VIDEOCITTÀ (Videocity) – MOVING IMAGES

1 December

5pm – 8pm

Italy Pavilion

Videocittà is an open and innovative platform conceived by Francesco Rutelli and directed by Francesco Dobrovich. It engages a vast and heterogeneous audience at different disciplines and expressions of moving images with projections, live performances, informative and educational talks, virtual reality, video mapping and video art.

The event will open with the presentation of Animiamoci, a competition for young animation authors, and their unpublished 3-minute shorts. This will be followed by a presentation of a set of audiovisual content, the most significant works produced by Videocittà. The event will be enriched by the participation of digital artist Quayola and Andrea Santicchia aka SETAwith the audiovisual performance “Transient – Impermanent Paintings”, created by a system of unconventional generative algorithms. Hyper-realistic digital brushstrokes articulate on a maxi projection, as if on a canvas. The algorithm becomes the real, tangible subject of the digital painting.

Photo:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GLEPWoAZkQWwBan5ubHMsV4KQzChzDbs/view?usp=sharing

 

MusicaNuda

2-4 December

7pm – 9:30pm

Italy Pavilion

MusicaNuda is the voice and double bass duo composed of Petra Magoni and FerruccioSpinetti, who in 18 years Petra and Ferruccio have made more than 1500 concerts all over the world, produced eight studio discs, three live discs and a DVD. Magoni and Spinetti have obtained important Italian and international awards and have taken their project around the world, reaching prestigious spaces such as the Olympia in Paris and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. The latest album, “Verso Sud”, is an exploration of the musical south of Italy and the world in pure Nude Music style: it is instinct and freedom, both in choosing the repertoire and in the way of interpreting it, lightly but never without respect

Photo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p5ml36IRJAzIXh–H-FuYK5vxpfV5iPy/view?usp=sharing

 

Gloria Campaner

4-5 December

8:30pm

Dubai Millenium Amphitheatre

The trio of Gloria Campaner (Piano), Alessandro Carbonare (Clarinet) e Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (Bandoneon) starts a new journey into the suggestions and sounds of tango on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla (2021), one the most important musical authors and interpreters of this form of art, born in the suburbs of a late 19th century Buenos Aires, from the need to communicate between people of different cultures, languages and tradiBons: Tango reminds us that the steps of the migrant are, today more than ever, those of people who live between detachment and hope.

Photo:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W0I4841pQStGBE20s5nD9YoEZZsMguSO/view?usp=sharing

 

THE INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF ROSES

(Italy / 2020) by Sidney Sibilia (118 ‘)

Courtesy of Netflix

6 December

8pm

Italy Pavilion, Amphitheatre

Ten minutes of pure cinema. Almost speechless. On the one hand, the platform built in the Adriatic Sea, outside the Italian territorial waters, by Eng. Giorgio Rosa, whimsical dreamer who embodies the most visionary and libertarian spirit of ’68, on the other hand the Navy raiders sent by the state aboard the cruiser Andrea Doria to destroy with explosives that ‘dangerous’ island of freedom that has had the audacity to proclaim itself an independent republic. True story, even if truly incredible. If you want to see how good Sydney Sibilia (the author of the trilogy of I stop when I want) is good at telling it, just enjoy the ending: cinema made up of gazes, long shots and details, gestures, silences. No words are needed. Images mean, images communicate, images excite. On the one hand the tired and greasy rituals of political power, on the other hand the arrogance of military power, on the other hand the pride of those who hold hands with their heads held high to claim their right not to submit to the diktats of the power. I venture a strong affirmation: in my opinion The Incredible Story of L’isoladelle rose is the most beautiful Italian film about ’68 that I remember. Although directed by a boy who was not yet born in ’68 (or perhaps for this reason?), He captures his spirit and soul much more than we were able to do those directors who were also protagonists or witnesses of ’68. direct. […] But of ’68 there are not only moods and loves: there are songs (from Geghegé by Rita pavone to Non è un hair by EdoardoVianello to Sognando la California by DikDik, without forgetting Hey, Joe by Jimi Hendrix), comics (Diabolik) and cinema (finally someone who remembers that the best film of ’68 is George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead!). […] Giorgio and his hedonistic and visionary cronies seem to be the Romagna version of Marty McFly’s Zemeckisian genius: they are our return to the future. (Gianni Canova)

 

Nicola Piovani

“La musica è pericolosa – concerted”

8-10 December

8:30pm

Dubai Millenium Amphitheatre

“La musica è pericolosa – concerted” is a freewheeling journey through music, a narrative in which music and words intertwine to describe the paths that have led Nicola Piovani – an internationally renowned Italian artist and Oscar-winner for the soundtrack of Roberto Benigni’s “La vita è bella” (“Life is Beautiful”) – to collaborate with De André, Fellini, Magni, as well as with other Spanish, French and Dutch filmmakers, and to compose music for the theatre, cinema, television, singers and instrumentalists.

The concert will feature unpublished theatrical pieces interspersed with better-known scores, rearranged for the occasion. On the background, videos integrate the narrative with clippings from films and performances and with the images that artists like Luzzati and Manara dedicated to Piovani’s musical work.

Event promoted and sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_VgrCFzWtXLfEG3Am-GrfmR-jrnLA1qk

 

JAZZ LAG

9-11 December

7pm – 9:30pm

Italy Pavilion

Jazz Lag are a collective of musicians active on the Brianza and Milanese scene since 2004, which with different ensembles, from a trio to an orchestra of ten elements, offer shows with a strong musical, scenographic and choreographic impact. Their repertoire traces the great classics of the history of jazz and swing, from Louis Armstrong to the glories of the Swing Era, through the compositions of his Italian and American masters, with sounds that meet pop, Latin rhythms and gypsy sounds.

Photo:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_h3QPigpx2jNWCEYb3_gTpjWHrO-kfQL/view?usp=sharing

 

IL VOLO

10 December

9:30pm – 11:30pm

Dubai MilleniumAmphitheatre

By popular demand IL VOLO arrives for the first time in concert at the Millennium Amphiteatre in Dubai, 5 years after their first performance in the city at the 2016 Globe Soccer Awards. “Il Volo Live in Concert” will be a unique event in which Piero Barone, Gianluca Ginoble and Ignazio Boschetto will retrace their careers bringing the best of their repertoire to the stage: from the bel canto of the Italian tradition, such as the iconic song “‘O Sole mio”, to the American evergreens, such as “My Way”, from the single with who won the 2015 Sanremo Festival “Grande amore”, to the famous Turandot romance “nientedorma”. There will be some excerpts from their latest album “Il Volo sings Morricone”, an overwhelming journey into the art of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. A lineup structured as a best of that encompasses the careers of three unique voices who have crossed national borders by selling millions of records and climbing the world rankings.

Photos:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O0q9z0DLpsCzm4NnP4PNEl_s5kCL7wRO/view?usp=sharing

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THE FABULOUS YOUNG MAN

(Italy / 2014) by Mario Martone (145 ‘)

Courtesy of Palomar

13 December

8pm

Italy Pavilion, Amphitheatre

Mario Martone dedicates a biopic to the human and intellectual adventure of Giacomo Leopardi, played by a more than convincing Elio Germano. Orchestrated in three acts, the film starts from the Recanatese childhood of the child prodigy who grows up ‘among the sweaty papers’ of the library-prison under the implacable gaze of his father, passes to the ‘rebellious’ youth spent in a Florence that celebrates and criticizes him and finally marginalizes it; and ends in the Naples of his friend and confidant Ranieri, which is a blow to the heart and a stroke of lightning. Martone chooses to exalt above all the rebellious and ironic side of “a man born at the end of the eighteenth century almost by chance because his thought was a mobile thought, which did not belong to his time; a poet who speaks to anyone who feels the urge to break the cages that from adolescence onwards we all perceive around: the family, school, politics, society, culture “.

 

ItalianConservatory Orchestra

Opera Extravaganza
14 December

6:30pm

Dubai Millenium Amphitheatre

Opera is the form of music that best represents our Country’s cultural identity, which has been made world-famous by the unforgettable arias composed by our greatest opera writers. Through the “Opera Extravaganza” concert, the young musicians of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale dei Conservatori Italiani pay homage to this great heritage by performing some of the best-known arias drawn from Italy’s wide opera repertory, with a programme that goes from Gioacchino Rossini to Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini and Giacomo Puccini.

Photo:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VFaWzIkrpqYo6x7ARtIId3vKEIIodXLo/view?usp=sharing

 

Mila Trani

16, 17 and 19 December

7pm – 8:30pm

Italy Pavilion

Mila Trani is an Italian singer and composer, who in her transversal path has encountered different musical genres, from jazz to the sounds of world music, has experimented with new technologies applied to the voice, and has intervened as a performer in various artistic projects. Her interest in world music gives rise to her latest project, a quintet that offers a repertoire of world music and original songs sung in 10 different languages.

Photo:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GmkJ6EaTY970a_auIsOLVo2eymToa6Na/view?usp=sharing

 

Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla & Figli

Sleeping Beauty

18 – 19 December

2:30 pm – 4:10 pm

5:30 pm – 7:10 pm

Dubai Exhibition Centre DEC Hall 2A South

Sleeping Beauty, one of the world’s best-loved fairy tales, takes shape through the nimble hands of the marionette masters of the Carlo Colla e Figli Company. The show to be presented at Expo Dubai is rooted in the socio-cultural connotations of the original story, and in the meanings handed down by relying on courtier codes, talking animals, terrible curses, fairy godmothers, and a young and naive sleeping beauty in the middle of a forest. The marionette show combines Perrault’s fabled storytelling and the libretto and music score of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, and is bound to fascinate adults and children alike.

Photos:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yLpsZYu-qMtcZU4P3vlT0yFvtrpPXkAi?usp=sharing

 

Teatro di Piazza e d’Occasione

The House of Panda

18 – 19 December

2:30 pm – 4:10 pm

5:30 pm – 7:10 pm

Dubai Exhibition Centre DEC Hall 2A South

Water, wood, fire, earth, and metal are the five Elements of Nature that, according to the Taoist tradition, generate life in a harmonious transformation process and are ideally harboured in the imaginative setting of the Casa del Panda, a light & sound performance where fireworks and kites interplay in bamboo forests, and the relationship between dance and image is explored as a new form of expression. Thanks to the use of big-screen projections and interactive technologies, the Prato-based TOP Company, which created this children’s show, offers a theatrical experience in which dancers, performers and the public participate in amazing group games in “sensitive” environments beyond time and space.

Photos:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h9J3Ep5CcEUW5dJ8Oelt3vRL_FbATto1?usp=sharing

 

LAUGHTER OF JOY

(Italy / 1960) by Mario Monicelli (106 ‘)

Courtesy of Titanus

20 December

8pm

Italy Pavilion, Amphitheatre

Monicelli’s underestimated masterpiece. A New Year’s Eve in Rome, Anna Magnani with a plucked ostrich boa, Totò with his old tailcoat (and Ben Gazzara, a smart companion in the art of getting by). They seek company, they try to squeeze into tables that reject them, they try to survive. They find that each has only the other, and that’s not that great. Sparks in show and existential comedy. Irresistible, very bitter. A work to be discovered, since not even at the time it had the hoped and expected success, “because of that bitter and nostalgic vein of the story, of the painful atmosphere that reigns, a bit from the end of the show, of the variety and of the era of the two great actors “(Roy Menarini). It remains the only meeting between Magnani and Totò, her name is Gioia and brings her unrepeatable laughter of anguish to the set, he “withdraws into himself, his interpretation becomes detached, almost elegant” (Alberto Anile). Really: a masterpiece. (Paola Cristalli)

 

THE TRAITOR

(Italy-France-Germany-Brazil / 2019) by Marco Bellocchio (148 ‘)

Courtesy of IBC Movie

27 December

8pm

Italy Pavilion, Amphitheatre

Can you find new images to tell what the media have shown a thousand times, review the Capaci massacre, the cry of the widow Schifani at the funeral, the first maxi trial in Palermo or the ‘mafia war’ of the Eighties? And above all: can you avoid the clichés of what by now, between films and above all television dramas, has become a real genre with its obligatory passages? Bellocchio faced an enormous challenge, equal to that of Buongiorno, notte with the Moro case, but in fact even more saturated with previous films and television. In Buscetta the director saw a tragic character, in his betrayal a dilemma worthy of heroes and anti-heroes that no bourgeois drama can offer today. When we enter the drama of man, with his torments, his silences, his face divided between light and shadow and his gaze on the world, even style is freed. The scenes of the maxi-trial become a ‘theater of nerves’, a sabbath that touches the grotesque. Personal tragedy and the catharsis of a nation intertwine, on the notes (epic but perhaps also a little ironic) of none other than Va ‘Pensiero. (Emiliano Morreale)