THU 11 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




World Cinema 2


6 pm


VINTAGE LIFE   
Flavio Sciole Experimental Film 9 mins 12. Italy
Fragments of life over the course of a year.

Urssus & gli Infedeli: Amandoti
Experimental Videoclip Flavio Sciole 5 mins 12. Italy
Video clip of the song ‘Amandoti’ played by the group Urssus & gli Infedeli

Orphic hymn 29 an hymn to Persephone
Angelina Voskopoulou. experimental (Dance) 9 mins. Greece. 12A.
The video begins with the lyrics from the poem ‘Persephone’s ‘Nightmare’ written by Greek Poet Nikos Gatsos. The poem sets modern Greek environmental issues against Greek mythology: Eleusis is the setting for the most important ancient shrine of Dimitra and Persephone, Goddesses associated with Earth’s fertility, and a modern industrial wasteland. The video continues on a dreamier scenery, a fascination with dreams where there’s no sense of time, it’s outside of language, a “space for itself” to breathe. The image is itself the speech. The word beyond formulated language. Here the “word” is used metaphorically, to suggest a complex that happens outside of language. The poetic is not an operation specific to language but a compositional methodology for visual forms such as cinema. The poetic construct arises from the fact, that it is an investigation of a situation, in that it probes the ramifications of the moment, and is concerned with its quality and its depth so that you have poetry concerned, in a sense, not with what is occurring but with what it feels like or what it means. A poem, to my mind, creates visible or auditory forms of something invisible, which is a feeling, emotion, or the metaphysical content of the movement.

Blinkity Black
Ethann Néon 22 mins Belgium. U
Blink (or nictation), time/memory, neurocognitive science / Experimental One blink, one lost image. Another one, another lost image. And so on thousand times a day. This is the story of a man marked by his lost life images.

Mazarol
Lorenzo Cassol. Drama, Fantasy, Teen. 16 Mins. Italy. 12
Alice, an 11-year old in a wolf costume, runs away to the woods after a fight with her father. There, a magical creature offers her the chance to never grow up.

MUSINTASIA
Alessandro Navarino 14 mins 12. Italy
A little boy named Alex is constantly seeking approval and attention from his parents, who are too busy arguing with each other to look after him. When Alex starts listening to music through headphones, ignites his imagination and he enters an imaginary and utopian world.

AFTER THE RITUAL
ANTONIO MONTEFALCONE FANTASY-HORROR / DRAMA / EXPERIMENTAL / SILENT FILM 14 mins Italy. 12A.
FANTASY-HORROR BUT ALSO PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA, SURREAL AND VISIONARY, WHICH ANALYSES IN AN ALLEGORICAL AND EVOCATIVE WAY THE METAPHYSICAL AND MYSTERIOUS ASPECTS OF REALITY AND OF THE HUMAN BEING.

Fantastic variations on events that really happened in Turin in 1911
Giulio Maria Cavallini 20 mins 15. Fiction Italy
A pirate ship floats on the Po river in Turin.
On the bank, a man calls for help to inert silhouettes of colored
cardboard that represents corsairs, sultans and bajaderas.
It’s the last theatre set up by Italy's greatest adventure storyteller,
Emilio Salgari, who exhausted his creativity and destroyed his wife’s life.
The only human being to whom he can confess is a civic guard who has come down to the river to persuade him to unload his abusive theater.

Crimson & Clover
Giovanna Batista Film Noir 6 mins 12A Brazil
Left to take the fall for a crime she didn’t commit, Claudia Lacroix is ready to settle the score with the detective who betrayed her.

Cleaner
Kostas Gerampinis. Drama Crime. 18 mins. Greece. 15
Ektoras, recently released from prison, has two jobs. During the day he is a pest control technician and during the night he stays awake. His social worker wants to know why.

PLUTON EN VERSEAU (PLUTO IN AQUARIUS)
HIPPOLYTE LAVEIX FICTION (EXPERIMENTAL, SENSORIAL, WORLDVIEW). 20 mins BELGIUM 15
She loves to dance, eat and frolic. She also observes. People, sky, nature ... Something has begun.

HIDDEN TIME
Giovanni Soldi drama / experimental 9 mins 12 Italy
A man returns to the place of his childhood, where he remembers a significant episode, there, in a hole, he had hidden ten thousand years. Now, in old age, he realizes the paradox of that game, the impossibility of hiding time.

Red
Elif Boyacioglu. Animation, Fiction, Comedy. 2 mins U Canada.
Sometimes it is the weird little things in life that trip you up...

Protecting Our Territory
Christopher Boulton. Documentary 4 mins U USA.
“Protecting Our Territory” documents how a Peruvian film collective used an action camera and mobile phones to co-create a 360 video project with a group of young people as a way to deepen their sense of belonging and connection to the natural world.

NOVEL OF LOST MEMORIES
Bruno Ugioli, Domenico Bruzzese, Mauro Mola comedy / mokumentary 10mins U. Italy
Novello, a small town in the Langhe region, is famous because its citizens have the best memory in Italy. A young woman decides to bring there her elderly father, who suffers from amnesia, not because she believes in Novello's "miracle", but because the man was actually born there, and she hopes that he can heal by retracing his past

THE STORKS OF CHERNOBYL
Karim Galici Documentary
40 mins U.
Hundreds of thousands of children from areas contaminated by the 1986
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
found hospitality in Italy thanks to the “Solidarity Reception Projects.”
Some of the protagonists look back on that experience, which changed their lives. Stories sometimes marked by pain but later transformed into hope by the love of families who opened their hearts and homes.

JAWHARA INSHA’ALLAH  
Arianna Proietti Mancini, Claudia Paola Sagona. Documentary. Italy. 56 mins 12A
A journey to discover the conflict between emancipation and tradition linked to patriarchy. The encounter between the directors with Loubna and her Islamic community will trigger reflections and comparisons on religion, society, and the role of women, awakening deep questions.


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