Artists

 

Luca Ferri

Kaputt/Katastrophe

 

In the sunny days of a Swiss summer, young people from all over Europe gather for the street parade. The aim: being different, original and projected toward the trasgression and the trasformation of the status quo. The new rule for the following eight hours will be the transgression of all rules. All the participants suddenly become the protagonists of a play with no spectator, in an unfounded attempt to disgreatfully represent themselves. A musical arrangement rigorously written, is tirely and compulsively played, while a mechanical voice off-stage constantly reminds us of a catastrophically unchanged and unchangeable human condition.

In the misshapen and absurb flow of human existance, suddenly an elderly, bearded man appears, starting staring at us and quietly observing the overall situation. May this be a truce, a space of hope, though rapidly everything starts once again as nothing had happened, from the same point where everything had (never) started. There is no space, no place, no life, no hope, there is not.

 

Luca Ferri (Bergamo, 1976) works on images and words.

In 2005/2008 he directed short-, medium- and feature-length films that took part in competitions and were hosted in exhibitions.

In 2011 magog [or epiphany of the barn owl] was screened in Bergamo; in 2012 it has been selected for some film festivals, such as 48th mostra internazionale del nuovo cinema(Pesaro). The shortfilm kaputt/katastrophe (2012) took part in competition to the cinemazero festival in trento and since 2014 has been distributed by visual container. His works have been produced by lab80film and recently acquired by circuito nomadica.

In 2013 the film habitat [piavoli], portrait of the famous italian director directed with claudio casazza, is selected at torino film festival and during 2014 has been screened in festivals and cinemas, such as laceno d'oro and neue heimat film festival.

http://www.ferriferri.com/bio.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonardo Carrano, Giuseppe Spina

Jazz for a Massacre

 

“Jazz for a massacre” is a tribute to the sperimental artist and cineaste Nato Frascà, inventor of “the doodle method”, a form of free expression to explore the unconscious. Ideally applying this method, the film comes out as a musical-pictorial jam-session where Noise of Trouble’s jazz improvisation combines well with the abstract forms, created by Leonardo Carrano directly onto film, and edited by Giuseppe Spina. 20,000 painted, engraved and etched photograms involve the spectator in a chromatic dance.

 

Leonardo Carrano was born in Rome in 1958. Painter, in 1980 he won the Lubiam prize awarded by Renato Guttuso. Since 1992 he has been making experimental animated films, combining various techniques and languages, both traditional and using digital technology.

His animations have been broadcasted several times in various RAI programs as “ Blob”, “Blob never seen before”. In 1994 he creates the virtual sets for a Fininvest program “The angel”. His films have been selected for the most important national and international festivals including: Venice Film Festival, the Festival Locarno, Rome Film Festival . He has worked with important composers of contemporary music Sylvano Bussotti, Giorgio Battistelli, Ennio e Andrea Morricone.

 

Giuseppe Spina – Film-maker, his work investigates on cinematic language, sound and writing’s experiments. He is the director of NOMADICA – an international network for the experimental cinema.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giuseppe Boccassini

Lezuo

 

In 1843, Andrea Lezuo, a woodcarver born in Arabba, a town in the Dolomites, leaves for “la Merica” onboard the ship Ehon. Through an anthological collage of heterogeneous audiovisual material, the film portrays the physicality of the voyage, as it traces an experience that is a sort of initiation.

“Compared to the contemporary world, the imagination of that era was less bound by the power of mechanical methods of reproduction, represented by photography, valorized exclusively in its objectifying deviation to the detriment of the other arts. Despite its precursors, cinema, in its path toward affirmation, had not yet achieved the final step for the perfect, realistic, mechanical imitation of man: movement. It would soon do so. In a certain sense, the film tries to relocate that visual dimension which is uncertain, shaky, and at the same time occult, mysterious, alive, and now lost, through a proposed aesthetic that comes about through the mixture of form and non-form, of the knowable and the unrecognizable, of reality and the imagination.”

http://www.lezuo-film.com/

 

Giuseppe Boccassini (1979) is an Italian film director.

Graduated in film theory(\(\(\( D.A.M.S.) at the University of Bologna, Italy, with a thesis about the Italian director, Elio Petri.

Graduated in movie direction at N.U.C.T (The New University of Cinema and Television) located in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy and Ciudad de la Luz, Alicante, Spain. After he works as director, director of photography and editor for films and television in Madrid . He is co-founder of the Gruppo Farfa, an educational film project that develops in Puglia, Italy.

With his experimental films Eidola, Obscene and Lezuo, participates in several international film festivals and wins as the best film on the Backup Film Festival, 2011, Weimar, Germany and Waldarno Cinema Fedic, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.

He currently lives and works in Berlin.

http://cargocollective.com/giuseppeboccassini

 

Claudio Capanna

Gran Rumore / The Great Noise

 

The shout of the others, in the depth, lives in a drop, falls in the empty. It exceeds the wall of blank silence.

It breaks on the ground, in small mournings which try to rise....

 

Claudio Capanna was born in Rome in 1980. As a film graduate, he dedicated his final thesis to the German director

Werner Herzog. He started working in the audiovisual sector in 1999 and has directed several documentaries and short

movies which premiered at international festivals.

In 2005, he presented his short movie The Ancestor (L’Antenato) at the Brooklyn International Film Festival and the

Sulmona Film Festival. In 2006, Great Noise (Gran Rumore) was selected by the Palm Springs International Short Film

Festival, the Syracuse International Film Festival, and other international events.

The director also travelled to South America and Central Africa to further his work as a photographer. In 2006, he moved to Paris to attend the Ateliers

Varan film course. There, he started to work for Arte France and directed several documentaries about Italy.

In 2012 came his first fiction feature, Bateau Ivre, co-directed by Chafik Allal. The film has won several awards in Europe and Africa.

He currently lives in Brussels and works for Belgian pubcaster RTBF. He is beginning the shooting of his new film, The Water Genie. 

http://claudiocapanna.tumblr.com/

 

Giorgia Vicenti – Alma Danza

Performance of Contemporary Oriental Dance

 

Graduated at the DAMS, Giorgia is a dancetherapist, a dancer and a performer. She has performed in important festivals in Italy and abroad (in Lebanon, Switzerland..), in theatre plays and in arab restaurants in Rome.

She teaches belly dance to pregnant women and she conducts dance-therapy groups in Italy and abroad. She has been also involved in European projects focused on enhancing social inclusion.