Italian Landscapes
Panorama and Supermarket
may 5
7:00 pm.
Cinema Intrastevere
movie theatre 2
Meeting with the author
Panorama
Gianluca Abbate / Italy / 2014 / 7’ / Silent
Panorama is the first chapter of a trilogy on the city. The video is a review on a polis that stretches away over an infinite global space with no more uninhabited places nor frontiers where we can take refuge. . In this landscape, we cannot see any way of readmission for those who have once been excluded, and this recalls imaginary worlds in search of a balance.
Sound design Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
Mix Marco Saitta
Supermarket
Gianluca Abbate / Italy / 2018 / 8’ / English | Italian Subtitles
A voice says “I would like to make you feel nice and comfortable, and to empty your mind of every single thought…” Thus begins the story, with an invitation to make you fall asleep, in a calm, deep, and peaceful rest, while a chaotic landscape, crowded with people, sets up on the screen. The crowd doesn’t seem to have anywhere to go, but they are actually sleeping and they need to dream.
Sound design Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri, Giuseppe D’Amato
Mix Giancarlo Rutigliano (Timelinestudio)
Cast Jody Smith (Voiceover)
Gianluca Abbate
Gianluca Abbate is an artist and director of experimental films based in Roma, born in 1980. In 2016, he won a Nastro d’Argento and in 2015 best short film at the Turin Film Festival. In 2020 he was awarded the Efebo d’Oro for New Languages and the Goethe Film Award at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin. His films have been screened at the Ann Arbor festival in the United States, at the MAXXI in Rome, MMOMA – Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, MOCA Hiroshima, Palais de Tokyo and broadcast on ARTE France. He has designed for RAI the graphic identity of the “Stati Generali ” and “la TV Delle Ragazze ” by Serena Dandini. He has given lectures at the Civic School of Cinema in Milan, Ied Rome, the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone and currently teaches at the NABA in Rome.