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Panorami italiani<\/h6>\n

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Alessandra Ferrini \/ Uk, Italy \/ 26\u2019 \/ 2024<\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong>Alessandra Ferrini is a London-based artist-researcher, working across moving images, installation, and performance-lecture. Her three-channel video installation Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film<\/em> was the recipient of the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2022 (the most prestigious contemporary art award in Italy) and, in 2017, it won the London Film Festival\u2019s Experimenta Pitch Award. More recently, her two-channel video installation Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship<\/em> has been featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Previously her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at: 5th Casablanca Biennal (2023), K\u00f8s Museum of Art in Public Spaces (Denmark, 2022-23), Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Art (2022), MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki (2021), Open City Documentary Film Festival (2020), Royal Anthropological Film Festival (2020, 2017), Manifesta13 Parall\u00e9les du Sud (Marseille 2020), Sharjah Film Platform (2019), Istanbul Biennal collateral (at Depo, 2019), 2nd Lagos Biennal (2019), Manifesta12 Film Programme (Palermo 2018), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin 2018, 2020-2022), 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2018). Ferrini works with moving images, performance-lecture, and installation to investigate the enduring legacy of Italian colonialism and fascism across the Mediterranean. She holds a practice-based PhD in filmmaking, from the University of the Arts London.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”1″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”207555″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”102112″]<\/p>\n

June 1
\n11:00 am.<\/span><\/strong>
\nCinema Intrastevere – <\/span>Sala 1
\n<\/span>Q&A with the author<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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