Cinema Galleggiante 2022

 

From August 25th to September 10th, 2022, the appointment with Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters, the cultural event that takes place on the waters of the Venice lagoon, is back. Films, videos, performances, music and theater involving both international and local authors are presented on a stage and screen in the waters behind the island of Giudecca, at the end of Rio de Sant’Eufemia. The audience can access and watch the programming either from their own boats or from a platform designed to accommodate spectators without a boat. Created with the intention of making a shared vision concrete, the Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters aims to create an amphibious settlement stemming from a small utopia.

The third edition of the festival has as its theme the surreal, dreamlike and hallucinatory visions, and the absurd. This search for paradox finds its foundation in the nature of the Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters where, in a floating context that tends to the unreal, the first intent is to trigger a collective enchantment in the lagoon horizon. This year’s programming thus aims to echo this mechanism and amplify the perception that transcends the ordinary.

Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana - Pinault Collection introduces The Snorks: A Concert for Creatures (France, 2012) by Loris Gréaud anticipated by a short sound excerpt produced by the foundation for the environmental protection The Sense of Silence, for which Loris Gréaud is an ambassador. This year’s contribution from TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space stems from the ongoing research conducted during The Current #3 Fellowship program and includes the world premiere of an animation based on a collective voyage to the island of Asinara supported by the Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission. In Between Art Film Foundation, active in the lagoon with its group exhibition Penumbra at the Ospedaletto Complex, presents a selection of video and film works from its Collection, an anthology that investigates the boundaries of time-based media in-between film, video and installation. Chantal Crousel Consulting participates with Ferdinandea: Uncertainties, the central film of the multi-media installation Ferdinandea (France-Italy, 2022) by Clément Cogitore, currently exhibited at the Museo Madre, Napoli. The National Pavilion of Uzbekistan presents the silent film Azhal Minareti by Vyacheslav Viskovsky (Uzbekistan, 1925), based on a 16th-century Bukharian mythical tale, is set to live music by Abror Zufarov (tanbur, sato) accompanied by Shamshod Isaev (nai, gidjak). The Peggy Guggenheim Collection selects director Germaine Dulac’s silent film La Coquille et le clergyman (France, 1928), accompanied live by Rita Brancato (percussion), Giovanni Claudio Di Giorgio (violin) and Gabriele Tai (cello). Pentagram Stiftung continues with its selection linked to masterpieces of cinema and this year chooses Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936, USA, screened in 35mm).

The Associazione Closer, active in the Giudecca Women’s Prison not far from the Floating Cinema, reads a transcript of women prisoners’ dreams. Venice Open Stage, the international theater festival that for ten years has been creating an outdoor temporary theater in the heart of Venice, features a performance by Malmadur theater company. Athens-based Stoa42 presents a video and performance by Despina Charitonidi made in collaboration with Naiads, a synchronized swimming team made by the former Greek national team athletes. The final evening opens with a catwalk of sound sculptures, created through the use of moving figures constructed and animated by artists Ornella Cardillo and Simone Carraro (Venice, 2022), to follow, Microclima and Combo present the silent medium-length film La guerra e il sogno di Momi by Segundo de Chomón, (Italy,1917), one of the first Italian films to use stop-motion as an animation technique, which will be set to live music by DJ Gruff; pioneer of the Italian hip-hop scene.

A new feature of the third edition is the introduction of three days of sound experimentation on September 16th, 17th and 18th, in which Microclima and Combo present a meditative form of the amphibious settlement. From afternoon hours until the end of twilight various musicians are called upon to dialogue with an interactive sound installation by Turin-based artist Alessandro Sciaraffa. The visitors can freely access the platform hosting the installation and the musicians via a rowing ferry service for the duration of the event.

The participation of partners and realities from previous editions is reconfirmed, with an involvement of more than 50 authors from around the world, more than 30 local and international cultural realities, a food and wine program that’s participatory, experimental and local, and the presence of Venetian oarsmen who will ferry the spectators to the Floating Cinema.

The complete Floating Cinema program is available and downloadable on www.cinemagalleggiante.it from Monday, August 8.