The Films chosen by Wilfredo Prieto

The Films chosen by Wilfredo Prieto is HB Public’s first event devoted to the films selected by HangarBicocca artists. Viewers are given another unmissable opportunity to broaden their vision of the exhibition, as they are taken into the artist’s cultural world through the fascinating, evocative art of cinema.
At 9 pm every Thursday from 5 July to 30 August, in the multipurpose HB Lab room. A variety of films, from different periods and cultures and with different artistic forms, from Cuba and elsewhere, have been chosen by Wilfredo Prieto. The films range from Soy Cuba, a milestone in Latin-American cinema, rediscovered by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola (5 July) to Baraka, a documentary with neither actors nor dialogue, consisting of dozens of scenes of natural landscapes never touched by human hand and of emblematic places in history (23 August), passing through a full-length animation movie Vampiros, en L’Habana! (2 August) and the Italian premiere of Memorias del Dessarrollo (26 July).

July 5th – August 30th 2012
every Thursday at 9 pm
In collaboration with Fondazione Cineteca Italiana

Thursday July 5th
Soy Cuba
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. Written by Yevgeny Yetushenko, Enrique Pineda Barnet. Starring Betty Luz Maria Collazo, José Gallardo, Sergio Corrieri, Mario Gonzales Broche. Cuba/URSS, 1964, b/w, 141’

Thursday July 12th
Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano
Directed and conceived by Vicente Ferraz. Starring Luz Maria Collazo, Sergio Corrieri, Alfredo Guevara, Aleksandr Kaltsatyj. Brazil, 2004, b/w and colour, 90’

Thursday July 19th
Memorias del Subdesarrollo
Directed by Tomàs Gutiérrez Alea, based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes. Starring Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Nuñez. Cuba, 1968, b/w, 99’

Thursday July 26th
Memorias del Desarrollo
Directed by Miguel Coyula. Starring Ron Blair, Eileen Alana, Susana Pérez. Cuba/Usa, 2010, colour, 115’

Thursday August 2nd
Vampiros, en l’Habana!
Directed by Juan Padrón. Written by Ernesto Padrón and Juan Padrón, edited by Rosa Maria Carreras. Score by Arturo Sandoval. Cuba, 1985, 69’, animated

Thursday August 9th
Pi (also called π)
Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart. USA, 1998, 90’.

Thursday August 23rd
Baraka
Written and directed by Ron Fricke. Usa, 1992, 96’

Thursday August 30th
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
Written and directed by Kim Ki-duk. Starring Su Oh-young, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Young-min, Seo Jae-kyeong. South Korea/Germany, 2003, 103’