NEWS: LES SURVIVANTS AT MMF MMXXII

We are elated to announce that Les Survivants will be screened on March 26 2022 at the Interactive Museum of Cinema in Milan as part of MMF MMXXII.

Directed by Nicolas Bailleul, Les Survivants offers a compelling journey into the off-screen spaces of video games, wandering through a succession of spaces and temporalities in and out of play that constantly intermingle and interpenetrate. The interface becomes a universe in itself: a space of global sociability, like a film in real time. Les Survivants has been shown in several festivals and events and received the Grand Prix Contrebandes 2019 of the festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux among others.

Nicolas Bailleul is a graphic designer and visual artist. After studying art in Strasbourg, he became interested in amateur practices (designated or claimed as such) and more particularly in the field of video, in the age of the internet. Nicolas is neither a youtuber nor a streamer, but uses/disturbs their tools of capture and invests/infiltrates their spaces of diffusion and meeting. He creates novel narrative devices to tell the story of his research. He lives and works in Paris.

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NEWS: MMF MMXXII DISPATCH #2: JURY PANEL MMF MMXXII

The MMF MMXXII jury panel features an international cadre of critics, curators, and scholars: Simonetta Fadda, Stefano Locati, and Jenna NG.

Born in Savona, Simonetta Fadda is an artist, educator, essayist and translator. Her teaching activity include the Accademia di Belle Arti "Giacomo Carrara" (Bergamo), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan) and Scuola Civica di Cinema e Televisione “Luchino Visconti” (Milan). Since the Eighties, she has been working with video art. Her artworks are featured in public and private collections in Italy and in Europe. She participated in major international events such as Movimenta – Biennale de l’image en mouvement, projet Mondes Flottants: Grandes Images, Nice, France (2017) and Parallel Program of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, Institut Français d’Istanbul, Istanbul (2013). In Italy she was featured, among others, at Festival del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro, Pesaro – Italy (in We Want Cinema: cinema e video di ricerca 2018, and in Satellite 2016) and Bergamo Film Meeting, Bergamo – Italy (2010). Her video works were featured at Fondation du Doute, Blois (2018), Museo di Sant’Agostino, Genoa (2011), Museo d’Arte Moderna (MAMbo), Bologna (2008), Museo d’Arte (MAN), Nuoro, Italy (2008); Cinémathèque Française, Paris (2008); Kunst Haus Glogauer, Berlin (2007); Mach’mit Museum, Berlin (2007). In 2009, with Giuseppe Baresi, she produced the documentary In One Photo, about the artists active in the Brera district in Milan during the Sixties, including Piero Manzoni, Nanda Vigo, and Ugo La Pietra. A prolific writer and critic, Fadda is the author of the seminal Definition zero: origins of video art between politics and communication (Costa & Nolan, Milan 1999), the first Italian study on video as a medium of art and political activism (reprinted in an expanded format in 2017 by Meltemi Edizioni, Milan). In 2020, Franco Angeli published her new book, Media and art. Among her editing and translation work into Italian is Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema.

Jenna NG is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Film and Interactive Media in the Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media (TFTI) at the University of York. She designed and taught a wide range of cinema and digital media courses, including convening and teaching the module "Coding the Frame: Space and Time with Digital Media", for the Screen Media and Cultures MPhil at Cambridge, and supervised several MPhil essays and theses. She was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Jenna NG works primarily on theoretical, cultural and critical analyses intersecting digital and visual culture, with particular interests in the imaging technologies of CGI, mobile media, haptic devices, motion and virtual capture systems. Her research interests also include the philosophy of technology, the posthuman, computational culture, interactive narrative, and the digital humanities. She has published widely on digital and visual culture. Among her many publications is The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Understanding Machinima, Essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Stefano Locati is a post-doctoral research fellow at IULM University in Milan, Italy. His research focuses on Chinese and Japanese cinemas, transmedia, adaptation studies, periodical studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Literatures and Media and a master’s degree in philosophy. Heis the author of Sistema media mix. Cinema e sottoculture giovanili del Giappone contemporaneo (The Media Mix System. Cinema and Youth Subcultures of Contemporary Japan, 2022), La spada del destino. I samurai nel cinema giapponese dalle origini a oggi (The Sword of Doom. Samurai in Japanese cinema from the origin to the present, 2018), Il nuovo cinema di Hong Kong. Voci e sguardi oltre l’handover (New Hong Kong Cinema. Voices and Sights beyond the Handover, 2014, with Emanuele Sacchi), and Evolution. Darwin e il cinema (Evolution. Darwin and cinema, 2009, with Elena Canadelli). He has co-edited with Dario Boemia the volume Book Reviews and Beyond. Critical Authority, Cultural Industry, and Society in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Century (2021). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival in Venice and the artistic director of Sognielettrici/Electricdreams International Film Festival in Milan.