Trento Film Festival 2016 -  SPECIAL FILM SCREENINGS, Auditorium Giovanni Paolo II

20.45 | SPECIAL FILM SCREENINGS

GIOVANNI SEGANTINI - MAGIA DELLA LUCE  (THE MAGIC OF THE LIGHT)

Christian Labhart
Switzerland / 2015 / 82'

The 64^th Trento Film Festival, taking place these days, the MAG and the municipalities of Arco and Riva del Garda come together around the figure of Giovanni Segantini.

A screening of the film “Giovanni Segantini - La magia della luce” (The magic of the light) by Christian Labhart, which will be previewed the 3^rd May at the Cinema Vittoria in Trento, will be presented in Arco, native city of the artist which hosts the Civic Gallery G. Segantini and the “Segantini and Arco” project, organised by the MAG and Mart. The presentation of the film will take place on the 5^th May 2016 at 20.45 in Giovanni Paolo II Auditorium. Professor Romano Turrini will have a conversation with the attending director, with the moderation of Giancarla Tognoni. Free admission.

“Giovanni Segantini - La magia della luce  (The magic of the light)” by Christian Labhart (Switzerland / 2015 / 82') is a fascinating portrait of the Trentino master, one of the most charming figures of the late 19th-century European painting. After its success in Switzerland, Germany and Austria and the winning of the award for the Best Biography at the Festival International du Film sur l’Art 2016 in Montréal, the film comes for the first time in Italy at the Trento Film Festival 2016.

“Giovanni Segantini - La magia della luce  (The magic of the light)” offers an insight into the difficult childhood and adolescence of Segantini, shows the processes and the internal conflicts faced as an artist, explores his contradictory relationship with maternal love and eroticism and eventually depicts his desperate fight against death.