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2022
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Highlights PFF59
Pesaro Vision Pro
by Pedro Armocida
Put on the analogue viewing headset of the Pesaro Film Festival and watch its phenomena now almost paranormal – such as projection not on one type of film only, 35mm, but also on 16mm and Super 8. These can only be live events. The Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, historically founded as an “anti-festival” in 1965, is still obstinately pursuing its glorious goal: to be a special festival, a break in the daily image overdose, and a venue for cultural experiences filled with meaning. The digital is the present of the future, something to be embraced; but exposed film brings us back to a physicality that is a practice prior to becoming an aesthetics: enter the Super 8 Workshop! In this sense, we could continue and find in PFF #59 a long thread of formats, including 16mm (Rosalind Nashashibi, Argentina Perspective), Super 8 (Milena Gierke and the Pablo Marín workshop), and 35mm (The Magic Screen). Our critical journey departs from the research, analysis, and study of the most experimental forms of cinema from the past, by way of our Lessons in Film History on the film avantgarde beyond the Wall (this year, Poland, Hungary, and Romania); its destination is the cinema of the future, that we highlight in the Competition in all its diverse formats. It is a seamless line of film critique that expresses the Festival’s DNA, something that still matters for us.
It is the throbbing heart of a cultural research that does not aspire to be exclusive, or to be a counter-proposal (or maybe a little), but has the ambition of paving the way. A replicable one.
The Festival can also be found in these pages, an instance of publishing activity that continues to produce studies and research on cinema: the monograph on Giuseppe Tornatore, published by Marsilio, is #85 in the collection Nuovocinema created by Lino Miccichè, who – along with Bruno Torri, whom we acknowledge with affection and gratitude – founded the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema. If we are still here today it is thanks both to them and to all those who work impassionedly for the Festival, but also to the institutions that believe in us and support us financially, such as the Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo of the Ministry of Culture, the Regione Marche, and the Pesaro Municipality. With all these, we set out for a long journey that next year will take us to celebrate Pesaro, the 2024 Italian Capital of Culture.
See you at the Pesaro Film Festival #60!
Opening theme and poster design
by\ Luca Lumaca.
Director and writer Luca Lumaca
Editing Matteo Bombarda
Colour correction Davide Polato
Music Luca Giovanardi
“The basic idea of my opening theme was to break down the Pesaro Film Festival’s logo into the three simple geometric shapes that make it up, i.e., a triangle, a square, and a circle. In my concept, the three shapes become the symbols of three frames of three potential film typologies set in three possible locations linked to the Adriatic shore: I imagined the square for a beach scene from a drama, the circle for a scene in a pinewood from a comedy, and the triangle for a metacinematic scene.
Personally, I feel like the Pesaro Film Festival pieces together the different narrative souls of cinema just like the hand of the girl off screen puts together the geometric parts of the whole, in this case the festival’s logo. To make the video, I wanted to use several technical gimmicks to create images, such as the physical, analogue composition of the sign at the end of the footage, made with a felt board like those that used to haunt cafeterias until the late 80’s. Another technical idea is shooting double takes with double focus to film the geometric symbols scenes.” (Luca Lumaca)
Luca Lumaca was born in Modena in 1978. He has worked as a photographer since 1997. From then on, he has been working in the field of advertising for important Italian and international companies.
Since 2001, he has imagined and created music and commercial videos. Over the years, he has worked several times with representatives of the Italian independent scene, publishing videos for various artists that have reached millions of views on web platforms. Many of these productions, exhibited in specialized galleries and festivals, have been awarded several prizes for their creative value. His creations refer to an often hyperpop, contemporary, and experimental imaginary; they are always devoted to technical research, with an eye to political and social issues. The Pesaro Film Festival dedicated a Focus to Lumaca in 2022.
ALL PROJECTIONS
ARE FREE
Piazza del Popolo
Located in between the cardo and decumano of the ancient roman city, Piazza del Popolo is the main square in Pesaro and owes its present structure to various renovation works throughout the centuries. The City Hall building – right next to Teatro Sperimentale – the Prefecture and the Central Post Office overlook the square.
Since 2000, during the Pesaro Film Festival the square becomes a huge open-air cinema for evening projections, hosting up to 800 sits.
Teatro Cinema
Sperimentale
Built in the same year as the first edition of the Festival and refurbished in 1994, the Teatro Cinema Sperimentale is located in the rear part of the City Hall building. At its entrance visitors can read a quote from the native poet Odoardo Giansanti to whom the theatre is dedicated. Since its foundation, it has become one of the most active places in the city’s cultural life: it is the historical headquarter of the Festival and every year it hosts numerous events such as dance recitals, theatre plays, conferences and concerts.
Inside the building, two theatre-rooms have been built: the Sala Grande (495 sits:355 in the parterre and 140 in the balcony), and a smaller theatre that in 2015, during the 50+1 festival edition was named after Pier Paolo Pasolini. With its 75 sits, it is dedicated to shorter projections and smaller events.
Cinema on the Beach
The Cinema on the beach is one of most recent innovations of the Festival. Since 2018, the organisers of the Festival decided to project some movies in the most suggestive location in Pesaro: right next to the sea, on the beach. The audience really appreciates this new location which with its 100 sits offers a unique experience that puts together the magic of the seaside and that of the cinema.
Palazzo Gradari
Palazzo Gradari and its courtyard represent one of the most lively and animated locations of the Festival.
The building is the headquarter of the Rossini Opera Festival administration and will soon host the University of Urbino. However, during the Festival week, some of its rooms and the courtyard become the home of respectively the organisers’ offices and the night events. In some parts of the building, there are the press and the hospitality offices and the management offices while in the courtyard students and journalists interview directors, meet some guests or produce their works about the Festival. In addition, after midnight and when all the shows are over, the special event Il Muro del Suono takes place in the courtyard. Here, cinema and music blend and give life to special nights of live music and other kinds of experimental performances creating the perfect atmosphere to end a busy day of movies and workshops.
spazio bianco
A project that has grown up within the International Exhibition of New Cinema, which for the 56th edition finds its fulfillment in a video-photographic installation, in the new city space dedicated to photography, thanks to the Pescheria Foundation - Visual Arts Center: white space is, for the Exhibition as for the city of Pesaro, a new point of reference not only for exhibitions and installations, but above all for meetings and workshops.
Visual Arts Centre Pescheria
Built by the Municipality of Pesaro at the beginning of the nineteenth century to sell fish, a product that was increasingly important for the city's economy, the Pescheria has now ceased to have its original function. Converted into an exhibition space with strong links to the territory, since 1996 it has been home to the Visual Arts Centre. Since then it has become the most important centre for contemporary art in the Adriatic region and has hosted exhibitions by protagonists of the national and international scene, as well as music, design, theatre and dance events.
Since 2015 it has also been one of the venues of the Mostra del Cinema, dedicated to meetings with authors and the press, and since 2019 it has been home to the archives of the Fondazione Pesaro Nuovo Cinema. In 2021 it hosted the first edition of the Pesaro Film Festival Circus, the new section of the Festival dedicated to children.
Hopsitality
and Refreshment
The Pesaro Film Festival is happy to welcome every year several important guests to whom we offer a comfortable and cosy experience in our city. Following, a list of hotels and restaurants in partnership with the Festival. All the hotels are located in the most vibrant area of the city, the seaside, while the restaurants are in the city centre, a few steps away from the main places of the Festival.
HOTELS
HOTEL SAVOY
Viale Della Repubblica, 22
Telefono: 0721 67440
www.hotelsavoypesaro.it
HOTEL HOLIDAY
Viale Trento, 161
Telefono: 0721 34851
www.hotelholidaypesaro.it
GRAND HOTEL VITTORIA
Piazzale della Libertà, 2
Telefono: 0721 34343
www.grandhotelvittoriapesaro.it
HOTEL CAPITOL
Viale Rovereto, 19
Telefono: 0721 35123
www.hotelcapitolpesaro.it
HOTEL CARAVAN
Viale Monfalcone, 58
Telefono: 0721 64513
hotelcaravan.it
HOTEL ROSSINI
Viale Guglielmo Marconi, 44
Telefono: 0721 371234
www.hotelrossini.it
HOTEL CHARLIE
Viale Trieste, 281
Telefono: 0721 622090
www.charliehotels.it
HOTEL AMBASSADOR
Viale Trieste 291
0721 371527
www.ambassadorpesaro.it
HOTEL EXCELSIOR
Lungomare Nazario Sauro
0721/630011
www.excelsiorpesaro.it
HOTEL PRESIDENT
Lungomare Nazario Sauro, 33
338 3413425
www.hotelpresidentspesaro.it
HOTEL BELLEVUE
Viale Trieste, 88
0721 31970
www.bellevuehotel.net
RESTAURANTS
RISTORANTE ULDERGO
Via Venturini, 24
Phone: 0721 68029
www.ristoranteuldergo.com
ANTICA OSTERIA LA GUERCIA
Via Baviera, 33
Phone: 0721 33463
www.osterialaguercia.it
PIADIFICIO
Largo Aldo Moro, 10
Phone: 0721 865464
piadificio.it
TAVERNA ZONGO
Via Castelfidardo, 69
Phone: 0721 67042
MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE
DEL NUOVO CINEMA
PESARO
The Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema (Pesaro Film Festival) is one of the most important Italian film festivals. Created and planned in Rome by Lino Miccichè and Bruno Torri at the end of 1964, but organised it in Pesaro since its first edition (May 29 – June 6, 1965), the Festival is promoted, financed and managed by Fondazione Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Onlus, in partnership with Comune di Pesaro; Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino; Regione Marche; Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali and the European Union MEDIA programme.
Through all these years, next to the main summer editions, the Festival has organised several spin-off events such as the Evento Speciale which takes place at the same time of the Festival and is entirely dedicated to Italian cinema.
During fall, some other cinematographic events in cities like Rome, New York, Berlin and Paris are organised, as well as two events in Pesaro, namely the Rassegna internazionale retrospettiva (originally taking place in Ancona) and the International Conference on cinema studies (first editions in Urbino).
Since the very beginning, the main goal was to organise a non-competitive festival mainly focusing on first works and aiming in particular to walk through new ways and choices that are able to start processes of growth, improvement and evolution of cinema in the world. In presenting first works we intend to discover what’s new in the world of young film directors, but also to make their works visible and known to an audience that shares with them ideals, cultural needs and the urgency to break old habits avoiding conformism and mere business. While moving its first steps, the Festival treasured the experience of other Italian and international events – such as the Festival del Cinema Latinoamericano of Santa Margherita Ligure, Sestri and Genoa and the Mostra internazionale del cinema libero di Porretta Terme, and the Sémain international de la critique – but now it has become an implicit and/or explicit model for many similar events in Italy (festivals of Bergamo, Salsomaggiore, Turin etc.) and around Europe (Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Berlin). Certainly, what all these institutions have in common is a specific unity of purposes and the same will to defend and spread the values of a cinema that could be different and truly new.
