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Giuseppe Boccassini

RAGTAG

Film expérimental | dcp | couleur et n&b | 85:0 | Italie, Allemagne | 2022

An intriguing, well-chosen collage of compelling moments from noir cinema, skillfully attuned to the social fantastic and the oneiric quality of the films. James Naremore, author of More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. An atlas of film gestures and Pathosformel: the montage - better the disassembly - isolates moments from the narrative and separates bodies from events, opening up to the unthinkable and the invisible of film noir. Ragtag, thus, becomes an immense archive of the imaginary that, far from being sequential and historical, becomes intensive and organic: a film-experience beyond film as such. Federico Rossin, film historian.

Giuseppe Boccassini is an Italian filmmaker mainly working in Germany and Italy. He graduated in film theory at the University of Bologna and film direction at The New University of Cinema and Television, Cinecittà, Rome. His work has been shown in several international film festivals and exhibitions, including the 79th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, Venice, Italy FID Marseille, France, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, Jerusalem IFF, Torino Film Festival, Italy, IndieLisboa, Portugal, FESTACURTAS BH, Brasil, Crossroads SF, USA, Avvistamenti, Italy, Punto de Vista, Spain, Trentino History Museum, Italy, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Pesaro Film Festival, Italy. Light Cone Paris distributes his entire film production. By transforming and manipulating various sources of archival material, his work reflects upon the notion of proximity in contemporary media. The director considers film as "a phallic conquerer that, folding in on itself, now flaccid deus ex machina, observes itself from the inside like a lysergic membrane that slowly founders between the folds of its material." His most recent collaborations include the film editing for Aldo Tambellini's solo exhibition Black Matters at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, and he is the artist for Chicago Film Archives' 2018 Media Mixer. He is in charge of programming at Fracto Experimental Film Encounter held yearly at Kunsthaus Acud, in the heart of Berlin.