Il Cielo di Pietra • Full performance @ De Roode Bioscoop (Amsterdam)

Il Cielo di Pietra is a live cinema performance in tribute to the seventh art: music and images meet and react to each other in an immersive and multidisciplinary show. The visual materials, from the archive of the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, were chosen from works by G. Melies, S. de Chomon and J.C. Mol. In homage to these pioneers of cinematic experimentation of the early twentieth century, videos are processed according to contemporary aesthetics through animation and visual processing. Thanks to the most modern multimedia technologies, the original music - performed live as in the first cinemas - influences and interacts with the projected fragments: sometimes the video fragments are projected starting from the played notes, other times the songs accompany a succession of images. The result is an audiovisual performance that manages to get the audience excited and involved, as happened on the occasion of the first film screening of the Lumiere Brothers when, according to legend, some spectators escaped from the room afraid of being overwhelmed by the train arriving on the screen. Nicolò Bottasso - violin, trumpet, live electronics Simone Bottasso - diatonic accordion, flute, live electronics Simone Sims Longo - live electronics, live visuals Eye Filmmuseum - footage visuals Cosenude Media Projects - storyline Alice Gallouin - video animation Recorded live at De Roode Bioscoop (Amsterdam) on 14th October 2022 for Amarte Studio Sessions. Sound - Philip ten Brink Shooting - David Koster Video editing - Nicolò Bottasso Thanks to Amarte Studio Sessions, De Roode Bioscoop, Martijn Grootendorst and Esther van der Heijde