Flavio Sciolè – review
3 feature films and 38 short filmsThe long one anti-artistic research Flavio Sciolè's work in various disciplines, especially cinema and theatre, which began in the field of directing with the experimental short films of the early 2000s, places him as one of the most counter-trend voices in the Italian artistic field, to the point of making him one of the main anti-artists among contemporary Italian artists and filmmakers.
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Judah
Ancestral guilt and delusions. Depersonalization, obsessions, and phobias. A self-defeating Judah.
Beataction 3
Explanation of the work: Third and final work of the Beataction trilogy with which Sciolè develops beat stylistic features with respect to colors, suggestions, and approach.
Surveillance video recording
TV video recordings, widespread audio and video experiments.
Beatacidtrip
An acid journey into beat colors, between monitors and audio distortion.
Beatliquid
Aesthetics, no editing, color, filters, actions, liquids: Flavio Sciolè
Moonexperimentaluna
Further experiment between vocality, manipulation and anti-recording.
Temporal cognitions
A sequence shot as useless as life flowing in a fleeting time, words (implemented with poetry) overlap the image while an anti-sound exacerbates the artist's experimental choices.
Action for Modigliani
Sciolè pays homage to Modigliani with an action in front of his tomb located in the Pére-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Hotel de la vie-chambre and death in Paris
Explanation: Second video of the 'Trilogie Parisienne' (filmed in Paris). This work is part of the 'Hotels' series, in which works filmed in hotels showcase aesthetics, poetry, decadence, and absence.
Art 4 Nothing
Art is nothing, man is nothing, life is nothing.
The project works on a series of subliminals and distorted audio.
Life is nothing: this is my life
The void of a life in a chromatic project devoted to white (with three fragments of blue, red and green) that operates on the final defragmentation of the video with respect to both the images and the audio.
Mothersea
The Adriatic Sea connects two places (Italy and Croatia) for those who claim to be from nowhere.
BEATtITUDE
A bliss, a beat attitude. Flavio Sciole's beat videos continue their journey.
Requiem 70
A state of requiem, the end as a sacred and inescapable act.
It rains where it rains
It rains where it rains. Disaffection, disenchantment, and lack of love.
Of this unfulfilled expectation
A delirious man awaits a presumably self-inflicted end.
Autumnal disappointments
Disappointments and memories in the waning of autumn.
Desire of me
Desire, longing, expressing a desire, a longing, a yearning of the self.
The poem is included in the volume 'Nel decadere infranto', a collection of poems by Flavio Sciolè (Sigismundus editrice, 2016)
I am logical and analog
In a performative action, FS uses different types of tapes (VHS, cassettes, etc.) to declare his devotion to analog.
A whole beautiful garden
A narration and images of Giovanni Pascoli's poem 'Orphan'.
Of denial
Video presentation of the poem 'of denial': denial, November, falling.
Ceremony 70
Distorted and cathartic video in which FS celebrates himself by reworking-decoding stylistic devices and modalities
Working is tiring
A tribute by Flavio Sciolè to Cesare Pavese, featuring cherries and performances.
Kristo the Worker
A Christ who asks forgiveness for those who work.
Ladybugs 70
Experimental video featuring ladybugs and pseudo-television interference, in which Sciolè harks back to his 'Beat' cycles.
Synopsis
The human revolt of the anti-artist Flavio Sciolè.
The aesthetics which is a fundamental part of the artist's research is intertwined with ethics and in a parallel manner the two instances travel on the emotions-actions of contemporary man exploring its dark sides, drowning in the meanders of the ego, in the dark niches of the psyche.
Among the psychophysical areas explored in the artistic and life journey, self-harm, the breaking of certain times, the antibody as an act that prevents, and the vocality that repeats and errs have an important place.
The paradigm of the entire process is stumbled acting. The stumble, the pseudo-theatrical error, is not overcome as the rule would indicate, but there the artist stops (and becomes an anti-artist) and deliberately errs, stumbles, reiterates, and becomes a mistake, the mistake and therefore a man, since there is no perfect man.
Remaining stuck in the body and in the voice, Man remains there and exposes his own imperfection.
43 works created between 2007 and 2020, of highly variable duration, ranging from visual provocations lasting a few seconds to films lasting over an hour, tell the more than visual story of this artist who composes what, among many other ways, can also be seen as anti-artistic visual micropoems, or as situations of a more enlightened world, of which he himself is always, when there is a human presence in his films, the only human component.
The only rightly self-centered protagonist of his own human revolt finally manifested and recorded for the eye and mind of the beholder.
FILM LIST:
- Judah (19′ – 2000)
- Ways (1′ – 2001)
- Beataction 3 (5'40” – 2002)
- Virus (4'50” – 2004)
- HOTEL DE LA VIE-CHAMBRE AND DEATH IN PARIS (8′ – 2006)
- Action for Modigliani (1'33” – 2006)
- Temporal cognitions (2'32” – 2006)
- Moonexperimentaluna (1'20” – 2006)
- Beatliquid (13′ – 2006)
- Beatacidtrip (45″ – 2006)
- Sublimesubliminal (45″ – 2006)
- Life is nothing: this is my life (3'17” – 2007)
- Mothersea (4'53” – 2008)
- BEATtITUDE (1'21” – 2008)
- No wall (2'23” – 2009)
- Where it rains (7″ – 2010)
- Beatodio (36″ – 2010)
- I'm absent from absinthe (3'55” – 2010)
- Dreamlike (45″ – 2010)
- It rains where it rains (2'28” – 2011)
- Requiem 70 (3'40” – 2011)
- Dyspnea (1'08” – 2011)
- Art 4 Nothing (12″ – 2012)
- Narcissus Gray (65′ – 2012)
- I am analog (4'27” – 2013)
- White obsession (2′ – 2014)
- Of this unfulfilled expectation (38'40” – 2014)
- Autumnal disappointments (1'13” – 2014)
- Desire of me (1'31” – 2015)
- I am logical and analog (4'58” – 2015)
- A whole beautiful garden (1'32” – 2015)
- VIDEOPTICALART 70 (3'12” – 2015)
- stOP pop 70 (42″ – 2015)
- Life off duty (7'30” – 2016)
- Of denial (4'25” – 2016)
- Dr. Denial (7'33” – 2016)
- Last bench (6'47” – 2017)
- Ceremony 70 (3'20” – 2017)
- Look at Dada (4'30” – 2018)
- Working is tiring (5'14” – 2018)
- Kristo the Worker (11'05” – 2018)
