Yuri Ancarani - San Siro
San Siro
diretto da Yuri Ancarani
[2011]2014
24’, 1920x1080, Apple Pro-res, 25fps
“San Siro” is a film that gravitates around the world of football, offering a silent gaze at the less visible aspects of the temple of this sport: the San Siro stadium in Milan. Steering clear of what is usually captured on camera, the work lingers on the staging of the spectacle and the laborious preparation of a match, where workers, technicians, directors, and operators become the unconscious protagonists of the narrative. Like actors with their own precise choreography, they reveal the unimaginable backstage production, made up of repeated gestures in a timeless dimension and simple actions such as repainting the field lines, laying out cables for the live broadcast, or inspecting every single room. On the other side, the players—surprisingly human—approach the entrance of the grand arena. Ancarani offers a precious example of artistic research into Italian society—of which football has always been a powerful social glue—highlighting its transformations, its lights and shadows.
The project, developed within the framework of ArteVisione, was further expanded thanks to the support of the Museo MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo - in Rome, as part of the Premio MAXXI 2014.
The work has been exhibited at numerous festivals, galleries, and museums, including: Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, August 2014; TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2014; RIDM - Montreal International Documentary Festival, Montreal, Canada, November 2014; Filmmaker Festival, GAM, Milan, December 2014; IFFR Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2015; Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna, Austria, 2015; 32nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany, 2015; Art Basel, Basel, 2016; Interfilm Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2016; Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, 2017; PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2023.
SYNOPSIS
Anatomy of a stadium. Cablers, porters, stewards, stewarts, groundsmen, TV technicians and fans make up the backstage of football's inexorable ritual, staging a hypnotic still life of rain and night mists as we approach our destination on the champions' bus.
YURI ANCARANI - BIOGRAPHY
Yuri Ancarani (Ravenna, 1972) is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin and by ZERO..., Milan.
He is an Italian video artist and filmmaker, and his works are the result of an ongoing fusion between documentary film and contemporary art that are often the outcome of a research aimed at exploring barely visible regions of everyday life – realities in which the artist enters in first person.
His works are exhibited in many national and international exhibitions and museums, including: Castello di Rivoli (Rivoli-Turin, Italy); Manifesta 12 (Palermo, Italy); Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, Switzerland); Art Basel Unlimited (Basel, Switzerland); 16° Quadriennale d’Arte - Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome); 55° International Art Exhibition, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale (Italy); Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium); CAC, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (Geneva, Switzerland); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); Fondazione Sandretto, Re Rebaudengo (Turin); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, California); AMACI, Museo del Novecento (Milan); MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (Rome); R.Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France); RaebervonStenglin (Zurich, Switzerland); Stiftung Insel Hombroich (Neuss, Germany).
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
Produced by Careof, MAXXI- Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, SKY Italia, STUDIO ANCARANI
Production Supervisor: Marta Bianchi
Sound design: Mirco Mencacci
Sound mixer: Paolo Benvenuti, Mirko Fabbri, Mirco Mencacci
Musiche originali: Lorenzo Senni, Wang Inc.