SHARDS OF BRIGHTNESS INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW
photographs by BIAGIO IPPOLITO and video documents by ANDREA DE CUNZO LAMENDOLA
curated by Raffaella Morra and Loredana Troise
Temporary gallery of the Museo Hermann Nitsch
Thursday, September 11, 2025 – Saturday, November 8, 2025
EXTENDED to Saturday 17 January 2026
Shards of Brightness Independent Film Show, curated by Raffaella Morra and Loredana Troise, is a project designed to update memories through the photographs of Biagio Ippolito and the video documents of Andrea De Cunzo Lamendola extracted from the editions of the INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW. A very careful selection from an unusual and exclusive archive of about two thousand photographs by Biagio Ippolito: they are poetic shots taken by adjusting the shutter speed to fractions of a second to fix a unique moment, such as the filmmaker’s particular gestures as he brushes against the film, the projectionist behind the 16mm projectors, the colors of the sunset and Vesuvius. The individual photos and the large canvases of the photographic sequences involve the visitor in a process of deciphering and recognition; those who participated in previous editions can activate their synapses and return to memories and sensations, while those who did not directly experience those emotions can view Andrea De Cunzo Lamendola’s video documents. From 2012 to 2015, with a determined and courteous approach, Andrea De Cunzo Lamendola filmed while camouflaged among the audience, and then masterfully edited the expanded cinema performances by Karel Doing, Sally Golding, Les Nominoë, Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock, Lynn Loo & Guy Sherwin, Lionel Palun, Greg Pope and SULT, Gaëlle Rouard, Spatial (Matt Spendlove).
Biagio Ippolito’s photographs evoke research, movement, and harmonious excursion of an intense and unprecedented photographic voyage that traces the temporal parabola of the INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW. Structured according to a long-meditated exhibition itinerary, the planimetric design created with the videos by Andrea De Cunzo Lamendola and the photos by Biagio Ippolito combines the dynamic and rhythmic visuality of a perceptive climate made up of chromatic rebounds and collisions.
The 19 single photos, the 3 analog photos and the 10 large canvases with the photographic sequences from the IFS editions, together with the expanded performances, make up the unprecedented photographic exhibition by Biagio Ippolito and the video documents by Andrea De Cunzo Lamendola, connected to an idea of storytelling that is enriched by the narrative intertwining of the extraordinary video documents amid surprising resonances and asynchronous times, pointing the way to a nuanced figuration of thought.