sunday 20 june
ZAPRUDER
Anubi Peng!
Anubis Peng! is a set-performance, open to the public, which is part of the filmic, installative and performative project ALLEGORY OF PUBLIC HAPPINESS, an oblique investigation by Zapruder on contemporary society, its rituals and its anomalies, through the listening and vision of apparently incomprehensible signals and languages. “Sound and noise of psychic fields”.
The sound of a punch in the face interrupts the conversation.
Sdeng! Our friend falls to the ground.
Back to that encounter and the sequence of rapid, sonorous gestures that come with it: the balancing movements on the legs, the rotation of the torso, the opening of the arms. The stranger lands a right hook and continues his way, then disappears behind the corner.
Again. January evening, Paris 2014. Three people are chatting down the street in front of a restaurant near the Centre Pompidou. Five guys appear at the corner, advancing at a quick pace. One arms his fist and Sdeng! A single straight blow flies over the head of N, barely touches the cheek of D, hits M between the eyes and knocks him out. Sdeng! Swoosh! Kapow!
What did that telegraphic message mean and where did it come from?
ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is an italian collective founded in 2000 and based in Roncofreddo, Emilia-Romagna. Led by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi (producers, authors and directors), Zapruder relies upon a stable working team formed by co-founder Monaldo Moretti (director of photography) and trusted sound-makers and sound-engeneer. The group experiments in the film field on the border between figurative, performing and cinematographic arts, headed towards an immersive and polycentric experience. Through a process that never stops questioning language and medium, underlying their practice, they conceived several devices and ways of fruition, as in the case of “Chamber Cinema”: video-installation projects and multimedia works where cinema and object merge, in reference to the technique of stereoscopic film -or the illusion of three dimensions- as well as to expanded cinema. Exploration in 3D introduces the element of “time sculpture”, in which the vision delivers itself as an enigma, involving the viewer. Since 2012 they develop installations, environments, video sculptures, filmic happenings and set-performances that incorporate spectatorship into the idea of a living image. The films and works of the group have been presented in international festivals and art centers with prestigious awards.
www.zapruderie.com
directors Nadia Ranocchi and David Zamagni
camera Monaldo Moretti
drums Paolo Mongardi
stunts Beatrice Tedaldi, Riccardo Cabalisti, Andrea Tabaro, Gabriele Gangi, Patryck Rossi
stunt coordinator Simone Belli
Anubi Peng! is part of Allegoria della Felicità Pubblica, project supported by the Italian Council (8th Edition, 2020) program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
production Associazione Santarcangelo dei Teatri
in collaboration with Xing – Bologna; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Kunstraum Walcheturm – Zurich; Short Theatre – Rome; MART – Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
supported by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio | Progetto Prendersi cura