P.art on 5 October and continues until 9 in Turin (between the Ambrosio Cinema and the Circolo dei readers) the review “Parallel Visions”, part of Contemporary Film Festivalan international cinema and visual arts event focused on new female perspectives.
Contemporanea Film Festival 2022: Monica Vitti.
Parallel Visions, curated by Giulia Magno, explores the fluctuating border that runs between cinema and video art by proposing the works of five international artists who over the last few years have established a dialogue with classics in the history of cinema which – from Godard to Bergman, from Pasolini to Tarkovskij – have inspired them. British Michelle Williams Gamaker with House of Womenseventy years later, re-enacts the audition that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger did in 1946 for the protagonist of Black narcissusthe Indian girl Kanchi.
To win the role was Jean Simmons, who – to be credible in the role of the exotic temptress – had to put an ante-litteram nasal piercing and darken her skin. The applications accepted by the author are only those of women and non-binary people of Asian origin.
A dialogue between eras and styles
Finnish Jenni Toikka with Prelude, Op. 28, No. 2 re-enacts the famous scene from Autumn symphony by Ingmar Bergman in which Eva (Liv Ullmann) and her mother Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) alternate at the piano. «Through a constellation of references ranging from architecture to literature, from mythology to psychoanalysis, the artists question phenomena such as cultural colonialism and the voyeuristic representation of the female body»Writes the curator presenting the selection.
Prelude, Op. 28, No. 2 by Jenni Toikka.
The festival which opened on 4 October with a tribute to Monica Vitti and the screening of Red desert by Michelangelo Antonioniwill dedicate each edition to a great woman in the history of cinema.
The program is divided into several sections, from “Contemporary looks”, dedicated to national premieres and to the films awarded at the most important festivals, from Cannes to Locarno, from Venice to Sundance (interesting Maternal of the Italian Maura Delpero, who moved to Locarno, e Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time by the Hungarian Lili Horvát, seen in Venice), the fictional and animated short films of the “International Competition”, and “Sguardi doc”, dedicated to the cinema of reality (interesting The moment of transition by Chiara Marotta, seen in Idfa). In “Focus Ukraine”, director Daryna Snizhkor, preview his documentary Another Night which tells the first days of the outbreak of the conflict from the point of view of his family, originally from Kharkiv.
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