Un Giorno e un Altro Ancora a film by Dino Viani music by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta Babylon Movie Theatre, Berlin July 29, 19:30 press information
EMANUEL PIMENTA'S MUSIC CONCERT FOR DINO VIANI'S WORLD PREMIERE
BERLIN (July 2009). Next 29 July, 19:30, at Babylon, the legendary movie theatre in Berlin, it will happen the world première of new film by the Italian movie director Dino Viani titled Un Giorno e un Altro Ancora (free translation: One day and another one). Dino Viani is an independent filmmaker who has participating in several festivals around the world, including the Biennale of Venice last year. The new Viani's film is about aging process and the last sequence of life. The movie uses music by the Brazilian composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, who will perform a concert at the theatre before the film presentation. Emanuel Pimenta collaborated with John Cage between 1986 and 1992 and remains as composer for Merce Cunningham in New York City. The historical concert, with fragments of four compositions by Pimenta, will count with the projection of a visual artwork created by Dino Viani and Luca Reale on the images of the movie. The first musical piece will be a fragment of Kirkos - A Dialogue Between Josqin des Près and Marcel Duchamp, which works with artificial intelligence principles; followed by YARNAM, which was dedicated to Ornette Coleman and was created also based on Man Ray's artworks; 18/6, composed to celebrate ten years of John Cage's disappearance and recorded at the window of the legendary composer's home in New York City; and, finally, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X, composed in 2003 for a concert in the Amalfi Coast, Italy. The collaboration between Dino Viani and Emanuel Pimenta knew another historical moment in May 20 2009 at the Cannes International Film Festival with the projection of the movie with simultaneous performance of the concert CANTO 6409.
COMPOSER DEDICATES CONCERT TO MERCE CUNNINGHAM AT THE BABYLON MOVIE THEATER
BERLIN - Next July 29, 19:30, at the famous Babylon Movie Theater in Berlin, the Brazilian composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta will perform a concert, as part of the world première projection of the film Un Giorno e un Altro Ancora by the Italian filmaker Dino Viani. Emanuel Pimenta worked with Merce Cunningham, who died in July 26, as commissioned composer along almost twenty-five years in New York City. Along those years, it was established a link of strong friendship between the composer and the legendary choreographer. Pimenta, started his collaboration with Cunningham together with John Cage, in 1986, with his concert ShortWaves 1985 in Cunningham's piece titled Fabrications. In the last two decades, Pimenta composed four concerts to the American master of contemporary dance, regularly performing them all over the world. The concert at the Babylon will be made in memory of Merce Cunningham. Dino Viani and Emanuel Pimenta's previous collaboration was CANTO 6409, which had its world première at the Cannes International Film Festival, in France, this year.
Babylon Movie Theatre:
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin
U-Bahn: Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
S+U Bahn: Alexanderplatz
More information about the event: http://www.asa-art.com/babylon.html
More information about Dino Viani at http://www.myspace.com/dinoviani
More information about Emanuel Pimenta at http://www.emanuelpimenta.net
Brief bio of Emanuel Pimenta at http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/bio/ENPimenta.html
More information about Luca Reale at
Contact:
Directly with the movie director Dino Viani: dinoviani@hotmail.com
or by the phone +3939306465
Directly with the composer Emanuel Pimenta: edmp@emanuelpimenta.net
or by the phone +351919802813
Contact with ASA Art and Technology: luciana@asa-art.com
More information about Stimmung Film at
http://www.youtube.com/dinoviani
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