Fond. Cinema Roma - Exhibitions

MONICA AND CINEMA: A LEGENDARY FILM CAREER
The International Rome Film Festival, il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and Cinecittà Luce celebrate Monica Vitti on the occasion of her 80th birthday, with an extraordinary exhibition of photographs. The show retraces the splendid 40-year-long career of one of Italian cinema’s greatest actresses, whose astonishing range allowed her to shine in dramatic roles in Michelangelo Antonioni’s films and comic roles as well, becoming the only real comédienne in the commedia all’italiana, able to hold her own against her male colleagues, among them Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, and Nino Manfredi. The exhibition and catalogue feature photographs from the National Film Library and the Cinecittà Luce archives. Screenings will also be held of two of Vitti’s films: Dramma della gelosia (Ettore Scola, 1970) and Scandalo segreto (Monica Vitti, 1990).

Auditorium Parco della Musica
Foyer Sala Sinopoli / October 26th  to November 4th  – 11 am – 6 pm
Free admission


AUDREY HEPBURN: TRIBUTE EXHIBIT IN SUPPORT OF UNICEF
On the 50th anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, for the first time ever Rome will celebrate Audrey Hepburn with a tribute exhibit to raise money for UNICEF’s fight against child mortality, a cause to which Ms. Hepburn dedicated much of her life as a Goodwill Ambassador. All proceeds of the ticket supplement will go to UNICEF. Promoted by the Department of Cultural Policies and the Historical Centre - Superintendence of Cultural Assets of Rome Capital, the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund and UNICEF/Amici di Audrey, the exhibit Audrey in Roma will be held at the Ara Pacis Museum from October 26-December 4, 2011. Hepburn’s son, Luca Dotti, curated the exhibit with Ludovica Damiani, Sciascia Gambaccini and Guido Torlonia, and consultant Sava Bisazza Terracini. An exclusive video and a selection of never-before-seen photographs – from the archives of Reporters Associati, Photomasi, Istituto Luce and Kobal Collection – will reveal moments of her everyday life in Rome. There will also be photographs from the UNICEF.
Where: Museo dell’Ara Pacis lungotevere in Augusta (on the corner of via Tomacelli)
When: 26 October - 4 december at 9:00-19:00 (last admission at 18:00) closed Mondays - tickets 11,50 €; reduced 9,00 € Catalogue Electa curated by Ludovica Damiani and Luca Dotti with texts by Sciascia Gambaccini Info: 060608
Info: www.arapacis.it  - www.audreyhepburn.com  - www.unicef.it
Press Opening October 25th at 12 pm


“RAISE THE DEAD” EXHIBITION
Douglas Gordon (Glasgow, 1966), winner of the Turner Prize in 1996, one of the most celebrated international artists, will be present at the International Rome Film Festival with a new version of his most famous video installation “24 Hours Psycho”(1993). The Alfred Hitchcock film, one of the most famous movies of all time, will be projected in the AuditoriumArte space on a large screen without soundtrack at a speed of two frames per second, instead of the standard twenty four so that the screening of the film will take a whole day. The sequences of this masterpiece in this new version developed by Gordon reveal constantly new and unexpected details, psychological situations and subconscious pitfalls which lead to a ground up reconstruction of the film's imaginary narrative, drastically unhinging our supposed familiarity with the film's plot. In theversion to be shown in Rome, “24 Hour Psycho To and Fro” (2008), the film will be projected onto two adjacent screens, both at the same reduced speed, one with the normal progression and the other in reverse, until they meet on the same image for a single second.  Next to this installation, Douglas Gordon will also show a series of photographs of famous Italian film actors.  Their legendary faces are partially burnt, almost to the extent of being unrecognisable, creating a sensory and mnemonic short circuit which affects our concept of time and the discrepancy between reality and fiction and life and myth which is the breeding ground of narrative cinema.

Douglas Gordon
Being particularly interested in the dual expressive possibilities of verbal communication and moving images, Gordon has made his mark for the unusual size of his video-installations and for his texts, printed on the walls of exhibition spaces in the most unexpected places.  Over the last fifteen years he has held exhibitions in major galleries and museums worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2001, London's Tate Gallery in 2010 and the Museum of Modern Art of New York, which in 2006 dedicated a retrospective to his work.


P.P.P. A TRIBUTE, TO PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
After Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini, the Rome Film Festival pays homage to another master filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, as filtered through the genius of production designers Dante Ferretti and Francesca Loschiavo, along with images from his own films. Pasolini was one of the most lucid and passionate witnesses to the age that saw Italy’s transformation from an agricultural economy into a modern industrialized nation. To portray this transformation, Pasolini depended not only on the stories he chose for his films, but also on the faces and bodies he selected as matches for his characters and the urban and peripheral landscapes against which their stories unfolded, landscapes changing very visibly on screen, from Rome in Mamma Roma (1962) to the industrial outskirts of Milan in Teorema (1968). In the first section of this exhibition, the stills by Angelo Novi (one of the great photographers in Italian cinema) document the metamorphosis of the peninsula just as Pasolini implicitly described it and revoked it both in the physicality of his film's’ characters and the lay of the land, from the plebeian peripheries in Mamma Roma and La ricotta (1963); to Comizi d’amore (1963-64), in which Pasolini crossed the entire country from top to bottom; and The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), which revealed the poverty and helplessness of the South; and, finally, the faceless outskirts and bourgeois interiors of The Hawks and The Sparrows (1966) and Teorema (1968).

Curated by Gian Luca Farinelli, Cineteca di Bologna, mounted by Dante Ferretti e Francesca Loschiavo
Conceived by Equa - Production Cineteca di Bologna - In collaboration with International Rome Film Festival.

Auditorium Parco della Musica - Exhibition Hall / from October 27th to November 5th / Opening times: 12pm to 6pm - Open till 9pm / for those holding tickets to a festival screening
Free admission