Fondazione In Between Art Film presents a volume dedicated to the pioneers of cinema and video in Italy With a focus on film, documentary and video production by female artists and filmmakers active in Italy between the Sixties and Seventies
Fondazione In Between Art Film presents Italian Female Filmmakers in the Sixties and Seventies: Lives, Histories, and Identities, a new volume dedicated to film, documentary and video production by female artists and filmmakers active in Italy between the Sixties and Seventies. With this project, the Foundation continues its cultural commitment to promoting the culture of moving images, expanding the tools through which to question their history, narratives and legacies.
A volume dedicated to the pioneers of cinema and video in Italy
Curated by Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini and Maria Alicata, the volume investigates the practices that have been developed between art and cinema by a series of pioneering figures who have used the film medium as a space for artistic experimentation, critical observation and speaking, in a period marked by profound social, cultural and political transformations. With precise critical and theoretical analyses, not neglecting the transformations that have seen technologies linked to film and video production, the book focuses on the urgency expressed by filmmakers and artists to radically bring language and imaginaries, personal and collective identities back into play.
“I welcomed this project with particular enthusiasm, both for the rigor of the research that supports it, and for the urgency of the investigation it proposes,” says Beatrice Bulgari, president of the In Between Art Film Foundation. “The volume returns historical attention and critical depth to a constellation of female artists and filmmakers who have played a fundamental role in the development of moving images in Italy, without yet being fully recognized within that history. Supporting work like this means contributing to a wider and more articulated reinterpretation of the visual culture of the late twentieth century, bringing back to the center experiences and voices that have profoundly transformed the language of images.”
The protagonists told in the book
Through eighteen essays specifically commissioned for publication, the book explores the work of artists and filmmakers such as Giosetta Fioroni, Ketty La Rocca, Marisa Merz, Gina Pane, Marinella Pirelli, Cecilia Mangini and Angela Ricci Lucchi, together with numerous other protagonists of a fundamental season of Italian visual culture. Accompanied by partly unpublished images and archival documents, the volume restores the role that these artists played in transforming the language of moving images, highlighting practices that have intertwined artistic research, visual experimentation and activism. The project also constructs an extensive survey of works, relationships and contexts that, despite having contributed significantly to the visual culture of the late twentieth century, have not yet found a full place within the historical-artistic narrative.
The commitment of Fondazione In Between Art Film
“Fondazione In Between Art Film has been committed for years to the dissemination of the culture of moving images, in the production of new works, exhibitions and publications. Supporting a research project like this means extending this commitment to the field of critical and historical reflection, encouraging a more complex reading of the genealogies that have shaped the relationship between art, cinema and video,” says Alessandro Rabottini, artistic director of the In Between Art Film Foundation.
A feminine genealogy of moving images
The contributions of scholars, researchers and art historians, including Maria Alicata, Lucia Aspesi, Silvia Bottinelli, Lara Conte, Flavia Frigeri, Francesca Gallo, Sharon Hecker, Laura Iamurri, Caterina Iaquinta, Teresa Kittler, Jennifer Malvezzi, Iolanda Ratti with Giulia Kimberly Colombo, Carla Subrizi, Paola Ugolini, Valentine Umansky and Giovanna Zapperi, reconstruct an articulated landscape of experiences that develop in parallel with protest movements and profound changes Social networks of the Sixties and Seventies, outlining a genealogy feminine of moving images that are still extraordinarily current today.