July – September 2021


Arena La Sirenetta, Via Azalea, Mondello

Palermo, Sicily

In collaboration with Sicilia Queer, Institut français, and Nomadica, Nuova Orfeo and MeNO present Orfeo on the Beach, a season of radical, feminist, cult film, experimental cinema and artist's moving image at the historic open air cinema La Sirenetta.

The programme features cult feminist classics such as Barbara Loden's Wanda and Atlantiques by Mati Diop, which won the 2019 Jury Prize at Cannes and was the first ever film by a black female director to enter the competition. We also present an evening with the artist Pauline Curnier Jardin, the Italian premiere of Gibson's Dear Barbara, Bette, Nina and a curatorial collaboration with the collectives Nomadica and ৺ ෴ ර ∇ ❃﹌﹌ on film, feminism and the Italian South.

Programmed by Beatrice Gibson. Co-ordinated by Stella Sideli.

MeNO - Memore e Nuove Opere - founded in Palermo as a spin-off of Manifesta 12 promotes the connection between tangible and intangible heritage and new forms of contemporary artistic production. MeNO designs and realizes international art projects involving a wide community of artists and intellectuals and explores the transformation of the relationship between citizens, space and time.

Orfeo on the Beach is supported by Società italo-belga, Institut français Palermo, and Sinergie Group


Project Partners:

Nomadica

Sicilia Queer

Programma della serata:

- Follia come Poesia (Dir. Le Nemesiache, 1977)
- Il piacere del testo (Dir. Adriana Monti, 1977)
- Serie di brevi ritratti in Super 8 delle collaboratrici al collettivo di cinema femminista di Roma: Maitreya, Rony, Paola, Anna’s Textures (Dir. Annabella Miscuglio del Collettivo di cinema Femminista di Roma, 1973-1976)
- Narciso, film esperienza (Dir. Marinella Pirelli, 1966-67)
- Medusa and the Abyss (Dir. Felicity Palma, 2019)

Maggiori informazioni

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Tutte le proiezioni iniziano alle ore 20.30.

Gli eventi sono gratuiti ma una donazione di 5 euro è graditissima <3

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The Human Surge (2019) Dir. Edoardo Williams

+ The Canyon (2021) Dir. Zachary Epcar
Cinema De Seta
Palermo, Sicily

Nuova Orfeo are totally delighted to present two fabulous films in the context of the wondrous Sicila Queer, exploring youth, alienation and the sublime.

In Epcar’s The Canyon we travel through an urban residential development until it slips into Oblivion. The Boxy architecture and cordoned greenery of a luxury housing developments gives way to an architecture of dreams, which it depicts through a sequence of precise frames, stock gestures, and pre-programmed phrases, drifting into entropy.

Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno, Edoardo Williams' debut feature, The Human Surge, is a mesmerising, sinuous and queer exploration of millennials, technology and the disorientating, fractious nature of the present. The paths of four listless interconnected protagonists -pressed for cash and inseparably attached to their laptops and phones - entwine, across continents and landscapes, via bodies, chat rooms and ants.

The screening will be followed by an in-person conversation between Eduardo Williams and Dennis Lim, director of the New York Film Festival and Beatrice Gibson.

The screening begins at 6.30pm

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