Looking at our times through the prism of the moving image.
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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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 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
Karimah Ashadu’s film “Plateau” (2022), which we commissioned and produced for our exhibition PENUMBRA (2022) at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice, will be presented at @efluxscreeningroom tomorrow at 5 pm. Congratulations, Karimah!
“Plateau” will be screened alongside other films from Ashadu’s body of work, namely “King of Boys (Abattoir of Makoko)” (2015), “Apapa Amusement Park” (2013), and “Lagos Sand Merchants” (2013). Filmed in Nigeria between 2013 and 2022, the films in this programme focus on various modes of labour within informal economies and the spatial conditions that surround them. Ashadu’s use of self-built experimental filming devices recurs across several works, shaping a distinct filmic language that responds to the visual and rhythmic specificities of the milieus in which she works.
This programme is presented in collaboration with @canalprojectsny alongside the exhibition of “Machine Boys” (2024), which we produced for the Biennale Arte 2024 and for which Ashadu was awarded the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist
Images credit: Stills from Karimah Ashadu, Plateau, 2021. Two-channel video, colour, sound, 27’. Additional support by @africanculturefund, Mali. With thanks to @columbiaideasinstitute. Courtesy of the artist, and Fondazione in Between Art Film
Randa Maroufi’s film “L’mina” (2025), which we co-produced, has been awarded with the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film from the 75th Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. Congratulations, Randa!
The Leitz Cine Discovery Prize is awarded by the jury of La Semaine de la Critique to one of the ten short and medium-length films in competition. Since its creation in 2003, the Discovery Prize has revealed numerous innovating filmmakers such as Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra, the H5 collective, Guillaume Gouix, Gitanjali Rao, Damien Manivel, Jonas Carpignano, Fulvio Risuleo, Wregas Bhanuteja and more recently Laura Ferrés, Jacqueline Lentzou, Qiu Yang, Zou Jing, João Gonzalez, Nans Laborde-Jourdàa and lastly Guil Sela, supporting the new generation of promising directors.
The Jury of the Semaine de la Critique was composed by: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, President of the jury, with Moroccan journalist Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies, Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara, and Oscar-winning British actor Daniel Kaluuya.
@ava_cahen was the Artistic Director of La Semaine de la Critique; Léo Ortuno was the Short films Coordinator.
Images credit: La Semaine de la Critique
@jonathasdeandrade’s film “Olho da Rua” (2022), which we commissioned and produced for our exhibition PENUMBRA (2022) at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto in Venice, will be presented at @kunsthallemuenster in his first solo exhibition in Germany. Curated by @merle_radtke, the show runs from May 24 - July 20, 2025. Congratulations, Jonathas!
“Olho da Rua” [Out Loud] casts a temporary community of homeless people living in the streets of downtown Recife. Inspired by the techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, the film stages a series of performative acts that focus on collective dynamics and exercises of gaze in a public square. Bordering fiction and nonfiction, the aim was to engage the cast of nonprofessional actors in debates about identity, care, family, class consciousness, and social and political visibility through actions and words. Out of the script, the images are delicately receptive to the cast’s personality and emotional worlds, and stand as a powerful testimony of contemporary Brazil, with its rich multiculturalism and structural inequalities. To accompany them is a hypnotic soundtrack by percussionist Homero Basílio that uses instruments rooted in Northeastern Brazil. The film is not only a reflection on power dynamics rooted in colonialism—and on how these may be tied to whoever holds the camera—, but also a provocation to the viewer. Using art and radical pedagogy tools to reposition the stories of people who are marginalized and made invisible, the work fosters ways to collectively rethink reality and imagine alternatives. (Text by @abinoppst)
PENUMBRA was our first exhibition at the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto and it was held there on the occasion of @labiennale 2022. Curated by @alessandro.rabottini and @leonardobigazzi, the show featured commissioned works by Karimah Ashadu, Jonathas De Andrade, Aziz Hazara, He Xiangyu, Masbedo, James Richards, Emilija Škarnulytė, and Ana Vaz.
Images credit: Stills from Jonathas de Andrade, Olho da Rua (Out Loud), 2022. Courtesy of the artist, @galleriacontinua, and @galerianararoesler
Our heartfelt congratulations go to Barbara Casavecchia, Formafantasma, and Saodat Ismailova, who have been awarded with the first @artbasel.awards, respectively in the categories of “Media & Storytellers,” “Cross-disciplinary Creators,” and “Emerging Artists”!
We had the pleasure to collaborate with Casavecchia, Formafantasma, and Ismailova in different realms:
In 2022, on the occasion of the catalogue for the exhibition “Penumbra” (Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, 2022), we commissioned an epistolary essay to @barbara_casavecchia on @emilijaskarnulyte’s new work “Aphotic Zone.” Titled “Dear Emilija: Three Letters across Remote Proximities,” the text is a deeply poetic exchange reflecting on themes of deep time, underwater exploration, sound, and human perception.
In 2023, we co-produced @formafantasma’s and @janka_piotrowska’s film “Tactile Afferents,” which focuses on the sense of touch to explore ideas around co-domestication, which is presented simultaneously as an expression of interspecies tenderness and love, and as a form of violence. The film is part of Formafantasma’s solo exhibition OLTRE TERRA, which was initially commissioned by the @nasjonalmuseet in 2023, and which is now on view at @stedelijkmuseum until July 13, 2025
In 2024, we commissioned and produced @saodatismailova’s film “Melted into the Sun.” Firstly presented in the exhibition “Nebula” (Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, 2024), the film is inspired by the ambiguous figure of Al-Muqannaʿ, a fuller who became a spiritual leader and political agitator in southern Central Asia in the 8th century whose profound and still-unanswered questions reverberate into the modern day.
Images credit: 1) Courtesy Art Basel Awards; 2) Still from Emilija Škarnulytė, Aphotic Zone, 2022. Courtesy of the artist, Dr. Erik Cordes and the Schmidt Ocean Institute; 3) Still from Joanna Piotrowska and Formafantasma, Tactile Afferents, 2023, ©️ Joanna Piotrowska, Formafantasma; 4) Still from Saodat Ismailova, “Melted Into The Sun,” 2024, Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film. Coproduced by Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto. Courtesy the artist. Images 2-4) Courtesy of Fondazione In Between Art Film
📣 Opportunity for Europe-based artists under 35 who work with moving images 📣
We are proud to support the 14th edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, a research, residency and production program dedicated to artists who use moving images in their artistic practice.
Curated by @leonardobigazzi, VISIO will be held in Florence in conjunction with the 18th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte – Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival (November 12–16, 2025). The 8 participants will be selected through an open call. The deadline to apply is May 23, 2025.
VISIO includes the VISIO Production Fund, a €35,000 production fund conceived in partnership with @centropecci, Fondazione In Between Art Film, @fracbretagne, and with the contribution of Human Company, which also provides a reimbursement of participating artists’ travel expenses.
Eight artists will be selected and invited to Florence and will have the opportunity to develop their own original project in dialogue with international curators and producers, such as @hiuwai_chu, Head of Exhibitions at MACBA, Barcelona, and @valentine.umansky, Curator at Tate Modern, London. Other guests of the programme include Daniel @blangagubbay, Artistic Director of Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, and representatives of the project’s partner institutions: @etiennebernard, Director at FRAC Bretagne; @stefanocolicellicagol, Director at Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci; and @alessandro.rabottini, Artistic Director at Fondazione In Between Art Film. Sharing and exchange between participants and professionals are facilitated by an intensive programme of mentoring sessions, round tables and individual meetings.
The artists honoured in the previous editions of the VISIO production fund are: Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Abdessamad El Montassir, Andro Eradze, Gala Hernández López, Peng Zuqiang, Simon Liu, Valentin Noujaïm, Gerard Ortín Castellví, Maryam Tafakory, and Yuyan Wang.
More info via the link in bio and via @schermodellarte
Video courtesy of Lo schermo dell’arte