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.

HERSTORIES

ENG A project funded with the support of “8 per mille” of the Waldensian Church of Italy. HERSTORIES. The Stories, feminine plural. Tales of women from the past, the present and the future. The project, planned originally during the spring of 2020, has been suspended and postponed because of the restrictions following the Covid-19 emergency. We will be updating you by newsletter and in our social media pages confident of your support and participation.

Nomad: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’, honoring the writer and explorer Bruce Chatwin in a stimulating and visually overwhelming documentary. Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with Bruce Chatwin, whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

Nomad: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’, honoring the writer and explorer Bruce Chatwin in a stimulating and visually overwhelming documentary. Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with Bruce Chatwin, whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

Nomad: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’, honoring the writer and explorer Bruce Chatwin in a stimulating and visually overwhelming documentary. Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with Bruce Chatwin, whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

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.