OPEN Prize 9th Edition

Arte Communications, in accord with Bellati Editore, launches the 9th copy of the OPEN Prize, on the break of OPEN 12. International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations. The cost will be awarded to a administrator demography allotment in the 66th Venice International Film Festival whose plan reveals, in an aberrant way, a abounding absorption in the alluring affair of the alternate alternation amid art and cinema, two art forms which abide on angel and are nourished by the admiration to accurate emotions.

The academy of this award, conceived in 2000 by Paolo De Grandis and Pierre Restany, developed alongside to OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, which opens its twelfth copy this year on September 2nd at Venice Lido and San Servolo Island.

The OPEN 2009 Prize, a plan conceived and realised by the Master Ugo Riva, has been awarded to the administrator Michael Moore for the blur Capitalism: A adulation story. The jury, composed of the President Paolo De Grandis and the board associates the Councillor for Culture Luana Zanella, Ferruccio Gard, Anna Caterina Bellati and Chang Tsong-zung, gave this estimation of the film: “With this baroque film, Michael Moore has assuredly brought the investigating documentary, on an according footing, into the history of apple cinema. Capitalism: A Love Story is a plan which, amid absinthian irony and moments of acute drama, courageously denounces the adverse after-effects that capitalism, bare by any belief and with alone the adamant argumentation of profit, can aftermath even in the richest country in the world, area 14 thousand humans lose their jobs every day, and in accident their job they can aswell lose their home and bloom care. As apparent by the film, affairs counts even added than democracy, acknowledgment aswell to frequently adjustable politics, and the about-face of the agent of the accepted bread-and-butter crisis involves and outrages assemblage from any political band of thought, because no one, for example, can abide blah by the scenes of families angry out of their homes because they can no best pay their mortgages to the banks. The attribute of the blur can be the chicken band acclimated by the American badge to mark off a abomination scene, the aforementioned band with which, in an admirable aesthetic performance, Michael Moore surrounds a case on Wall Street and announces through the megaphone that he has appear to arrest the criminals. Amidst laughter, animus and emotion, Michael Moore’s documentary is of the accomplished amusing value. It address abysmal into our consciences and can become an important addition to accomplish a added animal and autonomous capitalism, one that have to serve the poor added than the rich, rather than what is accident now in America, and added places too”.

Previous acceptable admiral were Joao Botelho with the blur Quem es tu?, Julie Taymor with Frida, Takeshi Kitano with Zatoichi, Marziyeh Meshkini with Sag - haye velgard, Stanley Kwan with Changhen ge (Everlasting Regret), Jia Zhangke with Dong, Peter Greenaway with Nightwatching, Philip Haas with The Butcher’s Shop.

The OPEN exhibition has been captivated for twelve years, ancillary with the Venice Film Festival, acknowledging the absolute absorbed to strengthen the band that exists amid art and the cinema; the conception of OPEN Prize bears attestant to this abutting and abundant relationship.

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