2023

October, 07th 2023
The Temple Of Memory was awarded the special mention at the Major Docs Pitch 2023 - Palma de Mallorca.
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September, 22nd 2023
The temple Of Memory was awarded the special mention at the Premio Solinas Documentario 2023.
→ premio solinas

July, 13th 2023
The temple Of Memory has been selected among the finalist for the Premio Solinas Documentario 2023.
→ premio solinas

February, 27th 2023
The temple Of Memory obtained the Piemont Doc Film Fund (production).
→ film commision torino piemonte

2022

December, 2022
After the curfew - visioni oltre il confine.
Live-cinema at B.U.C.O, Bologna
A cura di Alberto Gemmi

November, 26th 2022
Early in the morning, live-cinema - Bologna

October, 21st 2022
Early in the morning, live-cinema - Bologna

September, 15th 2022
The Temple Of Memory has been officially selected to the Industry meeting.
Visioni dal Mondo Festival - Milan.
→ visionidalmondo

May, 14th 2022
Undream by Marco Bolognesi (2k, col, 60’, 2021). Cinema Lumière, Bologna.
Shooting super8: Alberto Gemmi
→ cinetecadibologna
→ trailer

2021

December, 15th 2021
Shooting for Undream by the artist Marco Bolognesi. The film will be presented for the next Art City Week - Bologna.
marcobolognesi
→ bomarstudio

November, 13th 2021
Labyrinth, video installation for the artist Francesca Pasquali - Fondazione Lercaro and Bologna Jazz Festival.
→ bologna
jazzfestival
fondazionelercaro

November, 9th 2021
Labyrinth, video installation for the artist Francesca Pasquali - Torre Unipol - Bologna.
→ francescapasquali

September, 25th 2021
Lago Santa Maria (Castiglione de’ Pepoli). Sentiero delle lucciole, a video-performance in the wood.
lagolandia

2020

November, 20th 2020

Le Giornate del Restauro 2020. Focus on photography, cinema and audiovisual. Meeting with Alberto Gemmi. Cinema (in)visibile. Processi e trasformazioni attorno al restauro del film.

July, 2020

Ogni Opera di Confessione has been finally published on DAFILMS!!!   
dafilms

June, 13th 2020

Une Promenade Egyptienne, on-line screening CINEMA NOTRE VIE
→ caucaso

June, 10th 2020

Go Burning Atacama Go, on-line screening CINEMA NOTRE VIE
→ caucaso

June, 2nd 2020
I Colonnelli di Roma, on-line screening CINEMA NOTRE VIE
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April, 4th 2020

Early in the morning, live-cinema - Bologna (CANCELED)

February, 28th 2020
The temple Of Memory obtained the Piemont Doc Film Fund (development).
Warm thanks to Gianluca De Angelis and Mattia Puleo who strongly belived in this project.
→ film commision torino piemonte

2019

December, 7th 2019
Early in the morning, live-cinema - Bologna

September, 2019
Shooting Hugo Roncal, La Paz - Bolivia

August, 16th 2019
Mü festival, screening Tanger, Vervò - Trentino-Alto Adige 
→ fest.mu

August, 3rd 2019
Vizio di forma, theater, Reattore della Centrale ENEA sul lago Brasimone - Bologna
→ archiviozeta

June, 13th - 15th 2019
Futapass has been officially selected to Bio to B – Doc & Biopic Business Meeting, Biografilm Festival.
→ biografilm

April, 1st - 30th 2019
Tanger, video exhibition, LiTE-HAUS Galerie - Berlin (DE)
Curator: Dalida Kibir
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February, 5th - 6th 2019
Vizio di forma, theater, Teatro delle passioni - Modena
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2018

October, 24th 2018 
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche - Treviso

April, 13th 2018
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Porthmeor Studios - St. Ives (UK)

March, 21st 2018
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Cineteca di Bologna

2017

October, 12th 2017
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Centro culturale Aldo Moro - Chieti

October, 06th 2017
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Cinelab Giuseppe Bertolucci - Lecce

May, 04th - 09th 2017
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, BJCEM – Biennale dei giovani artisti del Mediterraneo - Tirana (AL)

May, 03rd 2017
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Premio Marcellino de Baggis - Taranto

March, 12th 2017
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, L’Italia che non si vede - Roma

January, 27th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Innesti urban - Reggio Emilia

2016

November, 17th 2016

Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Racconti dal vero - Roma

November, 13th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, ViaEmiliaDocFest - Modena

November, 09th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Riusciranno I Nostri Eroi - Reggio Emilia

October, 29th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Mediterranean Landscapes - Viterbo

October, 15th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Religion Today Film Festival - Trento

July, 15th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Euganea Film Festival - Padova

July, 09th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, MAGASIN Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grenoble - Grenoble (FR)

June, 29th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, screening, Ischia Film Festival - Ischia

May, 29th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, italian première, Bellaria Film Festival - Bellaria

April, 15th - 16th 2016
Ogni Opera di Confessione, international première, Visions du Réel - Nyon (CH)

2015

July, 3rd 2015
SINAI - un autre pas sur la terre, official selection, Genova Film Festival - Genova

February, 28th 2015
SINAI - un autre pas sur la terre, official selection, Visioni Italiane, Cineteca di Bologna - Bologna

2014

November, 24th 2014
SINAI - un autre pas sur la terre, international première, Torino Film Festival - Torino
THE TEMPLE OF MEMORY (FUTAPASS)
documentary, 70’, Italy, 4k 

A film by Alberto Gemmi
Producer: Gianluca De Angelis
Company: Tekla Films (Italy)
Status: late development
Supported by: Piemonte Doc Film Fund
Session pitch: Bio to B, Italian Film Festival Berlin, CPH:DOX, Visioni dal Mondo, Major Docs

* Special mention at the Major Docs Pitch 2023 *
* Special mention at the Premio Solinas Documentario 2023 *

Where is the memory of the past? In a place only apparently static, an ending place, where to mourn, in a cemetery. A place that, however, can represent a living space, capable of opening up to a series of considerations about the present and the role of memory in today’s public debate. Futapass aims to address the issue of maintaining historical memory starting from the observation and exploration of an extremely peculiar place. The German cemetery, located between Bologna and Florence, is the largest german military cemetery in Italy. Below the surface, the bodies of over 30,000 soldiers who fell on Italian soil during the Second World War are buried.

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OGNI OPERA DI CONFESSIONE / All Confession Oeuvre
documentary, 67’, Italy, Full Hd, 2015

A film by Alberto Gemmi and Mirco Marmiroli
In collaboration with: Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
Curators: Marco Trulli and Claudio Zecchi

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE at Visions du Réel 2016 - Switzerland
You can find the documentary on DAFILMS.COM   

Ogni Opera di Confessione / All Confession Oeuvre is a work focusing on the density of times, relations and memories that come out when penetrating an empty space. The void of a productive area, a big abandoned city-factory, a wreckage of the twentieth century just laying there, motionless at the end of a long journey. But people walk around the voids, swarm as the leftovers of a great story, like Japanese soldiers refusing to leave the trench despite evident defeat. Officine Meccaniche Reggiane never materialize in their whole, if not in a few frames. The entire film is actually an approaching strategy to the space, making light on a plurality of persons and individual communities living at the edges of  the void. Religious communities (Pentecostal or Islamic) are the proves of the big change brought about by immigration for what concerns the transformation of districts surrounding Reggiane. A number of characters, viewpoints hinged on two silent tales that evolve during the film and are told through simple and everyday movements of the characters.
Ogni Opera di Confessione / All Confession Oeuvre is a complex object. It is a work standing on the formal certainty of film language, which is capable, at the same time, of dealing with and moving contents that, in a quasiplastic way, refer to a time, a space and gestures not belonging to the specificity of that language and embracing other languages: sculpture, installation, performance, even painting for what concerns the use of colors and portraits. 



SINAI - Another step on earth
documentary, 29’, Croatia/Italy, Hd and 16mm, 2014

A film by Alberto Gemmi and Enrico Masi
With: Ivana and Sinai Zaninovic
Voice: Leila Amacker
In collaboration with: University of Bologna, University of Zadar

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE at Torino Film Festival 2014 - Italy

West Venice, East Constantinople.The tale of a man living at the periphery of the empire, on the croatian archipelago. A decision is to be made, on our imaginary roundabout in the middle of nowhere. The village of Velo Grablje with its five last inhabitants, disappears within fog and waves, in a region at the end of a global Europe.There is also a female voice, standing as the Delphi’s oracle. A woman born in Morocco who decided to live on this island of Hvar. If a man exists or not, this is our quest. Maybe the quest for a man to be found, or just a story representing him.

War, death, and the heritage of socialism, through the relationship between Ivana, one generation ahead, and his uncle, born Sinai Zaninovic.

caucaso.info


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CORSICA
experimental, 3’16’’, Italy, 16mm to HD, 2018

A film by Alberto Gemmi
Starring: Annalisa Bagaglini
Sound design: Pierluigi Scarpantonio

"Un film plein d'amour, dès les premières secondes, les pieds dans l'eau et le soleil. C'est très beau. Il faut que je montre à Almudena quand elle arrivera à la maison ce soir." Jérôme Walter Gueguen.



MADE IN HEAVEN
experimental, 7’, Italy/France, 35mm to HD, 2013

A film by Alberto Gemmmi
Editing: Jérome Walter Gueguen
Original soundtrack: Luca di Mira (Giardini di Mirò)

Made in Heaven is a found footage of 35mm movie fragments discovered in several cinemas across Europe. The film is made by a series of clips who present particular deformations like colour tests, signals, notes or chromatic changes. Made in Heaven is a tribute to cinema, to the pact between light and darkness.



GO BURNING ATACAMA GO
experimental, 6’, Italy/Germany, 8mm and super8, 2012

A film by Alberto Gemmmi
Music and Voice: Ana Bogner
In collaboration with: Home Movies and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM at Lucca Film Festival 2012 - Italy 

The short is a reflection on the concept of memory and time after the violent departure of a friend. Denied images that travel in a lyrical and gaseous state of perception, through the elaboration of the filmic mistake. A film about ecstatic transparence as a way to go through this pain. A film that can be labeled as cinema-therapy.



UNE PROMENADE EGYPTIENNE
experimental, 2’15’’, Italy, 16mm, 2011

A film by Alberto Gemmi, Enrico Masi, Stefano Migliore
Original score: Zende Music

Á la fin de la terre, il y a tout le monde.



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SHOOTING THE LABYRINTH
video Full HD 6’ and 16mm film, 2021

The plasticity of Francesca Pasquali's environmental sculptures stimulate the musical creation of the multi-instrumentalist Marco Vecchio, who starts from the sounds of matter and develops an improvisational process in dialogue with the performative act of Philippe Kratz, international dancer and choreographer. Music and dance also interact with a video by filmmaker Alberto Gemmi. A screening of an unreleased 16mm film opened the show.

Dancer: Philippe Kratz
Original sound: Marco Vecchio
Visual artist: Alberto Gemmi
Curated by: Claudio Calari

2021
November 9th, Torre Unipol - Bologna
November 13th, Fondazione Lercaro - Bologna

→ bolognajazzfestival
fondazionelercaro
→ francescapasquali





TANGER
Selected works, 45’, HD, 2019

This selection, designed for LiTE-HAUS Galerie (Berlin), includes four titles of short and medium-length films. Tanger becomes the perfect title for this installation, the cinematic landscape for this set of ruins and beauties. Tanger like a secret garden, represents the ideal metaphor of our Mediterranean. And it is from this extraordinary place and from its history that suggestions for this selection are born.

The special proposal, includes digital images and films, field recordings, memories and notebooks, proposed either in the form of an essay or of a diary. Like the character of Jack Nicholson in Red Desert, Tanger is a journey between boundaries and conscience.



VIZIO DI FORMA
A performance by and with Gianluca Guidotti and Enrica Sangiovanni based on the work of Primo Levi.

Sound score: Patrizio Barontini
Technique: Andrea Sangiovanni
Super 8 (editing, treatmnet and projection): Alberto Gemmi

2019 
Reattore della Centrale ENEA sul lago Brasimone, Bologna (Italy)
Teatro delle Passioni, Modena (Italy)

2017
Teatro delle Moline, Bologna (Italy)

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FILM NOIRS
by Jean-Marc Padovani, Philippe Léogé and Enzo Cormann

A special selection and a creative editng as a tribute to film noir, to its great directors and to its great lovers.

Text: Enzo Cormann 
Double bass: Maxime Delporte 
Piano: Philippe Léogé 
Saxophone: Jean-Marc Padovani 
Drum: Pierre Pollet 
Visual artists: Alberto Gemmi and Pablo Padovani

2014
theaters of Vire, Aurillac and Toulouse (France)

la grande ritournelle



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Since many years Alberto Gemmi has been using photography as a tool for research on reality and as a device of getting closer to people and situations. Several reportages he has produced in Japan, Balkans, France, Portugal,  Romania, Corsica, south of Italy and across Europe.

A new book with a special selection of his last ten years life and pictures is coming soon!



Per la serie: Estate Italiana 
Punta Ala, 2021
35mm film
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