Discussion and screening | CinePaesaggi – Rural landscapes in Italian and Swiss contemporary cinema
27 March 2024Around Le quattro volte by Michelangelo Frammartino
Wednesday March 27
5pm-9pm
Cinema room Michel Piccoli
Free
In English and Italian (film in Italian)
Curated by Jacqueline Maurer (Fellow at Istituto Svizzero in Film Studies)
With the director Michelangelo Frammartino, Silvia Cipelletti, Niccolò Castelli e Michael Koch
In collaboration with the Istituto Svizzero (Rome)
The event with four guests from practice and research will consist of a round table exploring and discussing the roles of rural landscapes in the realization and reception of films, as well as within film festival strategies:
Rural landscapes are a social construction, just like urban landscapes, with which they have long been connected discursively and through visible and invisible infrastructures. Not only our sensory perception and experience of rural landscapes, but also how they are (re)produced in the media is shaped by aesthetic, cultural, economic, political and technical factors.
How do contemporary feature films in which Italian and Swiss landscapes play a leading role bring these complex relationships to life?
To what extent do the structures and interests of the film industry determine which and how rural landscapes are mediatized?
What fruitful connections and collaborations regarding rural film locations currently exist between Italian and Swiss cinema?
With regard to reflections about histories, presences, and futures of rural landscapes: Which role could film festivals play with their very locatedness and their challenge to re/define their strategies?
The panel with Italian and Swiss guests from film production and interdisciplinary research will address these and other questions.
THE PROGRAM
> Discussion CinePaesaggi – Rural landscapes in Italian and Swiss contemporary cinema
With Michelangelo Frammartino, Silvia Cipelletti, Niccolò Castelli and Michael Koch
> Screening of Le quattro volte di Michelangelo Frammartino in presence of the director
Le quattro volte of Michelangelo Frammartino (2010, 90 min) is a poetic vision of the revolving cycles of life and nature and the unbroken traditions of a timeless place. The story of one soul that moves through four successive lives. The movie was selected at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, where it won the Label Europa Cinema.
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THE CURATOR
Jacqueline Maurer (1984, Aarau) is an art historian, film scholar, critique, and curator exploring interrelations between cinema, architecture and urban, infrastructural and rural landscapes. For her PhD thesis about Jean-Luc Godard in Cinema Studies (University of Zurich UZH), she spent several research stays in Paris and London. She is currently proceeding her interdisciplinary research on cinema and rural landscapes as Residente at Istituto Svizzero di Roma 2023/24 and guest researcher at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. After Rome she is joining the research group at the institute ArchitekturWerkstatt at Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences FH OST in Sankt Gallen as part of the SNSF Sinergia Project Aerial Spatial Revolution (Mendrisio/Fribourg/Sankt Gallen; 2023–27).
THE DIRECTOR AND THE SPEAKERS
Michelangelo Frammartino (1968, Milan) produced videoart installations and worked as a set designer for films and video clips. His first feature fil Il Dono premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2003. His film Il Buco (2021) was selected for the main competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and won the Special Jury Prize.
Silvia Cipelletti (1994, London) is an architect and visual researcher. Currently she is a teaching assistant and a PhD candidate in the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF research project The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies. She is also a curator of courses and workshops exploring interfaces between architecture and visual media. Her architecture short films have been featured at Locarno Film Festival and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has published essays on architecture and film in Stoà Journal, Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur, Cartha, Il Giornale dell’architettura, and Trans Magazine.
Niccolò Castelli (1982, Lugano, Switzerland) is a director for documentaries, reportages, feature films, and in scriptwriting, and collaborated in various cultural fields. His first feature Tutti Giù – Everybody Sometimes Falls (2012) premiered at Locarno Film Festival. His second feature Atlas (2021) opened the major Swiss Film Festival in Solothurn and was selected for numerous festivals, including the 74th Locarno Film Festival. Since 2021 he has been director of Ticino Film Commission and since 2023 artistic director of Solothurn Film Festival.
Michael Koch (1982, Lucerna, Switzerland) is director. His debut feature film Marija had its world premiere in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2016, was internationally screened at several festivals such as in Toronto, Busan, Angers, and Gothenburg, and won numerous national and international awards. His second feature film Drii Winter (A Piece Of Sky) was invited to the international Competition at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival and received a Special Mention from the jury. The film screened at over 50 festivals, won prizes in Chicago, Thessaloniki and Gent, the Swiss Film Award for Best Feature Film (2023) and it was Switzerland’s official submission for the International Feature Film Competition at the 95th Academy Awards®.
In collaborazione con l’Istituto Svizzero
CREDITI IMMAGINI:
Imagine di copertina: Montaggio di Drii Winter (Michael Koch, CH/DE 2022) © Frenetic Films & Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, IT/FR/CH 2010) © GK Films
Ritratto di Jacqueline Maurer © Zoe Tempest
Ritratto di Michelangelo Frammartino © Eniko Lorinczi
Ritratto di Silvia Cipelletti © Silvia Cipelletti
Ritratto di Niccolò Castelli © Gaëtan Bally Keystone
Ritratto di Michael Koch © Michael Koch