Istituto: Institute of Music

The red shoes, 1948, is a musical horror movie by Michael Powell ed Emeric Pressburger, drawn on a novel by H. Ch. Andersen.
In 1999 the British Film Institute inserted this movie in the list of the best hundred movies of the XXth Century and even Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola consider it one of their favourit movies ever.
The movie is at the same time a romantic opera, an horrible nightmare, a psychological drama and a fairytale: a mix of pop narrative, bad taste, stereotypes abuse.
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The red violin – Academy Award for Best soundtrack in 2000 – is a movie obsessively focused on on the adventures, even tragical ones, of a mythical object: a seventeenth-century violin.
The movie was realized by Canadian filmmaker François Girard all over the world: Italy, Austria, China, Usa.
It traces back the history of a red violin, a masterpiece made by lute maker Nicolò Bussotti. The violin is found in the eighteenth century in the hands of an horphan, a prodigious child entrusted to some monks in a castle. The child, overcome by anxiety for an audition with the court, dies suffocating.  Later on, the violin is being played in the nineteenth century by Mr. Pope, a composer and violinist who used to play it in order to make his erotic dates more exciting. Then the instrument moved to China, during the cultural revolution, a period that relegated violins among western demons instruments. Finally, the violin arrived to Montreal, to be sold in an auction to a public of avid passionates.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
4 October 2008, 17.00

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Institute of Music
tel. 041 2710220
e-mail musica@cini.it

The last September date, on the 27, features Katoki skripta by the Byelorussian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovskij, whose works shrink from any temptation of plot or story, from acceleration of editing and from traditional fiction logics. In his movies, like never before, is possible to trace smells and colours, the water limpidity and the soil taste, but also the aim to pass the roughness of the world in order to reach a dimension where the eye can not catch everything.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
27 September 2008, 17.00

Contacts:
Istituto per la musica
tel. 041 2710220
email musica@cini.it

The series of musical videos The Ludwig Van Picture Show at Palazzo Cini, continues every saturday in the month of September with four more sessions for rare-music lovers: the third date, on the 20, will be dedicated to Bande à part (1964) by Jean-Luc Godard, one of the milestones of nouvelle vague: two bad lots, Arthur and Frantz, convince Odile to help them robbing her old uncle. This strange society soon become a ménage a trois…

Venezia, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
20 September 2008, ore 17.00

Contacts
Istituto per la Musica
tel. +39 041 2710220
e-mail: musica@cini.it

Written almost as a joke in 1945, this work was represented only in 1955, when Simone Cuccia, director of Teatro Massimo in Palermo, ‘forced’ the composers to finish the work.
The success of the debut was great, and caused an unusual circulation of the opera both in Italy, with revivals in 1956, ’57, ’58 at the Piccola Scala in Milan, with Giorgio Strehler as director,  in Reggio Emilia until 1987 and  in Catania and abroad in 1996.
What make this score particularly important, according to public opinion, is its pleasant language, communicating in an instant way. However, the critics take a distance from this ultimate Rota’s work, following a tendency to ignore Rota’s non cinematic production, which in fact also  included instrumental and sacred music.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
30 August  2008, 17.00

Free entrance

Information
Institute of Music
tel. +39 041 2710220 (9.00 -13.00)
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail: musica@cini.it

The program of the series of musical videos at Palazzo Cini continues with Chambre 666, a movie by Wim Wenders.
The movie is a monothematic documentary in 16 mm centered on the development of an interrogative and prophetic idea of the death of the cinema.
Chambre 666 was shooted in may 1982, during the Festival de Cannes, in the room 666 be the Hotel Martinez. In this room, with a television turned on, Wenders asks some famous movie directors a question about the future of cinema. The interviewees answer one at a time in front of a significantly fasten camera. Chambre 666 deals with the death of the cinematic language, that is the difference between cinematic and video aesthetics.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
23 August 2008, 17.00

Free entrance

Information
Institute of Music
tel. +39 041 2710220 (9.00 -13.00)
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail: musica@cini.it

Free entrance

Free entrance

Free entrance