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"Intorno a Marisa" highlights the domestic component and the ways in which creativity and life have merged in the work of the Italian artist Marisa Merz, the only major female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement. Marisa Merz is a crucial figure in postwar Italian art and an eccentric voice in the contemporary art world. Arte Povera made its debut on the international art scene with her the wife and artistic companion of Mario Merz. Her value is...
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Fast hands, accustomed to work, mash, knead, knock. The shots are now more deaf, now more accurate, sound. It all starts from the material: clay, indeed, the "crea" what's his name in the Veneto. And like an initiation, the man, the potter goes first where everything has its origins: the quarries. Mountains of clay. It's a strange place, quiet, where everything has the same color of the moon and it looks like a different planet. Who is this old silent,...
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He was known as The Maestro of Splatter and The Godfather of Gore. But who was the real Lucio Fulci' When an actor agrees to portray the infamous director, he sets out to research the triumphs, tragedies and truths behind Fulci's life, work and legacy through never-before-seen home movies, rare behind-the-scenes footage from his films, audio confessions from Fulci himself and revealing interviews.
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Gianni Berengo Gardin, since the 1950s, has devoted himself to reportage, social investigation, and architectural photography of environmental description. With his friends Josef Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Eliott Erwitt, Ferdinando Scianna, Renzo Piano, and Gabriele Basilico, in this film Berengo Gardin retraces his life as an "artisan of photography," always convinced that "it doesn't matter how you photograph but what you photograph."
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An exhilarating account of the creative process and a rousing, uniquely accessible rendition of Verdi’s glorious opera. Director Béziat, known for his innovative documentaries on classical music, trains his cameras on a 2011 production of La Traviata helmed by celebrated stage director Jean-François Sivadier. We get a behind-the-scenes look at such areas as set design and musical direction, but the heart of the film is the intense collaboration...
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Historic Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù used to say that the sculpture is a hand gesture, a gesture of love. This documentary follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali’s famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Battaglia Artistic Foundry) in Milan. The film observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year-old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making,...
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There are many ways of framing a landscape, a face. And many more as well to tell the story of a man, his life, his passions, his character and movements, sending a message to the world. “THE HIDDEN ANGLES OF LUCHINO VISCONTI” documentary deals with the man, the great man and director Visconti was, through the eyes of his closest collaborators and the never-before-seen images of Mario Tursi’s personal photographic archive. He was the photographer...
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This documentary offers a deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the **Academy Award** for Best Director for her masterpiece *Seven Beauties*. The documentary spans decades, from the unpublished pictures taken in Cinecitta, when she was Federico Fellini’s assistant director on *8 1⁄2*, to the places where her most famous films were set, revealing the artistic and human universe...
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The documentary is the first and unique film on Fortunato Depero, the most significant artist of the Futurist movement. The film investigates the figure of a man who could go beyond the codified circuits of the art world: his work ranges from painting to theater, from set design to photography, applied arts, publishing, and advertising design.
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Boasting an impressive private collection with a specific focus on the art of portrait, the Academia Carrara in Bergamo is an Italian treasure which has been inaccessible to the public for several years. It features more then 600 paintings including Raphael, Mantegna, Bellini, Botticelli and many other works of art from the 15th to the 19th century. The film capture the restoration and reopening of the museum as an opportunity to meditate on the meaning...
13) Il treno
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"Questo libro parla dell'uomo e dell'artista che, inizialmente racchiusi nella stessa persona, si scindono per poi partire ognuno alla ricerca dell'altro. Il treno é il mezzo immaginario per esplorare l'interiorità del protagonista. E' la celebrazione del sentimento superiore a tutto, l'arte ed il talento che cambiano il mondo."--lulu.com.
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The four Papal Basilicas in Rome and their treasures play the leading role in this cinematic tour de force, while state of the art technology captures amazing images from completely new and exclusive points of view. Join world-renowned experts who will discuss the basilicas; their evolution over the centuries, their most famous works of art, the lives and stories of Popes and artists, the events that made these places immortal, and the profound spirituality...
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CARAVAGGIO: THE SOUL AND THE BLOOD is an immersive and visually stunning journey of light and shadows through the struggles and successes of the revolutionary and controversial artist, joining him on his travels through Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, Sicily and Malta as he tries to flee his many demons. Utilizing state-of-the-art cinematic techniques, stunning 4K projection, commentary from leading historical experts and art historians, and unprecedented...
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Discover the incredible life of the most important Italian representative of pointillism, “Le Gauguin des Alps”. It tells the unique and extraordinary story of Giovanni Segantini, focusing on his way of feeling nature as a source of artistic and spiritual inspiration. A man of humble origins with a tortuous life path, Segantini will become one of the most important symbolist painters in the 19th century.
19) Napoli Eden
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Captures the creative journey of artist Annalaura di Luggo when she decideded to build 4 monumental works of art out of recycled aluminum and position them in symbolic places in the city of Naples. Annalaura also recruited some “at-risk kids” from the Spanish Quarters of Naples in an attempt to stimulate their lives with new positive and creative possibilities in "a journey towards the light". All that you will see really happened. This cinematic...
20) Sin
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Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici...
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