Inspired by the early years of two Russian rock stars from the 1980s, Kirill Serebrennikov’s film pays tribute to the Leningrad underground scene just before the dawn of perestroika. Premiered in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
LUCKY. A bittersweet meditation on life
LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out lived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut “Lucky”, is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on morality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.
DANTZA > Focus Cinema Basco > OtRFF 2018 Extra
On the Road Film Festival 6 EXTRA. The storm breaks after a hard day’s work in the fields. When the rain eases off life springs up from the previously barren land. Fruit grows and ripens, survives disease and becomes the apples which give life to cider. Then comes the time to harvest, offer toasts and celebrate love. A story about the cycle of life, the fight for survival. Where the passage of time is marked by the course of nature. And dance is the language chosen to tell its tale. Music accompanies daily routines: Life is rhythm!
Universal themes, dressed here with a particular symbology. Symbology which shows the hypnotic universe of traditional dance. A poetic song to tradition, the land, its people, myths and customs. A tale about the miracle of existence. In collaboration with ACE Associazione Culturale Euskara – Dicembre Basco e Txintxua Films.
SUMMER [Leto] The rock revolution in Leningrad ’80.
Inspired by the early years of two Russian rock stars from the 1980s, Kirill Serebrennikov’s film pays tribute to the Leningrad underground scene just before the dawn of perestroika. Premiered in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
OTRFF 6 ORIENTALIA China and Around > @Libreria Pagina 2
On the Road Film Festival 6 EXTRA. China and Around movies selections @Libreria Pagina 2-Ex Orientalia, Via Cairoli 63 Roma. Free entry.
MIKE COOPER LIVE / ONIBABA OtRFF 2018 Extra
On the Road Film Festival 6 EXTRA. Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbour, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
Mike Cooper. For the past 50 years he has been an international artistic explorer constantly pushing the boundaries. He plays lap steel guitar and sings, he is an improviser and composer, song-maker, a visual and installation artist; film and video maker and radio arts producer.
Initially a folk-blues guitarist he is as responsible as anyone else — and more so than many — for ushering in the acoustic blues boom in the U.K. in the mid ’60s.
He has, arguably, stretched the possibilities of that genre even more than his better known contemporaries Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne etc. by pursuing it into the more avant-garde musical areas occupied by guitar innovators such as Elliott Sharp, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith and Marc Ribot, with an eclectic mix of the many styles he has practiced over the years. Ranging freely through free improvisation, his own idiosyncratic original songs, electro-acoustic music, exotica, traditional country blues, folk, pop songs, and ‘sonic gestural’ playing utilising open tunings, extended guitar techniques and electronics.
Best Films On the Road Film Festival Awards & Daniele Roncaccia Exhibition
Cinema about travel, wastelands, urban disorientation, borders routes. Special screening of the awarded films from the competitive sections of On the Road Film Festival 2018. Single ticket for all films: 5€. Blue Tomorrow (Best Film), Shelter (Special Mention), Nimble Fingers (Special Mention), Happy New Year (Best Film).
POETA DE MALAGROTTA. Daniele Roncaccia exhibition> OtRFF 2018 Extra
On the Road Film Festival 6 EXTRA. Daniele Roncaccia, Roma 1979. Oil and acrylic on canvas by Daniele Roncaccia. The “Poet of Malagrotta”, as he describes himself, finds spaces of unusual beauty and humanity on the streets and in the outskirts of the city. The painting of Roncaccia is characterised by a disenchanted candour and a lack of frivolity. Curator Cristina Nisticò. Free entry untill 8.30 pm. After with membership card.
On the Road Film Festival 2018. EXTRA > 7.12-15.12 complete program
On the Road Film Festival 6. An itinerant and independent cinema festival, both on the road and borderline. Focus cinema basco in collaboration with ACE Associazione Culturale Euskara – Dicembre Basco & Txintxua Films, Mike Cooper Live Impro on Onibaba by Kaneto Shindo, Poeta de Malagrotta, Daniele Roncaccia exhibition curated by Cristina Nisticò.
OREINA [Il cervo] > Focus cinema Basco > OtRFF 2018 Extra
On the Road Film Festival 6 EXTRA. Khalil is a rootless young man who lives in the city’s margins, where industrial estates bank onto the river and the marsh. He survives as well as he can, spending his days with a poacher who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he has not talked to for years. On the shores of the marsh the tides mark the time for love and indifference, friendship and revenge. In collaboration with ACE Associazione Culturale Euskara – Dicembre Basco e Txintxua Films.