On the occasion of the eighth edition of the Mind the Gap art project, the night of screenings brings to the public two works by French-American director Éric Baudelaire. Realised ten years apart but conceived as a diptych The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011, 66’) and When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories (2022, 59’) are shown together for the first time on this occasion in presence of the artist. Both films chronicle events bridging the political and artistic avant-garde between 1968 and 1978, a decade marked by violent struggle and radical innovation in experimental cinema and music. Based on interviews with prominent figures of the time, archive material and Super 8 filmed by Baudelaire himself in Japan, Lebanon and Italy, these works open up a reflection about the legacy of those years of political strife and the way they relate to the urgencies of the present.
Éric Baudelaire (Salt Lake City, 1973) is an artist and filmmaker living and working in Paris. After studying political science, he gained prominence as a visual artist through an investigative practice involving different media, such as printmaking, photography, moving images, installation and performance. In 2019 he received the Marcel Duchamp Prize and in 2023 he published his monograph Make, Do, With for Paraguay Press.
Curated by Lorenzo Lazzari, the event is realised as part of Mind the Gap, a project launched in 2017 by Augusta Eniti (Altreforme). In collaboration with the master programme MOVIES - Moving Images Arts (Iuav University of Venice).
