Rossella Catanese, Piero Fragola
in partenrship with Eye Filmmuseum Netherlands

In this live performance, vj and film scholar Rossella Catanese manipulates footage from the ‘Bits & Pieces’ collection of Eye Filmmuseum, the prestigious Dutch national film archive and partner in the project. It is a unique collection of ‘orphan’ film fragments – pieces of film that have survived the passage of time but lack contextual information – recovered and carefully preserved by the archive. These images, ranging from silent film sequences to newsreel clippings, from avant-garde experiments to fragments of commercial films, are reworked through the practice of VJing or Live Visual Mixing, generating new visual narratives between analogue and digital.
Accompanying the flow of images is the original soundtrack created by multimedia artist Piero Fragola, made with modular synthesisers and in particular with the innovative ART polyphonic system by Tiptop Audio. The sounds, in constant dialogue with the projections, oscillate between cinematic atmospheres, electro-acoustic textures and pulsating rhythms inspired by electro-wave, amplifying the emotional and immersive impact of the performance.
An audiovisual experiment that transforms the legacy of fragmented cinema into a contemporary work, exploring the contemporary possibilities of found footage through hybrid languages.