“Arte Povera, Notes for History” by Andrea Bettinetti

2023 · color · IT · ITA / EN · 88’ · In competition · Swiss premiere

Arte Povera, the most subversive movement in Italian art through the voices of its protagonists

The documentary film wishes to narrate and discover how Arte Povera has profoundly influenced the development of contemporary art and how never as much as today since its inception it is relevant and inspirational to modern society for its poetics and values.

The director – ANDREA BETTINETTI

Andrea Bettinetti (1962) Documentary director

He graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in 1987, before moving to London to study filmmaking. Since the year 2000 He’s made more than thirty documentaries for all the major Italian channels as well as for various foreign televisions. Many of his works have been screened at festivals in Italy and abroad. Since 2010 he teaches at the IED, Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.

His last documentary “Marina Cicogna la vita e tutto il resto” – a French-Italian coproduction – is the portrait of Countess Marina Cicogna, Oscar winning film producer, photographer, symbol of style and elegance. The documentary was nominated for the 2022 Nastri d’Argento.

Passionate about art and cinema, he made the documentaries:

“Piero Manzoni, Artista” (2013)
Officially selected at FIFA in Montreal, Artecinema in Naples and The Art Film Festival in Milan. Screened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, at Palazzo Reale in Milan during the 2014 retrospective, at ‘le Giornate del Contemporaneo’ in Washington, at Gallerie d’Italia in Milan.

“Swinging Roma” (70’ – 2015) The roman cultural scene of the sixties. Selected at Festa del Cinema di Roma 2015.

“Fabio Mauri, ritratto a luce solida” (58’ – 2017)
Screened in Naples at the Sky Art Festival 2017, and since then shown in all the major exhibition on the artist around the world – New York, Zurich, Milan.

“Cy Dear” (90’ – 2018)
Premiered at FIFA in Montreal and at the Moma in New York. Officially selected at Artecinema in Naples, at Schermo dell’arte in Florence, at Epos International Art Film Festival, at Beirut Art Film Festival, and screened at the Whitney in New York, at the Louvre in Paris, at the National Portrait Gallery in London, at the Brandhoerst Museum in Munich, at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

CREDITS

Production : Good Day Films, Italy

Director : Andrea Bettinetti

Producer : Michele Bongiorno