The Venice Film Festival is preparing to celebrate its 90th anniversary with an international conference to be held in Venice in July.
The Biennale, which is the festival’s parent organization, has announced that it will hold a conference on 9 July in Venice in the auditorium of the Biennale Foundation’s Archive Library. It will be attended by an as yet unspecified large number of international film academics, critics, as well as film directors and talents, to celebrate the coming of the oldest film festival in the world.
The first exhibition of cinematic art—later known as the Mostra del Cinema in Italy and the Venice Film Festival worldwide—opened on August 6, 1932 on the balcony of the Lido’s Excelsior under the patronage of Count Giuseppe Volpe di Misurata; sculptor Antonio Marini; and the festival’s first director, Luciano de Vio.
The Venice Conference will open with the presentation of the book “The History of the Venice International Film Festival” by the distinguished Italian film historian Gian Piero Brunetta. The English version of this book will be presented during the 90th edition of the festival to be held in Lido on August 31-September. 10.
Confab’s afternoon session will be devoted to the “live voices” of some of the event’s “most authoritative personalities” with personal narratives, memories and anecdotes that will “compose a mosaic of memories that are no less significant than reconstructing the glorious adventure that is the Venice Film Festival”, said the Biennale’s statement.
The July 9 conference will conclude with the screening of a film that was included in the slate of the festival’s first edition in 1932.
Furthermore, the Venice Biennale headquarters, called Ca’ Giustinian, will host a temporary exhibition dedicated to the first edition of the festival that will open to the public starting in July and run throughout the 90th edition of the festival, consisting primarily of materials from the Biennale. Archives.
The rifle is expected to announce its 90th edition lineup on July 27.
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