Article written by Gloria De Felice Helsinki International Film Festival “Love&Anarchy” is the most popular cinema festival in Helsinki. It lasts around 10 days. It offers different movies from all around the world, giving the biggest focus on nowadays society through filming. Most of the movies have English subtitles. They also organize forum discussions…
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Amos Rex, il nuovo museo di Helsinki: in pochi mesi più di 150 mila persone a visitare la mostra di teamLab
Articolo di Gloria De Felice e Mahdi Biagioli Durante una fredda mattinata di novembre, abbiamo avuto la possibilità di visitare l’ormai popolare Amos Rex di Helsinki. Eravamo estremamente curiosi di questa visita, soprattutto notando la lunga coda giornaliera di visitatori. Donne, uomini, bambini in fila ordinata e composta, pazienti al freddo ad attendere il loro…
31st Helsinki International Film Festival: It is a great event, but…
Article written by Gloria De Felice From the 20 to the 30th of September I had the opportunity to visit The International Helsinki Film Festival “Love and Anarchy” (Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa). It´s always a remarkable experience since it gives me the prospect to evolve my cultural and cinematography perspective. I discovered new films from all over…
Viaggio nel tempo con Ippolito Caffi al Museo Sinebrychoff
Articolo scritto da Gloria De Felice Versione in Inglese: clicca qui Avete mai sognato di intraprendere un viaggio nel tempo e di scoprire com’erano alcune città europee durante la metà del 1800, con un´attenzione particolare agli usi e costumi dell´epoca? Durante quel periodo, ormai la maggior parte dei pittori stava sperimentando nuove tecniche artistiche, visto…
My First Feminist Festival Experience in Russia // La mia prima esperienza ad un festival femminista in Russia
When you read the sentence Feminism in Russia, you might associate it with: violence, naked women, occupations, and imprisonments. Dismally, this is what most of the media in the rest of Europe show on mainstream news. When I got invited in September 2017 to the feminist festival in Saint Petersburg organized by Eve´s Ribs project,…
Ken Mai: Requiem of Flowers
Ken Mai‘s butoh performance, Requiem of Flower, conveys the blooming and the death of a flower. Through movement changing from heart achingly beautiful to uncomfortably grotesque Ken Mai takes us on a journey through creation and destruction full of nature’s elements and laws of the universe. Already an intimate space of Höyhentämö is made even…
Multicultural Finland Independence Day #Mippi100: It would have been a memorable event if../ Sarebbe stato un evento indimenticabile se non..
If an event is promoted in two languages, Finnish and English, and it is dedicated to multiculturalism, you might expect, at least, that the show abides by the same intention. On last December 6, Finland celebrated its 100 years of Independence. Many monuments in Helsinki and around the world were lit up in blue to…
Welcome to the world of the artist Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman (Denver, 1958) was a young talented artist who passed away only at the age of 22 in 1981. She never perceived she would become one of the most remarkable photographers of the 80es. It happened by chance when a family friend decided to exhibit her photos after the death in a gallery in…
30th Helsinki International Film Festival: 4 films that will change your life / 4 film che cambieranno la tua vita
The 30th Helsinki International Film Festival took place between the 14th to 24th of September. During this cinema event, named Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa (Love and Anarchy), 175 feature films and 190 shorts were screened. It hosted numerous guests and welcomed 60000 visitors. This year, I decided to publish a piece more peculiar than the usual…
Venu Dhupa: Understanding Diversity
Last September 4th, I took part of the seminar EU diversity research report with visiting professor Venu Dhupa organized by Catalysti in Globe Art Point. As her website says, she is an expert in national and international cultural policy and is sought after for her innovative thinking on culture, leadership, diversity and the creative industries. The seminar,…