After last year’s success, the art and cinema festival of the city of Bitonto, Visioni Periferiche, returns. One appointment a week, under the stars, from 27 June to 25 July, to enjoy the beauty of the seventh art at the Cittadella del bambini (ex Contessa).
The full program will be presented at a press conference on Monday 24 June at 6.30 pm in the hall of mirrors of the Municipality of Bitonto, in the presence of the mayor Francesco Paolo Ricciof the deputy mayor Marianna Legistathe artistic director Nicolò Ventafriddathe guest producer Ilir Butkadirector Francesco Castellaneta and the president of the U-Lab association Federica Fiorio. On the sidelines of the press conference, the documentary ‘Consuetudines Barenses – The arrival of the Vlora in Bari’, created by the students of the Scientific-Artistic High School “Galileo Galilei” – Bitonto, led by teachers Antonella Portuguese, Paolo Luiso And Anna Saracino.
The festival is organized by the Keep Rolling Collective in collaboration with the U-Lab association. There will be five meetings with cinema, starting from Thursday 27 June, among the guests announced Vito Palmieri, Ilir Butka, Giacomo Abbruzzese And Gaja Masciale. This year the festival also boasts collaboration with WeShort, a platform dedicated to the most beautiful short films from all over the world. In fact, an absolute novelty of this edition, Visioni Peripherhe, in the evening dedicated to short films, will reward the best short with distribution on the platform.
The 2024 edition was born from the desire to continue the virtuous path undertaken with last summer’s pilot edition, already sponsored by the Municipality of Bitonto, and supported by the economic support of local activities, the collaboration of various city associations and the regional fund of the Galactic project. The theme chosen for this second edition is earth, both as a place to which one feels one belongs and in its most symbolic aspect: wish, I remember And blame. But earth is also the space of a community, innervated by deep and contradictory connections, with which we are called to deal.
«We strongly wanted and pursued this second edition of Peripheral Visions, which will see us talk about the theme of the earth, the different facets of the places we inhabit or pursue, which we will narrate through feature films, theatrical performances, short films and many forms of art and cinema. More than a thousand people crowded in front of our screens last summer. We wanted to amaze them again, improving the offer of our festival, increasing the screenings, expanding the spaces for main and collateral activities, sharing the Festival with large and peculiar partner realities and above all attracting many new national and international guests to Bitonto. From the June 27we will all be at the Cittadella del Bambino, to tell how free and accessible cinema can offer us new Visions” he has declared Nicolò Ventrafridda.
