Screening program

Giuseppe Boccassini is an Italian director working between Germany and Italy. Ragtag is a film made with the found-footage technique, a collage of about 310 film noirs. The images manipulated by the director are mainly taken from American feature films from the 1940s and 1950s. With his operation, Boccassini creates an archive of cinematic imagery, in particular composed of gestures, reducing the narrative component to a minimum. The director will be present at the screening. The film was selected by the programmers of the Cinema Nuovo Eden.

Screening

Friday, 17th November, h 9:00 p.m.
Cinema Nuovo Eden – Hall 1
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Desniansky Raion is a suburb of Kiev, a forest of skyscrapers that, viewed from above, is reminiscent of the Stonehenge circle. Cyprien Gaillard in the film shows the decay of contemporary architecture, the modern ruins that, like rubble, return to nature. Three geographically distant locations follow each other in the film. The clash of two gangs on the outskirts of St. Petersburg is followed by plays of light celebrating the imminent demolition of a building in the Parisian banlieue of Meaux. In the third scenario, the camera flies over the outskirts of Kiev. The film is a composition of ready-made archive footage and images. The soundtrack, created by Koudlam, is a key element that creates within it a collision of references and cultures: Philip Glass’s compositions, rave music and Vangelis’s synthesizer from the Blade Runner soundtrack follow one another.

Screening

Saturday, 18th November, h. 5:30 p.m.
Cinema Nuovo Eden – Hall 2
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In Taxis toutes distances there are seven interviews with Parisian taxi drivers from different geographical locations. Through a series of questions, Camille Henrot analyzes each driver’s relationship with their country of origin and with French culture. The taxi ride through the streets of the city becomes a visual metaphor for the journeys made by the interviewees, during which each person’s personal journey resurfaces. Each story offers a unique perspective on the learning of the French language and the transmission of the mother tongue to children born far away from their country of origin.

Screening

Saturday, 18th November, h. 5:30 p.m.
Cinema Nuovo Eden – Hall 2
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The Silence of Pelešjan is a homage to the works of the Armenian director of the same name, in particular to his poetics, characterized by a strong emotional and human component. Using the technique of found-footage, the film uses unpublished material from the web and archives, mixed with sequences shot ex-novo. Pietro Marcello recalls “distance editing”, theorized in a 1970s essay by Pelešjan and based on the distancing of planes rather than their contiguity. In this way, the capacity for emotional construction, typical of the Armenian director’s practice, emerges in the film. The film was selected by the Video Sound Art team in collaboration with the programmers of the Cinema Nuovo Eden.

Screening

Tuesday, 14th November, h. 9:00 p.m.
Cinema Nuovo Eden – Hall 2
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Souad Hosni was a famous Egyptian actress and singer born in Cairo in 1943, who committed suicide in London in 2001. The Three Disappearances of Souad Hosni is a composition of excerpts from eighty-two films she starred in between 1959 and 1991. The title refers to three disappearances: the disappearance of Hosni’s body, the end of the golden age of Egyptian film productions and the gradual abandonment of VHS recording. Rania Stephan’s collage work from this boundless film material proposes a singular rewriting of Egyptian cinema, but it is also a documentary on the life and work of a tragic star, a symbol of modern Arab femininity. The raw images are an ode to the VHS tape that revolutionized the wide distribution of films for home and personal use.

Screening

Sunday, 19th November, h. 11:00 a.m.
Cinema Nuovo Eden – Hall 2
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In November, Hito Steyerl investigated the role played by images in the revolution, critiquing the visual rhetoric present in the media’s reproduction of historical events. In the film, the artist filmed television clips relating to the episode that took place in 1998: the murder of Andrea Wolf, a famous activist, sociologist and childhood friend of the artist, a member of the PKK, the Kurdish liberation movement in Kurdistan. In the work, off-screen narration introduces and comments on Kurdish television documentaries. We find extracts from Bruce Lee films, scenes from an amateur film made by the two teenage friends with a very young Hito. The video contains references between distant territories, such as Turkey and Germany, which the artist shows are united by real data, such as the bullets sold to the Turkish army by the socialist government after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Screening

Saturday, 18th November, h. 5:30 p.m.
Cinema Nuovo Eden – Hall 2
Full price ticket: 6.50 €
Reduced ticket: 5.50 €
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