2023, Italy, 63' ֍ Dir. Antonello Matarazzo
Italian (Turkish subtitles)
Pablo di Neandertal takes as its starting point the work of the Italian visual artist, illustrator and essayist Pablo Echaurren. Since 2019, Echaurren’s work has featured assemblages that revolve around two apparently unrelated obsessions: Marcel Duchamp and Neanderthal man. In his uniquely entertaining experimental documentary, the multi-disciplinary artist Antonello Matarazzo, riffing on Echaurren’s work, takes up some non-inconsequential questions, like “What would have happened if the Neanderthals had prevailed over Homo Sapiens? And “What is the relationship between art and death?” Cineeuropa has described the film as “neither a documentary nor a portrait of the artist Pablo Echaurren; it’s a kaleidoscopic meditation on our past, present and future.”
Antonello Matarazzo is a painter, director and video artist whose work is part of the most recent trend, ‘Medialism’, which combines various media. Matarazzo’s videos have been welcomed in many film festivals (Mostra di Venezia, Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Torino FF, Cinémas Différents de Paris, Invideo, Clermont-Ferrand, Locarno, etc.) His work, which tends towards introspection and anthropological investigations, has also been included in the 53th and 54th Venice Biennale.
