Contemporary Thursdays: three movies at Castel Sant' Elmo

On Thursday, January 30th,2014, at 5:00 p.m., in the Statuary Hall of Museo del Novecento of Castel Sant'Elmo three movieswill be presented under the patronage of the architecture and contemporary artservice of the Ministry of heritage, activities and tourism.
The projections will be presented by the Manager ofthe service Maria Grazia Bellisario and the Supervisor Fabrizio Vona withAngela Tecce and Ludovico Pratesi.

UN RITORNO by Gianlucaand Massimiliano De Serio - curated by Ludovico Pratesi and Angela Tecce.
It was born by acollaboration between the architecture and contemporary art service and AMACI(Association of contemporary art museums in Italy), the project "MuseoChiama Artista" aims to support the system of contemporary art in ourcountry, in fact every year it by commissions Italian artists a new work thatis then shown in associated museums, thereby laying the groundwork for thecreation and the use of a common heritage.
For the first edition of"Museo Chiama Artista", the Managers of the AMACI museums selectedthe twins Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, who combine their visual art withthe cinematographic career. The movie UN RITORNO appeared after a creativecrisis of the artists, who tried to understand the reasons of such crisis inover to overcome to it. With the collaboration of an expert hypnotist theartists becomes subject and object of an experiment of simultaneous hypnosis. Theprojection will take place at Museo Novecento in Naples until the 10th ofFebruary.
Duration25 minutes
 
CONTEMPO by Nicolangelo Gelormini
The movie is sponsored byPaBAAC and it was presented in 2013 at the 55th Venice Biennale.
The represent a look atcontemporary art in Italy, moreover it has a special focus on publicacquisitions accomplished thank to ministerial contribution. NicolangeloGelormini shows in this production his double nature of director and architectas well.
Duration:8 '16''
 
TEMPO INTERIORE by Fiamma Marchione
The movie celebrates therealization at Castel Sant'Elmo of Rosy Rox's work "Tempo Interiore",which won the competition "Un'Opera per il castello 2012". Thecompetition and the movie were realized thanks to PaBAAC project. Thedocumentary translates into artistic images the hard work of elaboration andrealization of the work.
Therefore it is a work forthe Castle, about the castle and its history. The eye of the camera traces theplaces that exude experiences within those walls over time, leading the eyefrom dark to light. The images, interacting continuously with the sensitivityof the artist, follow a three-fold: the spaces of the Castle, the timing ofcompletion of the work and the "Inner Time" ("TempoInteriore") fulfillment and synthesis of the first two. The movie receivedfor its quality the Special Mention by the Scientific Committee of the VIIIInternational Film Festival of Rome in the section Resonances/VideoConversations.
Duration 8 minutes
The projection will be followed by an observation onthe contemporary approach to the specific film with a focus on the three filmspresented. Adriana Rispoli, art critic and independent curator currentlycurator of the project Q.I. VEDO and the journalist Natasha Festa will alsotake part to the event.