Kintsugi

2014
Single-channel video, sound, 4m 30s

Scars are links to the events that caused them.
Very often these events are traumatic.
Kintsugi, which means "golden joinery", is the japanese technique of mending broken ceramics with gold filled resin.
Every repaired ceramics has a unique and irreplicable pattern of golden lines due to randomness of the crushing.
This technique has its roots in the belief that the object is more valuable and beautiful with its history revealed.
Bodies also tell us their story. Some of them say it loud.

Kintsugi is one of the chapters of DROP.

A work by APOTROPIA
Performed by Antonella Mignone
Cinematography: Cristiano Panepuccia
Music: Cristiano Panepuccia


AWARDS / HONORS:

- Excellence Award - 18th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival, Tokyo, Japan
- Best Experimental Film - EUROSHORTS 2015, Gdańsk, Poland
- Best Direction - ZINETIKA Videodance Festival 2016, Pamplona, Spain
- Cinematography Award - NO BUDGET Film Festival 2014, Los Angeles, USA
- Honorable Mention - VIDEOMOVIMIENTO 2014 Festival de Videodanza de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia


SCREENINGS:

2022
- JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL in KOCHI, Kochi City Cultural Plaza Karuport, Japan


2019
- KOKOKARA 4 : First steps on disability, expression and co-existence, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2018
- VKUNST FRANKFURT, Frankfurt, Germany
- Fuorinorma - la via neosperimentale del cinema italiano, curated by Adriano Aprà, Fuorinorma Extra curated by Bruno Di Marino and Francesca Fini, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy
- DanzaTac – Festival de Danza y CineDanza de Taroconte, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

2017
- Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Festival Internacional de Videodanza de Chile on Tour, Teatre de l'Escorxador, Lleida, Spain
- SPE Media Festival, Orlando, Florida, USA

2016
- JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival 20th Anniversary Exhibition - Power to Change, Tokyo, Japan
- JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival special exhibition at EYEMYTH Media Arts Festival, The Medium as somatic impulse, Short films Overseas curated by Naohiro Ukawa, Mumbai, India
- JUMPING FRAMES International Dance Video Festival, Hong Kong
- DOTDOTDOT Open Air Kurzfilmfestival, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria
- AOMORI MUSEUM OF ART, Aomori, Japan (JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival screening programme)
- RIFF - R.E.D. International Film Festival / dance-art-cinema, Eina, Norway
- ZINETIKA Videodance Festival, Pamplona, Spain
- Festival CINEMÍSTICA, Granada, Spain
- Mākslas pikniks - Art Picnic, programme curated by Riga IFF 2ANNAS, Luznava Manor, Rezekne, Latvia
- Centrum Kultury w Lublinie, Lublin, Poland (EUROSHORTS screening programme)
- [C]Screen Festival, Cerdanyola Art Museum. Can Domènech, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary
- Festival Internacional CORPORALIDAD EXPANDIDA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- The THIRD COAST DANCE Film Festival, Houston, Texas, USA
- CINEAUTOPSIA Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
- Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, Poland (EUROSHORTS screening programme)
- International Music Festival LABA DABA, programme curated by Riga IFF 2ANNAS, Ratnieki, Latvia
- EnCORE Dance on Film, The Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, Georgia, USA
- JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival special exhibition at MATADERO Madrid, The Japan Foundation Media Art Conference: Crossing Point – Japanese media art, Game and Popular culture, Madrid, Spain

2015
- 18th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
- NAGASAKI PREFECTURAL ART MUSEUM, Nagasaki, Japan (JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival screening programme)
- ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz, Austria (JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival screening programme)
- SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, California, USA (JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival screening programme)
- Art Fair PARATISSIMA #11, Paravideo curated by Francesca Canfora & Cristina Marinelli, Torino Esposizioni, Turin, Italy
- TAKAMATSU MEDIA ART Festival, The Medium as somatic impulse, Short films Overseas curated by Naohiro Ukawa, Takamatsu, Japan (JAPAN MEDIA ARTS Festival screening programme)
- IVAHM'15 New Media Arts Festival, La Neomudéjar, Madrid, Spain
- EUROSHORTS, Gdańsk, Poland
- BUCHAREST International Dance Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
- SHNIT International Shortfilmfestival, Bern, Switzerland
- ARES International Film & Media Festival, Syracuse, Italy
- BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain
- LUCCA Film Festival, Lucca, Italy
- NAOUSSA International Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece
- ARTCITY Short Film Festival, Buea, Cameroon
- MEDIAWAVE Film & Music Festival, Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
- AGITE Y SIRVA 7th Screendance Touring Festival, Mexico
- SHORT WAVES Festival, Dances With Camera Overtime, Poznań, Poland
- FIVC International Videodance Festival of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- KRALJEVSKI Filmski Festival, Kraljevo, Serbia
- DANÇA EM FOCO International Festival of Video and Dance, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- ATHENS SLINGSHOT Festival, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico
- MiTS Festival de Videodanza, Barcelona, Spain
- CINETORO Film Festival, Toro, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- SHORT FORM International Short Film Festival, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia
- AUTUMN Shorts Film Festival, Somerset, Kentucky, USA
- MIVSC São Carlos Videodance Festival, São Carlos, Brazil
- DesArts//DesCinés Festival - International Videodance Competition, Saint-Etienne, France
- OKLAHOMA Dance Film Festival, AHHA Tulsa Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

2014
- FOLKESTONE TRIENNIAL - Folkestone Fringe Open Moving Image & Experimental Film Screening, Folkestone, UK
- SESIFF International Extreme-Short Film Competition, Seoul, South Korea
- ESPACIO ENTER International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canary Islands, Spain
- SEEN & HEARD Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
- VIDEOMOVIMIENTO Festival de Videodanza de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
- NORRKÖPING Film Festival FLIMMER - Dance Film Screening curated by Sophia Örnell, Norrköping, Sweden
- InShadow International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal
- INFRARED ULTRASOUND, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, USA
- Festival de Videodanza de PALMA DE MALLORCA, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- PROSA, VÍDEO e DANÇA, São Paulo, Brasil
- VIDEODANZA ECUADOR, Quito, Ecuador
- NO BUDGET Film Festival, Mack Sennett Studios, Los Angeles, USA
- CUERPO DIGITAL Festival Internacional de Videodanza, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- RIURAU Film Festival, Jesús Pobre, Dénia, Spain
- IMARP Mostra Internacional de Dança – Imagens em Movimento Céu Aberto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil


APOTROPIA (Antonella Mignone + Cristiano Panepuccia) 2021