The first event in the series L’OTTAVA ARTE (THE EIGHTH ART: Wonders of animation) features a presentation of the Asifa fund and Gianini and Luzzati’s DVD The Magic Flute. With Alfio Bastiancich.  

ASIFA Italia – the Italian Association of Animated Film – and the National Cinema Museum will be inaugurating a series of talks entitled L’OTTAVA ARTE (THE EIGHTH ART: Wonders of animation) on Friday, 6 May 2011 at 8.30 p.m. at the Bibliomediateca Mario Gromo, the new headquarters of the ASIFA Fund. These events aim to promote this enormous collection of books, essays, magazines and publications on animated film.

The first event will focus on the art of Giulio Gianini and Emanuele Luzzati. This coincides with the publication of a DVD of Il flauto magico (The Magic Flute, Italy, 1978, 54’), by the publisher Gallucci, which after the Omaggio a Rossini tribute to Rossini and Pulcinella e il pesce magico, has now edited one of the most popular works of these two artists, perhaps the richest and most complex work from an artistic and production point of view. The film has been produced, for the first time, in a home video version and is considered one of the masterpieces of Italian and world animation. The screening will follow a talk with Santuzza Calì and Tonino Conte. They are joined by Alfio Bastiancich (the president of Asifa Italia).