Rome IFF: CinemaXXI, an alternative section
- An unfinished programme already features promising names: Paul Verhoeven, Peter Greenaway, Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa and Mike Figgis
CinemaXXI has almost been set up as as an alternative festival to its mother Rome’s International Film Festival (9 – 17 November 2012). It will be presented in the next few days during its own press conference.
Marco Muller’s words certainly reveal an open-mindedness, describing the event as featuring a type of “cinema which goes backwards and forward between cinema, visual art, music, theatre, dance and architecture.”
The worldwide premiere of Centro Histórico by Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice and Manoel de Oliveira is set to launch the section. It will be followed by Paul Verhoeven’s Tricked, a film which started off as a user-generated entertainment experience.
Other titles include Goltzius and the Pelican Company by Peter Greenaway; Mundo invisivel, by Wim Wenders, Theo Angelopoulos, Atom Egoyan, Manoel De Oliveira, Guy Maddin, Marco Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Maria de Medeiros, Jerzy Stuhr, Gian Vittorio Baldi; Random Acts, a collection of artists’ shorts produced by Jacqui Davies for Channel 4 by Marina Abramovic, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Shahryar Nashat and many others and Suspension of Disbelief by Mike Figgis.
Italian films will also be part of the selection. Tutto parla di te by Alina Marazzi, Il viaggio della signorina Vila by Elisabetta Sgarbi and L'assolutezza del cerchio - Il G.R.A. di Renato Nicolini directed by Gianfranco Rosi.
(Translated from Italian)
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