mare/Flux Kinooo Night
As part of BAW Bolzano Art Weeks
Where Isarco banks
Time 9 pm – 6.30 am
On Saturday, September 28th, as part of Bolzano Art Weeks, Lungomare presents Flux Kinooo Night, curated by Emanuele Vernillo, Georg Zeller, and Daniel Mazza. Starting at 9 pm and lasting throughout the night of Saturday the 28th, the Flux Kinooo Night offers a selection of films that, from Italy to Asia, passing through Latin landscapes, brings to Bolzano the landscapes, beauty, and social and political contexts connected to the rivers. Among these are A River Runs Turns Arises Replaces by Shengze Zhu, Becoming Alluvium by Thao Nguyễn Phan, and Angeschwemmt by Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
The opening guest will be the director Angelo Loy with his twenty-year project on the Tevere river, while at dawn, Karin Nagakawa will close the programme with an evocative koto concert accompanying the breakfast.
Discover the full programme below.
Program produced in collaboration with FAS – Film Association South Tyrol. Headphone listening is planned (service provided upon submission of an ID). The audience is invited to prepare for the night with sleeping bags, pillows, flashlights, and supplies. Bar and provisions available until midnight. In case of rain, the event will be postponed to a date to be determined.
9 pm
Ligne Noire by Francesca Scalisi and Mark Olexa
(Switzerland, 2017, 10’)
A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin, all linked by a thin black line.
9.30 pm
Il Tevere e i suoi pescatori nel cinema di Angelo Loy
(Italy, 60′)
Meeting with the author and exclusive screenings of a film project about the Tiber River from 2000 to the present
Between 1999 and 2000, Angelo Loy filmed the documentary Fiumaroli, in which he narrates the story of two families (the “Rosci” and the “Ciccioni”), eel fishermen from the urban stretch of the Tiber. At the time, he had no idea that he would continue to visit (and film) these families over the next two decades. He didn’t know that, thanks to this encounter, he would abandon a career as a biologist to devote himself to documentary filmmaking.
But what to do with all this footage? Over the years, Angelo Loy tried various editing solutions to give meaning to this long journey, only managing to complete it when he finally felt he had expressed all the emotion of this experience in the editing process.
11 pm
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces by Shengze Zhu
(China, 2021, 87’, original version / sub. eng)
A portrait of urban spaces along the Yangtze River in the city of Wuhan. An engaging communal stage on which people perform in various ways: some dancing, singing, swimming; some shoveling, welding,and hammering. An evolving landscape that is continuously sculpted by nature and dramatically altered by roaring machines and rising infrastructure. Where desires are planted. Where memories are buried. The lost place.
12.45 am
Becoming Alluvium by Thao Nguyễn Phan
(Vietnam, 2019, 16’, original version / sub. ita/eng)
Becoming Alluvium is structured around three chapters telling stories of destruction, reincarnation and renewal, centred around the ebb and flow of the Mekong River, which runs through Tibet, China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Water / Bodies – Tigre Delta by Roberto Niño Betancourt
(Argentina, 2023, 5’, original version. / sub. eng)
A contemplative exploration of the multiple scales of life in the fluvial ecosystem of Tigre in Argentina, where the Parana and La Plata rivers meet. Every drop of water contains complex universes in continuous transformation. As the river flows, its perpetual state of motion emphasises the harmonic relationship between the landscape, the different species that inhabit it, and their different points of view.
1.30 am
El abrazo de la serpiente by Ciro Guerra
(Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina, 2015, 125’, original version / sub. ita)
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
4 am
A Day on the Drina by Ines Tanović
(Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011, 17′, original version / sub. eng.)
A long summer day on the river Drina… This may sound like a serene picnic… And it would be, hadn’t the river retreated to its riverbed.
4.30 am
Angeschwemmt by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
(Austria, 1994, 86’, eng)
The world along the Danube is largely defined by two elements: the river itself and the often peculiar traits of the people who live along its banks. Here, one encounters a diverse cast of characters: Fishermen and cemetery keepers, Buddhist monks, allotment gardeners on Danube Island, stranded freighters, the homeless, and soldiers. They are all bound together by the great river, swimming against its current. This film tells their stories, portraying their faces and desires; through tranquil imagery, it reflects on the countless bodies buried in the Albern “Cemetery of the Nameless,” as well as the Romanian freighter, whose owner and his wife have been stranded on their tugboat in Vienna for nearly a year, unable to return home due to the Danube blockade in the former Yugoslavia.
6.30 am
Improvisations 25-String Koto
At dawn for the final act, breakfast with a musical performance by Karin Nagakawa.
