On December 16 and 17 Lo schermo dell’arte in collaboration with Fabbrica Europa and MYmovies presents two evenings of screenings featuring films from the Lo schermo dell’arte channel on MYmovies ONE.

The program includes four films that were successfully showcased at the festival, ranging from a surreal reimagining of the Western genre to an auteur’s narrative on environmental exploitation, from performance art to an artist portrait: ‘Lolo y Sosaku’: The Western Archive (2024) by Sergio Caballero, winner of the Under 30 Audience Award at the 17th edition of the Festival; Among the Palms, the Bomb, or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty (2024) by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic; Dead Dance (2023) by Domenico Palma, winner of the Under 30 Audience Award at the 16th edition of the Festival; and Gallant Indies (2020) by Philippe Beziat.

December 17 Program

18:00
Dead Dance
by Domenico Palma, Italy, 2023, 54 min
Italian with English subtitles | Under 30 Audience Award at the 16th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte
Giulia Cenci’s large installation Dead Dance, created for the 2022 Venice Biennale, accompanied exhibition visitors to the exit of the Arsenale, and forced them to look towards the sky. Filmed in the artist’s studio in the Tuscan countryside, we follow her creative process: a detailed account of the genesis of the work and the episodes that fueled it. Suspended heads, dismembered horses and dancing skeletons divide the space inside the former stable where the work takes shape. Cenci seamlessly mixes art history references and memories which merge with reflections on ecological themes, and intricate inter-species dynamics: an appeal for awareness of the role that humanity plays in the natural world.

ore 20:00
Gallant Indies
by Philippe Beziat, France, 2020, 108 min
French with subtitles in English and Italian
In 2019, eight opera singers and 30 dancers from a wide variety of artistic and demographic backgrounds convened at Paris’s Opéra Bastille to begin work on an ambitious new production of Les Indes galantes. The baroque composition by Jean-Philippe Rameau is a cornerstone of French musical history, but its beautiful melodies come alongside a host of outdated conceptions of “exotic” locations and peoples. Philippe Béziat’s documentary captures the work of this multifaceted troupe under the direction of artist and filmmaker Clément Cogitore; together, they work to deliver Rameau’s opera into the 21st century and the everyday diversity of contemporary France, integrating questions of racism, classism, and colonialism into a radical new staging that both honors and transforms the original text.

© still from Dead Dance (2023) by Domenico Palma