The short documentary Supereroi senza superpoteri by Beatrice Baldacci, RUFA student of the Cinema course and recent winner of the Zavattini Prize, has been selected at the Venice Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 2019 to compete in the “Orizzonti” section. A film conceived and directed by a very young director in which the audiovisual memory is… Find out more
July 2019
Cinema
Jonna Kina – Objects and Sounds
On Tuesday 24th September 2019 at 19:00 Fondazione Pastificio Cerere will be presenting Objects and Sounds, the first solo show in Italy of the Finnish artist Jonna Kina, curated by Manuela Pacella. The project has received the patronage of the Finnish Embassy in Rome and has been made possible thanks to Project Grant 2019 by… Find out more
Graphic design
The selection work for the Tipografare calendar continues
In view of the final definition of the project, the process of approaching the creation of the company’s 2020 calendar continues, which will be focused on the ideas generated by RUFA students of Graphic design, led, for the occasion, by the lecturer Claudia Iluzzi. In response to the call, which was launched in recent months,… Find out more
Didactics
Workshops | July 2019 session
RUFA workshops are the perfect window to face the reality and to confront ideas, opportunities and insights. The last week of meetings and works of the academic year 2018/2019 was very fruitful and participatory. Theory and practice have chased each other relentlessly, uniting the interest of students to the experience of lecturers and speakers. As… Find out more
Didactics
Talent is on display!
Anna di Rocco, RUFA student of the Photography course, created the sound design for David LaChapelle ATTI DIVINI exhibition at La Venaria Reale, Turin. The theme of RUFA Contest 2019, the annual competition that aims to enhance and support the talent of students attending Rome University of Fine Arts in which the student participated, was… Find out more
Announcement
A project for women’s cinema
The cultural association “SPIN-OFF” presents the project “Cinema d’autrice. Tutta un’altra storia”: the first festival entirely dedicated to women who work in and for the cinema. The initiative, curated by Elena Tenga and Valentina Paravano, is realized in collaboration with the Istitut Francais Saint Louis. Specifically, these are three days that will take place from… Find out more
Announcement
Open call for artists
For the PPPattern project we are looking for artists, with no limits of age or experience. At the base of the experience there is the will to monitor the Italian talent, trying to enhance it in many ways and to promote it nationally and internationally. In this context, the project “fifteen*fifties” was launched: the fifties,… Find out more
Announcement
VerticalMovie, the deadline for the call for proposals is 10 September.
VerticalMovie Festival is a competition aimed at discovering new talents in screenwriting, directing and photography to be held at MACRO ASILO from 10 to 12 October.. Participants are asked to tell short audiovisual stories with exclusively vertical video footage: the typical format of the smartphone. The VerticalMovie Festival aims to define and legitimize what has… Find out more
Didactics
I’m not, the exhibition at Museo di Roma
The collaboration between RUFA and the Museo di ROMA is reinforced with the exhibition “I’m not”. The exhibition is the result of the experimentation of RUFA students of the school of photography, coordinated by the teacher Alessandro Carpentieri. 22 first-year photographers received a commission for 22 portraits of RUFA first-year visual arts artists, with the… Find out more
Graphic design
The support of RUFA students for “Appunti di vita”
The result of the collaboration between the course of Graphic design of the first year of RUFA and the Bao Publishing (specialized in the publication of comic books, based in Milan), was recently printed the third volume of the collection “Appunti di vita”, by the famous French author Boulet. The students of Comics and illustration,… Find out more
Sculpture and Installations
Ice-cream makers on stage: performance by Camilla Gurgone and Nicola Petruzzi
In the middle of a post-truth era, where we hardly distinguish reality from fiction, the “Zero degrees Frozen yogurt” ice cream shop is the artistic (consumer) product most suited to our times: a kind of “fake moment”, a probable daily moment where everything can be true, but at the same time it can be false…. Find out more
Announcement
Call launched to participate in “An Atlas of the rocky landscape”, between Matera and Montescaglioso
Call launched to participate in “An Atlas of the rocky landscape”, between Matera and Montescaglioso The project “Un atlante del paesaggio rupestre” is part of the program of artistic residencies promoted by “Matera Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019”, realized by Arci Basilicata and funded by the Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019. Through the international call open until… Find out more
Photography and Audiovisual
A photographic contest about Coffe
The coffee company Moak, within the project “Moak Cultura” and in collaboration with Archinet, has announced for the year 2019 the sixth edition of the international photography competition “Fuori Fuoco Moak”. The competition is open to all photographers, professionals and amateurs, who want to tell a story or create a mini-reportage through a sequence of… Find out more
Announcement
Participation in the Premio Luzzati expires in september
The Premio Emanuele (Lele) Luzzati is organized by the Italian Jewish Center “G. e V. Pitigliani”, in collaboration with the Museo Luzzati at Porta Siberia in Genoa. It is aimed at those who have created an audiovisual work for young people, adhering to the theme “for an education in values, identifying models consistent and positive”…. Find out more
Announcement
Make a short in 72 hours!
The cultural association “Le Bestevem”, which has been organizing for years the international competition “The 48 Hour Film Project Roma”, organizes the second edition of the contest for aspiring film makers under 30 “The 72nd Hour”, with the aim of making a short film in 72 hours. The competition, realized within the framework of the… Find out more
Photography and Audiovisual
The partnership between RUFA and the Museo di Roma continues: on 5 July the exhibition “I’m not” will be inaugurated.
The collaboration between RUFA and the Museo di Roma is reinforced with the new exhibition “I’m not” from 5 to 7 July at Palazzo Braschi. The exposition is the result of the experimentation of the RUFA students of the school of photography, coordinated by the lecturer Alessandro Carpentieri. 22 first year photographers received the commission… Find out more
Design
Call for International Summer School open
RUFA is the academic partner for the realization of “NeoRural Futures. Speculative design for rurality in global scenarios”, the summer school of SpeculativeEdu, an educational project funded by ERASMUS+, the European Union programme for education, training, youth, and sport, with the aim of strengthening speculative design education by collecting and exchanging existing knowledge and experience… Find out more
Graphic design
Altroritratto: foto e video della mostra.
How can the self-portrait be declined today? What does it mean to represent oneself when the capitalist ideology demands that the body adhere to the socially accepted semblant? In the younger generations the creative approach seems to become orthopedic: from here the abuse of photoshop to erase any sign of experience, the spread of cosplay,… Find out more
Announcement
Announcement for the Scuola dell’arte e della medaglia
The notice of admission to the free courses of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato has been published. For the school year 2019/2020, there are 12 places for students of the three-year ordinary course and 12 places for the annual preparatory course of the Scuola dell’arte della medaglia, established at the Zecca. The ordinary… Find out more
Multimedia Arts and Design
From 28 to 30 June Pergola (PU) hosts the Festival of digital arts
Rufa is academic partner of Blooming Festival, the event born from the desire to promote different artistic expressions of research in the field of digital culture, music and electronic arts. The ultimate aim of the project is to encourage the active participation of spectators in the new artistic languages, bringing them closer to forms of… Find out more