Italian art cinema
Video
Video
Italian art cinema has always been subject to several preconceptions. The first was the idea that it was a production on the sidelines with respect to the objective work of art understood as a pictorial or sculptural object, and therefore considered as 'minor art' compared to so-called artistic production. The second preconception, on the other hand, is linked to a critical reading that considers artists' cinema as a practice born out of the desire to avoid the commercialisation of the work of art. On the contrary, the artists' attraction for the medium of film came from the ease of availability of the medium. With the advent of Super8, Italian artists were faced with the possibility of being able to make films at home and it was precisely the desire to reproduce, easily develop the film and generate copies that allowed for international exchanges. The real reason for the artist's push towards the medium is therefore not the 'non-mericification' of the object as much as the diffusion of the object: a complete novelty and a change of course for the time. In fact, transporting a film copy makes it much easier to circulate one's artistic production than the exchange and transport of objectified works of art which had to be transported with insurance costs and which, above all, were unique pieces.
Categoria
Video intervista
Periodo
01/10/1966 - 31/12/1989
Autore
Jennifer Malvezzi
Durata
04'42''
Formato
Digitale HD
Keywords
cinema d'artista, cinea sperimentale