the film, on the big screen in October
“Decadent and avant-garde, always poised between destruction and progress ».
These are the words with which the great master of Italian theater Carlo Cecchi summarizes Venice.
He is one of the protagonists of the new film dedicated to the Serenissima 1600 years after its foundation.
Dreamlike, enveloping, labyrinthine, magical and – why not? – even futuristic.
There are many adjectives that can be found for Venice, a city unique in the world for its urban environment stone, earth and water and no less for his history-legend.
The charm of its long 1600 years and the dynamism of the oldest city of the future are the protagonists of the film documentary “Venice. Infinite avant-garde”Coming in 300 cinema sales throughout Italy only on days 11, 12 and 13 October 2021.
The feature film tells the city of yesterday and that of today in a succession of images that enchant and involve the viewer at 360 degrees, expressing theidentity of a unique city.
The futuristic city with a legendary past
The documentary film is made by 3D Produzioni and Nexo Digital with the collaboration of Villaggio Globale International and the Civic Museums Foundation. It is possible to consult the cities in which it will be screened on the site www.nexodigital.it
The story starts from the immense heritage preserved in the Venetian capital to reveal in a journey through the ages the portrait of a futuristic city.
We are located so along the Grand Canal with endless charm and al Correr Museum with the views of Canaletto, the works of Francesco Look, Peter Longhi, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, Vittore Carpaccio.
But also at Accademia Galleries among the pages of history painted by Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto And Veronese. And still overwhelms the beauty of Ducal Palace and among others, the Museo del Settecento Veneziano Ca ‘Rezzonico; the vintage shots of Carlo Naja; the ancient crafts portrayed in Enrico’s photographs Fantuzzi; The Pesaro Palace of the Orfei; Emilio Widow. Carmelo Bene reads the Futurist manifesto “Against Venice of the past”.
There is no shortage of transgressions of the Carnival; the ancient ones furnaces; the overtime Liberty villas, the elegance and fashion of the Lido; the mysterious works of Banksy, the charm ofGiudecca island; The Florian coffee and the La Fenice Theater; The Moses.
In a sensory experience of lights, water and music there are the prestigious buildings full of works of art, characters from social and cultural life, dreamlike places, stories of yesterday and today that “ferry” to the future.
Places and characters protagonists of the film
“Venice. Infinite avant-garde”, Next to the suggestions of the images brings the testimonies of art historians, urban planner, sociology, philosophers, curator, musicians, writers, journalists, artists our contemporary.
Among them the Chinese artists Ai Weiwei and the Venetian Giorgio Andreotta Calò; the art historian and director of the Civic Museums Gabriella Belli and the president Mariacristina Gribaudi; the journalist Luciana Boccardi; the director of the Consortium for the coordination of research relating to the Venice lagoon system Pierpaolo Campostrini.
Among others also the archaeologist Diego Calaon; the Rector of the Ca ‘Foscari University Tiziana Lippiello; the set designer Pier Luigi Pizzi; the Byzantine historian Giorgio Ravegnani; the director of the Italian Institute of Technology Arianna Traviglia.
To deliver the memory of the city to the viewer Carlo Cecchi, master of the Italian theater who studied, met and worked with the great intellectuals, directors, writers and actors of the culture of the 20th century.
Together with him the young, talented one moves among the magical places of Venice Polish pianist Hania Rani, among the phenomena of the international modern classic scene that seeks inspiration to compose the soundtrack of the film.
All this always in an indissoluble link between past and present with the narrator by Lella Costa.
Silvia Bolognini