This is the idea of Keep Rolling Collective, creator of the event, in collaboration with theU-Lab association, presented during the press conference, which was attended by the mayor Francesco Paolo Riccithe artistic director Nicolò Ventafriddathe guest producer Ilir Butka and the president of the U-Lab association Federica Fiorio. The festival is sponsored by Municipality of Bitonto and from Puglia region, in partnership with We short, Artesettima, B&B BITONTO, Associazione BUONE MANI APS, FABLAB, OPS Cooperativa Sociale Onlus and ULIXES.
«We worked for a whole year to present this new edition of Visioni Peripherhe, to have a festival that was free, accessible and inclusive. Ours is an attempt, an opportunity to bring people to the places less frequented by our city, to give them an experience, to immerse themselves in the different visions of cinema and art, but also of reality through new lenses” stated the artistic director Nicolò Ventafridda.
The mayor is enthusiastic: «I really like this festival, I like its way of conceiving the city, the spaces, our suburbs. The city is yours, don’t save your energy guys – he commented Francesco Paolo Ricci referring to the Keep Rolling Collective – you are the most authentic and beautiful expression of our territory.”
At the same time as the festival program, the U-Lab association will carry out collateral territorial animation activities for the mapping of some peripheral contexts of the city “the objective is to involve young people in a path of observation, analysis and data collection to imagine regeneration scenarios of the places crossed” declared the president of the same, Federica Fiorio.
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: desire, memory and blame. Precisely for this reason, the documentary ‘Consuetudines Barenses – The arrival of the Vlora in Bari’created by the students of “Galileo Galilei” Scientific-Artistic High School – Bitonto, coordinated by the teachers Antonella Portoghese, Paolo Luiso and Anna Saracino. The documentary tells the story of the Shahini family, through the memories of Adriano, one of the twenty thousand who boarded the ship that left Durazzo on 7 August 1991, and how the people of Bari faced welcoming immigrants for the first time.
Guest of the first appointment, scheduled for Thursday 27 June at 8pmVito Palmieri with the projection of ‘The Second Life’, the film follows the story of thirty-year-old Anna, who after fifteen years in prison, changes her name, city and job, trying to start over in a small Tuscan reality. But her past inexorably returns to knock on her door and with courage she will have to find an alternative path to reach her second life. On the sidelines of the screening, the debate with the director will be moderated by the journalist Marilù Ursi. Followed by the DJ set Paolo HZ.
The 4th July it will be the turn of ‘The Sweet Ship’ Of Daniele Vicariin the presence of the producer Ilir Butka, Thursday 11 July to enrich the program the theatrical performance by and with Sofia Russottoshort film evening scheduled for Wednesday 17 July and finally Giacomo Abbruzzese The July 25th with the projection of ‘Disco Boy’.
