4. REINVENTING MYTH
Pier Paolo Pasolini: when Cinema meets Poetry – Full retrospective on the centenary of his birth4. Reinventing Myth (21-22 May, 2022) The reinvention of the myth brings together films inspired by Greek myths which, in the case of Pasolini, they become the subject of a significant thematic and figurative reinvention: ‘Edipo Re’, ‘Medea’ and ‘Teorema’. And then […]
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The Ship – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
ACMI and IIC Melbourne present The Ship (La Nave, 2020, 84’) by Hans Wilschut. The residential complex known as Le Vele, in the Naples district of Scampia, is among the most notorious in the history of 20th century Italian architecture. Among the most well known projects of Franz Di Salvo (1913–77), dating back to his involvement […]
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A God in Every Lentil – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI (MDFF sidebars)
ACMI and IIC Melbourne present a double bill of films for the senses from MDFF sidebars: Food (A God In Every Lentil) and Bloom (Flores). A God in Every Lentil (2018, 94′) by Miguel Ángel Jiménez. Luis, a screenwriter who lives in Madrid with his wife Paula and infant son, journeys to Cocentaina, his childhood home in the […]
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The Dome – Milan Design Film Festival at ACMI
Acmi and IIC Melbourne present The Dome (La Cupola, 2016, 71′) by Volker Sottel. An inscrutable child leads us across a rocky outcrop beside turquoise waters to a futuristic house, abandoned now, set against the wild scenery of Sardinia’s Costa Paradiso. The home, we’ll soon learn, was built in the early 1970s, and designed by the […]
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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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