Ancona: Cinematica Festival 2024, XNUMXth edition “Dying from laughter”

Internationally renowned artists, digital art excellences, dance, shows, workshops, installations, concerts, cinema, creativity and new technologies, new exhibitions. Come back to amaze KINEMATICS, the innovative festival dedicated to the moving image, which has its unmistakable trademark in the multidisciplinarity and transversality of languages.

With a PREVIEW on October 26th and 27th between Ancona and Jesi, in the Marche, and the FESTIVAL from October 31st to November 3rd in Ancona, Cinematica declines its eleventh edition around the theme “Dying from laughter”, a claim that comes after a trilogy (Touch ME, Natura Naturans, De Anima) dedicated to accompanying the public to emerge from the pandemic event.

The event was presented at the headquarters of the Marche Region, in the presence of the regional councilor for Culture, Chiara Biondi, the councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Ancona, Anna Maria Bertini, Alessandro Tesei, councilor for Tourism of the Municipality of Jesi, Simona Lisi, creator and artistic director of the festival, and Aldo Grassini, president of the Omero Museum of Ancona.

«Cinematica Festival is certainly an innovative event in the regional and national cultural panorama – declared the councilor Chiara Biondi – It reaches its 11th edition, confirming all the interest it arouses for its artistic contribution and for its ability to present its original formula through many performing arts. Moving from dance to theater, to cinema, Cinematica shows how art in its movement can represent a new way to promote culture. Furthermore, there will be a further opportunity: the two cities that will host the festival, Ancona and Jesi, will have the opportunity to showcase their most beautiful and iconic places. The Mole Vanvitelliana and the Archaeological Museum of the Marche for the first, Palazzo Pianetti for the second. The in-depth analysis of social issues will also be admirable and innovative. I think that these peculiarities together represent an added value and that they will contribute to offering even more, from a cultural point of view, elements of novelty for our region».

"It seems to us that the time has come to face the funniest yet not superficial side of existence, that explosion of energy that leads to laughter is also a powerful activator of new resources, of unexpected solutions that give new opportunities for vision", explains the artistic director, Simona Lisi. «Cinematica will therefore explore the creativity between image and movement more closely linked to the ironic, funny, but also grotesque quality of human behavior and beings. Central to the inspiration is slapstick, silent films, but also comedy duos, clowns, memes, games and video games.».

On the programme, a kaleidoscopic proposal of visual, filmic and performing arts dedicated to the exploration of tragicomic themeThe inspiring muse of Cinematica 2024 is Valeska Gert, an artist who with her rough and courageous dance-theatre in 20s and 30s Germany was a pioneer of performance art and German punk, and to whom the Festival dedicates a focus and the image of the 2024 edition.

Between appointments, shows and workshops with choreographers and dancers such as Giorgio Rossi and Compagnia Tardito/Rendina, the young and acclaimed company Panzetti/Ticconi, a tribute to Ugo Tognazzi with a special guest such as the director Ricky Tognazzi, and a scathing and satirical author such as Arianna Porcelli Safonov. Furthermore, music that relates to cinema with the Têtes de Bois and Agostino Ferrente, a focus on actor's theatre with extraordinary artists such as the young Caroline Baglioni, theatre that confronts the digital dimension such as Giacomo Liliù's Teatropostaggio.

In Jesi the first solo exhibition dedicated to the visual artist Donato Sansone, acclaimed author of many video clip and animated film projects with an ironic and biting style, in Ancona an exhibition on Pulcinella with a tribute to the illustrator Mauro Evangelista.

There will also be space for workshops for children and families, for krump dancing, for a focus on video games and for the usual international Videodance competition with the best proposals from all over the world.

Cinematica is organized by Associazione Ventottozerosei and EFFE Label European Festival Association, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Marche Region, Municipality of Ancona, Municipality of Jesi, AMAT, in collaboration with Ars in Fabula, Museo Omero, Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche, Goethe Institute, Arcopolis, 8 Bit Inside, Rete Educazione Digitale and with the patronage of Fondazione Marche Cultura and Marche Film Commission. Technical sponsors: Capogrossi Assicurazioni, Grand Hotel Passetto, Dodo Lab, Cantine Lanari, Cantine Vallerosa Bonci, Marel Service.

Preview October 26-27 ANCONA / JESI

It starts with the preview on the weekend of 26/27 October between the port city of Ancona and the splendid city of Jesi.

Here a focus on comic and grotesque dance with the historic company of Sosta Palmizi, in shows and workshops conducted by the co-founder, choreographer and dancer Giorgio Rossi, and with the couple Tardito/Rendina, authors with poetic irony in which the language of dance embraces the theatrical one. The masterclasses “L'ironia del gesto” and “Il corpo ironico” will be held in the Studio Danza Ancona in via Jesi 65, on 26 and 27 October from 10 am to 13 pm. The artists will also be the protagonists of a “Double Bill” at the Teatro Sperimentale in Ancona on the evening of Saturday 26 October, an event in collaboration with Amat and which offers the shows “Agata” and “Gonzago's Rose”.

Sunday 27 October, at Palazzo Pianetti in Jesi, inaugurates the first solo exhibition of Donato Sansone, one of the most brilliant directors of Italian animated films, author of short films such as “Videogioco” listed by The Cinemateque Quebecoise among the 50 short films that have changed the history of animation and of films and video clips for internationally renowned artists such as Max Cooper. The exhibition “Cinque variazioni su Schermo”, curated by Bruno Di Marino, is a synthesis of his overall work, proposed in loop on as many devices, each of which is dedicated to an aspect of his work: short films, music videos, commercials, experiments and divertissements. The city of Jesi always welcomes, in the afternoon, the children's workshop “Laughter Hurts the King” edited by Pietro Piva. In the evening (21pm) at the Moriconi Theatre in collaboration with Amat, “Harleking” is staged, a metamorphic choreographic work on a demon with an ambiguous and multiple identity – a bit Harlequin, a bit Grotesque – by the duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi. The show, awarded with several international prizes, debuted as part of Open Spaces Sommer Tanz at the Tanzfabrik in Berlin, was selected by the European dance platform Aerowaves and the New Italian Dance platform (NID), in 2020 it was invited by the Tanzplatform Deutschland in Munich.

Festival October 31st - November 3rd ANCONA

Cinematica “Morir dal Ridere” will be held from October 31st to November 3rd in Ancona, mostly in the various spaces of the Mole Vanvitelliana where the spirit of Pulcinella will hover throughout the Festival in the unpublished illustrations of Mauro Evangelista, an illustrator who won the Andersen Prize three times and the creator, recently deceased, of the most important Italian Master in Illustration, “Ars in Fabula”. the exhibition opens on the 31st “Pulcinella Segreto – unpublished illustrations by Mauro Evangelista” at 18.30pm in the Boxing Hall of the Mole Vanvitelliana with Michela Avi of Ars in Fabula and Lucia Tancredi.

On the same day Cinematica moves to the National Archaeological Museum of the Marche, for a Halloween themed day; The Museum will be open from afternoon to evening, exceptionally free admission, with guided tours for children and families. In the evening at the Salone delle Feste (21 pm) the sound suite “Gorgo. The black side” by and with Isabella Carloni, with the two musicians Caterina Palazzi and Francesco Savoretti, around the terrible figure of Medusa, the deadly Gorgon beheaded by Perseus, for an ironic look at the dark side of the feminine between horror and wonder.

Friday 1st November The festival celebrates Valeska Gert (1892–1978), a German dancer, actress, cabaret artist and pantomime artist, a pioneer of performance art, with the AirDanza talk dedicated to “Dance Comique” (17,30pm Boxing Hall) and with the screening of “Nur zum spass, nur zum spiel – Kaleidoskop Valeska Gert”, the first documentary film by German director Volker Schlöndorff, born from the collaboration with the artist on the set of Colpo di grazia (1976). Gert had collaborated with the cinematographic and theatrical avant-garde of the XNUMXs and XNUMXs and had disturbed spectators with a dance style that was rude, frank, hard and explicit in its representation of reality.

At 19,30 appointment at the Auditorium with “The brilliant Duo” soundtrack of Stanlio and Ollio comedies by I Sincopatici, with Francesca Badalini on piano and Luca Casiraghi on percussion.

The evening ends with a special guest, director Ricky Tognazzi (21pm, Auditorium), for a journey into the unconventional and irreverent life of Ugo Tognazzi, an Italian actor, director, comedian and screenwriter, who died in Rome in 1990. Places, flavors, memories and testimonies of family, friends and colleagues flow in the documentary "Ugo Tognazzi. La voglia matta di vivere" (2022) that the director dedicated to his father, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. The event is in collaboration with Ruvido Produzioni.

Saturday November 2, there are two events in collaboration with Amat. At 19pm, in the Boxing Hall, “Il Teatropostaggio da un milione di dollari” (Million Dollar Theaterposting), a Malte production, winner of Residenze Digitali 2023, is on stage, directed by Giacomo Liliù and dramatized by Pier Lorenzo Pisano. The performance – an unlikely digital rewriting of Goldoni – takes place on two levels, that of reality and the virtual one on Telegram, to translate shitposting into dramaturgy, that is, the derailment of a virtual discussion with inappropriate content.

At 21,30pm in the Auditorium the appointment is with “The cine-concert of happiness”, screenings, music and conversations curated by Andrea Satta (Têtes de Bois) and Agostino Ferrente (director of “L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio” and “Le cose belle”), with the shorts “Alfonsina e la bici” (Ita 2010) and “Coupon – The Film of Happiness” (Ita 2023).

Among the meetings of the day, also the conversation on the themes of noir and humor from the female point of view, protagonists the writer and humorist Lia Celi, and the journalist Silvia Veroli (11am Auditorium Café) and the Krump dance lessons with Mowgli and in collaboration with Arcopolis, thanks to which adults (from 12pm) and children (from 15pm), can approach, while having fun, an urban, free and powerful dance, born in the streets of Los Angeles, to express and transform emotions into movement.

With the krump dance lessons, “Cinematica Kids” kicks off, two days of events dedicated to children and teenagers and which offers, among other things, the exhibition of vintage video games “Arcades videogames” curated by 8 Bits Inside, the workshop “LOL the power of laughter” with the play coach Lucia Berdini to discover how laughter and play can become powerful tools to improve communication and complicity in the family (2/11 15,30 pm Omero Museum conference room), the talk “Play the game” on the importance and dangers of games and video games (2/11, Omero Museum Conference Room), the workshop on theatrical clown “Communicating noses” with Andrea Bartola (3/11, Auditorium Foyer), the workshop on emotions “Laughing is a serious thing” by Dodo Lab (3/11 from 15,30 pm, Omero Museum classroom).

Sunday 3 November at 17,30 pm in the Auditorium, an appointment with the finalist projects of the international video dance competition “Cinematica Videodance Competition”, selected by the quality jury composed of choreographer Emma Cianchi, director Agostino Ferrente and researcher in performing arts Letizia Gioia Monda. The competition has collected almost 150 projects from all over the world dedicated to exploring the tragicomic side of life, the ironic, funny, but also grotesque quality of human behavior and events. The public is called to vote for their favorite video, hosted in a semi-serious way by NIBA and Andrea Bartola.

The Festival closes with two shows in collaboration with Amat. At Boxing Hall, 19pm, there is “Gianni”, inspired by the voice of Gianni Pampanini, by and with Caroline Baglioni and directed by Michelangelo Bellani. The award-winning play (Scenario prize for Ustica 2015, In-Box Blu 2016, Museo Cervi-Teatro per la Memoria prize 2017) takes inspiration from the discovery of an original audio track, testimony of a broken existence, and becomes a work on individual memory capable of creating a space of understanding and empathy that shakes the spectator.

Arianna Porcelli Safonov will close Cinematica 2024 (21,30pm, Auditorium), storyteller and author of satirical texts that have sold out stages all over Italy: “Gli sforza inutile con cui la vita imita l'arte” is a monologue on the world of contemporary art that brings to the table the experiment of marginalization of the end user who is considered too normal for the understanding of artistic expression and its distribution, as if normality were an illness.

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