Riccardo Giacconi
Due - Film - 17min - 2017
presented as part of the exhibition panorama 19
Designed at once as a study of a concept in urbanism and a detective story, Due was shot at Milano 2, a residential district on the outskirts of Milan. Built as a utopian city by Silvio Berlusconi between 1970 and 1979, Milano 2 was his first truly ambitious real estate project. It was in Milano 2 that was born Italy’s first private television station, TeleMilano, which began transmitting locally in 1974, and which, over the years, developed into Canale 5, the largest private TV station in Italy and the bridgehead of Berlusconi’s first media and then political empire.
Milano 2, which today might look at first glance like a nondescript out-of-town district functioned as a laboratory for a whole new lifestyle that, in the Berlusconi decades, gained a hold throughout the nation, radically transforming Italian culture.
Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi, born in 1985 in Italy, studied at iuav University in Venice. He has been artist in residence at the International Centre of Art and Landscape in Vassivière (France), the macro in Rome, la Box in Bourges (France) and at Lugar a Dudas in Cali (Colombia). He has shown his films at several festivals, including Critics’ Week at the Mostra in Venice, the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and the fid in Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix de la Compétition internationale in 2015.
