Il Capo is an episode of the series The Malady of Iron which is also composed by:
-Piattaforma Luna
-Da Vinci
SYNOPSIS
Monte Bettogli, Carrara: in the marble quarries men and machines dig the mountain. “Il Capo” (The Chief) manages, coordinates and guides quarrymen and heavy-duty machines using a language consisting solely of gestures and signs. Conducting his dangerous and sublime orchestra against the backdrop of the sheerslopes and peaks of the Apuane Alps, the Chief works in total noise, which create a paradoxical silence.
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CREDITS
Sound Design MIRCO MENCACCI
Original Music WANG INC.
EXHIBITIONS
2010
XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Carrara, Italy
26 June – 30 September
2012
R. Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
21 January
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
29 May
MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
25 May
Database, Museo del Marmo di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
1 june – 21 December
2013
ArtGenève ArtFair, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland
January 31th – February 3rd 2013
Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2 February
Work Hard Play Hard, Beursschouwburg Museum, Bruxelles, Belgium
4 – 30 October
2014
Hypothèse de l’impact géant, le Carreau and Visages du Monde, Cergy, France
5 October – 14 November
Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA
2 July – 16 August
La malattia del Ferro Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
11 March – 5 April
2015
Glitch, interferenze tra arte e cinema, PAC, Milano, Italy
October 11 – January 6
Tirana Open, Tirana, Albania
May 6 – 13
OCAT Museum Shanghai, Shangai, China
Futuro Anteriore, EXPO Video, Chicago, Illinois, USA
“Biennal of Image in Motion”, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Architecture on film, curated by The Architecture Foundation, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA
Art: Film, Cineporto di Lecce, Italy
“Renaissance 2.0″, ZKM Karlsruhe GLOBALE, Karlsruhe Germany
“The malady of iron”, curated by Lydia Pribisova, Hit Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016
Short film about process, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Race to the Bottom – Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln, Germany
Italian Night, Dado Film Society, Melbourne, Australia
Penitentiary centre, Orbe, Switzerland
Arqu[in]FILM, 2ª Muestra de Cine de Arquitectura, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Pabellón Mies Van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain
2017
The Malady of Iron, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany
Art Basel, Hong Kong, China
Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, OVAL, Turin, Italy
2018
SCULTURE, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
FESTIVALS
2010
67th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy
1-11 September
IDFA, 23rd International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18-29 November
2011
True/False Film Festival, Columbia (MO), USA
3 – 6 March 2011
SXSW, South by Southwest, Austin, Texas
11 – 20 March 2011
49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA
22 – 27 March 2011
Cinéma du Réel, 33rd International Documentary Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
24 March – 5 April 2011
Full Frame, Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA
14 – 17 April 2011
Trento Film Festival, Trento, Italy
28 April – 8 May
SFF Sydney Film Festival, Sidney, Australia
8 – 19 June
Ravenna Festival, Ravenna, Italy
7 June – 9 July
Open City Docs Fest, London, Great Britain
21 – 24 June
New Horizons I.F.F., Wroclaw, Poland
21 – 31 July
17th SFF Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
22-30 July 2011
7th Silhouette Short Film Festival, Paris, France
2 September
Milano Film Festival, Milano, Italy
9 – 18 September
CIFF- Camden International Film Festival, Camden, USA
29 September – 2 October
Full Frame Fix – Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (NC), USA
15 – 16 October
Images en Vue, 8° Festival de Court Metrages, Iles de la Madelaine, Quebec, Canada
7 – 8 November
L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
11 – 19 November
Bergfilm Festival, Salzburg, Austria
23 November – 9 December
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romany
24 – 28 November 2011
2012
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
27 january-4 february 2012
Dance Film Association, New York, USA
Balagan, Cambridge (MA), USA
5th Taos Shortz Film Festival, Mexico
7 – 10 April
Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
7-11 march 2012
Storie dall’Italia, Centro culturale italiano di Stoccolma, Stockholm, Swedish
Molodist – Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kiev, Russia
IndieLisboa, International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon
23 April – 3 May
Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Firenze, Italy
21 – 27 November
Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
29 May – 4 June
VIS _ Vienna Independent Shorts, Wien
6 – 10 June
Open City Docs Fest, London, UK
21 – 24 June
Rooftop Films, New York, USA
7 July
FilmCaravan Short Fest, Imperia, Italy
31 July – 4 August
Helsinki Best Short Film Around the World, Helsinki, Finland
13 – 18 November
29th Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
13 – 18 November
Court c’est court, Avignone, France
15 – 18 November
FrontDoc, Vallée d’Aoste, Italy
21 November
2013
25th Minimalen Short Film Festival, Throndeim, Norway
27 – 31 January
Comptoir Du Doc, Rennes, France
22 May 2013
VIS, Vienna Independent Short, 10th Anniversary, Wien, Austria
26 May – 1 june
Open city Docs Fest, London, UK
20 – 23 June
2014
AV Festival, International Festival of art, music and film, Newcastle, UK
1-31 march 2014
Work Hard Play Hard, Beursschouwburg Museum, Bruxel, Belgium
Puisqu’on vous dit que c’est possible, Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans, France
2015
Architectuur Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Architecture and Design Film Festival, New York, USA
2016
CAFX, Copenaghen Architecture Film festival, Copenaghen, Denmark
Post-Human, Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
2017
FICUNAM Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Cinema Km Zero, curated by Marco Müller Osteria del Pancotto, Ravenna, Italy
Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan
2018
Festival of Film and Urbanism, Slavutych, Ukraine
Crystal Constructs, Queensland International Film Festival, Curated by John Edmond, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Saint Lucia, Australia
Cinéma de montagne, Institut Lumière, Lyon, France
VCD Lumen Quarterly – Humanoid: A Brief History, French Cultural Center, Beijing, China
Crystal Constructs, Queensland International Film Festival, Curated by John Edmond, MUMA Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
con-vivere Carrara festival, Carrara, Italy
Videoart at Midnight Festival, Kino Babylon, Berlin, Germany
2019
OVNi Festival at EMAP Seoul’s Moving Image Festival, South Korea
AWARDS
2011
Prix du jury jeune, “Silhouette Film Festival”, Paris
Special Mention in Doc Zone-Documentary, “Concorto Film Festival”, Italy
Montagne Tout Court Prize, “XIV Cervino Cinemountain Film Festival”, Cervino, Italy
Best Documentary, section: European Competition, “New Horizon I.F.F.”, Wroclaw, Poland
Best Italian Short-movie, “Corto in Bra,” Bra, Italy
Best short film, “Trento Film Festival”, Trento, Italy
2012
Gran Premio speciale della Giuria, “Fano Film Festival”, Fano, Italy
“Best experimental film, IFF Message to Men”, St. Petersburg, Russia
Premio Speciale Caravan di Marmo, “FilmCaravan Festival”, Imperia, Italy
Prize of the jury, “Kinemastik International Short Film Festival”, St Julians, Malta
Second Prize, “FIB Cinema”, Benicassim, Spain
Special Mention, “20th Art Film Fest”, Bratislava, Slovakia
Special Mention, “Vienna Independent Shorts”, Vienna, Austria
Grand Prix, “TFF – Tabor Film Festival”, Zabok, Croatia
Grand Prix, Golden Anna, “Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS”, Riga, Latvia
Grand Prix, “KKO Festival, Après nous le déluge”, Alsace, France
Honorable mention for Documentary, “Taos Shortz Film Festival”, Mexico
Grand prix in Lab Competition, “Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival”, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Nomination for Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, “Cinema Eye Honors”, New York, USA
Best short-movie, “l’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival”, Barcelona, Spain
"Il Capo" Poster
