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Storyline & Synopsis

Cinema Impero takes its name from the eponymous movie theater located in the center of Asmara, Eritrea, and built in 1937 during the Fascist regime. The video centers on a metanarrative that weaves together different spatial and temporal planes and various linguistic elements: materials drawn from the historical archive of Istituto Luce–Italy’s state-owned film company–and from the artist’s own private archive, recounted and interpreted by two voices and two intelligences. One artificial and one emotional. Cinema Impero is a black box, a device that encompasses cinematic, theatrical, and algorithmic languages. The work was originally presented as part a performance conceived for one viewer at a time. Placed at the center of historical macro-narrative, the individual spectator was confronted with a space of warm proximity to the artist, an intimate space of otherness shared between narrator and listener.