Penumbra expanded, the video between cinema and art

 ROME - The exchange between different artistic fields, between cultures, when a film becomes video art and a museum becomes a space open to research and to the city.

This is the meaning of the work and exchange in different places and moments that the In Between Art Film Foundation and the MaXXi are doing together and will do, with a recently renewed three-year agreement.

The opportunity to talk about it among the works of art and the nature of a secret garden of the foundation's headquarters in Rome is the program of projections that the museum will present from 11 October to 6 November under the title Penumbra Expanded.

This is a selection of over 30 films and videos made by the leading artists of Penunmbra, the first institutional exhibition organized by the foundation in the Complesso dell'Ospedaletto in Venice on the occasion of the Biennale Arte 2022,

running until November 27th.

So a project with many souls that '' takes shape as part of the three-year renewal of the agreement with the MaXXi '', explained Beatrice Bulgari, President of the In Between Art Film Foundation.

And at the MaXXi it will have free admission, '' in a dynamic of open research that the museum wants to carry on by embracing, in this case with the foundation, an absolutely innovative sector in a common work of great empathy '', explained Giovanna Melandri president of Fondazione MaXXi, presenting the initiative together with Bartolomeo Pietromarchi director of MAXXI Arte, Alessandro Rabottini artistic director of the In Between Art Film Foundation, Leonardo Bigazzi curator of the In Between Art Film Foundation, Paola Ugolini curator of the In Between Art Film Foundation.

    The story of Ana Vaz (11-13 October), a Brazilian who explores myth and history;

Masbedo (14-16 October), or the Italians Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni, who pursue private events here also in relation to history;

from Nigeria Karimah Ashadu (18-20 October) with his survey on working conditions;

James Richards (21-23 October), pure poetry of images and sounds;

Aziz Hazara (25-27 October) reflecting on Afghanistan after foreign occupations;

Jonathas de Andrade (28-30 October) which explores the socio-political dynamics of Brazil;

Emilija Skarnulyte (1-3 November) from Lithuania to investigate the themes of human knowledge;

and ends with He Xiangyu (November 4-6) where the idea is to grasp the sign that geopolitical turbulence leaves on our bodies.

    '' Works largely unpublished - explained the curators - which are or will be presented in various film festivals, from Locarno to Rotterdam, which have won many awards and have been reduced to the size of a work ''.

And who knows maybe in the future all this will find a new soul also in relation to the Rome Film Festival.

(HANDLE).