“Unknown Waters”: a floating cinema in Venice, rethinking the city from the perspective of the lagoon
Cinema Galleggiante, the brainchild of Edoardo Aruta and Paolo Rosso (Microclima), in collaboration with Ocean Space / TBA21−Academy, Pentagram Stiftung and Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection, is set to present a series of film screenings on a floating platform, located in the Venetian lagoon behind the island of Giudecca.
The programme will run from August 27th to September 5th 2020 and screenings will begin at 7pm. Spectators will be able to view the screenings from their own boats, or from a specially designed floating platform.
Venice is a city historically familiar with the formula of quarantine – during the plague Islands such as Lazzaretto became the locus of quarantine for ships arriving from various Mediterranean ports, suspected to be infected. In response to this period of social and environmental uncertainty, Cinema Galleggiante is an amphibious expression of the imagination, an opportunity to keep ourselves afloat and carefully reflect upon the fragile and intricately interwoven relationship between human beings and the environment, Venice has the potential to be the buoyant breeding ground for the experimentation and proliferation of new ideas, rippling positive effects globally.
Instability, the unexpected and the water’s potential for creating routes of transport and communication are the festival’s main theme: Unknown Waters. Partner institutions and both local and international organisations have been asked to present films (feature films, short films or art films) around these issues.
Cinema Galleggiante has been made possible thanks to contributions from numerous institutions including: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia – Museo Fortuny, Fondazione Luigi Nono and Università Iuav di Venezia as well as About, ALMA ZEVI, Awai, DH Office, Festival dei Matti, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Ginko Film, Laguna B & We are here Venice, Spazio Punch, V.E.R-V and Casa Capra (Schio, VI), Dolomiti Contemporanee (Erto, PN – Borca di Cadore, BL), Lo schermo dell’arte (Florence) and Magazzino Italian Art (New York, USA).
Creators include: Antoni Muntadas, Eames Office, Lina Wertmüller, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Peter Brook, Peter Greenaway & Michael Nyman, Superstudio, Werner Herzog, and Zbigniew Rybczynski with the contribution of international artists including Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, Pierre Huyghe, Margarida Mendes, Mariateresa Sartori, and Melissa McGill.
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