INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL URTIcanti

The INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL URTIcanti is a festival and a competition dedicated to short films, short docufilms and works of video art to promote contemporary author music as a written or electroacoustic work. This specification excludes works of a specifically commercial nature.

The mission of the project is to popularise contemporary art music through images. It often happens that the non-expert listener perceives contemporary art music as an abstract, even too intellectual form of expression, and ends up distancing himself 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 nonexperts. 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, highlighing 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.