Sandretto

Nuée Ardente (2009) 1’01’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video Animation

Using scientific 19^th century black and white etchings of volcanic landscapes, this animation was loosely inspired by the black cloud that preceded the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee, Martinique. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Skell I (2006) 1’20’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video Animation

Part I of a trilogy of animations made using 19^th century scientific etchings of volcanic landscapes, this was inspired by an eruption that took place on Mount Mazama, Oregon, 6000 years ago. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Skell II (2006) 1’41’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video Animation

Part II of an animation trilogy inspired by a volcanic eruption that took place on Mount Mazama, Oregon. Made using 19^th century scientific etchings. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Skell III (2007) 1’59’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video Animation

The final part of a trilogy of animations made using 19^th century scientific etchings and inspired by a volcanic eruption that took place 6000 years ago. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Loomer (2010) 1’50’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video Animation

An animation based on the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove, digitally manipulated by the artist, adding birds and sound. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Acis and Galatea (2013) 2’37’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video

Shot on Super8 and edited together with found footage, this video is set in the Cyclopean Isles off the coast of Sicily. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Untitled (Pavilion) (2009) 2’54’’
Salvatore Arancio
Super8 transferred to digital

This film details New York’ s State Pavilion, one of the few surviving structures from the 1964 World’s Fair. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

We Are a Way to Know Itself (2012) 3’19’’
Salvatore Arancio
Video

This film is composed of clips from Carl Sagan’s series The Cosmos and features a new soundtrack by the artist. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Birds (2012) 6’31’’
Salvatore Arancio
Super8 transferred to digital

Filmed in Bologna’s Zoology Museum, this film features the early 20^thcentury ornithological collection created by Zafagnini-Bertocchi. With sounds by LA music project Expo 70. Courtesy the artist and Federica Schiavo Gallery.

Aussicht (2008) 4’51”
Meris Angioletti
Video

Shot in the secluded Tübingen tower, Germany, where 19th Century poet Hölderlin spent his last 36 years, this work features a voiceover by neuroscientist and cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg. Courtesy the artist and SCHLEICHER/LANGE.

321 (2011) 12’29”
Meris Angioletti
SD Video

Shot in Cinecittà, Rome, this black and white video follows the movements of dancers performing in an empty set. The sounds of their movements are amplified and overlayed with fictive whispers and whistles. Courtesy the artist and SCHLEICHER/LANGE.

Interno notte (2010) 5’20”
Meris Angioletti

This film follows an owl on a nighttime journey through an empty house. Courtesy the artist and SCHLEICHER/LANGE. Italy Première.

Il Rabdomante (2006) 13’12’’
Meris Angioletti

A documentary-based film about the science of Rhabdomancy (divination by means of a wand or rod for discovering underground water) set in the Italian countryside. Courtesy the artist and SCHLEICHER/LANGE.

L’esame di Xhodi (2007) 62’
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
HDV Video

Present in Tirana, Albania, during a visit by George W. Bush in June 2007, as an act of resistance the artists decided to make a film focusing on the exams simultaneously taking place in the city’s Art Academy, rather than the high-profile State visit itself.

Bakroman (2010) 74’
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
HD Video

A documentary following the daily lives and work of an informal ‘union’ formed by six hundred street children in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Mio fratello Yang (2004) 15’
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio

A short film following Bing, a Chinese illegal immigrant as she arrives in Italy and meets Yang, her new ‘brother’ who acts as a guide to her new Italian life.

Tanatologia, 14 maggio 1958 (2007) 11’
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
Video and Super8

Using the first person an elderly lady re-tells the story of the death of the artists’ Grandmother who died aged 33, 14th May 1958, following a miscarriage. As both a Christian and a Communist, she was consequently denied a religious funeral.

Stanze (2010) 58’
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
HD Video

Set in the old immigration barracks of Via Asti, Torino, this film features a group of Somali ex-residents who perform a chain-poem detailing their experiences. The film is naturally lit, beginning on the top floor in daylight and closing in the basement as the sun sets.

Seven Acts of Mercy (2012) 110’
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
35mm scope

This feature film follows Luminata, a young illegal immigrant who lives on the edge of a slum, as she attempts to better her situation. The character is led to a meeting with Antonio, an old man dying of cancer.

Una Turandiade Buzziana (in forma di note), Extract (2011) 3’32’’
Patrizio Di Massimo
HD Video, animation

A short extract from Una Turandiade Buzziana (in forma di note), a film set in a secret and unfinished architectural project begun in 1956 by Milanese architect Tommaso Buzzi. Di Massimo interweaves documentary-style footage with animated and staged scenes from Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot. Courtesy the artist and T293 Gallery.

Una Turandiade Buzziana (in forma di note) (2011) 44’
Patrizio Di Massimo
HD Video, animation

This film is set in Buzziana, a secret and unfinished architectural project begun in 1956 by Milanese architect Tommaso Buzzi, and continued to this day by his nephew Marco Solari. Di Massimo interweaves documentary-style footage with animated and staged scenes from Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot. Courtesy the artist and T293 Gallery.

Pelo & Contropelo (2007) 33’44’’
Patrizio Di Massimo
HD Video

This documentary recalls the life and work of the Italian artist Pino Pascali (1936 – 1968). Edited without any footage taken from the past, the film is constructed entirely from interviews and shots made by the artist in 2007.

Flight from Disorder (Vogue Ed.) (2010/2011) 27’23’’
Patrizio Di Massimo
HDV Video

A recording of the artist’s performance of the same name, made by a cameraman from Vogue magazine without the artist’s prior knowledge. Original performance realised as part of Low Decò at Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, May 2010. Vogue cameraman Luca Forcignanò; translation from Italian to English, Timothy Stroud; subtitles and editing Massimiliano Mosca.

Kollaps, Aufstieg (2012) 40’
Francesco Fonassi
HD Video

A professional singer performs vocal experiments in two sites, a research laboratory for noise and in the Pyramid of the Sun (Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina), an ancient site discovered inside a hill in 2005.

Ir, shoot for isolation (2010) 4’12’’
Francesco Fonassi
HD Video

The artist performs traditional acoustic test ‘the gunshot impulse-response method’. Used to measure the acoustic qualities of auditorium spaces, in this method reverb time becomes a way to map a space’s matrix.

Range (2009) 10’
Francesco Fonassi
Video

Silent footage of acoustic mirrors, monumental concrete structures built prior to World War II to gauge the distance of enemy planes by the sound of their engines. Shot in Kent, UK.

Untitled (potential) (2010) 2’49’’
Francesco Fonassi
Video

The artist performs a sound experiment in which a pneumatic trumpet sounds from within a glass bell.

The Stuffed Shirt, Part 1: Voilà (2012) 1’03”
Anna Franceschini
16mm transferred to digital

Portrait of a shirt being filled with air by an automatic ironing system. Set in an industrial laundry factory.

The Stuffed Shirt, Part 2: The Chubby Guy In Brown Jacket (2012) 1’03”
Anna Franceschini
16mm transferred to digital

Portrait of a brown jacket being filled with air by an automatic ironing system. Set in an industrial laundry factory.

Untitled (Almost Lost) (2010) 1’31”
Anna Franceschini
Super8 transferred to digital

A short and silent observation shot in a mosque in Cairo.

How To Pronounce Reality (2011) 4’06”
Anna Franceschini
16mm transferred to digital

Shot in the interiors of Castello Malaspina, Italy, a medieval castle close to Carrara’s marble quarries, this film comprises one tracking shot of a marble composition.

The Siberian Girl (2012) 1’02”
Anna Franceschini
16mm transferred to digital

Franceschini’s camera journeys through automatons, dolls and musical boxes conserved in the Museo Ca’ da Noal of Treviso, Italy.

It’s All About Light / 1 (2011) 9’08”
Anna Franceschini
16mm transferred to digital

The first film in a trilogy of works dedicated to Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau (1801 – 1883) who invented the Phenakistoscope, a key element in the development of cinema.

It’s All About Light / 2 (2011) 2’25”
Anna Franceschini
Super8 transferred to digital

The second film in a trilogy dedicated to physicist Joseph Plateau. A fixed camera shot depicts symmetrical flame fountains, the residual effects of hard labour.

Nothing is more Mysterious. A Fact that is Well Explained (2010) 11’45’’
Anna Franceschini
16mm transferred to digital

Two long sequences map the surfaces of objects and different locations in the Pianola Museum, Amsterdam.

Polistirene (2007) 12’
Anna Franceschini
MiniDV

This video captures the making of polystyrene mannequins.

The Player May Not Change His Position (2009) 17’
Anna Franceschini
Video

Featuring fixed camera footage of various rides in motion, this is a portrait of a funfair at night.

Pattini d’Argento (2007) 37’
Anna Franceschini, Diego Marcon, Federico Chiari
MiniDV

This documentary pictures the movements of the Precision Skating Society, a team of young ice skaters from Milan.

Portrait de Dominique Fidanza dans sa maison en Suisse (2011) 14’
Riccardo Giacconi 
Video

A portrait of the Belgian-Italian member of girl band Lollipop. In 2006 she was a finalist in the sixth season of the French TV show Star Academy, where she finished second. A subsequent album deal eventually fell through.

La scena emisferica (2009) 14’
Riccardo Giacconi and Daniele Zoico
Video

Telling the story of Namibian sprinter Frankie Fredericks, this film juxtaposes footage of the athlete’s Olympic medal attempts made in 1992,1996 and 2004, with amateur footage of a trip to Namibia taken by an Italian tourist. Made in collaboration with Daniele Zoico.

L’altra faccia della spirale (2010) 18’
Riccardo Giacconi
Video

Italian partisans from WWII read excerpts from Isaac Asimov’s 1964 sci-fi trilogy The Foundation Series and the soundtrack comprises extracts from 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, of which Asimov was asked to write a literary version. In each of the film’s outdoor locations an episode connected to central Italy’s Resistance took place.

My Grandmother Reads the ‘Thesis on the Concept of History’ by Walter Benjamin (2007) 35’
Riccardo Giacconi
Video

The artist’s Grandmother reads Walter Benjamin’s 1940 essay ‘Thesis on the Concept of History’ whilst in various settings connected to the story of her own life.

La paradoja de Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (2012) 44’
Riccardo Giacconi
Video

This documentary features interviews collected in Cali, Colombia, with a tailor, a puppeteer, a parapsychologist and a physicist. Four stories are narrated: the disappearance of a cow; the death of a puppet; the major paradox of quantum mechanics; and the fall of a bus into a river due to a lion blocking the road.

Gestures of Labour (2009) 5’39”
Adelita Husni-Bey
Super8 transferred to digital

A silent film focusing on the repetitive gestures of labour of workers in the kampungs of Jakarta, India. These broad urban areas are occupied by new migrants who have constituted small informal cooperatives to deal with basic needs such as work, habitation and schooling.

Story of the Heavens and Our Planet (2008) 7’09”
Adelita Husni-Bey
Super8 transferred to digital

Documentary-based film shot in two tree-sitting protest camps in Titnore and Stanton Moore, UK. Footage of daily life in the camps is juxtaposed with personal testimonies of individuals living on site.

I want the Sun I want (2011) 9’26”
Adelita Husni-Bey
Super16 transferred to digital

This film leads the viewer through a school with no internal partitions. The audio of the film has been recorded at a series of roundtables held by the artist at a self-run high school, Lycée Autogéré, Paris, in which teachers and students were asked to discuss the necessity of schooling.

Postcards from the Desert Island (2011) 22’32’’
Adelita Husni-Bey
SD Video

At the direction of the artist, children from the Ecole Vitruve, Paris, a self-run elementary school that practices experimental educational models, borrow scenarios from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies to build a desert island in their school hall.

¿Qué Educación para Marte? (2012) 18’
Valerio Rocco Orlando
HD Video

The artist interviews students in Havana, questioning them about the idea of education. This is part of a larger community-based project comprising artist workshops focusing on alternative models of knowledge transmission. Produced by XI Bienal de la Habana.

Quale Educazione per Marte? (2011) 25’16’’
Valerio Rocco Orlando
Video

The artist talks with Italian students in the public school system, exploring their ideas of education. Part of a larger community-based project conducted by the artist. Supported by the Nomas Foundation.

Lover’s Discourse (2010) 18’40’’
Valerio Rocco Orlando
Video

A collection of close-up interviews sees individuals consider their personal relationships. Produced during the artist’s residencies at ISCP, New York (2010) and at SIM, Reykjavík (2011).

The Reverse Grand Tour (2012) 50’
Valerio Rocco Orlando
HD Video

This work documents Orlando’s conversations with a number of artists-in-residence in the foreign academies in Rome. Including residents at the Swiss Institute, the Real Academia de España and the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo.

Eleonora (2006) 3’58’’
Valerio Rocco Orlando
Video

The titular character walks at night around the walls of Giardino di Boboli, Florence. Part of a larger work, The Sentimental Glance, comprising six portraits of young women.

Disrupted Accounts (2013) 7’29’’
Maria Domenica Rapicavoli
8mm transferred to digital

A film documenting the site of an airplane crash in Sicily, downed in 1943. There is no official record of this site, and its existence and location are the matter of local myth. The film shows some fragments of the plane and footage of sites of US military bases in Sicily, and the ambient sound is interrupted by the voices of US drone pilots. Courtesy the artist and BOCS.

Passage (2010) 26’06’’
Maria Domenica Rapicavoli, Janne Schäfer
HD Video

Based on a three week-journey from Berlin to Sicily, this work weaves together a fictive narration with testimonies from people the two filmmakers met. This work exists in 2 versions: as a split screen version for single projection and as a 3-channel installation for multi screen projection (looped). Courtesy the artists.

Load Displacement (2012) 14’35’’
Maria Domenica Rapicavoli
HD Video

Shot in Lampedusa, an Italian island well known as a crossing point from Libya into Europe, this features scenes of more than one hundred Tunisians disembarking from a coastguard vessel. The work is an installation consisting of a video and two slide projections, in this case all shown as a single screen projection. The script is made of quotes taken from different authors. Courtesy the artist.

A Dirti la Verità (2011) 19’05’’
Maria Domenica Rapicavoli
HD Video

Interviews with tourists and locals in the town of Corleone, Sicily, about the town’s relationship to the Mafia are interlaced with shots of the surrounding countryside. This work is a four-channel installation, on this occasion shown as a single channel split screen work. Courtesy the artist.

Waiting for Nothing (2010) 10’38’’
Maria Domenica Rapicavoli
HD Video

Footage of the townsmen of Corleone, Sicily, who meet to play bowls and cards in the park every afternoon. Courtesy the artist.

How do u kill the chemist? (2009) 8’10”
Marinella Senatore
HD Video

Made with the participation of 60 people whilst the artist was on residence in New York, this docu-fiction tells the tragic story of pioneering chemist Adrian Ghole and features rappers as both actors and screenwriters.

Speak Easy (2009) 21′
Marinella Senatore
HD Video

This film documents the realisation of a 50s-set New York musical that was produced by the artist in collaboration with a total of 1200 citizens, including 45 dancers, 24 singers, 2 choreographers and 80 actors.

Variations (2011) 12’
Marinella Senatore
HD Video

Documenting a participatory project conducted by Senatore that brought together more than 200 residents of the Lower East Side in New York. Mirroring the artist’s own practice, the participants took up the role of both actors and scriptwriters.

Nui Simu (That’s Us) (2010) 18’
Marinella Senatore
HD Video

Written by the artist and more than 30 miners from the Sicilian city of Enna and involving the participation of 180 citizens, this film features documentary-style footage of the process of the film’s making and fragments of the film written by the Sicilians.

Zimmereise (2010) 2’30’’
Giulio Squillacciotti
Super8 film on Cinemascope 2:35

A woman is tracked as she walks around the 19th floor of a building in an anonymous industrialised city. A voiceover is heard instructing the woman to paint an imaginary landscape. With Julia Logothetis; camera, Serafin Spitzer; and voice, Georg Spitzer.

A Moveable Aesthetics (2009) 7’36’’
Giulio Squillacciotti
MiniDV

In this staged interview an Irish artist relays a script written by Squillacciotti that explores issues surrounding artistic process.

Casi la Mitad de la Historia (Quasi la metà della storia – Almost a half-way told story) (2011) 7’37’’
Giulio Squillacciotti
HD Video

Shot in the Royal Spanish Academy, Rome, two unknown men from different generations debate the impossibilities of accurately recording history. Produced by Real Academia de España en Roma; post-production by Digital Room; and voice by Pedro Villora.

Far, from where we came (2008) 7’46’’
Giulio Squillacciotti
HD Video

The fictitious story of a family is told through 54 found pictures collected in two years between Turkey and Spain. With voice, Lucia Cox; editing, Alessandro Giordani; sound design, Giuseppe Silvi; and original music, Thomas Jones O’ Shaughnessy.

RMHC – 1989/1999 Hardcore a Roma (2011) 86’
Giulio Squillacciotti
HD Video

This documentary explores the underground hardcore music scene in Rome during the 1980s and 1990s. Featuring interviews and original VHS footage collected by the artist over a four-year period.

Residenti (2011) 108’
Diego Tonus
HDV MiniDV

A film composed entirely of video material taken from the archive of the Spinola Banna Foundation for Contemporary Art. This work documents the experiences of artists who were in residence at the Foundation between 2005 and 2010. Courtesy the artist and Spinola Banna Foundation.

Residenti (First Chapter) (2011) 10’45’’
Diego Tonus
HDV MiniDV

The first chapter of a film composed entirely of video material taken from the archive of the Spinola Banna Foundation for Contemporary Art, this documents the experiences of artists who were in residence at the Foundation between 2005 and 2010. Courtesy the artist and Spinola Banna Foundation.

Speculative Speeches (Workers of the World – Relax) (2012) 22’
Diego Tonus
HDV

A film based on phone calls the artist recorded between himself and a past employer who was failing to pay him monies owed. The work shows a studio recording in which these dialogues are used as vocal training exercises.

Hour of the Wolf (2010) 77’
Diego Tonus
MiniDV

A documentary-style film disclosing the backstage of The Collectors, a project curated by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset for the Danish and Nordic Pavilions at the 53rd International Venice Biennale of Art. The video shows the exhibition’s dismantling and its title is borrowed from Ingmar Bergmann’s 1968 film Vargtimmen, which also inspired the original pavilion.