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Caratteri Mobili (Movable Typefaces)

"Caratteri Mobili" is a video art work created on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of DMAV in 2020. The project was born from the printing of the book Terraforma, which tells the stories and projects of the collective in the last ten years all over Italy. We wanted to explore the process of printing entering the book in a deep physical way: in the video Marzia Nobile, the charismatic performer of DMAV faces the Heidelberg printing machines of the 1950s in the setting of one of the ancient typographies in Italy and her body becomes like a page of the book, absorbing through the skin the colours of print.
The flesh becomes paper in the process: we have interpreted the printing process in an extremely physical way, letting the body enter the book. The footprints of this performance become tangible in the the art book that contains the skin imprint of Marzia's body, immersed in the color of a typographic print.
The work is signed for DMAV by Nobile, Rinaldi, Centonze, Ladini.
Caratteri Mobili is the italian translation for “movable typefaces”.

  • Alessandro Rinaldi (DMAV)
    Director
  • Francesca Centonze (DMAV)
    Director
  • GIulio C. Ladini (DMAV)
    Director
  • Marzia Nobile (DMAV)
    Director
  • Alessandro Rinaldi
    Writer
  • Francesca Centonze
    Writer
  • Giulio C. Ladini
    Writer
  • Marzia Nobile
    Writer
  • Alessandro Rinaldi - Dof Srl
    Producer
  • Marzia Nobile
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 29, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Tokyo International Short Film Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
    Finalist
  • Chicago Indie Film Awards
    Chicago
    United States
    Official Selection
  • Montreal Independent Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    Official Selection
  • New Wave Short Film Festival
    Munich
    Germany
    Finalist
Director Biography - Alessandro Rinaldi (DMAV), Francesca Centonze (DMAV), GIulio C. Ladini (DMAV), Marzia Nobile (DMAV)

DMAV_Social Art Ensemble
is a Northern Italy-based social art collective founded by Alessandro Rinaldi, artist and activist, that operates in the field of public and social art, with a specific focus on urban spaces reactivation and community development. In 2017 DMAV has been included in The Independent Project by MAXXI Museum in Rome. In 2018 DMAV started the collaboration with Torino NESXT Art Network. In 2020 the book “Terraforma” about the first ten years of DMAV work has been published, written by Olga Gambari for Comunicarte. In 2021 DMAV has been awarded with the final exhibition in the international Laguna Art Prize in Venice (Arsenale), after a selection with more than 10.000 artists from 35 different countries.

Vision
DMAV creates immersive spaces in order to help the community to explore relations and to enhance a shared awareness. The vision involves the possibility of bringing beauty back in deserted places, generating a forms of social consciousness.

Languages
DMAV chooses to operate at the intersection between different media and techniques.
•Installations in public spaces
•Urban reactivation projects
•Performances
•Virtual reality and immersive digital experiences
•Electronic Readings
•Photographic incursions, lightboxes and dioramas
•Video explorations
•Mixed media interventions

Environments
DMAV creates site specific works that enable a strong resonance with the environmental features. Different spaces involves different ways of interaction. In the last years DMAV worked in:
•Places with a strong historical resonance
•Abandoned and post-industrial plants
•Forgotten city corners and neighborhoods
•Spaces connected to sacred/profane short circuits
•Art galleries and museums

Community facilitation
Every DMAV intervention involves the activation of a continuous community dialogue. The great expertise of the collective members in the use of facilitation techniques and non violent communication is a way to transform every installation and performance in a meeting between deep social dynamics, public needs and artistic disruptive works.

Recent projects
•Flow, public performance, mixed media, body performances, theatrical machineries, baroque music. Pesaro, old town.
•Numbers, lightboxes, large format photos, digital interactive machines, videos, public space interventions, different cities.
•Minimalia, photographic dioramas to immersive spaces, to haunting performances. Large format photos, interactive spaces, meditative crypts, virtual reality experience, public electronic readings.
•Doublin’, public art project in Trieste.
•Terraforma, ten years retrospective project, mixed media in Galleria Moitre, Torino.
•Caratteri mobili, video art project in Udine.

Further developments
•Creation of Total Rooms: immersive spaces connected to the reflection on the digital overload
•Performances: from digital reading to special events connected to the "character" of Babatwoosh, a digital mystic whose fictive persona was at the core of an experiential performance presented at Chiesa di San Francesco, in Udine.
•Creation of immersive virtual reality experiences, connected to the development of Abecedario, a kind of dystopic encylopedia that involves the contribution of writers coming from different fields (literature, theatre, complexity studies, art).
•Development of Radio Terraforma (www.radioterraforma.it) broadcasting art and community stories

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