"Snags in Palladio"
by Michele Manzini, 6 min 03 sec , 2015
Direction and Screenplay: Michele Manzini
Choreography: Barbara Canal and Michele Manzini
Performers: Barbara Canal and Denise Brigo, Giulia Eberle, Claudia Mantese, Valentina Mantese,Eleonora Pasin, Elisa Zanetti.
Director of photography: Luciano Perbellini
Films and Editing: Valeria Lo Meo
In the modern era, when tensions and contradictions become so bitter and extreme as to threaten the destiny of humankind, the concept of beauty reappears as an idea that makes differences visible without destroying them. It is at this point that the enigma of beauty is unveiled, revealing its complex, paradoxical and contradictory nature
Awards and Mentions
_2015 Euroshorts 2015, Warsaw (short list) _2016 Perth Screendance Awards, Perth Concert Hall, UK (finalist) _2017 Greensboro Dance Film Festival, University of North Carolina, Project Space, (winner)
Festival and Screenings
_2015 Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy (screening/video installation) _2015 Officine Caos Theatre, Turin, Italy (screening) _2015 DMJ International Video Festival, Saitama, Japan (official selected) _2015 The Northwest Screendance Exposition, Oregon (official selected) _2015 In Shadow, Lisbon (official selected), International Festival of Video
_2015 CODEC, Mexico City, (official selected), Festival de Video y Creaciones Sonoras _2016 Screen Dance Miami, (official selected), Perez Art Museum Miami _2016 Dance on Camera, New York (selected)_Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, N.Y. _2016 Time is Love Screening #9, Plateau Gallery, Berlin. (screening) _2016 OkDFF,(official selected), Tulsa AHHA Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma _2016 List i Ljosi Light Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (screening) _2016 Centro Cultural Aliac, Mexico City (screening) _2016 Time is Love Screening #9, Galerie de la Voute, Paris (screening) _2016 Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotà, (official selected) _2016 ScreenDance Festival, (official selected) DansMuseet, Stockholm _2016 2° Encontro National de Performance, Pachuca Hidalgo, Mexico (screeening) _2016 Play it, videoart screening, Museo Carmen Thyssen, Malaga (screening)
...and 49 other international selections
