Devices of wonder. Magic lanterns and painted film, four centuries of cinema July 22 - November 7, 2010 Le Sale delle Arti, Piani Alti della Reggia, Venaria Reale
Produced by La Venaria Reale, the National Museum of Cinema and the Cinémathèque française
An unforgettable pictorial tale of magic lanterns and their ties with cinema and avant-garde art. Alongside glass slides from the 1700s and 1800s, films by film-makers who paid tribute to the ancestor of the film camera are presented, as well as the works and installations of leading contemporary artists such as Anthony McCall, Ugo Nespolo and Bill Viola, artists who have been inspired by the form or who evoke the images it created.
REBELS Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn. Photographs by Sam Shaw June 17 – September 19, 2010 Mole Antonelliana, Torino
A series of images taken from the vast photographic archive of Sam Shaw, one of the greatest photographers to work with Hollywood stars, and who helped to increase their mystique. The photographs are taken from his coverage from the sets of two great films: One-eyed Jacks (1961), directed by Marlon Brando (who also starred in the film) and Michael Cacoyannis’s Zorba the Greek (1965), which starred Anthony Quinn.
