There is still a weekend to appreciate, in Bologna, the delicate and at the same time magical poetics of Alice Rohrwacher outside of its chosen field. The director (of Celestial bodyEmerging Silver Ribbon 2011, The wonderscrowned in 2014 at Cannes, The Chimera released in 2023) and a screenwriter capable of telling the mystery of a lost world on the big screen – “His work is hinged in a space that no longer exists and in a time that does not yet exist: it is regret and promise, archaic matter and transcendence” reads the motivation for the Robert Bresson Award received in 2021 – is the protagonist of the first days of the 38th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, which will liven up the Emilian capital until mid-August.
Alice Rohrwacher’s “Bar Luna” at Cinema Modernissimo
But it presents itself in Bologna, in the exhibition space of the Sottopasso del Very modern cinema (now accessible from the renovated shelter in Piazza Re Enzo), as curator of the installation exhibition she conceived together with the artistic duo Muta Imago (Claudia Sorace and Riccardo Fazi, she director, he dramaturg and sound artist) in 2023. Already presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris last December, Bar Luna it is conceived as a space from which to admire the Earth from another perspective, therefore an invitation to travel, free from pre-established schemes. At Cinema Modernissimo, where the exhibition can be visited for free (by reservation) until Sunday 30th Junethe Bar Luna was set up in a new version, expressly designed for the underground spaces of the Gallery.
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“Bar Luna”: a multimedia exhibition between the visible and the invisible
You enter from the familiar environment of an old kitchen, to suddenly find yourself in the middle of a starry sky, in the center of which stands the memory of an old suburban bar. It is the starting point of a journey inspired by the themes and cinematic imagery of Alice Rohrwacher, linked in particular to her latest film, The chimerainspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: “What do we do with our past? What are our roots?”. The atmosphere – evoked with the participation of the florist-landscape designer Thierry Boutemy and the collaboration of the set designer Giancarlo Basili – in short, it is the dreamlike and mysterious nature of the Tuscan director’s films, in a journey that alternates oral stories and soundscapes, reality and fiction, past and future, photographs and video fragments.
Alice Rohrwacher and the visual arts
Open from 10am to 8pm, in the afternoon the multimedia exhibition also comes to life with the contribution of actors and performers. The invitation is to cross the threshold between the visible and the invisible, to go out among the stars before returning to Earth with a new awareness.
Rohrwacher is no stranger to transversal artistic collaborations: with the French artist JR, she already conceived the short film Omelia Contadina in 2019; and recent clues suggest the start of a new shared project.
Livia Montagnoli
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