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Maverick Modigliani by Valeria Parisi – Screening and Conversation

On the occasion of the centenary of the death of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), our Cinema Italiano: A Better Way to Stay Home is proud to present a special preview of Maverick Modigliani, a documentary featuring the story of a remarkable talent who transcended all stereotypes. 

From Modigliani’s origins in Livorno (Italy) to the Paris of Picasso and Brancusi – the new center of modernity – to the love for his wife, Jeanne Hébuterne, who was often the subject of his portraits, the documentary depicts the life and work of an avant-garde artist who ultimately became a contemporary classic.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Margaret Parsons, Head of Film Programs at the National Gallery of Art, Valeria Parisi, Director of Maverick Modigliani and Screenwriter Arianna Marelli. With twelve paintings, one sculpture, and one drawing, the National Gallery of Art in Washington houses one of the world’s great collections of the art of Amadeo Modigliani

 

Directed by Valeria Parisi
Italy, 2020 – 98 min
Film in Italian, English, and French with English Subtitles

 

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PLEASE NOTE:  Streaming is available between 10:30 AM on December 9th and 10:30 PM on December 13th for up to 500 users (capacity). Content available ONLY in the United States. After registering, you have 24hrs to start viewing, and from the time you begin watching, an additional 24hrs to complete it. All streaming will end at 10:30PM on December 13th, so, please plan the time you start watching accordingly. 

 

PREVIEW (via YouTube)

  


  

margaret parsons

MARGARET PARSONS 

Margaret Parsons curates the film program at the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition program of international cinema and archive of documentaries related to the arts. She has organized film or media events for other institutions including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American University School of Communication and the AFI, and has served as a trustee for film organizations including the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has served on editorial boards for The Moving Image and the Getty Trust’s Program for Art on Film and on international film festival juries for Washington DC, Torino, Poznań (Poland), and Tulcea (Romania), among others. Parsons is currently head of the advisory board for the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival and curator for Glimmerglass Film Days in upstate New York. She has received awards for her work in film culture preservation. Other interests include photography and self-taught art and she has written for the journals Raw Vision, Folk Art, The Folk Art Messenger, New York Folklore, Curator, and The Moving Image.

 

valeria parisi

VALERIA PARISI

She directed and co-wrote Maverick Modigliani – produced by 3D Produzioni and Nexo Digital – a theatrical documentary that premiered in October 2020. In 2019, she also directed and co-wrote The Prado Museum. A Collection of Wonders with Jeremy Irons for the same production companies. 

She has been an author and director for 3D Produzioni since 2002. She writes and directs documentaries and reports for TV broadcasters and cultural institutions, such as the portrait to the mime Marcel Marceau and Cries from the Silence on the Armenian genocide, and most recently Rodari 2.0, Words in the Sky, on the italian poet and writer Gianni Rodari, in October 2020. She also conducts interviews of leading figures in the world of art. In 2018 she directed all episodes of Design Interiors, produced by Sky Arte and she also realized Le Courbusier 50: stories of encounters that have revolutionised design, Vico, the Great Simple on Vico Magistretti; Sottsass’ Train on Ettore Sottsass; Franco Albini, a light look; Achille Castiglioni. All with Nothing.

 

arianna marelli

ARIANNA MARELLI

After completing her Ph.D. in Italian Contemporary Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Arianna Marelli started working as an author and screenwriter at Milan-based production company 3D Produzioni, producing concepts, scripts, and interviews for cultural documentaries on art, literature, and history.

She co-wrote, together with Didi Gnocchi and Sabina Fedeli, the docufilm Hitler versus Picasso and the others. The nazi obsession for art directed by Claudio Poli. The docufilm, internationally released in 2018, won the Italian Nastro d’Argento 2019 award as Best Art Event Film and the Best Documentary category at the Italian Movie Award International Film Festival in New York in 2018.

She is also the author of the script of Klimt & Schiele. Eros and Psyche, directed by Michele Mally, which was internationally released in 2018. It won the Master of Art Film Festival 2019 award, and the Best Documentary in Fine Art and Photography category. In October 2020, the docufilm Maledetto Modigliani (Maverick Modigliani) that she co-wrote together with the director, Valeria Parisi,premiered in Italian cinemas. She is currently working on Raphael’s Madonna Sistina. A recovered masterpiece, a television documentary for Sky Arte.

 

  • Organizzato da: IIC Washington