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Giulio Squillacciotti

Casi la mitad de la historia

Fiction | | couleur | 7:46 | Italie | 2011

All the memory of the world is contained in an old Academy we don?t know the location and time. The quarrel between two men from two different generations is told through vocal notes as annotations for a possible story yet to be told. The argument stands in the chances History has to be written. How do these two persons can tell a story? How do they deal with what History already told and what is possible to add? How to tell something while is happening? A story telling method as an inheritance, to be passed on from Maestro to pupil in the aseptic spaces of an Academy. Looking for the right balance between tradition and the possible re-invention of it, as two different generations and their different approach to key words of the Historic Study. The voice leading us to these spaces has never a face, but her subjective eye has the right detach of the present on past issues. Shot for the double solo show of Antoni Muntadas and Giulio Squillacciotti in Rome (I) in 2011.

Giulio Squillacciotti (Rome, Italy 1982) studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome, where he got his BA from Sapienza University. He earned a Master?s Degree (hons) in Visual Arts from the School of Architecture in Venice in 2009, where he studied Philosophy, Semiotics and Anthropology. Once completed his studies he won, again in Venice, a one year residency at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation with the Ateliers Program. Never trained as an artist, neither a film maker, his work is mainly oriented on storytelling and cultural apexes and their possible reinvention in different contexts. He deals with the idea of tradition and the fictitious outlets of it, all spread through a system of layered meanings, which formally goes from film to documentary, from installation to live performing and talks. His works and talks have been shown and heard in New York and Boston (USA), Den Bosch (NL), Paris and Grenoble (FR), Istanbul (TR), Murcia (Manifesta 8, ES), Prague (CZ), Teheran (IR), Weimar (D); in Italy in Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice and Verona. He recently finished the editing of a feature documentary film (RMHC) on the punk/hardcore scene in Rome from the 80s and 90s.