NEW!! LONDON - BETWEEN ART FILM IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE " YERVANT GIANIKIAN AND ANGELA RICCI LUCCHI - ANGELA'S DIARIES" - I DIARI DI ANGELA - NOI DUE CINEASTI - TATE MODERN STARR CINEMA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5TH 2018 6,30 PM - BANKSIDE LONDON SE1 9TG
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Watercolours by Angela Ricci Lucchi. Photography: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Yervant Gianikian
In Between Art Film is pleased to announce
YERVANT GIANIKIAN AND ANGELA RICCI LUCCHI
ANGELA'S DIARIES
[I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti]
TATE MODERN
STARR CINEMA
Wednesday, December 5th 2018
6:30 pm
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
London SE1 9TG
RESERVATION IS RECOMMENDED
Angela always kept a diary, writing and drawing in it every day: public events, private matters, people she had met and things she had read, everything was noted down. Even accounts of two
trips to Russia, 1989-1990. Just when the USSR was crumbling.
A diary about little Chinese books, even from before Dal Polo all’Equatore (1986) and our continuous work on violence in the 20th century. From our tours around the United States with “Scented Films” in the late 1970s to the Anthology Film Archive of New York and Berkeley Pacific Film Archive.
As I reread these diaries and watch again the cine diaries of those years, I am now on my own after living and working together on art projects for so many years. I took her with me to the Eastern Alps she she loved so much and where we used to go walking together. Angela comes back to life for me in her handwritten words in a light calligraphy that accompanies her drawings, watercolours, and her watercolours, including the rolls some ten metres and more in length.
I watch our long forgotten private films – the recordings that lie behind our work of re-reading and re-signifying the archive of documentary film.
Everyday life made up of just ordinary things, the people who were close to us, our research in the world of archive materials, a trip to Soviet Armenia with the actor Walter Chiari.
Testimonies we collected over the years.
These are my recollections of Angela and our life together. As I reread these notebooks I discover others I knew nothing about. New things emerging from her final writings and drawings: on the Gothic Line as a young girl, in “the frontline” during the Second World War. Art school with Oskar Kokoschka in Austria. Pages all about him, Dresden. South Tyrol, the house where Mahler composed “The Song of the Earth”, his love for Alma Mahler, making a doll that looked just like her, the artist’s obsession. Angela’s “crazy kids” in a special school and her decision to give up art to work for the community for a number of years, intent on helping these kids. Only to return with even great energy to our art work together.
One final roll is all about her childhood, family and public life.
I make a real effort. Looking back over all the notebooks composing Angela’s endless Diary and taking another look back at those private films of ours that accompany our research.
My desperate attempt to have her back at my side again, to bring her back to life, so that we can carry on our work together as our purpose and mission in life, through her notebooks and drawings, a sort of map of what I now need to do, containing all the guidelines and how I should continue. Angela and I have made plans for important new projects together.
A promise, a pledge, to continue our work.
Yervant Gianikian
I DIARI DI ANGELA - NOI DUE CINEASTI
PRODUCED BY IN BETWEEN ART FILM
PRODUCED BY IN BETWEEN ART FILM
Angela Ricci Lucchi passed away on 28th February in Milan.
In this film Yervant read fragments from Angela’s diaries upon their private images.
Angela's daily entries chronicle everything from the couple's 'Scented Films' tour in late 70s to the making of their landmark film From the Pole to the Equator in the 80s, to her memories of childhood and the second world war, to their travels, research and private films. Offering insight into the couple's approach to resignifying archival and stock footage and their deep commitment to telling the stories of violence in the 20th century, the film is a testament to the life, work and passion of two influential cineasts.
YERVANT GIANIKIAN AND ANGELA RICCI LUCCHI: ANGELA'S DIARIES
[I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti]
TATE MODERN
STARR CINEMA
Wednesday, December 5th 2018
6:30 pm
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
RESERVATION IS RECOMMENDED
Programme
Introduction by Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator, International Art (Film)
Introduction by Robert Lumley, author of Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Introduction by Yervant Gianikian
Angela's Diaries [I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti], Italy 2018, DCP, colour, sound, 125 min, Italian, Russian, French, English with English subtitles
Introduction by Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator, International Art (Film)
Introduction by Robert Lumley, author of Entering the Frame: Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Introduction by Yervant Gianikian
Angela's Diaries [I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti], Italy 2018, DCP, colour, sound, 125 min, Italian, Russian, French, English with English subtitles
This programme is supported by Italian Cultural Institute, London.
Biography
Angela Ricci Lucchi was born in Ravenna in 1942. She studied painting in Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka. She passed away on 28th February in Milan.
Yervant Gianikian studied architecture in Venice before deciding to focus on film in the mid- 1970s. Meeting Angela Ricci Lucchi was a turning point in both her artistic career and private life.
Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s films have been shown at the most important international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Toronto, the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Turin and the ‘Giornate del Cinema Muto’ (silent film festival). Retrospectives of their work have been hosted at some of the world’s most important film archives (i.e. Cinémathèque Française, Filmoteca Española, Cinemateca Portuguesa and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley) and in museums like MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London and Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Among those places that have hosted their installations, it is at least worth mentioning the Venice Biennial, Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, Fundacio “La Caixa” in Barcelona, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville, the Mart in Rovereto, Witte de With Museum in Rotterdam, Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago, Hangar Bicocca in Milan, and Documenta 14 in Kassel.
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