Bolzano: Experimentation and the mountains
A border city teeming with cultural contaminations (chosen by Pier Paolo Pasolini as the setting for several scenes for his Decameron), Bolzano, Italy will host the first ever 4 Film Festival, an event seeking out new and innovative cinema.
From November 10-18, the “capital of the Alps”, as it has been called, will be transformed into a laboratory of moving images, offering audiences diverse ways to perceive cinema as an alternative to its more widely known fictional side, and presenting the most recent works of independent audiovisual production from the competitions Borderlands (third edition), No Words (third ed.), Opere Nuove (38th ed.) and Rimusicazioni (seventh ed.).
The event’s central themes are expressive freedom and audiovisual experimentation ; themes dear to videomakers throughout the world, who submitted over 1,200 works to the festival from 62 different countries. The 122 works selected by the international jury will compete for 10 awards that offer an overall €13,600 in prize money.
These include the Zelig Prize – offered by the eponymous European documentary school in Bolzano – which will go the best documentary of all the competitions, and the award presented by Borderlands, dedicated to Luis Trenker, the Alpine climber who in the 1920s entered the world of cinema with a role in Arnold Fanck’s Mountain of Destiny (Berg des Schicksals) and later became one of the most important writers, actors and directors of “mountain films”.
(Translated from Italian)
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