The Female Curators

Written by Valentina Biondini, literature amateur

In the second episode of the “Who’s Next?” column, we are going to focus our imaginary camera on an Italian woman who successfully moved into the fields of screenplay and direction, in the first two decades of the last century. This woman goes under the name of Elvira Notari and she is universally known as the first Italian film director and one of the first in the world (together with Alice Guy-Blaché, French director and film producer). Read more →

Interview with the author of the short film presented at the Venice Film Festival.

On September 5th in the occasion of the 76^a  Venice International Film Festival, the Venice Production Bridge presented Il Futuro del Corto d’Autore, Autori Fedic di ieri e di oggi, within of which they played the short film La nascita di Zelda by Gabriele Gasparotti. Read more →

Interview with the Portuguese photographer who explores the connection between individual and reality through a surrealistic black and white.

Can you introduce yourself? And how do you create your shots?

My name is Ricardo Reis and I’m an artist. When I started, I wanted to be a war photographer, but in my home country of Portugal, it’s very difficult to get the connections necessary to achieve that. Anyway, I was fortunate because I got an internship at a daily newspaper in Portugal. This activity led my work to being published in several major newspapers and magazines. Read more →

Human interactions and emotions represented through the deconstruction of space and colors, the inconsistency of outlines, and the indecipherability of bodies. The Kurdish artist Tishk Barzanji illustrations make use of surrealism and modernism to depict human figures within unreal and cinematic scenarios and interiors, who at the same time seem trapped in uneasiness and impasse. Read more →

The Female Curators introduce a new initiative!

We are working on our very first call. This time is a photo contest, so we will be selecting ten shots which theme should represent the concept  “We are what we see”. The selected photos will be part of a gallery published on our blog and Instragram. To be featured: Read more →