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THREE MINUTES | AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICCARDO GHILARDI

Press Preview 18 October at 12:30 | Foyer Sala Sinopoli (Auditorium Parco della Musica)

Photographer Riccardo Ghilardi’s passionate eye guides us through a journey punctuated with the best-known faces of cinema stars and catches them in the iconic locations that year after year showcase the dream factory of cinema: Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Los Angeles, home of the Oscars® and the Golden Globes, as well as Toronto, Rome, New York and many more.

The exhibition features fifty portraits Ghilardi shot during his artistic life and professional career travelling to international film festivals as a portrait photographer for the international agency Contour by Getty Images. Ghilardi’s camera has always caught the stars at those very moments just before the lights go up on the red carpet, or right after they have been turned off, when the celebrities reclaim their intimacy and humanity, loading up on them, it seems, to steel themselves for the next round in the spotlight. As Ghilardi himself has observed: “Those were my moments, when I tried to catch their essence. I had the honour of having my own ‘slots’ in the packed festival schedule, and I took these portraits of the ‘people’ behind the celebrity.” The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Rai Cinema and with the support of Istituto Luce-Cinecittà.

 Opening hours

18 – 28 October from 9:00 – 24:00

Foyer Sala Sinopoli, Foyer Sala Petrassi (Auditorium Parco della Musica)

Free admission

“RISO AMARO” EXHIBITION

Press Preview 18 October at 13:00 | Cinema Village (Auditorium Parco della Musica)

Continuing last year's commitment, as part of the project promoted by the Presidency of the Council of Minister’s Department for Equal Opportunities aimed at preventing and halting violence against women, the Rome Film Fest is devoting special attention to this issue. The exhibition “Riso Amaro” presents a selection of works by illustrators, graphic designers, and cartoon artists from around the world: the title paraphrases that of the 1949 film by Giuseppe De Santis, dedicated to the harsh working conditions of Italy’s women rice pickers, in which the main character becomes the victim of rape. The exhibition wields the power of creativity and the scathing language of satire to address a current and serious issue, convinced that satire in its graphic form may serve an important purpose as a manifesto to reflect on and condemn violence against women. The exhibition, organized by the Associazione Culturale Festival Grafico is the brainchild of curator Julio Lubetkin, assisted by arts consultant Marilena Nardi, and will be held in the dedicated stand at the Cinema Village.

Opening hours

18 – 28 October from 12:00 – 22:00

Cinema Village (Auditorium Parco della Musica)

Free Admission

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI EXHIBITION

Press Preview 25 October at 11:00 | Ara Pacis Museum (Lungotevere in Augusta)

Marcello Mastroianni’s was “a life lived in intervals”, or at least, that is how he defined it. Intervals between one set and another or one stage and another, over the course of a career packed with countless films, performances and characters. Now an exhibition shows how tightly interwoven the actor’s personal life and career really were: “Marcello Mastroianni” opens on October 26, during the Rome Film Fest, at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, and runs through January 6. “There’s still a lot to learn about Marcello,” says curator Gian Luca Farinelli, “and to find out everything we can, we need to stick close to his filmography, which is the mirror image of his personal life.” Marcello Mastroianni’s whole life and career shine through a selection of the most celebrated portraits of the actor, clips from his films, recordings of his shows and a variety of mementos, in a visual and narrative tour de force that constitutes a full immersion in Italy’s most famous film icon. The Marcello Mastroianni exhibition is promoted by Roma Capitale and the Councillorship for Cultural Development – Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage; it is co-produced and curated by the Cineteca di Bologna, with the support of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Istituto Luce – Cinecittà. Museum services by Zetema Progetto Cultura, management coordination by Camilla Morabito’s Equa.

Opening hours

26 October 2018 – 6 January 2019

Ara Pacis Museum (Lungotevere in Augusta)

www.arapacis.it/

EXHIBITION "PIERO TOSI. EXERCISES IN BEAUTY. HIS YEARS AT CSC 1988 – 2016"

The exhibition “Piero Tosi. Exercises in Beauty: His years at CSC. 1988-2016” reconstructs the teaching career of the great costume designer at Italy’s oldest and most important film school. Piero Tosi was one of the most brilliant creators of costumes for the cinema, for stage and for opera productions, and television, as the Oscar© for Lifetime Achievement he received from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2013 attests. In twenty-eight years of teaching at the CSC - Experimental Cinematography Centre (from 1988 to 2016), Tosi trained dozens of young talents, such as Massimo Cantini Parrini, Daniela Ciancio, Andrea Cavalletto and Andrea Sorrentino, and worked with all the young actors and directors who studied at CSC while he was there. The exhibition describes this work and his mission as a teacher, inextricably intertwined with Tosi's career on sets and stages all over the world.

Opening hours

16 October 2018 – 20 January 2019

Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma (Via Nazionale, 194)

www.palazzoesposizioni.it

THE PRISONER | EXHIBITION OF WORK BY MARINA SAGONA

Press Preview 17 October from 18:00-21:00 | Fondaco Gallery (Via della Frezza 49-51, Roma)

In a series of drawings and sculptures, as well as a sound piece, Marina Sagona illustrates the pain and claustrophobia of bad relationships. As author Claire Messud writes in her essay introducing this work: “Co-dependent love entails a passionate devotion to the unrequited, a desire for self-abnegation. Its ironies are rife: how readily we give of ourselves, believing that eventually our sacrifices will be recognized; how thoroughly we put the needs and desires of the troubled before our own; how proud we are of our ability to stand in the heart of the flames, and burn. The new work by Marina Sagona, expression of these ironies, illuminates both the danger and the allure—the beauty, even—of this state... and (at the same time) calls into question our entire pornographic age, the dehumanizing spectacle that not simply sexuality but human relationships more broadly risk becoming". The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Hdrà and Municipio Roma I Centro.

Opening hours

17 October – 17 November from 11:00-19:30

Fondaco Gallery (Via della Frezza 49-51, Roma)

Free admission