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Italy. The New Domestic Landscape, A.A.V.V., 1972, 50'

Direc ted by Giacomo Bat t ia-to with texts and visuals by Emilio Ambasz, the film introduces the mood of the groundbreaking exhi-bition curated by the latter at Mo-MA in New York in 1972. The vid-eo was shot in the Vittorio Eman-uele II Gallery and at La Scala op-era house, two symbolic Milanese location in their nocturnal version.

The film continues with five videos, each curated by an iconic designer (Gae Aulenti, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Alberto Rosselli) and with new visions of the design pro-cess (Superstudio). The videos, os-cillating between pop-art and sur-realism, are the work of Gianni Co-lombo and Livio Castiglioni, Massi-mo Magrì, Osvaldo Marini.

Ettore Sottsass: his childhood in the mountains, his travels to Amer-ica, where he discovered industri-al culture and the Beat Genera-tion poets, the value of colour, the Olivetti years, his eclecticism with ceramic, glass, design and archi-tecture. The film consists in three interviews with Sottsass himself, the reading of his works by young

actors of the Piccolo Teatro in Mi-lan and interviews with Barbara Radice, who shared his life for 30 years, Arata Isozaki, the Japanese architect he met during his radical period, Michele De Lucchi, Nath-alie du Pasquier, George Sowden and Johanna Grawunder. Lastly, the graphic artist and art director Christoph Radl.

Il treno di Sottsass, Valeria Parisi, Italy 2017, 50'

100 years after Achille Castigli-oni birth, 3D Produzioni creates a documentary based on an un-published interview which took place in 1999 in his Milanese stu-dio in Piazza Castello. Castiglioni is surrounded by objects collect-ed over his lifetime. What is sur-prising is his desire to critically ob-serve reality, to find new solutions,

to be amazed and astonished. He explains why he collected cans, Codd-neck bottles, springs, plastic cups. The documentary continues with a guided tours of the Founda-tion Castiglioni and with an inter-view with Patricia Urquiola, once his student at the Politecnico, and curator of the celebratory exhibi-tion at the Triennale in 2018.

Achille Castiglioni. Tutto con un niente, Valeria Parisi, Italy 2018, 45'

A por trait/self-por trait of Gillo Dorfles as seen through his fa-vourite objects: in an intimate, gentle narrative, hanging inside a home, his home – a space both real and symbolic , mental and physical. GilloDorfles talks about the things he holds most dear, a mix of historical and artistic cul-ture and everyday objects, fami-

ly mementoes and original sculp-tures, memories and insights. It is an attempt to give shape, im-age and sound to the monumen-tal intangibility of GilloDorfles’ thoughts, memories and desires.

Gillo Dorfles. In un bicchiere d’acqua, Francesco Clerici, Italy 2017, 11'

17.00–18.45Introduction by Silvia Robertazzi

Italy. The New Domestic Landscape, A.A.V.V., 1972, 50'

Il treno di Sottsass, Valeria Parisi, Italy 2017, 50'

15' Break

19.00–20.00Gillo Dorfles. In un bicchiere d’acqua, Francesco Clerici, Italy 2017, 11'

Achille Castiglioni. Tutto con un niente, Valeria Parisi, Italy 2018, 45'

15' Break

20.15–21.45A Marwoolus Journey, Jasmin Schröder, Emanuele Marzi, Italy 2015, 6'18''

Giacomo Moor. Natura e artificio, Iacopo Carapelli, Italy 2017, 9'

Pivot, Iacopo Carapelli, Italy 2018, 53''

Centina, Iacopo Carapelli, Italy 2018, 2'50''

Latta e Caffè, Antonello Matarazzo, Italy 2009, 63'

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A natural waterfall is the scene chosen in which to tell of the in-spirational motives behind the birth of an unpublicized and inno-vative material, fruit of the creative mind of designer Marco Guazzi-ni. Prato, city of the textile indus-try. Pietrasanta , city of marble. These are the two realities mo-tivating him to experiment with a

material of wool and marble, Mar-woolus. Remnants from the man-ufacture of coloured wool are re-cycled, imprinted deep into white marble, leaving a symbolic and re-al pattern, desired by Guazzini . The material and the ensuing work also speak for values of econom-ical and ecological sustainability.

A Marwoolus Journey, Jasmin Schröder, Emanuele Marzi, Italy 2015, 6'18''

The tin of Riccardo Dalisi, one of the poorest materials used by the Neapolitan designer, merges with coffee, with Naples and with its traditions giving life to a mixture of daily creativity. In Naples, the paradigm of environmental prob-lems, Riccardo Dalisi anticipated the design of degrowth, a kind of design attentive to environmen-

tal problems, which is develop-ing in Southern Italy, and which could mark a moment of rebirth in the near future, transforming the south of Italy into a centre of ex-cellence, dominated by an "archi-tecture-nature" compatible with the ecosystem.

Pivot collection, by Giacomo Moor, takes its name from a pivoting mechanism for cupboard doors, mounted straight into the frame to allow the door to open and close with a swinging motion. This solu-tion simplifies the appearance of the item by reducing it to its es-sentials. Simple and sculptural, the collection is made up of several

items. One of the special features of Pivot is the workmanship of the etched brass doors, designed and created especially by Fonderia Ar-tistica Battaglia , and complete with patinas in four different co-lours. PIVOT is a project conceive and design by Giacomo Moor for SEM and presented at Salone del Mobile 2018.

The protagonists of the new col-lec t ion designed by Giacomo Moor, consists in a table, a writ-ing-desk and a shelving system. The result is a union between the fragmentary lines that character-ize the centring and the typical aesthetic of the arch. This union has the goal of creating an archi-tectural micro-universe for interi-

ors, answering to exacting func-tional requirements and celebrat-ing the supreme structural form: the arch, an archetypal architec-tural figure, which everyone can recognise. CENTINA is a proj-ect conceive and design by Gia-como Moor for Giustini/Stagetti and presented at Salone del Mo-bile 2018.

Latta e Caffè, Antonello Matarazzo, Italy 2009, 63'

Centina, Iacopo Carapelli, Italy 2018, 2'50''

Pivot, Iacopo Carapelli, Italy 2018, 53''

Giacomo Moor entrusted the film-maker Iacopo Carapelli with the task of showing off his work to the public. He asked him to interpret the creative process that goes into making his “Limited” projects, such as Erase/rewind, designed for the Triennale Design Museum at the London Design Biennale, and the Vapore collection for the Luisa

Delle Piane Gallery, showcased at the Salone del Mobile in 2017. As well as designing and producing collections, one-offs and design products, the Giacomo Moor Stu-dio produces communication mate-rials for companies launching new products or starting new brands, as in the corporate video Woods, which Carapelli produced.

Giacomo Moor. Natura e artificio, Iacopo Carapelli, Italy 2017, 9'

www.milanodesignfilmfestival.com

Milano Design Film Festival (MDFF) is an informa-tion platform, a meeting place, a place to experiment and to update one’s skills, characterised by the quality of its content and an innovative and effective ability to dialogue with a cross section of the public composed of architects, designers, enthusiasts but also by those who are simply curious in the city. The motto of MDFF is: “Learning by watching”. With regardas to the wide-spread use and adoption of audiovisual language, MDFF selects diverse genres and filmmaking techni-ques (documentaries, entertainment, feature films, short films and clips) and builds a schedule of stimuli

and voices including moments of discussion and work-shops with designers, architects, producers, directors, critics, professors and students from Italy and the wor-ld. The annual event takes place in October, at the An-teo Palazzo del Cinema, in the heart of the Brera area, one of the liveliest districts for design and fashion in Milan. It is based on a structured program of recent and past films with the objective of clearly showing how time is capable of changing the points of view and the languages of culture and that the ability to innovate also comes through creativity.

Location Istituto Italiano di Cultura “C.M. Lerici”

Gärdesgatan 1411527 – Stockholm

Creativity, new functional solutions, interpretations of archetypal and exemplary figures, unique production processes, poetic narration, experimentation, craftsmanship: these are some of the aspects that bridge the old and new generations of the design Made in Italy. They make up the language of forms, with which they present themselves to us, and create a design attitude, successfully and skillfully explored. Today like yesterday. All these bring forth the story of time that design can hold through the curiosity and personality of the designers presented at the MDFF. The selection intends to offer a symbolic overview and at the same time the most extensive narration of these features, that continue to show us the way to a meaningful and conscious development of the idea, the project and the production; and that has a lot has to do with value and beauty, beyond every easy consumerism.