Cultural Management

In September 2014 we won Movistar’s Artsy competition, a platform that supports cultural events, gaining the support it needed to celebrate a two-day festival in the MACBA’s Convent dels Àngels, the Gothic convent that sits across the plaza from the museum.

Program:

+ ALPPINE: 'Vídeo Diarios', 'Actitude', 'Somos nosotros' y 'Cuatro caminos' de Diego Delgado (2003-2004)
+ BRUNETTO & XARLENE: 'Reinventing Alice' (1988)
+ CRISTIAN DE SUCRE: ‘Sistema Natura’ (2015)
+ EMILIANO ZELADA: 'The stone cut'.
+ ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE: ‘Dreams’, Akira Kurosawa (1990)
+ FRANCESCA BANCHELLI: 'A precious stone'.
+ JAIME L. PANTALEÓN: ‘La noche de los muertos vivientes’ de George A. Romero (1968)
+ LENA WILLIKENS: 'Japanese Girls At The Harbor', Hiroshi Shimizu (1933)
+ SARA FONTÁN: ‘La Jetée’, Chris Marker (1962)
+ SHINKIRO: 'Sans Soleil', Chris Marker (1983)
+ dublab.es Dj´s Cinematic Sets

LiveSoundtracks brings together the choreographer Moreno Bernardi and the composer Gigi Piscitelli to create a unique piece inspired by the cult film Blue by British filmmaker Derek Jarman. A blue dance, reassuring and irritating at the same time, that, through a live sound and music collage, reveals an intimate diary of the body that dances.

Blue is composed of a single blue frame; the ultramarine blue created by the French artist Yves Klein. Faced with this light, the spectator feels surrounded, trapped and imagines movements, forms that meet and distance themselves. Through a fixed and primary element, the film invites to dream, to project a personal fantasy on the blue surface.

In The Blue Room a blue space replaces Blue‘s monochromatic screen, while two artists create their own interpretation of the film. Moreno Bernardi uses his body as a language and Gigi Piscitelli uses his music.

To complete the proposal, Anna Mastrolitto and Moreno Bernardi set up a didactic project that brings together the students of the MEATS (Master in Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces) of Elisava, students of the ESDi (Escola Superior de Disseny), and a group of young professionals from the SAE Creative Media Institute Barcelona to build, jointly, a dream space to get lost and meet.

Curators: Anna Mastrolitto | Moreno Bernardi
Dance/choreography: Moreno Bernardi
Music: Gigi Piscitelli + Giorgio POna
Space and Lights: MEATS ELISAVA
Sound: SAE Institute Barcelona
Costume: ESDI
Production: LST- MEp

a sound trip through some of the most interesting productions of funk, disco, house, synthwave and experimental music that have come out on the warm and fuzzy cassette format.
Every four weeks on Radio Primavera Sound.

For the fifth edition of Tupper Festival I organized and curated a LiveSoundtracks show with Terence:

Producer, dj and radio host Terence drops by Tupper to change the way you experience cinema, with a live music set accompanied by the visuals of two short films from the 1920s: Regen and Ballet Mecanique.

Friday, 18 January - Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona

For the tenth edition of Mutek.es I organized and curated two rounds tables:

``Gender Equality in the Creative Industries & Institutional Action`` with:
Ariel Charec (MUTEK Argentina) AR
Gaia Lucilla Danese - Cónsul General de Italia en Barcelona (IT)
Valeria Zamparolo (British Council / Amplify) AR
Marie McPartlin (Somerset House Studios / Amplify) UK
Carmen Zapata (Asociación MIM) ES
Daniel Granados (ICUB) ES
Soho House, Barcelona

``Diversity in Curation`` with:
Natalia San Juan (Femnoise, España)
Oliver Baurhenn (CTM Festival, Berlin)
Slikback (Nyege Nyege, Uganda)
Pau Cristoful (Primavera Sound, España)
We Work, Barcelona

Anna and her guests share cinematographic sounds and imaginary soundtracks, talking about music, films and life.

Every four weeks on Dublab radio.

The Italian Institute of Culture of Barcelona in collaboration with Apulia Film Commission and the Filmoteca de Catalunya present “Deviazioni: Puglia fuori traccia”, a selection of 7 films related to Puglia, the Italian region invited to the second edition of “Italia Repubblica Creativa”, a program of cultural activities promoted by the Consulate General of Italy in Barcelona.
The cycle that will be screened from May 14 to 16 in the Sala Laya of the Filmoteca de Catalunya is curated by Anna Mastrolitto (LiveSoundtracks) and Luciano Toriello (MAD Produzioni), both born in Puglia, and exposes a look at the peculiarities and the contrasts of this region of Italy in a journey from north to south through feature and selected short films: Polis Nea, La guerra dei cafoni, Erma, Giardini di luce, In viaggio con Adele, 10YearsOn and La Capa Gira.
This last film, directed by Alessandro Piva, premiered at the Berlin festival and winner of the David di Donatello prize for the best opera prima in 2000, was a turning point in the region's recognition throughout Europe. From the same director, there is the unpublished documentary 10 Years On that will be presented by LiveSoundtracks on the final night of the cycle: a multisensory trip through the contrast experienced by the youth of this region in the Mediterranean, with live sounds from the electronic music of Fedele Ladisa (Agents of Time).

For the second edition of Ombra festival, I took care of the strategy and coordination of the communication campaign.

Ombra is a project born from the hand of agency WeareWe and label Oraculo Records with the aim of creating a meeting place for lovers of analogue and avant- garde sounds that do not fit in the current cultural offer, all of this taking a step beyond the playful.

Muse: A New Wave of Women in the Mediterranean

The Italian General Consulate in Barcelona, as part of the ITmakES project, gives its patronage to the participation of the Italian artist Marta de Pascalis to the International Festival of Art Science and Technology VOlumens of Valencia, in order to keep its own effort to give visibility to the cultural and creative scene, the most experimental and contemporary one.

This initiative coincides with the launch of the platform project MUSE, A New Wave of Women in the Mediterranean, conceived by the Italian General Consul in Barcelona Gaia Danese, in conjunction with the project’s co-author Anna Mastrolitto, founder of the collective She’s in Control.

The project MUSE will also cooperate with other three electronic music festivals in Spain: Enso in Alicante in November, and MutekES in Barcelona in March of next year.