Friday September 8 the Italian Cultural Institute C.M. Lerici is offering, as a part of Stockholm Design Week (September 5-9) and in collaboration with ITA Italian Trade Agency and Artecinema, the screening of two documentaries dedicated to two great Italian designers, Aldo Rossi and Ettore Sottssas. The event is going to be presented by architect Alessandro Ripellino.
Francesca Molteni’s documentary on Aldo Rossi investigates the legacy of the architect in the history of design twenty-five years after his death, along with the link between drawing, object and architecture, and the relationship with industry, technicians and design factories. The documentary on Ettore Sottssas, a legendary name in the much-appreciated Italian design industry, shows the boundless creative universe of the designer starting from his childhood in the Tyrolean mountains and retracing his travels to America – where he discovered the industrial culture –, the poets of Beat Generation that inspired him, and the Olivetti years. The showing of the two documentaries has been organized in collaboration with Artecinema, an international art film festival which takes place every year in Naples.
Aldo Rossi Design
Italy, 2022, 41’, Italian, English
direction: Francesca Molteni, Mattia Colombo
photography: Mattia Colombo
editing: Silvia Biagioni
music: Andrea Laudante
production: Muse Factory of Projects in collaboration with Aldo Rossi foundation.
Il treno di Sottsass
Italy, 2017, 55’, Italian
direction: Valeria Parisi
photography: Lorenzo Giromini, Mateusz Stolecki
editing: Elena Luchetti, Charlotte Mager
production: Sky Arte, 3D Produzioni
Refreshments will be served
Alessandro Ripellino was born in 1957 in Rome. He studied architecture at the Università La Sapienza in Rome. Licensed Italian architect ODA and Swedish architect SAR MSA. He took his master’s degree 1982 with prof. Luisa Anversa and Prof. Laura Thermes, who at the time ware two leaders in Rome for the new Rationalist architecture. He grew up in Rome and Prague and in 1983 he moved to Sweden as a fellow and guest researcher at KTH Architecture. He runs his own architectural practice since 1993 as owner of Rosenbergs Arkitekter, then Alessandro Ripellino Arkitekter. The architecture of the city, which is also the title of Aldo Rossi’s main book, is Alessandro’s main interest, while the building’s architecture and the interest in building’s detailing are characteristic of his work as artistic director and CEO at the Architect’s Office.
Francesca Molteni produces and directs television formats, documentaries, videos and installations, and curates design exhibitions. In 2009 she founded MUSE Factory of Projects in Milan, a production house specializing in contemporary design and architecture. Among the latest films, Openings. Sguardi oltre il limite; Superdesign. Italian Radical Design 1965-75; Il Potere dell’Archivio. Renzo Piano Building Workshop; NEWMUSEUM(S). Storie di archivi e musei d’impresa and Un luogo amico. 150 anni della Fondazione Querini Stampalia di Venezia. She collaborates with La Repubblica, Vogue, Casa Vogue, AD, Elle Decor.
Mattia Colombo was born in 1982. His films include: Il Velo; Alberi che camminano, written with Erri De Luca; Voglio dormire con te; Il passo; Ritmo Sbilenco; Uninvited; B Heroes. He is currently working, together with Valentina Cicogna, on the project Sconosciuti Puri, a documentary film on the activity of Labanof, a laboratory founded by the coroner Cristina Cattaneo that deals with the identification of the “nameless deads”. In 2021 he wrote and directed, with Beniamo Barrese, the short film White Noise, a Muse Factory of Projects production for Molteni&C.
Valeria Parisi has been in the world of video communication for over thirty years. Since 2002 she has collaborated in the creation of the Enciclopedia dei diritti umani (Encyclopedia of Human Rights) for 3D Produzioni and directed some episodes of Storia della Prima Repubblica (History of the First Republic) with Paolo Mieli for Italian public TV. She is the author and director of the film Grida del silenzio on the history of the Armenian genocide, director of Monet, i capolavori dal Musée Marmottan di Parigi; Natalia Ginzburg, storia di una voce; Franco Albini, uno sguardo leggero; Fruttero&Lucentini – Basta il nome; Il Museo del Prado. La corte delle meraviglie con il premio Oscar Jeremy Irons; Maledetto Modigliani; Venezia. Infinita avanguardia.
Artecinema is an international film festival on contemporary art born in 1996 with the aim of making the different expressions of art known to the general public. Through a selection of documentaries on major artists, architects and photographers on the international scene, along with biographies, interviews and narrations edited with archival materials, viewers can enter the world of art by following the artists at work in their studios or behind the scenes of important projects or exhibitions.
The Institute also organizes the event Architecture for cinema – Presentation of the Fellini Museum with Orazio Carpenzano and Leonardo Sangiorgi from Studio Azzurro two days before, on Wednesday the 6th of September.
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