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Scarica Il Press PRESS KIT 1 Reading Bloom 2 Notlm 4 Film 6 Ross Lipman 7 Premi / Riconoscimenti 8 Programmazione 11 Rassegna stampa PRESS KIT READING BLOOM Reading Bloom è una casa di distribuzione cine- matograca nata a Torino nel marzo 2016. Promu- ove documentari, lm saggi e opere sperimentali di particolare interesse artistico e culturale . La società è attiva principalmente in Italia e in Svizzera ma collabora con f ondazioni, case di produzione, restauratori e lmmaker internazionali tra cui Milestone Films, Conner Family Trust, om Andersen e Ross Lipman . Insieme alla Milestone Films, Reading Bloom distribuisce alcune delle opere più suggestive del cinema indipendente americano degli anni Sessanta e Settanta come Killer of Sheep di Charles Burnett e e Connection di Shirley Clarke. Reading Bloom è inoltre impegnata nella promozi- one dell’ultimo progetto di Ross Lipman, e Exploding Digital Inevitable, una performance-es- say su Crossroads dell’artista sperimentale Bruce Conner a cui il MoMa, l’SFMoma e il Museo Reina Sofía hanno dedicato di recente un’importante retrospettiva, “Bruce Conner: It’s All True”. Read- ing Bloom è lieta di contribuire alla diusione e alla valorizzazione dei lm di Bruce Conner (A Movie, ree Screen Ray, Report...) per conto del Conner Family Trust. www.readingbloom.com [email protected] 1 PRESS KIT NOTFILM NOTFILM Barney Rosset mi diede le registrazioni audio e le scene tagliate. L’idea di Notlm è nata mentre le passavo in rassegna. Ross Lipman Nel 1964 il drammaturgo irlandese Samuel Beckett Notlm, un “cine-saggio” che riporta alla luce mate- si imbarcò in una delle più aascinanti avventure riali d’archivio straordinari (registrazioni audio, della storia del cinema: la sua travagliata collabora- scene tagliate, fotograe, appunti, lettere) mostran- zione con il genio del cinema muto Buster Keaton do interviste inedite a critici, attori, editori e nella produzione di un controverso lm d’avanguar- cineasti (tra cui Haskell Wexler, Kevin Brownlow, dia: Film. Beckett era vicino all’apice della sua fama, James Karen, Barney Rosset, Steve Schapiro, Jean- che sarebbe culminata con l’assegnazione del Premio nette Seaver, James Knowlson e Billie Whitelaw). Nobel cinque anni più tardi. Keaton, negli anni del Prodotto da Dennis Doros e Amy Heller della Mile- suo declino, non avrebbe vissuto abbastanza per stone Films, Notlm ci conduce dietro le quinte di vedere la canonizzazione di Beckett. Il cortometrag- Film e in una suggestiva esplorazione del cinema gio, che realizzarono insieme al regista Alan Schnei- muto e sperimentale – da Charlie Chaplin a Buster der, all’editore della Grove Press Barney Rosset e al Keaton, a Luis Buñuel, Dziga Vertov e Jean Vigo – direttore della fotograa Boris Kaufman, è stato sulle note del compositore ungherese Mihály Víg, oggetto di lodi e condanne. stretto collaboratore del regista Béla Tarr. Cinquant’anni dopo il suo memorabile debutto alla Notlm è un omaggio a due eccezionali artisti del Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Ross Lipman, rino- Novecento, Beckett e Keaton, ma è anche al contem- mato lmmaker e restauratore di Los Angeles, ne po uno dei più appassionati tributi all’histoire(s) du ripercorre la travagliata vicenda produttiva in cinéma. 2 PRESS KIT NOTFILM NOTFILM 2015, 2k, 128’, b/n e col. v.o. ing. sott. ita./ted./fra. Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, narrazione, montaggio: Ross Lipman Interviste a: Kevin Brownlow, Judith Douw, S.E. Gontarski, James Karen, Buster Keaton, James Knowlson, Leonard Maltin, Mark Nixon, Barney Rosset, Steve Schapiro, Jean Schneider, Jeannette Seaver, Haskell Wexler, Billie Whitelaw E con le voci di: Samuel Beckett, Boris Kaufman, Alan Schneider Musiche orginali: Mihály Víg Prima proiezione: 17 ottobre 2015 | 59° BFI London Film Festival Produzione e distribuzione internazionale: Milestone Films Distribuzione italiana e svizzera: Reading Bloom 3 PRESS KIT FILM FILM Una cella. Non c’è niente in questo posto, in questa stanza… che non sia messo lì per intrappolarlo. Samuel Beckett L’unica sceneggiatura cinematograca di Samuel archetipiche di Film sono ulteriormente accentuate Beckett si intitola archetipicamente Film e prende dalla splendida fotograa di Boris Kaufman, fratel- ispirazione dalla massima del losofo irlandese lo di Dziga Vertov e Mikhail Kaufman, creatori del George Berkeley “esse est percipi” (l’essere è essere capolavoro autoriessivo L’uomo con la macchina percepito). Film è essenzialmente una parodia dei da presa. lm d’inseguimento: un Oggetto (O/Object) tenta Prodotto da Barney Rosset, editore della Grove disperatamente di sfuggire allo “sguardo indaga- Press e dell’Evergreen Review, “Film è al contempo tore” di un Occhio (Eye/E) che lo insegue e a “ogni il risultato di una straordinaria squadra di talenti e percezione estranea, animale, umana, divina”. Ma un enigma che pone più domande di quante ne alla ne “il tentativo di non essere si vanica di soddis” (Ross Lipman). fronte all’ineluttabilità della percezione di sé”, scrive Beckett nella sceneggiatura. La macchina da Film torna nelle sale cinematograche in una splen- presa insegue l’immagine e scopre l’orrore esisten- dida versione restaurata e rimasterizzata in 4k, a ziale annidato nell’apparato stesso del cinema. cura di Ross Lipman, in collaborazione con la UCLA Oggetto e Occhio sono interpretati da Buster Film & Television Archive e il British Film Insti- Keaton, che fu ingaggiato da Beckett e dal regista tute. Il restauro è stato nanziato dal programma Alan Schneider dopo i riuti di Charlie Chaplin, Avant-Garde Masters della Film Foundation attra- Zero Mostel e Jack MacGowran. Le componenti verso la National Film Preservation Foundation. 4 PRESS KIT FILM FILM 1965, 35mm/4k, 22’, b/n v.o. Regia: Alan Schneider Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Samuel Beckett Fotograa: Boris Kaufman Montaggio: Sidney Meyers Scenograa: Burr Smidt Riprese: Joseph F. Coey Interpreti: Buster Keaton (Oggetto e Occhio), James Karen e Susan Reed (coppia di passanti), Nell Harrison (vecchia signora) Produzione: Barney Rosset per l’Evergreen eatre Prima proiezione: 4 settembre 1965 | 26a Mostra internazionale d’arte cine- matograca di Venezia Distribuzione internazionale: Milestone Films Distribuzione italiana e svizzera: Reading Bloom 5 PRESS KIT ROSS LIPMAN ROSS LIPMAN è un co hanno dedicato di recen- Accanto alla sua attività di lmmaker indipendente e te un'importante retrospet- archivista, Lipman si uno dei massimi esperti nel tiva – “Bruce Conner: It’s esibisce in performance di restauro del patrimonio All True” – che dal 22 live cinema e tiene frequen- cinematograco. Negli febbraio al 22 maggio 2017 ti conferenze presso univer- ultimi sedici anni ha sarà allestita al Museo sità e istituti di cultura lavorato alla UCLA Film & Reina Sofía di Madrid. internazionali. I suoi scrit- Television Archive curando Il 29 gennaio 2017 Lipman ti, incentrati sulla storia, la i restauri di numerose pelli- ha presentato all'IFFR tecnologia e l’estetica del cole indipendenti e speri- International Film Festival cinema, sono apparsi su mentali, tra cui Shadows di di Rotterdam la prima riviste e pubblicazioni John Cassavetes, Killer of mondiale di e Exploding accademiche. I suoi lm Sheep di Charles Burnett, Digital Inevitable, una sperimentali sono stati e Connection di Shirley "performance-essay" su uno proiettati in prestigiosi Clarke, e ancora: opere di dei lm più celebri di festival e musei internazi- Charlie Chaplin, Orson Conner, Crossroads (1976). onali come il Sammlung Welles, Bruce Conner, Per l’impegno profuso nella Goetz di Monaco, l’Ober- om Andersen, Kent conservazione e nel restau- hausen Film Festival and Mackenzie, Barbara Loden, ro del patrimonio cine- Archive, il Balazs Bela Kenneth Anger, Rob matograco, Lipman è Studios di Budapest e Epstein e Robert Altman. stato insignito di numerosi l’Academy of Motion Lipman è attualmente premi e onoricenze; tra Picture Arts and Sciences. impegnato nella conser- questi il National Society of Notlm (2015), un cine-sag- vazione e nel restauro dei Film Critics’ Heritage gio sulla collaborazione tra lm dell'artista americano Award, l’Anthology Film Samuel Beckett e Buster Bruce Conner (1933-2008), Archives’ Preservation Keaton in Film di Samuel a cui il Museum of Modern Honor e il New York Beckett – di cui ha curato Art (MoMA) di New York e Museum of Modern Art’s anche il restauro –, è il suo ROSS LIPMAN l'SFMOMA di San Francis- Conservator of Choice. primo lungometraggio. 6 PRESS KIT PREMI / RICONOSCIMENTI PREMI RICONOSCIMENTI FILM Artforum (Nicole Brenez) | Top 10 Film 2015 Mostra del cinema di Venezia | Diploma di Merito 1965 Christian Science Monitor | Menzione d’onore 2016 New York Film Festival | 1965 IndieWire (Daryl Chin) | Top 10 Documentari 2016 London Film Festival | Outstanding Film of the Year 1965 IndieWire (Aaron Cutler) | Top 10 Film 2016 Oberhausen Film Festival | Preis der Kurtzlmtage 1966 Paste (Tanya Goldman) | Top 5 Documentari 2016 Tours Film Festival | Prix Spécial du Jury 1966 Paste (Tanya Goldman) | Top 50 Film 2016 Sydney Film Festival | 1966 Le Prix Scribe Pour Le Cinéma | Menzione d’onore 2015 Kraków Film Festival | 1966 Riverfront Times (Robert Hunt) | Miglior Documentario 2016 Slate (Dana Stevens) | Top 10 Film 2016 Slate (Dana Stevens) | Top 5 Documentari 2016 Village Voice (Tim Grierson) | Top 10 Film 2016 Village Voice (David Sterritt) | Top 10 Film 2016 NOTFILM 7 PRESS KIT PROGRAMMAZIONE PROGRAMMAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE 2015 BFI London Film Festival CPH:DOX Londra, 17-18 ottobre Copenhagen, 15 novembre Première mondiale 20162016 IFFR International
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