The “Fashion & Sustainability” column hosted by Guenda Cermel resumes its course with an exclusive interview with Carla Cereda Biffi, Art Director and Head of Buying at Biffi Boutiques. Since its founding in the 1960s, Biffi has always stood out for its pursuit of innovative fashion brands. Today, in your opinion, what does it… Find out more
Minerva Pictures is among the first film companies in Italy and Europe to launch Minerva Pictures-Rarovideo officially enters the world of NFT in partnership with Public Pressure and RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts. The historic independent film production and distribution company and multimedia publisher, which has to its credit a film-library of… Find out more
New appointment of the format “Fashion & Sustainability – Let’s Talk”. Guenda Cermel, coordinator of the course in Sustainabale Fashion Design, talks openly with Massimo Brandellero, Founder of the innovative enterprise The ID Factory. A relevant case study of the fashion industry, The ID Factory helps all the people working ‘behind’ the product to… Find out more
New opportunity for RUFA students: Fidelio and Gruppo Hope launch a call for young videomakers to talk about the importance of a sustainable and green world Applicants are asked to make a short video about climate change and its impact on our daily lives and the renewable energies that are indispensable to face the… Find out more
A new opportunity for Film and Scenography students: RUFA and the production company WFDiF join forces to enhance the film and performing arts disciplines. RUFA and the production company WFDiF – Wytwórnia Filmów dokumentalnych i Fabularnych of Warsaw, through the Polish Institute in Rome, have signed an agreement to foster cooperation between Italy and… Find out more
RUFA is proud to promote “Good Clothes, Fair Pay”, a campaign calling for minimum wage legislation in the global garment, textile and footwear industry. Right now, most workers in the textile and clothing sector are not paid enough to meet their basic needs. A decent wage is not a luxury but a basic human right…. Find out more
“A is for Alice” is the first dystopian film by former Film student Sharon Grace Badia. Sharon Grace Badia, a young up-and-coming filmmaker and former RUFA student, makes her debut with a SciFi film almost two hours long, entirely shot in Abruzzo, more precisely in the impervious area of Castrovalva. The cast, almost entirely… Find out more
Call for Ideas “Arte in Costruzione”: the project “I rami che raccontano” (“The branches that tell”) by student Alexandra Fongaro wins. A scholarship that is not only an encouragement to talent, but above all a prize for artists who embody research, experimentation and innovation. It is in this context that the RUFA Space, in… Find out more
Lecturer Caterina Tomeo will participate in the fifth edition of the ‘Videocittà’ Festival as curator and presenter of the Talk cycle ‘Electronic Transmutations’. Caterina Tomeo, coordinator of the Academic Course in Multimedia Arts and Design, will be among the protagonists of the Videocittà Festival of Vision – from 20 to 24 July in the… Find out more
RUFA received the donation of an exceptional textile archive, that of fashion designer Franco Annoni, a key figure in the fashion world of the 1980s and 1990s. His name is linked to many of the collections of knitwear, yarns and accessories that we have come to know through famous brands such as Loro Piana,… Find out more
RUFA Visual Arts students Banu Batur and Annalisa Welzhofer, under the supervision of lecturer Alessandro Carpentieri, were among the protagonists of the performance ‘Santa Margherita D’Antiochia: una rappresentazione sacra tra corpo, spazio, estasi’ (Saint Margaret of Antioch: a sacred representation between body, space, ecstasy), which took place in Montefiascone on 25 June. The images… Find out more
RUFA student Isabella Jahns’ project ‘Crash me if you can’ has been selected among the finalists of the historic Rometti Prize. The finalists have finally been selected for the tenth edition of the Rometti Prize, an international competition organised by the historic Umbrian manufacturer and reserved for students from Art and Design Academies around… Find out more
New appointment of the format “Fashion & Sustainability – Let’s Talk”. Guenda Cermel, co-ordinator of the course in Sustainabale Fashion Design, will confront in live streaming on the RUFA Instagram channel with Francesca Filipo and Eugenia Penta, founder of Vernisse. Vernisse was born in 2019 from the creativity of Francesca Filipo and Eugenia Penta,… Find out more
“Quanno chiove”, a zero work by director and former RUFA student Mino Capuano, will have its world premiere on 14 July in the “Bimbi belli” festival directed by Nanni Moretti at the Nuovo Cinema Sacher in Rome. “Quanno chiove”, a work by young director Mino Capuano, born in 1994, will be presented as the… Find out more
The artwork by Anica Huck ” Città effimera: arte, scienza, follia” was moved from Piazza di Teatro di Pomeo to the MAAM Museum. The artwork, realised by artist and RUFA student Anica Huck as part of the urban regeneration project Piazze Romane has found a new home in the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di… Find out more
RUFA and Confcooperative Lazio together to produce culture and ideas. RUFA and Confcooperative Lazio have signed a memorandum of understanding to generate projects and collaborations designed to involve students enrolled in the Academy. The aim is to give shape and substance to multiple cultural initiatives, training activities and artistic events, such as talks, masterclasses,… Find out more
Saturday 16 July will see the special screening of the short film ‘It’s not over here’, directed by Cinema student Benedetta Fontana. The short “Non è finita qui”, made this year by RUFA student Benedetta Fontana under the supervision of lecturer Gianluca Sportelli, will be screened at the Sala Roma in Nocera Inferiore on… Find out more
The Academy of Fine Arts of Catania and Ragusa Foto Festival launch the second edition of the Call addressed to Fine Arts Academies, ISIAs, Italian Universities and public and private tertiary institutions, to promote the most innovative research of young authors trained within their courses. A special jury, composed of leading exponents in the world… Find out more
Monday 27 June saw the conclusion of the 3 greenest days of the year with the Sustainable Fashion Convention. From 25 to 27 June, the greenest event of the year took place in Naples at Castel Dell’Ovo as part of the “Mediterraneo Wine&Food and Travel”, with 3 days of exhibitions that saw a large… Find out more
The masterclass with Doriana Leondeff scheduled for July 12 was rescheduled for July 26. RUFA will host a series of free Masterclasses as part of the FILM SOCIETY film festival. From 28 June 2022 for the whole summer, the FILM SOCIETY film festival will transform the evocative open-air spaces of the Teatro India,… Find out more