HollyShorts Film Festival, 13th Edition
A showcase of the best and brightest short films from around the globe, including Italy! Mostri (Italy) by Adam Selo – Short Live Action Stella1 (16m, Italy) by Roberto D’Ippolito & Gaia Bonsignore – Short Live Action Tickets available HERE. www.hollyshorts.com
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Viaggi in Italia: The Trip to Italy
Join us for a special presentation celebrating travel in Italy, Viaggi in Italia, a series of events co-presented by the IIC and ENIT. The evening includes the screening of the delightful comedy The Trip to Italy (UK, 2014, 108 min) directed by Michael Winterbottom! An IFC Feature Film starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they embark […]
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Design, Environment, Counter-Environment
Professors Felicity Scott, author of Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism, and Mark Wasiuta, curator of Environments and Counter-Environments: Experimental Media in Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972, discuss the intersection of countercultural radicalism and Italian New Wave design in the 1960s. Together they explore how cutting-edge Italian design encompassed fashion, furniture, and architecture […]
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Aldo Iuliano: Penalty
Aldo Iuliano’s award winning drama Penalty has been making waves in the film world, as this wonderful film has received nearly thirty awards and has been selected for five Academy qualifying Film Festivals. Now this exciting film will open in theatres in Los Angeles. Penalty shares the story of a group of guys playing football […]
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Teatro alla Scala Ballet: Giselle
When a young peasant girl discovers her lover is betrothed to another, she dies of grief, only to be enlisted by the vengeful Wilis, a ghostly army of maidens who haunt the forests, dancing to death any male mortal who crosses their path. After her beloved wanders into their grasp, Giselle carries out the ultimate […]
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Part II: Artists and Experimental Cinema in Italy 1960 – 1970 at the IIC
On the occasion of the Hammer Museum exhibit Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space this selection of extremely rare short films, reveals the exciting, eclectic collaborations among painters, poets, directors, and theater actors in 1960s Italy. Films by Tonino De Bernardi, Pia Epremian, Alfredo Leonardi and Plinio Martelli highlight an adventurous underground cinema […]
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Vittorio De Sica: Miracle in Milan
In this Italian neorealist fairy tale, young orphan Totò turns a group of misfits into an inclusive community with the help of an optimistic outlook and a magic dove. When the discovery of oil in the town disrupts their happy existence, they must find a way to regain their freedom. The followup to director Vittorio […]
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Part I: Artists and Experimental Cinema in Italy 1960 – 1970 at the IIC
On the occasion of the Hammer Museum exhibit Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space this selection of extremely rare short films, including Il Mostro Verde, features Merz’s Living Sculpture, revealing the exciting, eclectic collaborations among painters, poets, directors, and theater actors in 1960s Italy. Films by Tonino De Bernardi and Paolo Menzio and artists such […]
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i Palpiti Festival 2017
Among the programs of iPalpiti Artists International, its 20th annual Summer Festival of International Laureates in Los Angeles is emerging as one of the nation’s most significant music festivals and the subject of international accolades. The festival this season will include multiple performances by Italian musicans, Davide de Ascaniis (violin) and Jacopo Giacopuzzi (piano) as […]
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Vogliamo Tutto: Postwar Italian art
Italian art after World War II experienced a remarkable renaissance as artists began experimenting with traditional forms and styles in provocative ways—from the Arte Povera movement in which everyday materials replaced the stones and precious metals of traditional sculpture, to radical innovations in design. Curator Marianna Vecellio, New Museum artistic director Massimiliano Gioni, UCLA Professor […]
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