FILANDO BIELLA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013:
photos by Richard Legaspi
works in progress for the 5th October, click on the thumbnails for a better look:
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Tukka ‘l cel – a project by Muhammad Sohail Azad, Ilaria Biotti and Richard Soriano Legaspi and Marica Vitas at
Bielmonte piazzale 2, in the Oasi Zegna.
The name Tukka’l cel plays with the assonance between touch the sky in the Piedmontese dialect and Tukkal – the name of a fighter kite in Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan. The project aims to be a window on different narratives that might emerge when performing the same gesture, the flight of a kite, in the context of different geographies and socialisations.
group photo by Richard LegaspiThe project is structured into two parts, the first step being the meeting between Muhammad Sohail Azad (buff Kites fighters, Pakistan), Edy Angelino (multiple flight expert with 4 independent stunt kites – unique performance at the international level – passionate in all specialities and manufacturer ) and Andrea Benini (agonist world-class fighters and manufacturer Kites, Italy) who will be the platform in the context of the shooting of an ethno-fiction genre that merges a documentary approach with a fictional aspect. The second meeting was a one day workshop space for informal interaction, the aim is to think through the do’s and provide for the active involvement of thirty participants in the building and flying of kites collective.
The project is inspired by the concept of ‘other space’, the definition of Michel Foucault, “something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality.”(http://www.foucault.info/documents/heterotopia/foucault.heterotopia.en.html). Ilaria Biotti
Congratulations to Michelangelo Pistoletto who has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale 2013 for Painting by the The Japan Art Association.
Michelangelo talks with UNIDEE residents about work for his current exhibition Buco Nero (Black Hole) at the Galleria Continua in San Gimignano.
Il Viale della Stella (The Star Road) is work being developed by UNIDEE resident Anastasia Ryabova, anyone in the Biella area is invited to participate at 2.00pm on 28th September. See below for details:
There is still time to submit to FILANDO BIELLA International 120 second Film Festival 2013.
view teaser trailer below:
Workshop by UNIDEE resident Marica Vitas in collaboration with Fondo Edo Tempia
The workshop is focused on experiencing the path of Gorgomoro in Biella in a completely different way, to look at the elements that surround us from a different angle and find creative modes of using them, it involves the search for new patterns in nature for henna designs applicable in a group design to hands and feet. In exchange, Marica asks for stories/advice/tips from the participants for a good and happy life.
photographs by Sohail Azad
Marica is practicing henna (mehendi) designs inspired by nature, mostly by flowers and floral patterns. Her project is researching and exploring nature at a deeper level to discover new ways to create henna designs by using shadows of natural elements. This is a joint project by Marica Vitas and Muhammad Sohail Azad. Sohail is a Pakistani artist and has associations with henna through the culture of his country. Together they are creating interactive ways to invent new design strategies for henna designs.
Marica is also using henna designs as a medium of socializing through decoration of the body, engaging it with the local community in order to learn more about the stories of heritage and primordial knowledge. Now she is more interested in going back to the roots of all patterns, trying to convey new designs of henna by working with nature’s elements such as leaves, flowers and plants, which are common and can be found everywhere. She plays with these elements to discover new possibilities of developing more organic forms of work as the ground for cooperation between the two.
One to one meetings with Michelangelo Pistoletto:
with Olga Jitlina
with Charles-Antoine Blais Métivier 
with Anastasia Ryabova
Giorgio de Finis presented the film Space Metropoliz in the UNIDEE space.
Metropoliz is an abandoned ex-salami factory in the outskirts of Rome. It is occupied by a diverse group of inhabitants; Italians, Tunisians, Peruvians, Ukrainians, Africans and Romany gypsies, who have fixed it up and made it their home.
The film by Fabrizio Boni and Giorgio de Finis documents their collaboration along with the citizens of Metropoliz, and many others, see trailer here.
“The project Space Metropoliz began from the wish to use cinema asm a tool for gathering creative ideas and for transforming the territory, and to contribute towards the socio environmental regeneration of Metropoliz, an abandoned ex factory where 200 people currently now live. Cinema becomes a device with which we can enter inside Metropoliz and tell its stories, dreams and ambitions, but it is also a tool to make projects and realise them together with the inhabitants of the factory and the area a new space to share and live together”. translation of metropolis website
Giorgio de Finis with Michelangelo Pistoletto
UNIDEE 2013 