IL COMPLOTTO DI TIRANA

Italy | 2024 | 71 min | col.

“Don’t you feel like you’re being cheated too?” This question recurs in Manfredi Lucibello’s irreverent documentary on contemporary art and its drifts. Il complotto di Tirana actually departs from the account of a big hoax that took place in the Albanian capital in 2001. For the first time in the tormented recent history of Albania, contemporary art had emerged with a big event, the Tirana Biennale, curated by Giancarlo Politi, a critic and Flash Art Italia’s founder. Politi invited photographer Oliviero Toscani among others as section curator. However, the four artists invited by Toscani concealed some unexpectedly interesting operations which went from Tirana as far as Cogoleto (Liguria, Italy) like a Russian doll tale. Art is fiction, we tend to forget; and fiction gives way to the sharpest inventions, the most fecund grey areas. Perhaps, it is precisely in the system’s flaws that its true nature is revealed. (t.p.)

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Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: 09 Nov 2024
  • Time: 15:00

Location

Cinema La Compagnia
Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Manfredi Lucibello

Organizer

Manfredi Lucibello

Manfredi Lucibello (Florence, 1984). He graduated from the two-year master's degree course of the Cineteca di Bologna. In 2013, his documentary film Centoquaranta - La strage dimenticata, premiered at the 54th Festival dei Popoli and won the 32nd Bellaria Film Festival and the Giglio d’Argento Award at the 65th Cinema Fedic. In 2023, his feature film Don't Hang Up was presented in the International Competition at the 41st Turin Film Festival and at the 32nd Raindance Film Festival in London.

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