ANIMAPHIX 2024
NEW CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGES FILM FESTIVAL
Bagheria, 22 – 28 July 2024 / Villa Cattolica – Museo Guttuso

PROGRAM

Monday, July 22.
→ 6.00 p.m.
Presentation to the press and institutional greetings
Visit to the Museum and welcome drink
→ 9.00 p.m.
festival opening: Giovanni Sollima – Sonámbulo
Cine-concert curated by Giovanni Sollima / visuals by Theodore Ushev
→ 10.00 p.m.
retrospective Theodore Ushev
The Physics of Sorrow / Canada, 2019 / 27’09”
Lipsett Diaries / Canada, 2010 / 14’00”
The director will be present

Tuesday, July 23
→ 8.45 p.m.
special events: Mimmo Cuticchio – Il Cunto
Live performance by and with Mimmo Cuticchio
→ 10.00 p.m.
special screenings: Invelle by Simone Massi / Italy, Switzerland, 2023 / 82′
Introduced by Simone Massi (director) and Mimmo Cuticchio (performer); moderated by: Andrea Martignoni

Wednesday, July 24
→ 10.00 a.m.
talks: Author’s Breakfast
Meetings with the directors of the films in competition and out of competition
→ 6.30 p.m.
panel: Beyond Painting, Beyond Cinema: Animation
An investigation of the relationship between animated cinema and the visual arts as a means of pictorial abstraction in
movement.
Speakers: Theodore Ushev (painter and filmmaker), Leonardo Carrano (painter and filmmaker), Bruno Di Marino
(film historian and professor of Mass Media Theory and Method at ABA – Academy of Fine Arts in
Rome); moderator: Rosalba Colla
→ 9.00 p.m.
special screenings: El sueño de la sultana /Sultana’s Dream
Isabel Herguera / Spain, Germany, India, 2023 / 83′
Introduced by Isabel Herguera (director) and Marialaura Cascio (cultural coordinator of the Instituto
Cervantes of Palermo); moderator: Andrea Martignoni
→ 10.30 p.m.
Experimental Competition
Corpus and Wondering by Jo Roy / Canada, 2024 / 7’13”
Where did I lose my charger by Sulafa Hijazi / Germany, 2023 / 10’00”
Simple Forms by Natalia Ryss / Israel 2023 / 3’24”
Wavewidth by Ethann Néon / Belgium 2023 / 4’43”
O/S by Max Hattler / Germany 2023 / 5’00”
Will you come with me by Derya Durmaz / Germany 2023 / 1’56”
Phawan by Andy Garnica Iriarte / Bolivia, 2023 / 1’56”
Entropic Memories by Nicolas Brault / Canada, 2’24 / 6’28”
Onti by Miloš Tomić / Serbia, 2023 / 5’09”
Glass House by Boris Labbé / France, 2024 / 5’16”
Love by İlhami Tunç Gençer / Turkey, 2024 / 5’50”

Thursday, July 25
→ 6.30 p.m.
lectio magistralis: A mano libera – Art and Animation in Italy (1957-1977)
A special lecture dedicated to “The Golden Age” of Italian Animation from the economic boom to the years of
Lead”, a project realized by the University of Roma Tre and the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. Edited by.
Bruno di Marino (film historian and critic, professor of Mass Media Theory and Method at the
the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome)
One Day an Airplane by Cioni Carpi /1963, 35mm / 5’00”
Claudio Cintoli’s Hidden Spring / 1969, 35mm / 10′ 00”
The Chest of Nature by Toni Fabris / 1956, 35mm / excerpted
Ma Femme by Rosa Foschi / 1969, 35mm / excerpted
La gazza ladra by Giulio Gianini, Lele Luzzati / 1964, 35mm / 10’00”
Commutations with mutation by Paolo Gioli / 1969, 16mm / 6’35”
The Golden Bean by Magdalo Mussio / 1968, 35mm / excerpted
Vedo, vado! by Luca M. Patella / 1969, 35mm / 10′ 00”
Dame’s Game by Marinella Pirelli / 1961-63, 16mm / excerpted
Selection of 1970s TV theme songs by Mario Sasso / excerpt
→ 9.00 p.m.
international competition 1
Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens / Belgium, 2023 / 18’35”
Aphasie by Marielle Dalpé / Canada, 2023 / 3’46”
Papillon by Florence Miailhe / France 2024 / 15’00”
On Hold by Delia Hess / Switzerland, 2024 / 7’11”
Horse portrait by Witold Giersz / Poland, 2023 / 5’46”
You are… by Mohammad Babakoohi / France, 2023 / 3’00”
Blind Spot by Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, 2021 / 13’13”
Loca by Veronique Paquette / Canada, /5’19”
→ 10.30 p.m.
international competition 2
Cold Soup by Marta Monteiro / Portugal, 2023 / 9’50”
In the Shallows by Arash Akhgari / Canada, 2024 / 4’17”
Joko by Izabela Plucinska / Poland 2024 / 15’20”
A Visualization of a Cut by Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist / Denmark, 2024 / 7’19”
A Supermarket in California by Anastasiya Vereykina / Russia, 2024 / 5’34”
Society of Clothes by Dahee Jeong / France, 2024 / 15’09”
Aquatic by Shiva Sadegh Asadi / Iran, 2023 / 5’00”
Butterfly by Suncana Brkulj / Croatia, 2024 / 8’07”
Sin alas by Juliana Rios Martinez / Colombia, 2023 / 3’46”

Friday 26 July
→ 6.00 p.m.
focus: Focus Polish School of Animation Male Eye, Female Heart
Ab Ovo by Anita Kwiatkowska Naqvi / Poland, 2013 / 5’18”
To Thy Heart/To Thy Hear by Ewa Borysewicz / Poland, 2013 / 10’00”
The Incredibly Elastic Man/The Incredibly Elastic Man by Karolina Specht / Poland, 2013 / 5’00”
Cunt/Pussy by Renata Gąsiorowska / Poland, 2016 / 8’00”
I’m Here/I’m Here by Julia Orlik / Poland, 2020 / 15’00”
Own garbage/Your Own Bullshit by Daria Kopiec / Poland, 2020 / 6’25”
Impossible Figures and Other Stories I/Impossible Figures and Other Stories I by Marta Pajek / Poland, 2021 / 16’00”
3 geNARRACJE/3 geNARRATIONS by Paulina Ziolkowska / Poland, 2021 / 9’00”
Conjunctions/Misaligned by Marta Magnuska / Poland, 2023 / 7’00”
→ 9.00 p.m.
international competition 3
Something More by Delwyn Jude Remedios / India, 2023 / 5’00”
Last Word by Diek Gobler / South Africa, 2023 / 10’00”
ژن)Woman) by Gilnaz Arzpeym, Arash Akhgari / Canada, 2023 / 3’20”
La voix des Sirènes by Gianluigi Toccafondo / Italy, France, 2023 / 19’40”
Sürgünlik (Exile) by Jeremiah Dickey / United States, 2023 / 2’15”
Crosswalk by Daria Volchok / Russia, 2023 / 1’55”
The black Pomegranate by Ali Zare Ghanatnowi / France, 2023 / 14’17”
Y by Matea Kovač / Croatia, 2023 / 6’33”
Le sexe de ma mère by Francis Canitrot / France, 2023 / 14’53”
→ 10.30 p.m.
national competition
The Meatseller by Margherita Giusti / Italy, 2023 / 17’00”
Projections #2 Water? by Autori Vari / Italy, 2023 / 7’40”
Supersilly by Veronica Martiradonna / France, Italy, 2024 / 9’00”
Fiore mio – Andrea Laszlo De Simone by Viola Mancini / Italy, 2023 / 3’54”
Impossible Maladies by Stefano Tambellini, Alice Tambellini / Italy, 2023 / 8’00
Spring Waltz by Stefano Lorenzi, Clelia Catalano / Italy, 2023 / 11’33”

Saturday, July 27.
→ 10.00 a.m.
talks: Author’s Breakfast
Meetings with the directors of the films in competition and out of competition
→ 6.30 p.m.
panel: Hyper-Reality: New forms of animation beyond the screen
Insight into the potential of virtual reality, interactivity and immersion, in creating
of surprising and detailed digital worlds and scenarios that capture the viewer’s imagination.
Speakers: Wiola Sowa (filmmaker, assistant professor and interim director of the Multimedia Chair
at the Institute of Media Arts at the Pedagogical University of Krakow), Gianluca Abbate (visual artist and prof.
at NABA – Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti di Roma), Leonardo Carrano, director dil experimental films and in
VR; moderator: Dario Denso Andriolo (designer, artist and lecturer in plastic disciplines and techniques of the
representation of space at ABAPA, Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo).nfiteatro
→ 9.00 p.m.
special projections
Koniunkcja/Misaligned by Marta Magnuska / Poland, 2023 / 7’00”
Refreny by Wiola Sowa / Poland, 2008 / 13’00”
The directors will be present
→ 9.30 p.m.
Kissing day by Ligebita Libera / Turkey, 2024 / 8’07”
Le Tableau/The Painting by Michèle Lemieux / Canada, 2024 / 11’58”
The Juggler’s Guide by Rebeka Kruus / Estonia, 2023 / 3’26”
Zarko, you will spot the Child! by Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic / Croatia, 2024 / 13’37”
Where there is shadow there must be light by Paola Bandinu / Italy, Germany 2022 / 3’10”
The Last Visit by Keawalee Warutkomain / Estonia, 2023 / 15’41”
Moral Support by Vuk Jevremovic / Germany, Croatia, 2024 / 4’21”
Herbe Verte by Elise Augarten / France, 2023 / 12’00”
→ 10.30 p.m.
LIVE MUSIC.

Sunday, July 28
→ 6.30 p.m.
Panel: Film festivals and local development: Enhancement processes and spillovers to the territory
Survey of film festivals as catalysts for local development and urban regeneration, from
analysis on territorial identity to project strategies and public-private cooperation.
Speakers: Nicola Tarantino (manager of the Sicily Film Commission – Department of Tourism Sport and
Entertainment of the Sicilian Region), Cateno Piazza (FCS President and Director of the Catania Film Festival),
Davide Piacentino (Professor of Economic, Business and Statistical Sciences UNIPA); Moderator: Salvatore Tosi,
(Researcher of Applied Economics at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (ISPC) of the Consiglio
National Research Council (CN R).
→ 9.00 p.m.
cine-concert / cine-concert: Visionaria
Live soundtrack by Alessandro D’Alessandro, visuals by Gianluca Abbate.
→ 10.00 p.m.
prize-giving / award ceremony

22 – 28 July 2024
VISUAL ARTS
→ 9.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m
Exhibition: Nicola Scafidi. Film sets in Sicily
Photo exhibition in which the curious and attentive gaze of Nicola Scafidi, photojournalist and contributor to the
Palermo newspaper “L’Ora,” returns moments of life of the workers and actors engaged in the
making of films that have entered the history of cinema: from Luchino Visconti’s “Gattopardo” to the trilogy on the
Italian mysteries by Francesco Rosi (“Salvatore Giuliano,” “The Mattei Case,” “Lucky Luciano”); from “Viva L’Italia”
by Roberto Rossellini to “Il Viaggio” by Vittorio De Sica, from “Vulcan” by William Dieterle to “The Tales of
Canterbury“ by Pierpaolo Pasolini”; from “Giorno della Civetta” by Damiano Damiani to “Mafioso” by Alberto
Lattuada. Curated by Angela Scafidi.
→ 7.00 p.m. – 12.00 a.m.
VR Zone
The Tenement House by Wiola Sowa/Poland, 2023 / 6’00”
Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev/Canada, 2016 / 8’13”
Hands, matter, memory/Hands, matter, memory by Leonardo Carrano / Italy, 2023 / 10′
→ 7.00 p.m. – 12.00 a.m.
exhibition: Idée by Theodore Ushev
The exhibition draws inspiration from the graphic novel of the same name by Franz Masarel and the animated film by Berthold
Bartosz. The exhibition transforms the exhibition space into a visual narrative of elements, frames, paintings, portraits and
nude female figures, linked in a new nonlinear interpretation of Masarel’s graphic novel.
→ 7.00 p.m. – 12.00 a.m.
retrospective Theodore Ushev
Tower Bawher Canada, 2005 / 3’46”
Their page from the sun Canada, 2014 / 5’00”
The Physics of Sorrow Canada 2019 / 27’09”
Sonambulo Canada 2015 / 4’16”
Nightingales in December Canada 2011 / 2’57”
Lispett Diaries Canada 2010 / 14’00”
Joda Canada 2011 / 3’09”
Gloria Victoria Canada, 2012 / 7’00”
Drux Flux Canada, 2008 / 4’51”
Demons Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, 2012 / 3’37”
Blind Vaysha Canada, 2016 / 8’13 “cilla
→ 7.00 p.m. – 12.00 a.m.
video installation: Orma by Dario Denso Andriolo
The installation/videosculpture is realized through the skillful use of video technology integrated into a
sculptural physical structure, in which the artist transforms Villa Cattolica into a vibrant stage, where the
intertwine images and sounds that evoke the depth of Sicilian roots. The video sculpture explores themes
such as collective memory, cultural identity and the dialogue between tradition and modernity.
→ 7.00 p.m. – 12.00 a.m.
installation: Space Beyond by Filly Cusenza
An immersive journey through Fiber Art, a place of emotions where we rewind the thread of a story
made of meeting places, microcosms that bring us back to emotions and memories: the bed, the sofa, the objects, the
sheets, bodies, mending (curated by Filly Biz).
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ANIMAKIDS
→ 8.30 p.m. – 10.30 p.m.
play-recreational space / play-recreational space
Games, readings, creativity, activities for the little ones (curated by Le Giuggiole)
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Museum tour and workshop
→ 7.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Cultural mediation of Art
Museum tour path aimed at younger children, accompanied by the cultural mediator to experience
an experience of listening, deepening and dialogue about Art.
Animando Guttuso
Creative animation workshop in which it will be possible to enter Guttuso’s works, taking them apart,
moving and reassembling them, through paper and digital media, to make a short animated
animated (curated by Le Giuggiole).
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Animaphix New Lands
→ 9.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Exploratory walk to discover “new lands” (by Pro Loco of Bagheria).