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 architect Dante Bini for film director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti, then a couple.
It screens with the short films:
Trojan Women (Troiane, 2020, 16′) by Stefano Santamato.
In a single night in October 2018, Storm Vaia felled tens of thousands of hectares of trees in the Triveneto mountain region of northeastern Italy, with wind gusts over 200 kph cutting a destructive swathe across the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In Carnia, one of the most devastated areas in Friuli’s north-west, 400 of the uprooted trees were recovered to gain a second life. Stefano Santamato’s prize-winning short film visually recounts their journey from Friuli to the Greek Theatre of Siracusa, in Sicily, following them over a 1,500 kilometre journey to become part of a stage set designed by architect Stefano Boeri for an outdoor production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women as testament to “art and design [being] an instrument of awareness-raising and knowledge”.
Thousand Cypresses (Mille cipressi, 2021, 14′) by Luca Ferri.
An unseen female narrator acts as our guide in a visit to Brion Cemetery and Sanctuary, a private mausoleum and masterpiece of modernist architecture designed by architect Carlo Scarpa between 1968 and 1978. Commissioned by Onorina Tomasi Brion to honour the memory of her late husband, Giuseppe Brion, founder of electronics company Brionvega, the complex is located in the small cemetery of San Vito, in the hamlet of Altivole, in the province of Treviso. The protagonist in Ferri’s short film wanders the complex, observing the meticulously crafted elements in the design by the Venetian architect, commissioned as a private extension to the municipal cemetery and completed before Scarpa’s accidental death in Japan (a country which greatly influenced his own aesthetic) in 1978.
Screening dates and time
Sat 21 May 2022, 4:30pm
Thu 26 May 2022, 6:30pm
Where
Cinemas, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square
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