International Experimental Film & Video FestivalOctober 15-20, 2009, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, RomeFishEye is an international festival focusing on all forms of audiovisual art and, in particular, on the experimental and non-fictional languages that currently represent the most interesting field for the application of new technologies.
FishEye (the name is inspired by a particular camera lens producing wide-angle deformations) is one of the events of Rome International Film Festival, running from October 15 through October 23.
Conceived and directed by Bruno Di Marino, a moving image philosopher and expert of experimental audiovisual art, FishEye is produced by Nuovo Cinema Aquila, a movie theatre located in the Pigneto district in Rome, a benchmark for high quality cultural events. FishEye is organized in collaboration with Rome City Council Department for Cultural Policies, and RaroVideo label.
This year we are celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the first Manifesto of Futurism and, therefore, FishEye ideally wants to connect, in its beginning, to this movement that has shaken the approach to the art in all its forms, into a synaesthetic logic that is very topical, today more than ever.
The very idea of movement, speed and simultaneity – which is the basis for many theories and works of the Futurists – and the attention they gave to cinema, as a looking-forward form of expression and the only one capable to free itself from literature and theater in order to catch painting and music - has laid the foundation for the production of experimental movies that, since the mid ‘10 until today, changed the technological, cultural and aesthetic perception.
FishEye aims not to be a festival for a few enthusiasts. Its ambition is to present to a wider audience the most innovative audio-visual experiences in the framework of video art, music video clips, animation, web, installations (including interactive ones), and so on, by screening the artworks but also mainly through the meeting with authors of international level, to whom tribute will be paid year after year. The festival will also present several premieres, including international and national ones.
There are many events in Italy committed to single audiovisual experimental forms of art, mainly in short footage: videoart, animation, web art, videoclip; neverthless there isn’t an event that aims to explore in a systematic way these different "moving image genres", treating them as very closely related, as elements of a story that has its roots in pre-cinema age and arrives to digital.
In their conceptual meaning, the notions of "cinema" and "video" are nowadays obsolete and one simply have to start talking about "moving image". At the same time the narration is no longer a macrogenre, but an option among many others mixing in works that include now a more creative, and more documentary-based approach.
The Festival sections
PanFish This section gathers the best of International audiovisual experimental art of the years 2007-2009. Films and videos will last no longer than 30 minutes. In this section presents some medium-length films that mix experiments, documentary and narrative elements.
FishCollection This section submits anthologies and/or collective projects curated by international artists and critics. This edition will present two projects: Fronte di Resistenza Analogica (Analogical Resistance Front) edited by Vincenzo Mancuso, Blind, edited by Terry Flaxton, and Zero Filme 1 edited by Sara Rocio from the Portugal.
MonoFish A series of tributes to Italians and International authors through a retrospective of their most remarkable works. Directors will present their works and talk to the audience. The guests of this first edition: the polish filmmaker and videoartista Jozef Robakowsky and others. In the festival will be also hommage to Mauricio Kagel, musician and filmmaker, Takashi Ispida japaneese filmmaker and animator.
Tribute to Ugo Nespolo A tribute to artist and experimental filmmaker with the preview screening of documentary + o - x Nespolo by Luca Grivet Brancot and a selection of short films introduced by Nespolo.
FishTalk An Italian musician will comment his/her favourite videoclips, either those made for his/her songs and the ones of other songs and authors he/she is particularly fond of. Guest: Federico Zampaglione and Tiromancino Italian pop-rock band.
Focus on Iceland Dark Star. A spot on a country, Iceland for this edition: Icelandic Love Corporation, Sigurdur Gudjónsson, Snorri Asmundsson, The Funerals aka Ragnar Kjartansson (vocals, guitar), Lara Sveinsdottir (vocals), Olafur Jonsson (guitar), Thorgeir Gudmundsson (drums), Thorvaldur Grondal (synth), Vidar Gislason (bass). Guest the performers and videoartists Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdottir and Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir.
Moving Perspective. 5 animated art video-installations Some exhibitions, linked to the festival, will be organized. The first one, scheduled on October 3 on the occasion of the 5th edition of the celebration dedicated to contemporary art (called Giornata del Contemporaneo), will be held at Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome, and will include five animation artists’ video-installations, to whom Fish-Eye will dedicate short monographic exhibitions at the presence of the authors.
On the occasion of the show a catalogue with an attached DVD will be edited.
The artists are:
Fish-Eye Team
Artistic Director Bruno Di Marino
Focus on Iceland Ilari Valbonesi
Organization Manager Edoardo Dell’Acqua
Technical Manager Alberto Gresele
Project Supervisor, Copy movement Manager Domenico Vitucci
Coordinator and Institutional Communication Manager Fabio Meloni
Cultural Association Relation Manager Guido Morandini
Communication Manager Serena Ardimento
Festival’s Logo Alberto Guerri
webmaster Luca Boccianti
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