The City of Venice with AGIRE, the Venetian Energy Agency, in collaboration with the private companies GIANT-GIEM and WEMPOWER is supporting three experimental project to use waves to generate renewable energy that could meet the energy demand of schools and public buildings.
video: Energia pulita dalla marea – VeneziaEnergia on youtube
24 September > 1 October 2011
link: Program – 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia
txt: MUTANTI is the title of the 55th International Festival of Contemporary Music
We live in a world that makes not only thought, exploration and effort, but pencil and paper, practice and crafting as well, seem anachronistic. Now that everything is available at the click of a mouse, the temptation of erasing our memory is becoming increasingly evident, as we dream of becoming lighter. The 2011 Music Biennale talks about mutants, about something that is ending, at least in the form familiar to us now, to become something else.
video: Sò ancora vivo, grassie a tutti (SOS#1)
It’s just a memory: it was the nineties, we were at the imbarcadero of Venice Lido. Then the vaporetto arrived in piazza Roma. Wherever you heard this song. I remember a spritz. Then the train left. Really happy hours.
Stàme bèn, Skardi. Grassie dea musica.
The 68th Venice International Film Festival – August 31 to September 10 2011.
link: www.labiennale.org
Venice, SALA DARSENA 5 Sept. 4:30 p.m.
GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – VENICE DAYS
IO SONO LI by Andrea Segre (Italy, France, 96’, language: Italian, Chinese, s/t English/Italian) cast: Zhao Tao, Rade Sherbedgia, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston
txt: IO SONO LI – yolefilm on vimeo
Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and
enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet” by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years. Their encounter is a poetic escape from solitude, a silent dialogue between cultures that are different, yet not more distant. It is an odyssey into the deep heart of a lagoon, which can be both the mother and cradle of identities, which never keep still.
But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and local communities, who interfere with this new voyage, which they are perhaps simply too afraid
of.
