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art design One Page environment 12 April 2013 One Page is an idea of Duccio Trassinelli & Demetria Verduci Year3n.2 SLOW MOVIE CONTEST Eight directors to tell the Chianti Carolina Mancini low Movie Contest is a La Macina di San Cresci has new short film competition been faced for some time now, Srepresenting the Chianti with the challenge of hosting an Progetto realizzato region in Italy, which aims to artist residency, which receive a promote the area through Art succession of painters, sculptors nell’ambito di (cinema). and writers from around the world. As with the prestigious TOSCANAINCONTEMPORANEA 2012 The contest is open to young Galleria Continua, located in a directors - Italians and foreigners textile factory in San The territory of Chianti is made Materials such as limestone, alike - who will be invited to Gimignano, La Macina di San up of a broad hilly area situated pietra serena and terracotta, spend a week in Chianti, a period Cresci is a great example of a in the centre of Tuscany , which has adapted itself to the in which eight chosen winners rural venue here, which attracts between Florence and Siena , natural landscape over the will produce a short film on the international attention. We closed to the east by the Chianti centuries, producing effects of theme of "Arts & Crafts of the would like the films shot here to mountains and to the west by breathtaking harmony. Region". In the autumn, a share the same remarkable the valleys of the Pesa and Elsa Inhabited since ancient times by preview of the shorts will be qualities of the local products, rivers . It takes in, partially or in the Etruscans, who it appears given at the Odeon Cinema in which are their subjects. A film, their entirety, the municipalities were the first to grow the vines Florence, and other screenings a short film above all, always of San Casciano Val d`Elsa , and many archaeological traces will be offered in the towns that carries in itself the traits of an Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, of whom survive, the area also were involved. A DVD will be artisan product even when (and Barberino Val d`Elsa, and underwent a significant created and distributed nationally this is another one of our goals) it Greve in Chianti ( in the domination by the Romans, in and internationally in festivals, reaches the industrial circuit. To Province of Florence ) and the mediaeval period it was at through collaborations with fulfill these goals the directors Castellina in Chianti, Radda in length the scene of violent cultural associations and arthouse will have to 'get their hands Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti and clashes between the rival cities cinemas. SMC is a biennial event, dirty', get in touch with the earth, Castelnuovo Berardenga ( in the of Florence and Siena, which which aims to focus on excellent to be masters of a technique that province of Siena ) . Famous the only ceased in the mid sixteenth works and to contribute to a more is able to merge with creativity world over for its excellent century with the definitive widespread use of the slow and ingenuity, making art as wine, the Chianti landscape is defeat of the Senese Republic. movement theme, creating type craftsmen. characterized by a continuous This is by now past history, but of visual database. The contest alternation of valleys and gentle it is no mere coincidence that, was founded on the initiative of Cinema is the art of the moving hills cloaked in vines and olives after centuries of antagonism cultural association La Macina di image: in the image there is but also of harsh peaks covered and rivalry, the eight San Cresci, which is organizing memory, in the motion the future. Contest. The delegation to (Describe one or more types of in woods of oaks, cypresses and municipalities of Chianti have the event with the support of the Tha’ is why cinema is the ideal Turkey will be entirely from artisan trades and explain why pines. The entire area is symbolically underwritten an Region of Tuscany (under medium to promote these age- Chianti. The number 8 pursues they best represent your town) scattered with ancient hamlets, agreement - the "Patto di Toscanaincontemporanea), Ente old activities, which manage to us, and to be honest, we have churches and abbeys, turreted Pontignano" - which lays down Cassa di Firenze, in collaboration survive because of their ability to pursued it a little too: its shape is 4) What is the castles and fortresses, common rules for protecting with the Fondazione Sistema innovate. They find the means reminiscent of the infinity importance of filming local farmhouses and tuscany villas . and valorizing their respective Toscana and with the within themselves, as well symbol, it recalls the form of traditions like artisan, historical It is an architectural landscape identities in a unified manner. coordination of the Chianti external means,which enables our hills, and when you write it , professions that no longer exists made up of simple and warm (Fonte: APT Firenze) Municipalities. them to keep on going. your pen never leaves the page. and / or a young person who is The deeper meaning of tradition It is a number that unites. renewing such an ancient craft? Who are the eight directors is about just this: succeding in who will arrive this summer transmitting the genuine What do the municipalities On the next page you will find in Chianti? identity of something, (re) that are taking part and who their reflections. inventing its, without betrayal. will eventually host the Castelnuovo After completion the shorts will Barberino Val d’Elsa Castellina in Chianti The contest is still running (until directors think of the Slow Berardenga Greve in Chianti 30 April) and we are still in the be combined into a single Movie Contest? Sponsor selection process. At the same documentary in 8 parts, which we will disseminate to national time, we are also choosing the We had a word with the Mayors and international festivals, on local artisans and activities that and Councillors of each television, and on the Internet. will be the subjects of the films. territory, asking them the This is the real reward for our The latter task is more difficult: following questions in order to San Casciano Val di Pesa directors and our territory (along Gaiole in Chianti Radda in Chianti Tavarnelle Val di Pesa there are so many local artisans understand of what importance with the always useful and who deserve a whole movie, and this event will play in their attractive prize money). The redefining the activities is a little particular circumstances. In collaboration with: like redrawing the map of the prime objective of our strategy:combine 8 shorts into territory, beyond the confines of 1) Your municipality is one documentary that travels the the winery estates that haves going to host a young director, world - like the 8 towns here always characterized it. Slow how would you describe your united in one region - that works Movie Contest was born from the town to them? desire to boost cultural as an importer and exporter of culture. Ours is a dream, but a Technical Sponsor production throughout Chianti: 2) Has your town hosted dream nourished by practical the 8 young directors who come artists in the past (most results, things that move of will not simply present their recently)? What is the themselves, once we set them in works and talent (this will be the contribution that they have motion. For example, at the final stage of the project), they made? What have they chosen request that came to us recently will carry out their work in the to represent and what struck from the Turkish town of Cavus, Main Sponsor region and with the region. In them the most in your area? describing the activities of these to select eight painters and sculptors, to travel to Turkey in places, their ability to grow and 3) If you were the August for a week of artist Media partner reinvent themselves, the directors director, what are the realities of residency there. Immediately it will contribute to the further your town that you would occurred to us to look for artists development of the territory choose to film? Is there one type representing the 8 municipal itself. of work, above all, that would districts of the Slow Movie represent your town? La Macina di San Cresci Organizzato da: Pieve di San Cresci 1 50022 Greve in Chianti (FI) Italy www.slowmoviecontest.org Tel. 055 8544793 [email protected] www.chianticom.com Residenza perArtisti One Page 12 April 2013 Barberino Val D’Elsa In the words of Patrizia Sollazzi, Councilor of Culture he territory of Barberino Tavarnelle Val di Pesa encircle Giuseppe’s workshop, as they Val d'Elsa is itself a it. A director wouldn’t know tame and bendiron; I would look Twork of art: small where to begin filming in on Paolo and Alessio, who villages clinging to the hills, ...Barberino Val d'Elsa is also are carpenters, and go to Fabio’s Castellina in Chianti where you see vineyards, the birthplace of the poet studio. Roberto, who has taught forests and architectural gems, Francesco and Andrea da his son Giuseppe the art of In the words of the Mayor Marcello Bonechi such as the Dome of Semifonte, Barberino, Pope Urban VIII, the forging iron into shapes and the Romanesque Church of painters Raffaellino del Garbo designs is particularly and Ugo Capocchini, and il Sant 'Appiano, the castles of fascinating to me: it represents a he town of Castellina in maestro Marco Borgianni, status when compared to the Production.

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