Archivio Aperto 14th edition 02.09–27.10.2021

Patrizia Vicinelli, Maya Deren, Péter Forgács, Luca Ferro

The 14th edition of Archivio Aperto takes place in a hybrid form, with live events, workshops, 16mm screenings and online global access. The event opens with the special project Patrizia Vicinelli. In Transit, a great tribute to the Bolognese poet and performer thirty years after her death.

The program includes three retrospectives – Maya Deren. Amateur is a Lover, Hidden Histories. The found footage films of Péter Forgács, Private Cinema. Luca Ferro – and five thematic sections – Art & Experimental Film, Super8, Recycled Cinema, Home Movies Day. Ferrania, Toward the Centennial of the Reduced Format.

Programs

A Study in Choreography for Camera

A spaceless and timeless dance involving dancer Talley Beatty and Maya Deren's camera, in the first choreocinema experiment.

Amateur is a Lover. Reading Amateur Versus Professional

Amateur Versus Professional, Maya Deren’s manifesto on world amateur filmmaking, as read by Francesca Bono over the Home Movies archive amateur images.

Angelos’ Film

The Greek resistance to the Nazi occupation in the images of a patriot from Athens, covertly filming the German-inflicted horrors on the population.

At Land

A dreamlike narrative in which a woman – Maya Deren – finds herself on a beach to make a journey in search of her identity.

Castelli di sabbia

Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director’s parents’ private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps. A film by Lilian Sassanelli.

Cinema Privato. Luca Ferro

A section dedicated to Luca Ferro, pioneer of Italian Private Cinema.

Comitati politici

Made in 1971, the film collects the exclusive witnesses of the union spokepersons, the employees and the workmen of the factories of the time. A film by Enzo Mari, in collaboration with Galleria Milano.

Coniglio, leoni e circostanze varie

The past faces the present, (and vice versa), mirroring in the evolution of the film medium, in the need to convey an as personal as shared family past. A film by Luca Ferro.

Divine Horsemen. The living God of Haiti

An intimate and pioneering research about voodoo rituals and dances of possession in the Haitian culture, edited posthumously by Teiji Ito.

Dusi and Jenő

The private diary of a couple in a ghostly Budapest, before and after World War II, between poetry and historical re-enactment.

Fantasmi a Ferrania

Ferrania is a place, a factory, a brand known all over the world which, for decades, made the history of the still and moving image in Italy: what's left of Ferrania today? A film by Diego Scarponi.

Free Fall

Through a Jew-Hungarian family descendant's films we watch, among hope and disenchantment, the advancing of History and its downfall.

Glamour Cats. Before and after Maya

A tribute to the cats filmed before and after Maya, through the feline archive images of Home Movies.

Hai presente?

Laura's face, a few moments made eternal. Extra content by Luca Ferro.

Hunky Blues – The American Dream

The in-chorus tale of Hungarian migration to the United States amidst hopes, delusions and opportunities, through archive images and oral witnesses.

Impressioni a distanza

Starting with private moments, three tales of images, afar in time and space, join together to narrate a broader story. A film by Luca Ferro.

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

A fascinating and hypnotic portrait of Maya Deren through the witness of those people who knew her, met her and worked with her.

Inchiesta di famiglia

An audiovisual journey at the discovery of their own family roots, between clash and superimposition, in a twine of imaginary and real witness. A film by Luca Ferro.

Invocation: Maya Deren

The first feature length film dedicated to Maya Deren’s life and work: an invocation to the godmother of American avant-garde cinema.

L’incanto

Voice splinters recovered from different archives recall, with images entirely shot in 16mm and super8, dark and further scenarios, blots difficult to erase. A film by Chiara Caterina.

Le grand viveur

With the images of the Superottimisti archive, Perla Sardella recalls Mario Lorenzini’s vision: workman, hiker, unaware documentary filmmaker of his community. A film by Perla Sardella.

Lecture by Niva Lorenzini

Niva Lorenzini, lecturer of Italian poetry of the XXth Century and amidst the most important scholars of Patrizia Vicinelli’s oeuvre, will enact a lecture re-tracing back and analysing the work of the cutting-edge poetess.

Maya Deren. Amateur is a Lover

Amateur is a Lover is the section of Archivio Aperto 2021 dedicated to Maya Deren’s cinema.

Meditation on Violence

Maya Deren follows a boxeur’s performative act, enacting, through his body and movement, a visual reflection about the expression of violence.

Meshes of the Afternoon

A poetical and surreal psychodrama, portrait of the female identity’s facets: Meshes of the Afternoon is the first film of the modern American experimental cinema.

Miraggi di pianura

The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations – although architecturally majestic – invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart. A film by Maurizio Finotto.

Patrizia Vicinelli / Poster Art. Cheap Festival

Patrizia Vicinelli’s poetry throughout the streets of Bologna. A Poster Art project in collaboration with Cheap Festival.

Picturesque Epochs. The life of Mária Gánóczy painter and filmmaker

A journey in time through two hundred years of Hungarian art and history, as seen in by four generations of painters.

Recycled Cinema

The Archivio Aperto section collecting recent works in a substandard film format, tied together by the use of archive material.

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Deren’s camera silently follows the fluctuating advancing of dancer Rita Christiani, in a ritual where time and space trundle changeably.

Super8

The Super8 is the main character in Maurizio Finotto’s authorial short film Miraggi di Pianura.

The Danube Exodus

War stories: the exodus, as filmed by a ship captain, of a group of Jews from central Europe along the Danube river toward the Black Sea, and the opposite journey made by German farmers repatriated in Germany from the Soviet Union. Storie di guerra: l’esodo, filmato dal capitano di una nave, di un gruppo ebrei del centro Europa lungo il Danubio verso il Mar Nero e il percorso opposto di contadini tedeschi rimpatriati in Germania dall’Unione Sovietica.