Disco Ruin – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present Disco Ruin (2020, 115′) by Lisa Bosi and Francesca Zerbetto. The co-directors survey forty years of Italian club culture, charting the rise and fall of iconic clubs, producers, DJs, styles and genres over four propulsive decades. Taking its starting point in the 1960s – the decade that launched a […]
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Milano 20/21 – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present Milano 20/21 (2021, 25′) by Maurizio Dalla Palma. In this free of narration essay-style short film Dalla Palma employs images, ambient sound and music to map how his perceptions of Milan, in Italy’s industrial north, and its surrounds, changed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Recurring images of the city’s Duomo […]
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The Importance of being an Architect – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present The Importance of being an Architect (2021), a documentary film by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasin that – despite the lofty title whose nuance may be lost a little in translation – cares deeply about the profound social, aesthetic and ecological responsibilities the profession demands of its best practitioners. […]
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Milano Design Film Festival at ACMI
Proudly supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Melbourne, this year’s inaugural edition of the Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI – All’Italiana – will present a curated selection of titles from the 9th (2021) edition of the Milano Design Film Festival, alongside films drawn from recent editions of the Festival. The inaugural selection in this […]
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Gioja 22 – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and the IIC Melbourne present Gioja 22 (2020) by Stefano De Felici following the screening of “The Importance of an Architect” (2021) by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasin that was released in world premiere as the opening night film of the Milano Design Film Festival in Milan last October (2021). The subject of this evocative […]
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PASOLINI eleven#twentytwo
The project PASOLINI undici#ventidue (‘eleven#twenty-two’ – 11 sites in Casarsa from the poetry and myth of Pier Paolo Pasolini and 11 young poets who are responding to the myth and poetry of their own important places) consists of a series of videos specially made by the Fondazione Pordenonelegge.it – which is collaborating for the three-year […]
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THE WALLS OF SANA’A, Italy, 1971-1974
THE WALLS OF SANA’A Italy, 1971-1974 Original title: Le mura di Sana’a Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay and narrator: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli. Editor: Tatiana Casini Morigi. Production: Rosima Amstalt (Roma). Length: 13’. Format: DVD. Under licence from Minerva Pictures. Original version. Subtitles: English Documentary on the capital of Yemen, an extraordinary […]
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ARABIAN NIGHTS, Italy/France, 1974
ARABIAN NIGHTS Italy/France, 1974 Original title: Il fiore delle mille e una notte Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini, from ‘Le mille e una notte’. Screenplay collaborator: Dacia Maraini. Art director: Dante Ferretti. Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Editor: Nino Baragli, Tatiani Casini Morigi. Film score: Ennio Morricone. Sound manager: Luciano Welisch. Costume designer: Danilo […]
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PASOLINI E IL PUBBLICO, Italy, 1970
PASOLINI E IL PUBBLICO Italy, 1970 Curated by Alberto Luna and Oreste Del Buono.TV column: “Cinema ‘70”. Production: Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana. Aired on 20.01.1970. Length: 24’. Format: Betacam. Source: Centro studi – Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini under licence from Rai Teche. Original version Interviewed by Oreste Del Buono, Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about the relationship […]
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ORGIA, Italy, 1968
ORGIA Italy, 1968 Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini.Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Film score: Ennio Morricone. Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Cast and characters: Laura Betti (a woman), Luigi Mezzanotte (a man). Production: Teatro Stabile di Torino. Length :73’. Audio recording of the theatrical show of the same name. Format: DVD. Source and under licence from: Centro studi – […]
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