(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 18 - Italy from the sixties to the mid-eighties was a true artistic laboratory to which the whole world looked, a little-known story and to which the 38th edition of the Turin Film Festival which starts on November 20 two documentaries: THE REVOLUTION WE ARE US (Arte inItalia 1967/1977) by Ilaria Freccia and PINO (which stands for PinoPascali) by Walter Fasano.
What happened in those years?
LARIVOLUTION SIAMO US, a documentary that takes its title from a poster-photo by Beuys with the German artist who advances swiftly as in a solitary 'Quarto Stato' tells us about it.
A perfect synthesis to tell, through an immense iconographic apparatus, repertoire material and interviews, that unrepeatable moment.
Unique years during which artists such as Marina Abramovic, MichelangeloPistoletto, Andy Warhol, Luigi Ontani, Pino Pascali, AlighieroBoetti, Jannis Kounellis and Joseph Beuys and internationally renowned gallery owners such as Lia Rumma and Fabio Sargentini found themselves living together.
PINO by Walter Fasano, with the voices of Suzanne Vega, Alma Jodorowsky, Monica Guerritore and Michele Riondino instead devotes himself in the round to that extraordinary artist who was PinoPascali, one of the most important exponents of poor art, who died very young in the summer of 1968 in a motorcycle accident.
The occasion arises from the purchase and exhibition in 2018 by the Pascali Museum in Polignano a Mare, Pino's homeland, of his work: "Five Bachi daSetola and a Bozzolo".
"Having chosen the path of storytelling for photographic images - says the director in the notes -, I was lucky enough to be joined by some exceptional travel companions: Pascali first of all, whose extraordinary (and little known) photographs allowed us to enter his gaze . Especially Pino Musi, always recognizable for his style and experience precisely as a researcher of the profound meaning of the image ".
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