Filmnero

Filmnero is an anthological exhibition of the cinematographic works of Roberto Paci Dalò. The exhibition includes the following films: Dust, Petróleo México, Elegia italiana, Atlas of Emotion Stream, Ye Shanghai, Fronti, 1915 The Armenian Files. These are black and white works, produced from 2000 to 2016, presented in Filmnero in projection and with no monitors. In addition to these, Filmnero also includes other materials shot by the artist in various European archives, which gives life to a fluid and timeless cinematography.

The exhibition includes a moviola through which visitors can interactively access to Filmnero‘s anthological corpus. In addition, some drawings by Roberto Paci Dalò are a supplement to the screenings, in the way of Alfred Hitchcok’s storyboards. Hitchcok used to shoot a scene only after having reproduced it on paper, designing the drawing in every detail. Given the success of the drawings among the public, the director thought of building a story by putting the drawings in dialogue with each other. He created the storyboards, the real media phenomenon that inspired the Filmnero artist.

The following filmic works

Filmnero‘s anthological review includes the following filmic works by the artist: Dust, Petróleo México, Elegia italiana, Atlas of Emotion Stream, Ye Shanghai, Fronti, 1915 The Armenian Files.
Dust is a complex reflection on blindness where Emily Dikinson’s texts dialogue and clash with Heiner Müller’s voice. On stage Natalie Cristiani and Paola Monzini.

Petróleo México is a visual and sound meditation on the relationship between pre-Columbian Mexico and post-columbian Mexico. The film highlights the similarities between the faces of today’s populations and those of Mexican antiquity.

Elegia italiana focuses on the theme of the roots of Fascism in Italy. In particular, it reflects about how Italians were pre-fascists, as well as fascists and post-fascists, through the texts of Giacomo Leopardi, Antonio Gramsci and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Atlas of Emotion Stream is an homage by the artist to the city of Naples, and in particular to what he says is “its most sacred place”, the bar, “which acts as a counterpoint to its most profane place”, which is in instead of the church.

Ye Shanghai explores the Jewish ghetto of Shanghai through original filmic materials found by the artist at the British Film Institute in London. The images, of extraordinary intensity, reveal the life of the Jews in an area of Shanghai that in the 30s and 40s was occupied by the Japanese.

Fronti, created from rare images shot on the front during the First World War, stages the feeling of waiting for the trench conflict. The original score by Roberto Paci Dalò is the counterpoint that voice and color to the images.

1915 The Armenian Files, released in the year of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, reflects on how despite the drama of extermination, life continues to be explosive in Beirut, Bourj Hammoud “the Armenian city”.

Filmero notebook and Ilfilodipartenope

In his work process, Roberto Paci Dalò also produces a Moleskine notebook. Moleskine is a company with which he regularly collaborates as “Moleskine testimonial”. This is how Filmnero, the anastatic of the Moleskine notebook published by Marsèll and edited by Mirko Rizzo, was born.

The drawings in the notebook retrace the genesis and history of the films on display.

In addition, Roberto Paci Dalò and the Neapolitan publisher Ilfilodipartenope select thirty-four of the “exploratory drawings” of the exhibition, to create an artist’s book to witness the anthological Al Blu di Prussia in Naples.

Publications

Calendar

When

Project

Venue

City

14 October 2017

Galleria Civica di Modena / Giornata del Contemporaneo AMACI

Modena (I)

14 September 2017

Galleria Civica di Modena

Modena (I)

29 May 2017

Museo Marino Marini

Firenze (I)

25 May 2017

NonostanteMarras

Milano (I)

19 May 2017

Accademia delle Belle Arti

Bologna (I)

14 April 2017

Caffè Centrale

Pergola (I)

7 February 2017

MAMbo

Bologna (I)

2 February 2017

MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna

Bologna (I)

25 January 2017

Moleskine Café

Milano (I)

29 December 2016

Libreria Riminese

RImini (I)

29 December 2016

Libreria Riminese

Rimini (I)

5 November 2016

MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale / Artissima

Torino (I)

Credits

Author
Roberto Paci Dalò

Director
Roberto Paci Dalò

Drawings
Roberto Paci Dalò

Curator
Maria Savarese

 

 

Filmnero Moleskine Notebook

Author
Roberto Paci Dalò

Published by
Marsèll
Giardini Pensili

Edited by
Mirko Rizzo

Al Blu di Prussia, via Filangieri 42, Naples

The multidisciplinary space of
Giuseppe Mannajuolo

Directed by
Mario Pellegrino .

Press office
Paola De Ciuceis