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At a novel workshop of the gods, Greek theater masks with Hollywood features are setting up a love engine. Phoenix. Amore brucio is the 7th of 12th episodes that Zapruder dedicates to the myth of Hercules.

ZAPRUDER is a group formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. It was founded in 2000 in Roncofreddo (Italy), where the collective’s headquarters still are. The group experiments in film, merging figurative, performative and cinematographic arts to provide a total visual experience, in the direction of a total visual experience. That’s the case with their ’chamber cinema’: video-installation projects where cinema and object are fused together, drawing on the technique of stereoscopic film ( or the illusion of three dimensions), as well as on expanded cinema. In 2011, Zapruder’s work received the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival. Along the years, the group has met Italian experimental theatre with productions in collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander, Romeo Castellucci and Santarcangelo Festival. A large amount of their artistic process is dedicated to the sound design of their movies: the main soundtrack is made by performing foley effects and recording environmental sounds in order to produce a more dynamic and complex experience for the viewer. Their video installation Zeus Machine/Salita all’ Olimpo ( Zeus Machine/The conquering of Olympus) was awarded the Premio MAXXI 2016. Zapruder’s work has been presented internationally in festivals and performing arts venues: Venice Film Festival; Rotterdam Film festival; Rome Film Festival; Kurtzfilmtage Oberhausen; Biennale de l’image en mouvement, Geneva; Transmediale, Berlin; Netmage, Bologna; Triennale, Milan; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Among their solo exhibitions: Careof, Milan (2013); Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ferrara (2014); Marsèlleria, Milan (2014); Raum, Bologna (2014); Artopiagallery, Milan (2015); Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (2015); Mega, Milan (2018), Gucci Garden, Firenze (2018). Among group exhibitions: Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna (2013); WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw (2013); Aula Bunker, Rome (2014); PAC, Milan (2014); MAG Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (2015); OCAT, Shanghai (2015); MAXXI, Rome (2016).