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At Fondazione In Between Art Film, we foster dialogues between video, cinema, and performance, supporting artists and institutions whose visions cross the boundaries between creative disciplines.
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Thank you @microclima_ for organizing and involving us once again in Floating Cinema – Unknown Waters; it was such a spellbinding gathering around moving images!
For the 2025 edition, we presented @androeradze’s film “Flowering and Fading” (2024), which we co-produced with @schermodellarte; @kunsthalleformusic’s film “Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut” (2024), which we commissioned and produced on the occasion of our show NEBULA at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice; and @formafantasma’s and @janka_piotrowska’s film “Tactile Afferents” (2023), which we co-produced on the occasion of the studio’s solo exhibition OLTRE TERRA.
Now in its sixth year, our collaboration with Floating Cinema – Unknown Waters is part of our ongoing commitment towards nurturing the culture of moving images on one side, and the city of Venice on the other. Part of this engagement are the the acclaimed exhibitions “Penumbra” (2022) and “Nebula” (2024) at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto.
Presented by Microclima, Floating Cinema – Unknown Waters is a project curated by @edoardo_aruta, Alessandra Messali and Paolo Rosso, in partnership with TBA21–Academy/Ocean Space @tba_21 @oceanspaceorg, Pentagram Stiftung, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection @palazzo_grassi , Fondazione In Between Art Film, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim @guggenheim_venice, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève @centredartcontemporaingeneve, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia @fondationLV
Additional support is provided by Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici @villa_medici, Fondazione Venezia @fondazionedivenezia, Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française @palazzettobruzane, The KHR McNeely Family Fund Kevin, Rosemary e Hannah Rose McNeely
Images credit: @riccardobanfi_ and Microclima 2025
Ali Cherri’s film “The Watchman” (2023), which we commissioned and produced on the occasion of his solo show “Dreamless Night at @gamec_bergamo and @fracbretagne, is on view at “Once Within a Time,” the 12th edition of @sitesantafe curated by @ceciliaalemani. Congratulations, Ali!
“The Watchman” is centered around the figure of a soldier whose job is to guard the border of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. This soldier, like many others before him, spends his prolonged and dull shifts perched on a watchtower looking out for ‘the enemy,’ who may or may not arrive down the hills of the recognized Republic of Cyprus under Greek-Cypriot rule. The stagnating landscape traps the protagonist in a physical and metaphorical threshold where the edges between alertness and sleepiness, reality and imagination are constantly trespassed until his fantasies and reveries take over and unleash unexpected events. Through a speculative fictional approach typical of Cherri’s filmic practice, “The Watchman” continues the artist’s critical investigation into conflicts of acknowledgment, the inheritance of historical trauma, and the radical potential of the imagination.
More info via the link in bio
“The Watchman” was co-produced by @thevegafoundation and @KinoElektron. The film received additional support from Galerie Imane Farès, Robert Matta - Fondation RAM, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and Frac Bretagne
Images credit: @ali.cherri, “The Watchman,” 2023. Video stills. Courtesy of the artist; Fondazione In Between Art Film; and @imanefaresgalerie
Ivàn Argote’s film “Levitate” (2022), which we co-produced on the occasion of his nomination at the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022, is on view at @galerierudolfinum in the solo exhibition “Radical Tenderness,” curated by @leonardobigazzi.
Congratulations, Ivàn!
“Levitate” is a three-channel video installation that critically engages with the controversial presence of colonial monuments in European cities. Through public interventions and speculative reconfigurations, the work stages the symbolic displacement of three sculptures: the Flaminio Obelisk in Rome, the Christopher Columbus statue in Plaza Colón in Madrid, and the monument to General Joseph Gallieni at Place Vauban in Paris. Interwoven with autobiographical narration, “Levitate” reflects on the artist’s positionality as a Colombian citizen and long-term resident of France, revealing the complex entanglements of memory, identity, and colonial legacy. By rethinking the spatial and symbolic functions of these monuments, Argote interrogates the ideological mechanisms that sustain their authority within public space, offering an opportunity to question how they shape our collective understanding of history. The video is presented within an environment of ‘soft ruins’ – movable, foam-filled forms that reimagine archetypal monuments as objects of comfort, play, and dialogue. This tactile landscape invites viewers to physically and conceptually engage with the legacy of colonial symbols in a space that is both critical and playful. By softening and activating these historically rigid forms, Argote proposes new modes of interaction with heritage, rooted in participation and collective healing. (Leonardo Bigazzi)
Images credit: 1) Iván Argote, Levitate, 2022. Video still. Courtesy of the artist, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and @galerieperrotin; 2-4) Iván Argote: Radical Tenderness, installation view, Levitate, 2022 ©️ Galerie Rudolfinum, photo Ondřej Polák
Congratulations to Ali Cherri, whose film “The Watchman” (2023) and sculptural work “The Seven Soldiers” (2023), which we commissioned and produced on the occasion of his solo show “Dreamless Night at @gamec_bergamo and @fracbretagne, are on view at @balticgateshead until October 12, 2025.
Curated by @ejmdean, Ali Cherri’s solo exhibition “How I Am Monument” showcases the artist’s interests in process and materiality, looking at history and the ancient world through a material lens.
The exhibition presents “The Watchman,” which reflects on the tensions around the military division line that separates the Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus. It centres on the figure of a soldier who mans a watchtower looking out for ‘the enemy.’ Weary from his long shift, the soldier inhabits a space between wakefulness and sleep where peculiar things start to happen.
In a related sculptural work “The Seven Soldiers” (2023), a series of oversized heads are caught in a perpetual state of slumber, their haunting expressions resembling the ghostly figures that appear at the end Cherri’s film.
More info via the link in bio
“The Watchman” was co-produced by @thevegafoundation and @KinoElektron. The film received additional support from Galerie Imane Farès, Robert Matta - Fondation RAM, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and Frac Bretagne
Images credit: 1) @ali.cherri, “The Watchman,” 2023. Video still. Courtesy of the artist; Fondazione In Between Art Film; and @imanefaresgalerie; 2-3) “How I Am Monument” (installation view), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2025. Photo: Reece Straw ©️ 2025 Baltic
“We live in a particularly hypocritical and relatively terrifying era when it comes to human dignity. A large part of liberal societies is rediscovering (or pretending to rediscover) that Capital pays itself on the back of the beast in man.
With ‘L’Mina,’ I wanted to bear witness to a contemporary social reality: a working-class group takes action in the midst of our current crisis. If my steps lead me to the city of Jerada, it was certainly not to compose a miserable or complacent dirge in tribute to the courage of Moroccan workers. I also wanted to steer away from the trap of aestheticising, and avoid having form take over substance, the reality and issues the film seeks to convey.
I constantly asked myself how to make form embrace substance without one stifling the other, and without establishing a hierarchy between the perspective and what we see.” — Randa Maroufi
Tap the link in bio to continue reading @gregorycoutaut’s interview to Randa Maroufi on the occasion of the presentation of her latest film “L’mina” (2025), which we co-produced, and which has been awarded with the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film from the 75th Semaine de la Critique in Cannes.
Video credit: @randa_maroufi and @shatamataproduction
We are happy to support the eighth edition of @ekraniiartit, a film festival dedicated to experimental film, video art, and documentary on art, organized by @shkodra_arthouser.
On Saturday, 21 June, from 11am - 6pm, we will present four works which we commissioned and produced in 2024 for our show NEBULA at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice:
Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s “Nebula” takes us on a journey through the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto that offers a spatial and metaphorical meditation on the search for meaning but also on its loss, on reality and the imagination, on rationality and the inner life.
Saodat Ismailova’s “Melted into the Sun” is a visual and poetic journey into the cultural and political echo generated across many centuries and geographies by the historical figure of Al-Muqannaʿ, an ambiguous prophet from eighth-century southern CentralAsia with revolutionary ideas.
Ari Benjamin Meyers’ “Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut” is a musical and visual story of transformation from the earthly to the otherworldly around the renowned saxophonist and current leader of the legendary ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra.
Christian Nyampeta’s “When Rain Clouds Gather” depicts three artist friends debating how to spend their Saturday night while news of unjust wars and cruel extermination fade in and out of view in a self-reflective meditation on the role and limits of cultural work.
Art House is a project by Adrian and Melisa Paci that aims to bring to Shkodër, their hometown, contributions from established names on the contemporary art and international cultural scenes, through exhibitions, workshops, discussion cycles, residences, and studio visits.
Images courtesy of the artists and Fondazione In Between Art Film
Andro Eradze’s film “Flowering and Fading” (2024), which we co-produced with @schermodellarte, is on view at @momaps1 in the group exhibition “The Gatherers,” curated by Ruba Katrib with @sacredboi.
Congratulations, Andro!
“Flowering and Fading” invites the audience to embark upon a journey into the realm of imaginative companionship. Through its narrative and allusive signs, the film offers the viewer a sense of fellowship: exploring bonds between a human and a dog, it delves into an anthropomorphic symbiosis resonating among these two entities. By blending ghostly dreamscapes with common domestic settings, it creates an atmosphere which transcends conventional storytelling.
“The Gatherers” brings into focus current artistic practices grappling with global waste and excess, as our lives become increasingly shaped by the glut of garbage and information. Featuring fourteen international artists—many showing for the first time in a US museum—the exhibition includes sculptural installation, assemblage, painting, video, and performance. While artists have rummaged for centuries, the exhibition underscores how retooling detritus has new meaning for a generation contending with the impacts of recent world orders, such as the ongoing fallouts and failures of globalization and neoliberalism. Artists in “The Gatherers” render politics as spatialized in the built environment, drawing attention to how histories reverberate into the future.
Image credit: Andro Eradze, “Flowering and Fading,” 2024. Installation views of “The Gatherers,” on view at MoMA PS1 from April 24 through October 6, 2025. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves
The work of the Fondazione has been featured in the latest @artreview_magazine’s Philanthropy supplement!
Fondazione In Between Art Film was founded in Rome in October 2019, setting itself the twofold mission of promoting the culture of moving images and of supporting international artists, institutions and research centers that explore the dialogue between disciplines, as well as the boundaries between film, video, performance and installation. Under the guidance of its founder and president Beatrice Bulgari, Fondazione In Between Art Film aims to contribute to the international artistic debate by enhancing the role and tapping potential of moving images in our time.
The cultural program of the Fondazione takes in a wide range of activities, including commissioning and producing new video and film works, organizing original exhibitions and timely public programs, collaborating with leading international institutions, and producing innovative publications. The Fondazione’s commitment to the culture of moving images is also reflected in its support for the film programming of the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Tate Modern in London, and Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence.
In conjunction with the Biennale Arte, Venice, every two years the Fondazione commissions and produces a large-scale exhibition at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto. The Fondazione also produces the catalogue of the exhibitions, and the accompanying public programs.
Unison is an additional biennial initiative overseen by the Fondazione, which sees the conceiving, commissioning, and production major video installations for the benefit of international institutions.
The Fondazione drives forward and expands the work of the production company In Between Art Film, which supported video and film productions by important international artists and directors. Moreover, it has also supported the programs of events and institutions such as the Manifesta 12, Palermo; miart – international fair of modern and contemporary art, Milan; the Center d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; the Centro Pecci, Prato; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; GAMeC, Bergamo; the Dhaka Art Summit, and LOOP Barcelona.
Images: Art Review