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CinePaesaggi
Rural landscapes in contemporary Italian and Swiss cinema
27.03.2024
- Curator
- Jacqueline Maurer
The event, featuring four guest experts (researchers and filmmakers), consists of a screening and a roundtable discussion devoted to analyzing the role of rural landscapes in film production and reception, and in film festival strategies.
Rural landscapes are a social construct, just like urban landscapes, with which they have long been linked discursively and through visible and invisible infrastructures. Our sensory perception and experience of rural landscapes, but also the way they are (re)produced in the media, are shaped by aesthetic, cultural, economic, political and technical factors. To what extent do contemporary films in which Italian and Swiss landscapes play a prominent role give rise to these complex relationships? To what extent do the interests and structures of the film industry determine which rural landscapes are mediated, and how? What links and collaborations currently exist between Italian and Swiss cinema with regard to rural film locations? With regard to reflections on the history, present and future of rural landscapes, what role could film festivals play with their specific locations and the challenge of redefining their strategies? The panel, featuring Italian and Swiss guests from the world of cinema and interdisciplinary research, will answer these and other questions.
The Program
CinePaesaggi Round Table – Rural landscapes in contemporary Italian and Swiss cinema
With : Michelangelo Frammartino, Silvia Cipelletti, Niccolò Castelli and Michael Koch Screening of the film Le quattro volte by Michelangelo Frammartino, in the presence of the director Michelangelo Frammartino’sLe quattro volte (2010, 90 min) is a poetic vision of the uninterrupted cycles of life and nature, and the unspoiled traditions of a timeless place. The story of a soul who lives four successive lives. The film was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, where it won the Europa Cinema Label.
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Jacqueline Maurer
Jacqueline Maurer (1984, Aarau) is an art historian, film specialist, critic and curator who explores the intersections between cinema, architecture and urban, infrastructural and rural landscapes. For her doctoral thesis on Jean-Luc Godard in film studies (University of Zurich UZH), she spent several research periods in Paris and London. She is currently pursuing her interdisciplinary research on cinema and rural landscapes as a resident at the Swiss Institute in Rome 2023/24 and visiting scholar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. After Rome, she will join the research group at the ArchitekturWerkstatt FH OST in Sankt Gallen as part of the SNSF project Synergy Areal Spatial Revolution (Mendrisio/Fribourg/Sankt Gallen; 2023-27).
Michelangelo Frammartino
Michelangelo Frammartino (1968, Milan) has created video art installations and worked as a set designer for films and video clips. His first feature film, The Gift, was presented 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 won the Special Jury Prize.
Silvia Cipelletti
Silvia Cipelletti (1994, London) is an architect and visual arts researcher. She is currently teaching assistant and doctoral student on the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) research project The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies. She also organizes courses and workshops exploring the interfaces between architecture and visual media. Her short films on architecture have been shown at the Locarno Film Festival and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has published essays on architecture and cinema in Stoà Journal, Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur, Cartha, Il Giornale dell’architettura and Trans Magazine.
Niccolò Castelli
Niccolò Castelli (1982, Lugano, Switzerland) is a documentary, reportage, feature film and screenplay director who has worked in various cultural fields. His first feature Tutti giù – Everybody Sometimes Falls (2012) premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. His second feature Atlas (2021) opened the largest Swiss film festival in Solothurn and was selected for numerous festivals, including the 74th Locarno Film Festival. Since 2021, he has been Director of the Ticino Film Commission and, since 2023, Artistic Director of the Solothurn Film Festival.
Michael Koch
Michael Koch (1982, Lucerna, Switzerland) is a film director. His first feature Marija had its world premiere in competition at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, screened internationally at several festivals (Toronto, Busan, Angers, Gothenburg) and won numerous awards. His second feature 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 won awards in Chicago, Thessaloniki and Ghent, received the Swiss Film Award for Best Feature Film (2023) and was officially chosen to represent Switzerland at the 95th Academy Awards®.
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Practical information
Around Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le quattro volte Wednesday, March 27
5pm – 9pm
Salle cinéma Michel Piccoli
Free
In English and Italian (film in Italian) Curator : Jacqueline Maurer (resident at the Istituto Svizzero in film theory)
In the presence of director Michelangelo Frammartino, Silvia Cipelletti, Niccolò Castelli and Michael Koch
In collaboration with theIstituto Svizzero (Rome)
