{"id":628497,"date":"2026-10-12T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628497\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:30:37","slug":"from-fuksas-to-renzo-piano-5-art-and-architecture-films-to-watch-at-the-rome-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628497\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fuksas to Renzo Piano: 5 art and architecture films to watch at the Rome Film Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Renzo Piano<\/a> as seen through the eyes of the people who live in his buildings. Massimiliano Fuksas<\/a> interviewed by his daughter Elisa, in a conversation spanning an entire lifetime.\u00a0 And then the great Modigliani heads hoax, the illustrated world of Tullio Pericoli, and the art of Lucia Di Luciano. This year at the Rome Film Fest, architecture and art do not merely serve as a backdrop: they take center stage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Rome Film Fest,\u201d Francesca Via, General Director of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma and the Rome Film Fest, tells Domus, \u201chas always been a meeting point for cinema and other art forms. This year, once again, we wanted to dedicate a special space to architecture\u2014an art form that, much like cinema, possesses the power to create spaces, imaginative worlds, and new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tRenzo Piano Building Workshop, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. Courtesy of Auditorium Parco della Musica <\/p>\n

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It is a relationship\u2014that between cinema and architecture\u2014that the Festival has nurtured since its inception. Its home is the Auditorium Parco della Musica designed by Renzo Piano, one of the masterpieces of contemporary Roman architecture, while its screenings span a network of venues reaching as far as\u00a0Zaha Hadid ‘s Maxxi.\u00a0Yet, in this twenty-first edition, the connection also shifts onto the screen itself, featuring five documentaries selected by Domus that tell as many stories of architects and artists.<\/p>\n

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\n1. Five Living Buildings (by Renzo Piano), Jonathan Goodman Levitt<\/p>\n

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This documentary explores architecture as a refuge, through encounters with the people who live in buildings designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, founded in Paris in 1981. By interviewing residents, students, maintenance workers, and artists, the director explores a cultural center in Greece, a children\u2019s hospital in Uganda, the Whitney Museum in New York, an industrial park in China, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris\u2014five major projects bearing Piano\u2019s signature that illustrate his design approach, rooted in a deeply human conception of place.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe TAO Dance Theater company is filming a commercial in the pond at the O\u014dEli complex in Hangzhou, China. \u00a9 Living Buildings <\/p>\n


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\n2. Fuksas – A Lifetime, Elisa Fuksas \n<\/p>\n

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One of the most controversial figures in Italian architecture, Massimiliano Fuksas co-leads the firm that bears his name alongside his wife, Doriana Mandrelli. With an intimate and personal perspective, his daughter Elisa interviews the architect, retracing the story of his life and career, marked by major achievements and signature buildings around the world. \u201cHow many years has it been since we started shooting this film?\u201d the director asks the subject. And he replies, \u201cA lifetime\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tElisa Fuksas, Fuksas – All My Life, 2026 <\/p>\n


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\n3. The Modigliani Case, Luca Rea<\/p>\n

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It tells the story of one of the greatest scams in art history, the \u201cprank of the heads\u201d: When a retrospective was organized in Livorno to mark the 100th anniversary of Modigliani\u2019s birth, it was decided to explore the Fosso Mediceo, where it was said the artist had thrown some sculptures in 1909. Three heads carved in stone were discovered, generating great excitement and critical interest. But they were fakes. The documentary reconstructs the story of this major scandal.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLuca Rea, The Modigliani Case, 2026 <\/p>\n


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\n4. The Horizon Line, Federico Frascherelli\n<\/p>\n

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Dedicated to the tireless stroke with which Tullio Pericoli has been drawing his entire life, this documentary tells the story of the artist who, from his homeland in the Marche region to Milan\u2014where he settled in the 1960s\u2014has drawn line after line, covering surfaces with a deeply recognizable style. His art has long served the publishing world as well, with illustrations for books and newspapers. The film is an intimate autobiographical account that the protagonist\u2014who rarely allowed himself to be filmed\u2014granted to the director.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFederico Frascherelli, The Horizon Line, 2026 <\/p>\n


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\n5. Lucia Di Luciano, Fabio Cherstich\n<\/p>\n

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Following the artist\u2019s passing last January, this work represents the most significant and comprehensive body of work by painter Lucia Di Luciano, a key figure in the Italian artistic movement known as Arte Programmata and, together with her husband Giovanni Pizzo, co-founder first of Gruppo 63 and later of the Operativo R group. The MAXXI in Rome will dedicate an exhibition to her works in 2027.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFabio Cherstich, Lucia Di Luciano, 2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Renzo Piano as seen through the eyes of the people who live in his buildings. Massimiliano Fuksas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}