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 16 Program

18:00
‘Lolo y Sosaku’: The Western Archive
by Sergio Caballero, Spain, 2024, 66 min.
Lolo & Sosaku are two sound artists, from Argentina and Japan, who have been collaborating since they met in Barcelona in 2004. With a combination of self-made instruments and cheeky contraptions, they create sound sculptures: machines and installations which produce mechanical, repetitive, and rhythmic noises.
Sergio Caballero turns them into the atypical heroes of a surreal western film, filled with gorgeous landscapes and absurdist humour. The film offers a curious reinterpretation of the genre by mixing it with slow cinema and art documentary.

Presentation of the Lo schermo dell’arte channel with Luca Dini, president of Fondazione Fabbrica Europa, Gianluca Guzzo, co-founder and CEO of MYmovies, and Silvia Lucchesi, director of Lo schermo dell’arte

20:30
Among the Palms, the Bomb, or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty
by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic, Austria, Germany, 2024, 85 min
English | Under 30 Audience Award at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte festival
The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake and an endangered ecosystem. Located near a former World War II atomic bomb testing site, red algae and a drastic drop in water levels are causing certain bird species to go extinct. But the life-threatening circumstances in this area stretch even further: undocumented farmworkers from Latin America labor in monoculture fields. They seek refuge from the Border Patrol in Native American reservations, whose people were themselves victims of a large-scale genocide in the mid-19th century. Only their stories recall a time when they lived in harmony with nature. In their cinematic exploration, Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic approach this microcosm with long takes and tracking shots. Starting from the grounds of the military museum in Wendover, Utah, where the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were built, Among the Palms, the Bomb examines how the events of the 20th century have left an indelible mark on the landscape.

© still from Among the Palms, the Bomb, or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty (2024) by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanic