HIERONYMUS BOSCH. Unto dal diavolo > Doc Arte

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago. This late-medieval artist lived his entire life in the city, causing uproar with his fantastical and utterly unique paintings in which hell and the devil always played a prominent role. In preparation for the exhibition, a team of Dutch art historians crisscrosses the globe to unravel the secrets of his art. They use special infrared cameras to examine the sketches beneath the paint, in the hope of discovering more about the artist’s intentions. They also attempt to establish which of the paintings can be attributed with certainty to Bosch himself, and which to his pupils or followers. The experts shuttle between Den Bosch, Madrid and Venice, cutting their way through the art world’s tangle of red tape, in a battle against the obstacle of countless egos and conflicting interests. Not every museum is prepared to allow access to their precious art works.

STATION TO STATION Leone d’oro Biennale Venezia e Nam June Paik Art Center Prize

A train travelling from one coast of North America to the other is home to a revolving community of artists, performers and musicians, including Patti Smith and Beck. They collaborate and share their visions in a series of short happenings. First release at the Sundance Film Festival. Doug Aitken is an American artist and filmmaker. Defying definitions of genre, he explores every medium, from film and installations to architectural interventions. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He participated in the both the 1997 and 2000 Whitney Biennials, and earned the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for the installation “electric earth”. Aitken received the 2012 Nam June Paik Art Center Priz

THE BREADWINNER I racconti di PARVANA

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a one room apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule. When her father is arrested without warning for being an intellectual, Parvana’s mother is left alone to care for their three children. Banned from going out in public without a man, Parvana’s mother risks arrest herself as she travels to the local prison and demands her husband’s release, only to end up being beaten and turned away.
As the family becomes desperate for food, Parvana must cut off her hair and disguise herself as a boy so that she can venture out in public and become the breadwinner for her family. She meets a girl named Shauzia who is also dressed as a boy for the same reason…

IL BAMBINO E IL MAESTRO

Il regista, giovane papà, osserva una classe Montessori di piccoli dai 3 ai 6 anni. I bambini lavorano in un’atmosfera tranquilla, leggono, fanno il pane, le divisioni, ridono e dormono. Il maestro resta discreto.
Il metodo Montessori é un approccio educativo che vuole celebrare e nutrire il desiderio di conoscenza di ogni bambino: é valorizzato lo spirito umano dal punto di vista fisico, sociale, emozionale e cognitivo. Il regista ha portato la macchina da presa nella più antica scuola montessoriana di Francia con bambini dai 3 ai 6 anni e ha incontrato bambini felici, liberi di muoversi, capaci di lavorare da soli o in gruppo. Alcuni leggono, altri fanno il pane o le divisioni, o ridono, o dormono. L’insegnante rimane una presenza discreta. I bambini hanno guidato il regista attraverso un intero anno scolastico, mostrandogli la magia della loro autonomia e autostima, il lato di una nuova società di pace e libertà.

COSA RESTA DELLA RIVOLUZIONE

Angela was 8 years old when the first McDonald’s opened in East Berlin – Since then, she has been fighting against the curse of her generation: to be born “too late” at a time of global political depression. Coming from a family of activists, her sister chose the world of business and her mother abandoned overnight her political struggle to move alone to the countryside.

DOLPHIN MAN Jacques Mayol

Dolphin Man draws us into the world of Jacques Mayol, capturing his compelling journey and immersing viewers into the sensory and transformative experience of free-diving.It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Narrated by Jean-Marc Barr, the actor who famously portrayed Mayol in The Big Blue, the film weaves together rare film archive from the 1950s onwards, with stunning contemporary underwater photography, to discover how the ‘dolphin man’ revolutionized free-diving and brought a new consciousness to our relationship with the sea and our inner-selves.

EMILIO VEDOVA Dalla parte del naufragio [virtual cinema]

Chi era Emilio Vedova? Uno degli artisti più significativi del Novecento, vincitore del Gran premio della pittura e del Leone d’oro nel’97 alla Biennale d’arte di Venezia, città dove è nato e dalla quale non si è mai staccato; un uomo “grande ed esplosivo” che ha vissuto “in un certo modo nel suo tempo”; un partigiano che ha combattuto nella Resistenza; un attivista impegnato socialmente e politicamente sempre “dalla parte della trasgressione”, antifascista ma anche dissidente rispetto al partito comunista di cui era stato parte, perché “un artista è un’antenna” delle frequenze che capta intorno a sé.
La straordinaria vicenda umana e artistica del grande pittore veneziano attraverso le pagine dei suoi diari, rari materiali d’archivio e preziosi contributi di artisti, curatori, collaboratori e amici. Il racconto è scandito dai passaggi fondamentali della storia politica, sociale e dell’arte del ventesimo secolo e, sullo sfondo di una Venezia quasi eterea, restituisce, grazie all’appassionata interpretazione di Toni Servillo e al dialogo quasi personale e diretto con Vedova, la profonda personalità e il tratto potente di uno degli artisti più significativi del novecento.

LE JEUNE KARL MARX. Di Raoul Peck [virtual cinema]

Marx and Engels meet cute in this intense, fervent film about the early development of communism from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck. It’s a sinewy and intensely focused, uncompromisingly cerebral period drama, co-written with Pascal Bonitzer, about the birth of communism in the mid-19th century. It gives you a real sense of what radical politics was about: talk. There is talk, talk and more talk. It should be dull, but it isn’t. Somehow the spectacle of fiercely angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping.