Francesco Clerici

Historia

Francesco Clerici is an award-winning documentary director. Since 2009, he has been collaborating with the Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai and with contemporary artist Velasco Vitali, as well as teaching courses and lessons for schools and universities (Università degli studi di Milano, Università degli studi di Parma, Università Bicocca di Milano, IULM Milano, Roma Tre, Raffles Milano). Since 2018 he collaborates with the Museum of science and Technology of Milan filming and documenting Intangible heritages. Il Gesto delle Mani (eng. Hand Gestures), his first feature film documentary, was presented at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival, in the FORUM section, where it won the International Critics’ Award (FIPRESCI). He collaborated with Peter Greenaway for his installation "Mortality with Vitali" at Casa del Manzoni for the exhibition of Giancarlo Vitali in 2018. In the same occasion Palazzo Reale exhibited for three months his documentary then selected at the Busan International film festival. Since 2020 he collaborates also with italian NGO such as CESVI, Coe, RiRes at Università Cattolica in Milan. His works (which include augmented reality works, books, web series, short films, experimental films and documentaries) have been presented at festivals all over the world (Berlinale, London Film Festival, Viennale, RIDM Montreal, Dok.fest, Leipzig, Sarajevo film festival and screened in locations such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the British Film Institute of London, the Irish Film Institute of Dublin, the Cineteca Nacional de Mexico of Mexico City, the Cinemateca Uruguaya de Montevideo, the Dundee Contemporary Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Barbican, MAXXI in Rome, Palazzo Reale in Milan, MART Rovereto, Documentary Film Center of Moscow, Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" in Milan, MAXXI Museum in Rome, Dundee Contemporary art center, Palazzo Reale in Milan. In 2018, the Grenoble Cinemateque dedicated a retrospective to his work.

Películas

La vocazione di perdersi
La vocazione di perdersi
Editor
La vocazione di perdersi
La vocazione di perdersi
Director
La Paz del Futuro
La Paz del Futuro
Director
La Paz del Futuro is a film about the personal, political and artistic journey of Janet Pavone, an American muralist who joined the Sandinista revolution Nicaragua of the 1980s. Janet and her fellow muralists are today invited to restore their most monumental work almost 25 years after its completion: the Quiabu mural at the Esteli military base. Showing different historical moments through extensive use of archival materials and new footage, La Paz del futuro paints an "on the road" portrait of what remains of a series of murals and a revolution, and at the same time proposes a reflection on public art, politics and the passage of time: a look to the past from the future.
Types of Spaces
Types of Spaces
Director
Francesco resumes his world as if it were a sheet on which Hana can draw: a dialogue between friends in a movie game.
The Huddle
The Huddle
Editor
Though separated by a stretch of sea, Glasgow and Belfast share elements of political, sporting and religious culture rooted in the difficult, unresolved events faced by the Irish community during the twentieth century. The Huddle tells the stories of two Irish communities brought together by a devotion to the Celtic Football Club, and a shared faith in football. Exploring the contradictions between two cities facing radical ideological divides yet brought together by full stadiums, these are the interwoven and personal accounts of journalists, musicians, political militants, IRA fighters-all united by their love of football-on what it means to be Irish.
米 (Mî)
米 (Mî)
Director
14 August, sunrise. In the south of Milan, the most international city of Italy, three figures wake up at dawn and are brought to work. They are the silent guardians of a great Italian agricultural tradition that has undergone profound changes in the last century.
Memoria del fuego
Memoria del fuego
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A short documentary, inspired by Eduardo Galeano: a short trip in rhythms, sounds and atmospheres in a cuban cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Gillo Dorfles. Objects/Characters
Gillo Dorfles. Objects/Characters
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A portrait/self-portrait of Gillo Dorfles as seen through his favourite objects: in an intimate, gentle narrative, hanging inside a home, his home – a space both real and symbolic, mental and physical. GilloDorfles talks about the things he holds most dear, a mix of historical and artistic culture and everyday objects, family mementoes and original sculptures, memories and insights. It is an attempt to give shape, image and sound to the monumental intangibility of Gillo Dorfles’ thoughts, memories and desires.
Giancarlo Vitali / Time Out
Giancarlo Vitali / Time Out
Director
Giancarlo Vitali, 88 years old painter. This film is a portrait of his daily "battles".
Hand Gestures
Hand Gestures
Director
A bronze foundry in Milan. Hands that shape, knead, model, mix, repair, sand and polish. Work carried out on matter and fire, out of which the bronze figure of a dog by artist Velasco Vitali will ultimately emerge. The Fonderia Artistica Battaglia was founded in 1913 and is one of the oldest and most important artistic foundries in Italy. It produces bronze sculptures using lost-wax casting, a founding technique that dates back to the 4th century BC and is still done in much the same way today. The film draws on a purely observational mode. It is the hands and their gestures that link us to the world and create a connecting line from the past to the present.