L’AQUILA – Tomorrow, Wednesday 8 May at 7pm in the Sala della Aviera of the MAXXI L’Aquila the last of the three events of the cycle will be held “The cinematographic work between restoration and conservation” curated by Fabrizio Pompei, professor of Entertainment History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
The screening of The Vanquished by Michelangelo Antonioni, an iconic film from 1952 which tells the story of the crisis of post-war European youth through three stories of existential malaise and violence set in France, Italy and Great Britain and centered on criminal acts committed by the young protagonists, in whose crimes dark motives coagulate and absurd. The Cinema Archive Center of L’Aquila – the first archive in Italy for the type of material preserved, with an accumulated heritage of over 100,000 pieces – also collaborates in the evening, introduced by Mirko Lino, professor of History of Cinema at the University of L’Aquila. in more than forty years of activity and enriched by important private donations. The Center participated, with the production company Minerva Pictures of Rome, the National Cinema Museum of Turin and the Cineteca Nazionale of Rome, in the restoration operation of the film by making its 35mm copy available, preserved in the Cineteca “Maria Pia Casilio”, from which some sequences of the film which cannot be found elsewhere were taken.
Entrance to the screening is free upon reservation with the online form on maxxilaquila.art while seats last.
This concludes the event which was sold out on the two previous evenings and which allowed the public to get closer to the seventh art through restored films from historical archives, national film archives, private collections, dedicating attention to the film heritage understood as a cultural asset to be restore and preserve for the cinema of tomorrow.
In addition to the cinema appointment, the MAXXI L’Aquila hosts events this week related to finishing of the exhibition Night diary, Of dreams, nightmares and imaginary bestiaries closing on Sunday 12 May.
MAXXI L’Aquila hosts the workshop on Friday 10 May from 2pm to 6pm Supervise the body. Artificiality as a proxy for (non)human survival by Agnes Questionmark, one of the artists on display with her alter ego, sculpture Draco Pisciswhich testifies to his research on homo aquaticus – aquatic creature with a changing identity and a fluid form – as a reflection on the sharing of ecosystems between different species, on the cycles of nature.
Finally, on Sunday 12 May, at 5pm, a special guided tour of Palazzo Ardinghelli and a complete immersion in the works of Night diary. Of dreams, nightmares and imaginary bestiariesin dialogue with the baroque architecture of the Museum: an invitation to travel between past and present through contemporary art and architecture.
