The INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL URTIcanti is a festival and a competition dedicated to short films, docufilms and videoart works that feature contemporary author's music as a written or electroacoustic work. This specification excludes works of a strictly commercial nature or those with a soundtrack comprising music other than that specified above.
The mission of the project is to popularise contemporary author's music through images. It often happens that the non-expert listener perceives contemporary author's music as an abstract art, even too intellectual form of expression, and ends up distancing himself or herself from it. In today's scenario in which the image is an almost indispensable element of every communication process, resorting to visual support - short films, short docufilms and works of video art - can serve to break down certain prejudices. This Festival intends to make use of the concrete elements that images reveal so that contemporary music is closer and more easily accessible to an audience, even of non-experts. As a mirror of the performance, the image on the screen has the power to illuminate the resonant body (the actual musical instrument) but also the body of the performer, increasing the communicative charge of contemporary music pieces. In the cinema, it is no coincidence that, in addition to the music, the protagonist is the performer: making the performer's effort visible, highlighting the gestures, timbre, and corporeity of both sound and instrument, illuminating the sound sources, making visible details that remain in the shadows during the concert, are the objectives that the INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL URTIcanti sets itself to encourage an empathetic encounter with contemporary music.
For each of the Sections, the following prizes will be awarded for both Categories (Senior and Student):
• best short film
• best short docufilm
• best videoart work
For each of the three Sections, the following prizes will be awarded out for both Categories (Senior and Student):
• best director
• best soundtrack
• best sound
• best photography
• best musical interpretation (for live performances)
In addition, the following special prizes will be awarded
• best work made under 30 (Senior Category)
• best work made by the youngest student (Student Category)
• best Italian film
• best film made in the Region of Apulia
The Commission reserves the right to award or not to award all prizes, to make changes to the special prizes or to award honorable mentions.
A personalised certificate will be issued and sent by email, for each of the 12 prizes and any honourable mentions.
Those attending the Festival’s awards ceremony in person will also receive a paper copy.
