Giulio Squillacciotti, What Has Left Since We Left, 2020, 20’
7 September 2024,4 pm – 10.30 pm, cinema hall
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Giulio Squillacciotti, What Has Left Since we Left, 2020, Short Film Single Channel – 4K Video 1.33:1 – English Audio Stereo, 20 mins. Courtesy the artist and Care of Milan and Kingswood Films.
On February 7th 1992, the Treaty on European Union was signed in the Dutch city of Maastricht. Decades later, the representatives of the last three countries left in Europe meet again in the very same room where it was signed, this time to deliberate on the permanent shutdown of their Union. In what seems to be a looped therapy session, the three characters – helped by a British interpreter as a self-appointed analyst – try to deal with their feeling of loss. The conversation allows their political and personal bonds to be woven together metaphorically, compelling them to face their identity crisis and acknowledge what no longer is, what is left and what still can be of that Union.
Artist and film-maker, GUIDO SQUILLACCIOTTI lives and works between the Netherlands and Milan. His work is mainly oriented on the mutation and invention of traditions by merging together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, writing and scenography, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, speculative storytelling, religion and popular culture. He has made, among the others, documentaries on the Roman punk scene of the 1990s (RMHC, Italy 2012), on exorcism rituals in the Persian Gulf (Archipelago, Iran 2017), on cargo ships (They Thought They Saw a Ghost, Netherlands 2020), in Iraqi Kurdistan (The Face That I Loved Let Me Down, Iraq 2022) and fictional works written and shot in Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Turkey and other countries.
ìHis work has been exhibited and screened internationally at, among the others, the MUBI platform, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Louvre Museum and Gayte Lyrique in Paris, the Berlin Haus der Kultur der Welt and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Neues Museum in Weimar, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Screen Space and Monash Gallery in Melbourne, the Manifesta 8, Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble, Cinema Akil in Dubai, the New York Photo Festival and Dumbo Video in New York City.
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