A look back at AsoloArtFilmFestival

On Sunday, the 8th October ended the 25th edition of AsoloArtFilmFestival, into Eleonora Duse Theatre. The whole day took place in the Theatre from 11:30 am, where the documentary “The making of Ça Ira – Behind the scenes of Roger Waters” of Adrian Maben has been projected. The director, who arrived in Asolo the evening before, withdrew the “Prize for the Career “Flavia Paulon” , in front of a large audience and the jury of the Festival, at 17:30. The prestigious prize awarding is due to the bond the director keeps going with the history of Asolo Festival: as a matter of fact he won the “Prize Asolo for the research of Sound Track” in 1976 with the film Jaacov Agam and in 1977 with L’Art et la machine.

Author of the historic film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompei, Maben gave to the Audience of Asolo the documentary about Waters’ work, presented in Poznan ( Poland) last August. The Prize for the Career “Flavia Paulon” was bestowed to Tonino Guerra too, poet and successful scriptwriter. Asolo Festival wanted to pay homage to the artist who represents the Italian Arthouse Film, who fed on his writing art in the past and still does it. The Prize was withdrawn by the journalist and juryman Toni Jop.



The closing day reflected for its importance and quality the opening one, Wednesday the 4th October, when Asolo Festival hosted the Artist Hermann Nitsch. The Special Prize AsoloArtFilmFestival Art & Culture and the Cup Damini was bestowed to the Artist at 21:00. The awarding of the prestigious Prize went along with the participation of Beppe Morra and the international art critical Michail Huebl in front of the jury of the Festival, the press and the exponents of art and culture world.



In the hall attended also the director P. Kasperak, the author of two documentaries about Nitsch’s work, presented to the public in Theatre Duse after the giving of the Prize.



This 25th Edition, characterized by a 7 member jury, Enrico Ghezzi as president, Mario Brenta, Vittoria Coen, Toni Jop, Mark McIlrath, Guglielmo Monti and Floriano Steiner, awarded The Long Walk by Michael Vale with the Asolo Prize for the Best Film about Art; the Asolo Prize for the Best Artist Biography was given to Piccolo Sole- Vita e morte of Henri Crolla by Nino Bizzarri and to Quando l’arte si tace by Riccardo De Cal; the Asolo Prize for the Best Work about Architecture was won by Appunti romani by Marco Bertozzi; Asolo Prize for the Best work about Videoart and Computer Art to Blindschatten by Gerald Grote; Asolo Prize for the Best Production of Cinema Schools to Aal im Schädel by Martin Rahmlow; the Gian Francesco Malipiero Prize for the Best Sound Track to Aetiology by Stinus Lysdal Savitsky Patel; The Asolo Big Prize for the Best Work in Concourse to The Slippery Mountain by Galina Myznikova; Asolo Big Special Prize, a prize that was decided by the jury during the reunion, to Codeine by Peyman Mandegav. The Grant available thanks to UNIST, Università degli Studi di Torino, for a Master that can be choosen between Master in Scripture for the Television and New Media and Master in Multimedia Production was assigned to the young directors of the film Andy’s Postcard, Greta Berlese, Marco Buffon, Massimo Marcolin, Daniel Spadetto from DAMS in Padova.



2006 Edition was characterized besides by two extraordinary events that framed the concourse: the performances, the shows and the concerts that built the FestivalFuori, the happenings container of AsoloArtFilmFestival, or the SpritzArt, a special aperitif for the occasion to meet Enrico Ghezzi, Toni Jop and the national and international artists attending to the Festival. This special moment was born to allow people to follow the work of the Jury of the Concourse, to meet and dialogue with the artists and meanwhile to assist to suggestive and involving events, proposed by the various performances contained in the programme. Moreover, in this occasion has been presented the special bottle of SpritzArt, with labels designed by the artist Mirco Luzzi; the drink and the happening SpritzArt were realized with the collaboration of Caffè Centrale of Asolo and the Premiata Distilleria Brotto from Cornuda.



Besides Nitsch and Maben, Asolo Festival had the honour to host two important artists performing magnificent concerts: Ben Patterson on Friday, the 6th October and Philip Corner the day after, on Saturday the 7th October, the Fluxus artist Ben Patterson (Pittsburgh 1934) proposed a surprising concert: a performance that started form the Garden of the Castle and got to the Square of Asolo, in front of Caffè Centrale, where Patterson inaugurated a little table dedicated to Joe Jones. The artist was director of this astonishing concert, composed also by a dog chorus, 30 instrumentalists and with the extraordinary participation of the soprano Olga Scalone. Patterson tour previewed halts were the artist paid homage to the big names of Fluxus and avant-garde, from Moorman, to Chiari and to Paik, from Ono to Brecht and Tone.



The artist Philip Corner ( New York, 1933) realized a performance that started from the Central Square in Asolo, expanded though the streets of Asolo and got to the Garden of the Castle in Asolo. The whole performance saw a concert where participated the Orchestra Filarmonica Veneta, which had the artist as director: Corner leaded the musicians, connected like hypothetic asparagus bunches, along the itinerary. The concert was the moment to remind John Cage, LaMonte, Young, Geoffrey Hendricks and Davide Mosconi.





Throughout the FestivalFuori, Asolo became a Theatre where, five days long, national and international artists proposed different meditations about art and the man in XXI Century conditions, through the immediate language of the performances and the testimonies of Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman and Joe Jones, undisputed protagonists of Asolo avant-garde in the ‘70, to whom Asolo desired to pay homage. Ale Guzzetti, Matteo Guarnaccia, Arrigo Lola Totino, FLATZ, Guglielmo Di Mauro, Jakob De Chirico, Lamberto Pignotti, Massimo Tantardini, Antonio Lai and Clare Ann Matz, Giuseppe Papagni and Paolo Ciarchi.



From October the 4th to the 8th was possible to enjoy the special meals created in order to celebrate the 25th AsoloArtFilmFestival anniversary: Hosteria Ca’ Derton prepared a meal dedicated to Joe Jones; in Ristorante 200 was possible to taste the one to Charlotte Moorman, in Osteria Al Bacaro a whole menu dedicated to Nam June Paik.



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