“QUEST'ESTATE LE ZANZARE SARANNO PIU' CATTIVE” (2010)
("THIS SUMMER MOSQUITO WILL BE WORSE THAN EVER")
1280x720 HD - 00:07:00 - Short film - Written, directed by Silvia De Gennaro
Cast: Pilar Sambuco - Angelo Carotenuto (voice)
SYNOPSIS:
“This summer mosquito will be worse than ever” is an article headline. The most used words by media and politicians are: alert, danger and catastrophe. The violence wielded by an alarmist and defeatist society produces scared and secluded men who have no ambition. In the video the protagonist shelters in a garret, where she is weaving a spider web to catch the “malicious” mosquito ...
2033: the social networks have made the Internet the place of the collective unconscious.
Confused identities are lost in a shapeless global identity.
The protagonist decides to disconnect from the network to find himself.
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS:
2024 – March 31, 2025 – “ The 4 Ecologists @ Hall of Fame” - curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne – The New Museum Of Networked Art - https://hall-of-fame.nmartproject.net/
2020 - “NewMediaFest 2020” - Silvia de Gennaro - Videoartist of the Month – curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne – online, Germany
2014 - “Proyector Festival” – Visual Container selection – Madrid, Spain
2014 - “Bristol Radical Film Festival” – Bristol – U.K. – In Competition
2013 - “Festival del Cinema dei Diritti Umani” - Naples, Italy
2013 - “Los Angeles Filmforum” - Happiness Is A Warm Projector: select work from Experiments in Cinema – Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2013 - “Flashforward 6” – Visualcontainerfest – Video Art – Milan, Italy
2013 - “Visionaria 21” – Visionart – Review of the best production of video art of Visionaria since 2006 - Rivellino di Piombino, Italy
2013 - “I’ve Seen Films – International Film Festival” - Retrospective on social themes - San Marzanotto (Asti), Italy
2013 - “A Corto Di Donne”- 6th Ed. - Women’s Short Film Festival – Pozzuoli (Na), Italy – Award Of The Young Jury For Videoart
2013 - “XI International Imagen Festival”- The Media Art Monographic Show – Manizales, Colombia – In Competition
2012 - “CologneOFF VII Greece III @ Ionian International Digital Film Festival - Lefkas, Greece
2012 - “Experiments in cinema v7.9” – Albuquerque, New Mexico – U.S.A.
2012 - “Cologneoff VII Filippine @ Generation Loss Festival Manila, Filippine
2012 - “CologneOFF VII India @ CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity- Sattal, India
2011 - 2012 - “CologneOFF VII - Videoart in a global context” - Nomadic Festival Project touring once around the globe
2011 - “Invideo 2011” - International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond – Milan, Italy
2011 - “Cologneoff VII Mexico City “ - ExTeresa Arte Actual - Mexico City, Mexico
2011 - ”Women’s Glance” - screening of videoart by women – Pan – Naples, Italy
2011 - “I'VE Seen Films 2011” - International Film Festival - Internet Competition – Milan, Italy
2011 - “CologneOFF VII Beirut” @ Shams - The Sunflower – Beirut, Lebanon
2011 - “CologneOFF VII Riga” @ Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Videoart Festival – Riga, Latvia
2011 - "Sardinia Film Festival" - 6th International Short Award – Videoart – Sassari, Italy – In Competition
2011 - “I've Seen Films 2011” - International Film Festival – Milan, Italy – In Competition
2011 - “Festarte Videoart Festival” – Spazio Monitor – Triennale – Milan, Italy
2011 - “Festarte videoart festival” – Forum” Cultura come risorsa e come valore”- Spazio Monitor – Ancona, Italy
2011 - “Internationales FrauenFilmFestival Dortmund-Koln” – Dortmund, Germany – In Competition
2011 - “Magmart – International Videoart Festival” VI Edition – Fondazione Forum delle Culture – Naples, Italy
2011 - “18. Sguardi Altrove Film Festival ” - Digidanza – Milan, Italy
2011 - “Il linguaggio è un virus” - 5° edition - video art & digital cultur – Primo Piano Livingallery – Lecce, Italy
2010 - “International Streaming Festival The Hague”- 5° Edition – The Hague, Netherlands
2010 - “Bolzano ShortFilmFestival” “Opere Nuove” 42nd Edition – Corti a Parte – Bolzano, Italy – In Competition
2010 - “Visionaria 19” - International Toscana Video Festival – Vision Art – Piombino (Li), Italy – In Competition
2010 - “Festarte VideoArt Festival” 3rd ed. - Off section – “Ravello Lab – International Forum” – Torre Maggiore di Villa San Rufolo – Ravello, Italy
2010 - “Festarte VideoArt Festival” 3rd ed. - Off section – Macro Testaccio, La Pelanda – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 – “Videoestetiche dell’emergenza” – L’immagine della crisi nella sperimentazione audiovisiva – by Elena Marcheschi - edizioni Kaplan, Italy