Double Screen: A season of Italian cinema

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A lecture and screening series focusing on Italian film and video art since the 1960s is being held at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is part of the Meet in Beijing Art Festival.

How have Italian artists experimented with moving images since the 1960s?

The question can only be answered with an extensive historical survey consisting of four screening programs totaling about eight hours.

A poster for the Double Screen event. /Handout Photo

The event is named "Double Screen," and it has two meanings: The image of the activity and the image art. The two forms of expression blend in the artistic imagination of the same artist and interact with each other.

The series lasts for two days over the weekend with 64 films, videotapes and digital works being shown to the public.

This selection is curated by Bruno Di Marino. He chose a diachronic approach for the survey by presenting the development of cinema and art video in a series of programs.

"I want to explain better to the public the difference and the passage from cinema and videotape in the 60s, and the passage from analogic to digital image at the end of the 90s," said Mr. Marino.

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The screening brings audiences with many experimental and avant-garde films during different periods in Italy.

The event is hosted by China Central Academy of Fine Arts and Italian Institute of Culture.

One of the curators, Rosario Scarpato, has been in China for over 25 years and has always been keen to bring Italian culture to China.

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"From 2002 to 2011, me and my wife, we opened a gallery at 798. We organized more than 50 contemporary art shows and international cultural exchanges between Italy, Europe and China," he said.

The annual Meet in Beijing art festival is in its 18th year and has Italy as the guest of honor. It provides a great opportunity for boosting cultural exchanges between the two sides.