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UNFICTION SERIES — Megunica
In Megunica filmmaker Lorenzo Fonda follows the Italian graffiti artist Blu through Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Argentina. The result is an ebullient and unscripted film, mixing animation and cinema verité, which asks broad questions about art in the urban landscape and its transformative powers.
Winner of prizes at the Taiwan Documentary Festival and the International Amsterdam Film Festival.
The Italian filmmaker Lorenzo Fonda has made commercials for clients like Nike and MTV, a video for the band Bright Eyes, and a number of highly personal shorts. His work has been showcased at the Cannes 2006 Young Director Awards and Resfest and has been featured in such publications as Pictoplasma Character in Motion, Idn Flip Moview, Swindle, and Stash DVD, Converse Gallery.
The artist known as Blu is known for the whimsical and bizarre murals he has painted in such cities as Belgrade, Berlin, and Bologna, to name just those starting with ‘B.’
Curator: Emily Berçir Zimmerman
Tickets are REQUIRED for this event
Unfiction is a series of documentary films that turn truth into something other than fact, using poetry and imagination, rather than transparency and objectivity. These filmmakers question the very notion of authenticity, and disobey the typical documentary filmmaking practices; instead they stage their own realities on location, employing techniques such as reenactment, personal voice-overs and special effects.