The second edition of Ekrani i Artit is a collaboration between the Art House and Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival in Florence, an international project dedicated to explore, analyse and promote the complex relations between contemporary art and cinema. This year, the program was dedicated to films, documentaries and videos that have been shown in the last edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, which celebrated in 2017 its 10th anniversary. Our special guests were Silvia Lucchesi, director of Lo schermo dell’arte, Leonardo Bigazzi, curator of VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Rä di Martino, the director of “Controfigura”, one of the films in program, Driant Zeneli, Albanian artist participating in VISIO 2017 with his video “It would not be possible to leave planet Earth unless gravity existed”, musicians Admir Shkurtaj and Giorgio Distante. The days of the screenings were accompanied by music performances, conversations, the book presentation of “Dhoma e Dritshme”by Roland Barthes translated into Albanian by Zef Paci.
Screening program
“Equivalent Units”- Danilo Correale, Italy/USA, 2017, 19′
“Koudelka: Shooting Holy Land”- Gilad Baram, Israel, 2015, 72’
“Deep Sleep”-Basma Alsharif, Greece/Malta/Palestine, 2014, 12’45”
“Thomas Hirschhorn – Gramsci Monument”,Angelo Alfredo Lüdin, Switzerland, 2015,94’
“In Art We Trust”- Benoît Rossel, France, 2017, 85’
“It would be impossible to leave the earth unless gravity existed”- Driant Zeneli, Albania, 2017, 13′ 41”
“Controfigura”- Rä di Martino, Italy/Switzerland/France/
“Séance”-Yuri Ancarani, Italy, 2014, 30’