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The Italian Short Film Center was for quite some time the sole promoter of publishing on short films. In this section, you will find catalogues – almost all downloadable free of charge –of the Filmbreve festivals, which were organized by the Aiace Nazionale and subsequently by the Short Center; historical works and reviews of Italian and international shorts, to works by leading film critics (amongst which: Volpi, Fofi, Aprà, Mereghetti and Toffetti); and legal – economic studies on production and distribution in Italy.
The Italian short film industry. The 2014 Report
The Italian short film industry. The 2014 Report, curated by Jacopo Chessa is an in-depth research on the production and release of Italian shorts . For the first time, facts and figures are available about a sector which is far from marginal, since it involves about 200 festivals and more than 1,000 films alone in…
In breve
19 essays by Adriano Aprà, Paolo Bertinetti, Gabriella Bosco, Roberto Chiesi, Goffredo Fofi, Emanuela Martini, Paolo Mereghetti, Emiliano Morreale, Gianni Rondolino, Sergio Toffetti, Dario Tomasi, Gianni Volpi on shorts and major authors of the 1900s. It is easy to speak of a “classic”, but these shorts are real classics, that will “teach” for a long…
Shorts & Authors. The history of Italian shorts 1980-2006
Available in Italian and English versions. Is the short really a short story? In this comparative literary view of the short story, based on the dual parallel between short film – short story, feature film – novel, as partial as it is rich in suggestions in terms of poetics and short circuits, much expertise and…
The forms of short films. Report on Italian shorts
This survey report on the state of the arts of the short film constitutes the premise to the work of the Short Center. It is, firstly, a critical description of the scene, starting from the classic short and moves on to more fringe experiences like animation and videoart. In the background, maybe there is the…
Filmbreve 2009
Catalogue of the international program of art shorts – 6th edition. We have often written that the short is the mark of the current movie world, a sort of reality and change detector. The short form with its many articulations and blends (of genres, formats, customers, addressees) is in itself almost a refusal of “what…
Filmbreve 2008
Catalogue of the international program of art shorts – 5th edition. A festival (or non-festival, in the sense it refuses the ritual, the ceremonies, the pomp and circumstance, the self interest, the cult of guises, the wretched opulence of many festivals, and specifically those involving the sector) like FilmBreve, due to its very nature and…
Filmbreve 2007
Catalogue of the international program of art shorts – 4th edition. The Concorso per il Miglior Corto Italiano dell’anno (competition for the best Italian short of the year) shows a situation that maybe is starting to change. In all Italian movie making, 2006-7 was an annus horribilis from the production viewpoint, yet, surprisingly, at least…
Filmbreve 2006
Catalogue of the international program of art shorts – 3rd edition. Two key factors moved us to create the FilmBreve: on the one hand, the need which was becoming widespread to choose, to propose, to select in the galaxy of short and non-standard format productions, while on the other, the urgency to act upon the…
Filmbreve 2005
Catalogue of the international program of art shorts – 2nd edition. A festival made of “opportunities” and “signs”. And a festival which can line up Soldini and Nanni Moretti, Tati and Marker, Clouzot and Franju, a competition which honestly will see the very best of the year’s production, the one between the first and second…
Filmbreve2004
Catalogue of the internationa program l of art shorts – first edition. The brief history of the Italian short seems to have reached a new turning point. As if a third generation had already appeared on the scene which in some way is reconnected to its origins. 1980 was a symbolic year in the recent…