exhibition offers a dual view of De Bernardi’s cinematic poetics. A first part reveals the director’s more intimate side, his beginnings, with a collection of close-ups and portraits that highlight his artistic and deeply human sensibility. The second explores the travels and experiences that shaped his cinema with a more documentary slant. Tying the two sections together is the display of his working equipment: cameras, camcorders, and moviolas to introduce the material and poor aspect of independent cinema through sixty years of technological evolution.

An iconic figure of independent cinema, deeply connected to the city of Turin, De Bernardi is a storyteller who was able to capture the essence of life with his free and never banal cinema.

The exhibition has free admission during museum opening hours and is made accessible to visitors with sensory disabilities thanks to an introductory video in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and audio content in Italian and English accessible via QR along the tour route.

Complementing the exhibition is the catalog Tonino De Bernardi. Cinema without Frontiers, published by Silvana Editoriale The volume, edited by Alberto Momo, collects the voices of the many who took an active part in the making of his films, actors, actresses, fellow filmmakers, family members, directors, scholars, chance encounters that Tonino De Bernardi made precious with his prehensile gaze. From Isabelle Huppert to Bernardo Bertolucci, from Enrico Ghezzi to Mario Martone, from Iaia Forte to Filippo Timi.

For info: https://www.museocinema.it/

Turin's National Cinema Museum celebrates Tonino De Bernardi and his avant-garde cinema

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