A Biennale to remember and a first step that excites. Alumni RUFA student Beatrice Baldacci, thanks to the direction of the film “Supereroi senza Superpoteri”, received the special mention FEDIC (Federazione italiana dei Cineclub) for the best short film. The award in question was presented in the evocative setting of the Hotel Excelsior on the… Find out more
From 21 to 25 October, the 70th edition of the International Short Film Festival will take place in Montecatini Terme (Pt). This is the oldest industry event in Italy, considering that it was founded in 1949, just after the Mostra di Venezia. Over the years the contest has seen the participation of artists and works… Find out more
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everything is ready for the second edition of “Walk the global walk”: the “competition” for video-making experts. This is an international project, supported by the European Commission, which involves, for Italy, the Region of Tuscany and Oxfam Intercultura. The primary objective is to promote awareness and interest in sustainable development issues related to “global goals”,… Find out more
RUFA and the association MoCA, promoter and organizer of the “Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna”, now in its fourteenth edition, are renewing their collaboration. Specifically, it is an international competition that embraces multiple expressions of the arts: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art, performance, virtual art, land art, urban art, design. An event that… Find out more
RUFA students Alessio Castiglia and Mattia De Nittis took first and second prizes respectively at the festival “Convergenze di immagini mediterranee” (Convergence of Mediterranean images). The project was carried out by the Comune di Atrani (Sa), the association “Maiori Film Festival” and the Campania Region. The festival aimed to present the country, its natural, artistic… Find out more
The program #OfficineRufa continues with a meeting with Jesus Garcés Lambert, director of the film Caravaggio – L’anima e il sangue (2018). Who was Caravaggio, why did his life become a legend that deeply impressed our imagination? What did the young Merisi feel and think when he painted, and what can his existential and artistic… Find out more
The short film “A mosca cieca”, directed by Girolamo Capuano and written by Adriano Ricci, won the competition “Nos somos el futuro”. This project is dedicated to young directors and screenwriters from Italy and Spain and is part of the Palma de Mallorca Film Festival, chaired by Gabriella Carlucci. The event, now in its fourth… Find out more
The scenic graphics that will be projected to wrap the notes on stage of primo Maggio concert will be designed by the RUFA students of the Graphic and Visual design courses. Congrats: Aurora Achille, Benedetta Colonna, Francesco Floris, Ina Jung, Andrea Mattia Palmeri, Marina Picari, Luca Santarelli, Pietro Santovetti, Alessio Spigola, Ludovica Testa. Here’s the… Find out more
To contribute to the development of professional identity even after the end of the course of study. It is in this scenario that the Rome University of Fine Arts has concentrated a part of its activities, in order to support the research and artistic productions of its graduates. A modern form of patronage that compares… Find out more
Not a simple square, but a place where history, faith and protest follow each other non-stop, generating emotions and contrasts. San Giovanni in Laterano is a sort of symbol for the monumental aspect of one of the most beautiful and suggestive basilicas in Rome and for the protests and mobilizations. Between these two extremes, as… Find out more
The 2019 edition of Sónar, the electronic music event that has been held in Barcelona since 1994, opens its doors for RUFA students. The aim of the project is twofold: first to develop the confrontation between artists, thinkers, musicians, creative technophiles, directors and designers, and second to increase the potential related to this particular type… Find out more
On one side Piazza Navona, on the other the privileged access to Campo de’ Fiori: unique symbols, between architecture and history, of the eternal city. This is the setting that hosts Palazzo Braschi, originally the papal seat and today the cultural agora of the Museum of Rome. The RUFA students of the School of Photography,… Find out more
Not only a specific and detailed documentary text, but a gesture of love for art. The RUFA teacher Raffaele Simongini, in concert with his brother Gabriele, has printed the volume “Franco Simongini. The poetic act of documenting art”, a tribute not only to the family, to a poet, a writer and a director who invented… Find out more
The President of the Rome University of fine Arts Alfio Mongelli and the architect Fabio Mongelli, in his dual role as the highest representative of Cians (Coordination of Afam non-state institutions) and RUFA director, participated in the meeting on design that, at the Maxxi in Rome, actually opened the dialogue between Italy and China, in… Find out more