The Art of Memory
Refined and complex, memory is cultivated, according to an ancient tradition, with actual techniques. One remembers through images and spaces, in the well-known utopia of the memory theater, but also, as Giordano Bruno asserted, through feelings and emotions. Perhaps by remembering and feeling emotions, one actually thinks, as contemporary theories on emotional intelligence suggest.
Archivio Aperto, the festival of Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, is back in Bologna, with tributes to Chantal Akerman and Goliarda Sapienza on the centenary of her birth, a site-specific installation by Adelaide Cioni, the experimental films of Carolee Schneemann and Stan Brakhage, the restoration of the avant-garde masterpiece La nott’e ‘l giorno by Gianni Castagnoli, a focus on the revolutionary cinema of children by teacher Emilio Sidoti, and an international competition with 16 works made from archival materials. In the opening, the Italian premiere of Weightless, Sara Fgaier’s debut feature; in the closing, Andres Veiel’s monumental documentary Riefenstahl. Guest of honor is Ukrainian-born writer Katja Petrowskaja.
The 17th edition of Archivio Aperto takes place October 23-27, 2024 in Bologna.
Discover the full program here, with the films in Competition, Special Screenings, Out-of-Competition Programs, Events and Workshops, and the complete detailed schedule.
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24 Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China
Ho Rui An
Surveillance camera footage is recontextualized within a genealogy traced back to a Lumière film depicting workers leaving a factory.
A Fidai Film
Kamal Aljafari
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.
Ali je bilo kaj avantgardnega?
Alpe-Adria Underground!
Matevž Jerman & Jurij Meden
Between 2013 and 2023, Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production.
Autism Plays Itself
Janet Harbord
A film shot in 1957 in at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures the movements and behaviour of children under observation for atypical behaviour. In the present day, three autistic respondents watch the footage, bringing new insightful interpretations of the children’s behaviour as they explore the sparse environment of the clinic.
Behind Closed Doors
João Pedro Bim
In 1968, Brazil’s military government passed a law that ushered in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades.
City of Poets
Sara Rajaei
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets.
Фрагменти льоду
Fragments of Ice
Maria Stoianova
A gentle hypnotic journey through the VHS archives of the (post-)Soviet figure skater who toured the West in the 80s and 90s.
Grandmamauntsistercat
Zuza Banasińska
The film, created from archival materials of the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.
Le Voyage de documentation de Madame Anita Conti
Louise Hémon
In 1952, Anita Conti, France's first female oceanographer, embarked on a trawler to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen.
Silence of Reason
Kumjana Novakova
The film tells the singular experiences of violence and torture to women during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Some Thoughts on The Common Toad
G. Anthony Svatek
A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the 1946 essay by George Orwell and read by Tilda Swinton.
Las novias del sur
Southern Brides
Elena López Riera
Mature women speak about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality.
Terra Nova. The Land of Long Shadows
Lorenzo Pallotta
Antarctica (1988): a ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach Terra Nova Bay.
The Hidden Gesture. War and Melodrama in Hollywood’s 30s and 40s
Dana Najlis
A fictional journey constructed from small body movements as portrayed in melodramas and war movies of the 30s and 40s in Hollywood cinema.
Les mots qu’elles eurent un jour
The words women spoke one day
Raphaël Pillosio
In 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists as they were being released from prison in France. A film-investigation that tells their silent story.
Triton
Merman
Ana Lungu
An archival documentary about three men making images of women, in Romania, from WWII until the Revolution.
34th INEDITS European Annual Meeting
Art & Experimental Film: La nott’e’l giorno
Carte blanche — 25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival
A curatorial space that is curated by 25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zagreb (Croatia).
Events
Experimental Stories. CHANTAL AKERMAN
In the summer of 1967, when she was only 17, Chantal Akerman applied for the Brussels Film School with these four 8mm short films.
HOMEMOVIES100 – GLANCES INTO THE CAMERA
La natura dell’archivio. Adelaide Cioni
La natura dell'archivio hosts Kew. A conversation in Green, the 16mm loop installation by artist Adelaide Cioni.
Lezioni d’archivio
POETRY, DIARIES, NOVELS. Katja Petrowskaja
Words as a means of investigating personal stories intertwined with collective history. Author Katja Petrowskaja will discuss the theme.
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Archive Lovers Labs – Young Jury
Aimed at students, researchers, young filmmakers, and moving image curators, Archive Lovers is conceived as an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, experiences, and visions about the use of archival images today and the role they will play in the future.
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