Throughout July, the Piazzale degli Uffizi becomes a cinema: the 10th edition of "Midsummer Nights" kicks off

For four Mondays in July, from now until the end of the month, Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival returns to the Piazzale degli Uffizi with the 10th edition of MID-SUMMER NIGHTS. The program is part of Apriti Cinema, a strategic project of the2019 Florentine Summer, a film festival organized by Quelli della Compagnia of Fondazione Sistema Toscana and Quelli dell’Alfieri association.

On Monday, July 1, the program opens with the artist Rä di Martino film Controfigura (2017),starring Filippo Timi and Valeria Golino. A crew explores Marrakech to find suitable locations to shoot the remake of Frank Perry’s The Swimmer, in which a man to reach home crosses an entire region going from one pool to another. Corrado, the stunt double used to test shots, harbors ambitions that the lead role could be his.

It continues on Monday, July 8, with Andrey Paounov ’s Christo - Walking On Water (2018), an account of Christo’s project The Floating Piers inaugurated in 2016 on the Brescian shore of Lake Iseo, in which more than 1.5 million people walked on water during the fifteen-day installation. The film follows the artist during the preparation and realization of this extraordinary project.

On Monday, July 15, after the great success at last November’s festival, Moriyama-San by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine (2017) is shown again. Yasuo Moriyama, an urban hermit in Tokyo, throughout his life has never left the city where he was born and raised. In his home, considered one of the most important examples of contemporary Japanese architecture created by architect Ryūe Nishizawa, he lives a simple life deeply influenced by the traditions and spirituality of his country, far from the idea of Western comfort and marked by daily rituals that he performs with regularity and dedication.

The festival closes on Monday, July 22, with Nathaniel Kahn ’s The Price of Everything (2018). The film investigates the reasons why the art world has turned into a multimillion-dollar market, bringing together interviews with curators, collectors, art dealers and artists including Jeff Koons, whose works are the most highly valued in the world and who will be featured in a solo exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi in 2020, and Larry Poons, who critiques the laws of a market that made him rich in the 1970s.

For all information you can visit the official website of Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival.

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Pictured: Rä di Martino, Controfigura, 2017

Throughout July, the Piazzale degli Uffizi becomes a cinema: the 10th edition of "Midsummer Nights" kicks off

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