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31.07 A night with Anton Corbijn

By Ophelie Raven • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Events

Visionary Cinema of Udine dedicate the night of July 31 to enter the Netherlands Anton Corbjin. At 21 will be screened the film 'Control' dedicated to the story of Ian Curtis and Joy Division, reviewed enthusiastically in the world after its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.
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Fragile inner geometries: Francesca Woodman

By Raven Ophelie • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: Articles

"And I
are the arrow,
The dew that flies
suicide, made with a momentum
inside the eye
scarlet, the crucible of the morning. '
Sylvia Plath, 'Ariel'

Countless negative piled one above the other. A Yashica SLR 2 _ x 2 _, a film in black and white and thoughts. A restless spirit, curious, inquisitive. A poet of photography. A Sylvia Plath of [...]



David Lachapelle: a retrospective in Milan

By Raven Ophelie • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: Events

From September 25 to January 6 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the famous American photographer David Lachapelle.
The retrospective will host over 350 works of famous artist pià shots: portraits of international stars, the images created for the most important magazines in the world including 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' and [...]



Silk Dreams: the fashion of the Belle Epoque

By Raven Ophelie • Nov 7th, 2007 • Category: Events

From 3 to 11 November 2007, during the ten years of the event 'The Goose Game' in Mirano, near Venice, at the Wing of Villa Morosini, an exhibition will take place Intolerance "Silk Dreams" dedicated to women's fashion between 1890 and 1915.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 10 am to 12:30 [...]



Russolo W!

By Raven Ophelie • Aug 29th, 2007 • Category: Articles , Events

Luigi Russolo was born in Portogruaro May 7, 1885 and was a painter and composer. Son of an organist, after a fleeting approach to music, he decided to concentrate on painting. Influenced initially by pointillism, Russolo, Boccioni with his friend, he discovered and joined to the futurism 'Manifesto of Futurist Painters'. In 1913 he published [...]



New Flowers New Saints Staff Omar Galliani

By Raven Ophelie • Aug 2nd, 2007 • Category: Events

'The existent score moves between high and low, between the instinct of life and death, in the natural transformation of things, the flower is regenerated in the earth as flesh that re-blooms in other forms. Music as poetry and art in general make the transition less painful but more complex. The [...]



The desire of desire

By Ophelie Raven • Jul 19th, 2007 • Category: Reviews

Presented at the latest exhibition at Berlin Film 'Sehnsucht' in Italian 'Desire', is the second film of director Valeska Grisebach.
'Sehnsucht' tells a story of betrayal in the most ordinary German province. In a small village near Berlin, a young married couple living: Ella (Ilka Welz) home and Markus (Andreas Mueller) blacksmith and volunteer firefighter. [...]



La vie en rose

By Raven Ophelie • May 8th, 2007 • Category: Reviews

'La fille de joie est Belle / Au coin de la rue Labasa / Elle a une clientèle / Here he remplit are low / when I boulot s'achève / Elle s'en va à son tour / Chercher un peu de rêve / Dans un bal du Faubourg '(The Accordion)
'Meme' is the latest film by Olivier Dahan ('The Crimson Rivers II') devoted entirely to biographical singer [...]



April 21, 2007 Laibach Live Mortegliano (UD)

By Raven Ophelie • Apr 25th, 2007 • Category: Reports

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Alberto De Crescenzo - loops

By Raven Ophelie • Apr 6th, 2007 • Category: Events

'We mourn the lips of all the fine passing away that we could not hold'

Sings Fabrizio De Andre 'translating a text by Georges Brassens meetings devoted to speed and they look comforting in moments of solitude. And it is the bystanders was the theme of the Milan exhibition of Alberto De [...]