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Daryl Hall and John Oates kept a diverse crowd happy, updating their sound just enough to make hits from the '70s and '80s feel fresh in front of a sing-along crowd at New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 5, 2013. The "rock-and-soul" duo from Philadelphia added funk, rhythm-and-blues and gospel touches to chart-toppers, such as "Maneater," "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)," and "You Make My Dreams Come True."
On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the “Vlora”. Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted “Italia, Italia”, making the victory sign. On 7 August 1991, the ship, returning from Cuba, the “Vlora” had arrived at the port of Durrës with 10,000 tons of sugar in its hold. Work on unloading the sugar was underway when an enormous throng of thousands of people suddenly assailed the ship, forcing the captain to head for Italy. The next morning, waiting for the “Vlora” was an incredulous and stunned city and an empty football stadium where the Albanians were held before being sent back home. Twenty-one years have passed since that day. Most of the people who boarded that ship were sent back to Albania, but the crossings continued and many of them had another go. Today, 4.5 million foreigners live in Italy.
Pino Boresta is an artist from Rome, in his own work he shares the approach and aims of situationist art. Through a reference to the historic Italian television show, Blob, BPB summarizes a significant part of his appearances that are visible on the web.
May 15, 1948, is the date of the founding of the State of Israel on more than half of the territory of historic Palestine, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. But for Palestinians, that day means NAKBA - catastrophe: the forced expulsion, through the use of violence and weapons, of over 800,000 people, the destruction of 600 villages and homes in the cities of Haifa, Jaffa, and others. This film aims to commemorate this date and the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, which continues to this day. All this in disregard of the plan to partition Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, voted by the United Nations in 1947. A great injustice that has now lasted for 72 years.
Experimental animation meets Disney iconography. A failing attempt to create the best Pluto ever.
Taking to the stage in Milan, Francesco de Carlo opens up about bad habits, religion, politics and what he's learned from travelling the world.
Cambia Tutto is comprised of over 2500 images that, when brought together in sequence, take the viewer through the small Italian village of Cavaso del Tomba — a place that has changed from a cultural epicentre of its rural region to a sleepy town surrounded by industrial sites. Each frame of the film is a carefully photographed or painted image of a specific aspect of the area and the score is interwoven with local field recordings. All these details come together to celebrate this small overlooked village and show how immensely beautiful those unnoticed things and forgotten places are if you pay attention.
"Into The Outside" is a meditation on the nocturnal world of Campania in South Italy. Nature is there in the fireflies, bats, frogs, crabs, running water and plants but there are also the huge industrial structures of the wind turbines: each individual mast flashes a red light and seen en masse the fans resemble a constellation brought to earth. The atmosphere is presided over by a rising full moon viewed from different locations.
Nets, ballast, cables and anchors. Looks, gestures, silences and laughter. Patient waiting and final effort. In the breath of a timeless time... Between land and sea, a compact nucleus of men configures the plot of an adventure that has lasted forever: bluefin tuna fishing.
A man and a dog, the fire and the snow.
Future. Planet Earth. An aged man receives a package from the global government in which he finds a fascinating hologram that will accompany him during his last day of life. We will witness his sad birthday party while he waits for his daughter, Margot.
An artist begins a piece, his movements emerging from the patches of color still not perfectly absorbed by the paper. BB is a video portrait of Pierpaolo Miccolis, a visual artist from Alberobello (in the Bari area).
A young wanderer with few ambitions he returns to his childhood places, the hills of Perugia, to sell a house left to him by his parents. The only goal: to raise the money needed to continue enjoying life. Stuck in this wonderful place he shares his stay with the elderly veterans of the hippy community to which his family belonged. Among these there is Shanghai with whom he establishes a relationship of great affection, and which will help him get out of a big trouble.
Venus gets out of the water and seduces a man. One of four Venus-themed short films directed by Eckhart Schmidt as bonus features for the Blu-ray release of his “Venus. Venuc.”-cycle.
Tells the story of two underground filmmakers of the Tuscan province, specializing in horror films / splatter, who decide against their will to confront more conventional genres trying to make a film with state contributions.
Terrybilmente divagante is a play starring Teresa Mannino which toured Italy in 2012. Mannino tells the audience about herself, acting as a mediator between the cities of Milan and Palermo.
A night. A circus. Two men and a woman. The bloodthirsty conclusion of a love story divided by three. Three monsters imprisoned in a cage made of knives. The cage is called Love.
A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.
Short movie by Giulio Squillacciotti.
The documentary tells the story of how in Licata, a town in Sicily, Augustino changed his life, leaving the seminary and the opportunity to devote his life to the church and reinventing himself as Lorella Sukkiarini, a biting and provocative drag queen.
An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.
Subversive and challenging, 'Female Touch' explores - and pushes - the boundaries of sexual identity and expression in a patriarchal and religious society.
This short documentary is a loving tribute to beloved Japanese skateboarder Takuya Kirchmayr Nei.
Tobia is a "special" child of our day who in a fantastic dimension, suspended between reality and dream (which also leads to a nightmare tinged with hallucination) lives an adventure full of elements and situations on the edge of reality; Going beyond the limits of his own fervent imagination, Tobia faces incredible and multifaceted pitfalls and obstacles with the aim of stopping time that passes by for all inexorable and unstoppable.
Giuseppe is a boy who lacks his left hand. But when he meets the beautiful Viola, Giuseppe hides his condition, even pretending to be a pianist.
Sixty years of the David di Donatello awards represent a long history of successes, of famous actors and award-winning directors, of box-office hits and other films that have distinguished the history and identity of Italian cinema. A journey into Italian film-making creativity.
Seventies in Italy. In Sardinia a group of criminals kidnaps a well-known public figure in search of redemption. For Giovanni, the leader of a small but determined local gang, known for his long kidnappings on the inland hills, will be an opportunity to confront a wiser and more informed person than he is. Inspired by the true story of Fabrizio De Andrè.
A young father and his eight-year-old son walk up a mountain. Their journey, nights in a tent, and life in the open air become opportunities for intimacy and dialogue. Meanwhile, in the city, four workers have climbed onto a crane, and a voice on the radio recounts the (mis)adventures of a music producer in the 1970s.
Trying to find a non-existent house number, a pizza delivery boy finds himself dealing with a demon to pay a money debt in alternative ways to get rid of a strange curse.
The central theme of the project is the trip to Stockholm that Grazia Deledda made in December 1927 to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to her in 1926. During the long and nerve-racking journey, accompanied by her husband, Grazia experiences a series of flashbacks that retrace some fundamental moments of her existence, such as one of the first "encounters" with snow or the death of her sister.
A biographical documentary exploring the utopian ideas of Harald Szeemann, the man who revolutionized the art exhibitions world.
Max is 11 years old, he is obsessed with air pollution and decides to stop breathing or at least, he wants to do it as little as possible, to live longer...will he do it?
Maurizio is a young journalist who works in a regional television. Luca is his cameraman. Tired of the daily routine imposed on him and of the assignments given by the owners Maurizio, decides to take a cue from reality to 'invent' stories that have a greater grip on the audience. Luca does not agree but Plays along. When their dangerous game seems about to be discovered, Maurizio has a new idea.
A research on the difficult psychological dynamics found in the so-called Stockholm Syndrome within the Nazi concentration camps, precisely within the sections of prostitution blocks that were not even mentioned in the sad album of the history of the Shoah.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is exactly the opposite: two families, the Casisa and the Vitrano, who adore each other, and their two children, Anna and Claudio, students away from home and longtime lovers, who hate each other and want nothing to do with each other. When they return home, the two find an idyllic situation: the friendship between their families is so strong that they've even joined forces in business. The Casisa, ricotta producers, and the Vitrano, producers of cannoli shells, will sell "the lovers' cannoli," for which Claudio and Anna will be the unwitting ambassadors. It's so difficult to tarnish that picture that the two not only lack the courage to admit they've broken up, but, gripped by an increasingly childish fear, they complicate matters by telling outright lies: not only do they announce their wedding, but also the imminent birth of a child. From here, a hilarious game of misunderstandings begins, which will lead them to commit the wrong elopement.
A piece based on Mangini's photographs of a journey that would change her life: the one she took at the age of 25 to the pumice mines of Lipari, a lunar landscape displaying extreme working conditions that she portrayed in 46 images both beautiful and devastating.
