This vivid portrait explores M.C. Escher’s life and imaginative world through his own words and visions.
Escher’s artistic universe is explored as if we’re seeing it through his own eyes – he ‘narrates’ the film (voiced by Stephen Fry) via excerpts from his many diaries, letters and notes – and across a cornucopia of his works, many of which have never been shown before. While Escher recounts his life and his constant search to turn his thoughts and musings into visual form and to create the immaculate woodcut prints he could see in his mind’s eye, his works float on the screen, animation enhancing their innate movement.
His life’s journey also takes us to the places, such as Ravello and Rome, or the Alhambra in Granada, which particularly inspired him. We witness his dogged determination to master drawing technique – he considered that any schoolboy with a little aptitude would be better at drawing than himself – and his work’s evolution as mathematical concerns take precedence, leading him to ponder whether what he is creating is even art.
ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana. Sundance Film Festival & Berlinale
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana. Sundance Film Festival & Berlinale
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana. Sundance Film Festival & Berlinale
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana. Sundance Film Festival & Berlinale
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
EL PEPE. Una vida suprema. Emir Kusturica incontra Pepe Mujica
El Pepe is the guerrilla-style cognomen of former Uruguayan President José Mujica, who led the South American country from 2010 to 2015. Double Palme d’Or-winner Emir Kusturica started work on a film when Mujica was in the last months of his presidency. A series of conversations between the two titans is the backbone to El Pepe, a Supreme Life.
Kusturica opt for an impressionistic and intimate portrait rather than photographic detail or regurgitating facts. He mixes in footage from Costa Gavras’s 1972 political drama State of Siege as representing the era. But for the most part, Kusturica is happy to sit back, smoke a cigar and let Mujica have his moment.
The film was played out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival.
ANTROPOCENE. L’epoca umana. Sundance Film Festival & Berlinale
On completion of the Global Climate Change Week 2019 Detour Cinema presents a cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet. ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander. | “Masterfully detailed, captivating you visually with a subtle yet haunting musical layer to tell a difficult yet necessary story.” | “To reach a better future, we have first to imagine it. Anthropocene elucidates our monstrous deeds in a way that is observational rather than condemnatory.” | “As the filmmakers release us from our trance, we emerge concerned, horrified, but hopefully motivated to do something.”. Official Selection for the Sundance, Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals.
CHARLIE SAYS di Mary Harron. Halloween night
Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him – Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins – remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader. Confined to an isolated cellblock, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan, until an empathetic graduate student attempts to rehabilitate them.”A delicate and tremulous thing, at once confident and gentle, lyrically composed yet as stoic as the American masculine ideal it so carefully deconstructs.” – The Front Row.
MAY I BE HAPPY. Mindfulness in the Classroom and Beyond
May I Be Happy reveals the significance of “mindfulness” practice in transforming the lives of young people.
Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading sensitive or boisterous practices to kids from different backgrounds, the film brings awareness to the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations.
Covering varying approaches to mindfulness by a range of San Francisco Bay Area programs, May I Be Happy reminds us of children’s natural capacity for wellbeing, resilience and happiness.
EASY RIDER (versione restaurata) di Denis Hopper. Con Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector
Il più famoso “film di strada” della storia del cinema. Il tema classico del viaggio si mescola con quelli della cultura alternativa degli anni ’60: marijuana, musica pop, protesta hippy, pacifismo, crisi del mito americano.
Davvero epica la colonna sonora con brani di The Band, Byrds, Jimi Hendrix e Steppenwolf.
A presentare il film, nella versione appena restaurata a cura della Cineteca di Bologna, sarà lo sceneggiatore e scrittore Marco Videtta.