JUNE/JULY UPDATES
balaena (2022) won Best Experimental Film at the 28th New Jersey International Film Festival! Thank you @njfilmfestival for the support.
balaena will also be screening on July 4th in Tranas (Sweden) at the @tranas.at.the.fringe --I just recorded a fun interview with curator @laura___bianco 🙏 -- soon available online!
balaena is also currently part of #goddessesandmonsters -- a show hosted by @ladiesroomla #ladiesroomla curated by @associationofhystericcurators on view until August 31
Lastly, you can watch WWW {the whale who wasn't} (2019) on the 3rd amazing issue of @flatjournal : After Tomorrow
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Announces 2023 Arts/Industry Residents
Alessia Cecchet is so excited to announce that she will be in residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for 15 weeks starting at the end of January. At Kohler, Alessia will be working in the foundry and she will make objects and string puppets made of iron for her upcoming project la memoria degli smiracoli (in-progress title).
FULL PRESS RELEASE can be found here.
balaena's Italian Premiere at the 40th Torino Film Festival
This week balaena (2022) will have its Italian Premiere at the 40th Torino Film Festival. My deep appreciation to this festival and its programmers, that throughout the years has featured innovative and exploratory work!
Al Bano's Dinosaurs premiere in Los Angeles
Al Bano’s Dinosaurs (2022), an experimental animation that employs found images to deconstruct and reconstruct dinosaur representation, will be screened Saturday, November 12, in Los Angeles at ArtShare LA. TIME: 8:00 pm (doors open 7:45) WHERE: 801 E. 4th Place Los Angeles, CA
balaena at the 40th Torino Film Festival
After Uppsala, balaena (2022) will have its Italian premiere at the 40th Torino Film Festival (Italy), marking the 4th Torino Film Festival selection for Alessia’s work. Previous selections include Onikuma (2016), il sentire dell’occhio (2017), WWW {the whale who wasn’t} (2018)— THANK YOU TFF for bringing us back again!
World Premiere of balaena this weekend in Uppsala (Sweden)
Alessia’s newest project, balaena (2022), will have its World Premiere at the 41 Uppsala Short Film Festival!
Alessia Cecchet: Chasing the Whale Who Wasn't (VIDEO)
The ARTIST TALK + SCREENING (WWW [the whale who wasn’t}) that took place on September 8, 2022 as part of the Lecture Series organized by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, in partnership with the Department of Culture and Communication, CSU Maritime Academy, is now available to watch!
September 2022 screenings and artist talk
Alessia Cecchet will be doing an ARTIST TALK + SCREENING (WWW [the whale who wasn’t}) on September 8, 2022 as part of the Lecture Series organized by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, in partnership with the Department of Culture and Communication, CSU Maritime Academy. The Lecture Series will run during the weeks before the 24-hour Moby Dick reading marathon in the Maritime Museum (October 22).
Additionally, WWW {the whale who wasn’t} will be on view for a month (Oct 7-Nov 6) at Visions in the Nunnery (Bow Arts, London, UK), the gallery’s biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art. More info here.
il sentire dell’occhio {The Hearing of the Eye} will be screened at Braziers International Film Festival (UK) on September 3rd.
Onikuma on the Slamdance Youtube Channel
Big news! Finally you can watch Onikuma for free by tuning to the official Slamdance YouTube Channel! So happy to see this happen - such an honor to be supported by this amazing film festival.
agnes films interviews Alessia Cecchet
This month I had the privilege to be interviewed by agnes film. It was a pleasure to talk about my practice and recent work! You can check out the interview here.
Virtual Artist Talk at SUNY Oswego
Very excited to be a virtual visiting artist at SUNY Oswego next week!
Review of Onikuma on Film International
David Finkelstein wrote a wonderful and on-point review of Onikuma, which has been published on Film International! You can find the full review here.
The film, with its open-ended, poetic sequences of metaphorical action, presents a field of possible meanings, and each viewer will be able to build their own interpretation from the experience of watching the action. Cecchet has used consummate artistic skill in rendering these actions into a wordless assemblage of images and sounds that have the precise force of myth: the ability to take our primordial fears and transform them into legend.
David Finkelstein
ONIKUMA on VOD
Onikuma is now streaming on FlixaTV, a non-profit platform that promotes the work of female filmmakers.
il sentire dell'occhio {The Hearing of the Eye} on show in Edinburgh
il sentire dell'occhio {The Hearing of the Eye} (2017) will be screening at the OPEN SSA/VAS show at the Royal Academy of Edinburgh Dec 22 to January 30! More info here.
WWW {the whale who wasn't} at Encounters Film Festival
It’s been a while since I have created a news post for a festival selection - usually I just update the “upcoming screenings” section. However, I think the selection of WWW {the whale who wasn’t} at Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK) deserves its own post. I am very excited to announce that the science fiction short will be playing on Thu, Sep 26th, 8:00 PM @ Watershed - Cinema 1 in Bristol, England. Tickets can be ordered here.
Conference in Bologna - Animated Cinema of Propaganda
Alessia will be one of the guest speakers at a conference organized by the Future Film Festival (Bologna, Italy). On April 25th (Italy’s “Liberation Day”) the Future Film Festival will celebrate freedom of speech and freedom from consensus by bringing attention to the world of propaganda and animation’s role in it. Don’t miss it if you happen to be in Bologna! The event will take place in Via San Vitale, 65 at 6pm on 4/25.
Honorable Mention Award for il sentire dell'occhio
I just learned that back in November il sentire dell’occhio {The Hearing of the Eye} won a honorary award in the experimental category of the Festival Internacional de Cine Silente, Puebla, Mexico!
Mención Honorífica “En Competencia Por El Reconocimiento Adela Sequeyro Al Mejor Cortometraje Experimental”
Third year in a row at Torino Film Festival
For the third year in a row the work of Alessia will be featured at the Torino Film Festival. After screening Onikuma in 2016 and il sentire dell’occhio in 2017, WWW {the whale who wasn’t} will be screened at the 36th edition of the festival this November. We are very exctited about this opportunity to premiere in Italy, thank you Torino FF!
Encounters 2018
il sentire dell'occhio {the hearing of the eye} will be screened in Bristol, UK at the end of September together with other Italian short films! Read about the event here.
