In Motion, Istituto Svizzero

30.04.2025

In Motion

Screening, Talk, Roma

H18:30-21:00
“I Pomeriggi” series

Dates

30.04.2025

Location

Roma

Category

Screening, Talk

Information

H18:30-21:00
“I Pomeriggi” series

In Motion – Crafting places for a multicultural cinematic practice

Free entrance, register here

Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, Roma

The event is part of the series I Pomeriggi dedicated to the Fellows.
Curated by Domenico Singha Pedroli (Fellow Roma Calling / Visual Arts, Film)

Featuring Giona A. Nazzaro, Ana Vaz and Eduardo Williams

English, French and Italian

The notion of place and the fluidity in its definition represent generative thematic cores for the practices of numerous filmmakers. In Motion, Crafting places for a multicultural cinematic practice unfolds through screenings of experimental short films and debate sessions between various directors. The event offers an opportunity to discuss the intimate connection between geography and authorial identity, in the context of the guests’ film practices, and the technical tools used to narrate the cultural and political complexity of the realities addressed, from 16mm film to the latest 360° cameras.

I was born in a multicultural context, between Switzerland and Thailand, my family’s places of origin. Questioning my sense of belonging and finding a coherent point of view have therefore structured my artistic research from the very beginning. At the centre of my narratives is the connection between people and places, often in tension with each other, between presence and absence, intimacy and distance. As specific as this experience of identity is, many filmmakers have been confronted with similar issues related to different geographies. To establish a dialogue with them is to nurture a shared reflection on the porosity of borders, be they political, digital or interspecies.

Domenico Singha Pedroli

Programme:

H18:30 Institutional greetings and introduction
Joëlle Comé and Domenico Singha Pedroli, Istituto Svizzero

H18:45 Film screening
Au Revoir Siam, Domenico Singha Pedroli, 2024, 29′
APIYEMIYEKÎ?, Ana Vaz, 2019, 27′
Parsi, Eduardo Williams, 2018, 22′

H20:10 Q&A
Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director Locarno Film Festival

H20:40 Discussion with the audience

Giona A. Nazzaro (1965, Switzerland) is the current Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival. During his career he has been General Delegate of the International Film Critics’ Week at the Venice International Film Festival, member of the artistic committee of IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020) and programmer and curator of the selection committee of Visions du Réel in Nyon (2010 – 2020). He is author and curator of monographs dedicated to Gus Van Sant, Spike Lee and Abel Ferrara.

Domenico Singha Pedroli (1994, Switzerland) is a filmmaker, artist and architect based in Paris and Bangkok. With a multicultural and multidisciplinary approach, his works articulate complex narratives that explore the theme of traces and identity in all their mutability. Trained in architecture at USI and visual arts at Le Fresnoy – Studio national, he has developed a sensibility for photography, film, video art and VR. He is currently a fellow at the Swiss Institute where he is developing his first feature film.

Ana Vaz (1986, Brazil) is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian Midwest, inhabited by the buried ghosts of its modernist capital: Brasília. Her filmography provokes and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and a tool capable of dehumanising the human, expanding connections with non-human or spectral forms of life. As a consequence or expansion of her cinematography, her artistic activities also take the form of writing, critical pedagogy, installations and collective walks. She is currently a scholarship holder at Villa Medici.

Eduardo Williams (1987, Argentina) is a filmmaker and artist whose works explore a fluid mode of observation, in search of shared relationships and spontaneous adventures, within the margins of physical and virtual interconnections. His first feature film, El auge del humano, won the Golden Leopard in the Cineasti del Presente section at the 69th Locarno Film Festival.

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Photo by Davide Palmieri