VerticalMovie Festival is a competition aimed at discovering new talents in screenwriting, directing and photography to be held at MACRO ASILO from 10 to 12 October.. Participants are asked to tell short audiovisual stories with exclusively vertical video footage: the typical format of the smartphone. The VerticalMovie Festival aims to define and legitimize what has… Find out more
The collaboration between RUFA and the Museo di ROMA is reinforced with the exhibition “I’m not”. The exhibition is the result of the experimentation of RUFA students of the school of photography, coordinated by the teacher Alessandro Carpentieri. 22 first-year photographers received a commission for 22 portraits of RUFA first-year visual arts artists, with the… Find out more
The result of the collaboration between the course of Graphic design of the first year of RUFA and the Bao Publishing (specialized in the publication of comic books, based in Milan), was recently printed the third volume of the collection “Appunti di vita”, by the famous French author Boulet. The students of Comics and illustration,… Find out more
In the middle of a post-truth era, where we hardly distinguish reality from fiction, the “Zero degrees Frozen yogurt” ice cream shop is the artistic (consumer) product most suited to our times: a kind of “fake moment”, a probable daily moment where everything can be true, but at the same time it can be false…. Find out more
Call launched to participate in “An Atlas of the rocky landscape”, between Matera and Montescaglioso The project “Un atlante del paesaggio rupestre” is part of the program of artistic residencies promoted by “Matera Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019”, realized by Arci Basilicata and funded by the Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019. Through the international call open until… Find out more
The coffee company Moak, within the project “Moak Cultura” and in collaboration with Archinet, has announced for the year 2019 the sixth edition of the international photography competition “Fuori Fuoco Moak”. The competition is open to all photographers, professionals and amateurs, who want to tell a story or create a mini-reportage through a sequence of… Find out more
The Premio Emanuele (Lele) Luzzati is organized by the Italian Jewish Center “G. e V. Pitigliani”, in collaboration with the Museo Luzzati at Porta Siberia in Genoa. It is aimed at those who have created an audiovisual work for young people, adhering to the theme “for an education in values, identifying models consistent and positive”…. Find out more
The cultural association “Le Bestevem”, which has been organizing for years the international competition “The 48 Hour Film Project Roma”, organizes the second edition of the contest for aspiring film makers under 30 “The 72nd Hour”, with the aim of making a short film in 72 hours. The competition, realized within the framework of the… Find out more
The collaboration between RUFA and the Museo di Roma is reinforced with the new exhibition “I’m not” from 5 to 7 July at Palazzo Braschi. The exposition is the result of the experimentation of the RUFA students of the school of photography, coordinated by the lecturer Alessandro Carpentieri. 22 first year photographers received the commission… Find out more
RUFA is the academic partner for the realization of “NeoRural Futures. Speculative design for rurality in global scenarios”, the summer school of SpeculativeEdu, an educational project funded by ERASMUS+, the European Union programme for education, training, youth, and sport, with the aim of strengthening speculative design education by collecting and exchanging existing knowledge and experience… Find out more
How can the self-portrait be declined today? What does it mean to represent oneself when the capitalist ideology demands that the body adhere to the socially accepted semblant? In the younger generations the creative approach seems to become orthopedic: from here the abuse of photoshop to erase any sign of experience, the spread of cosplay,… Find out more
The notice of admission to the free courses of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato has been published. For the school year 2019/2020, there are 12 places for students of the three-year ordinary course and 12 places for the annual preparatory course of the Scuola dell’arte della medaglia, established at the Zecca. The ordinary… Find out more
Rufa is academic partner of Blooming Festival, the event born from the desire to promote different artistic expressions of research in the field of digital culture, music and electronic arts. The ultimate aim of the project is to encourage the active participation of spectators in the new artistic languages, bringing them closer to forms of… Find out more
In the middle of a post-truth era, where we hardly distinguish reality from fiction, the “Zero degrees Frozen yogurt” ice cream shop is the artistic (consumer) product most suited to our times: a kind of “fake moment”, a probable daily moment where everything can be true, but at the same time it can be false…. Find out more
Everything is ready for the second edition of “Walk the global walk”: the “competition” for video-making experts. This is an international project, supported by the European Commission, which involves, for Italy, the Region of Tuscany and Oxfam Intercultura. The primary objective is to promote awareness and interest in sustainable development issues related to “global goals”,… Find out more
The journey continues in the footprints that contemporaneity leaves in Rome. RUFA lecturer Gian Luca Gentili has re-proposed, with a new itinerary and above all with new meetings, his “en plein air” lessons to rediscover the modernity expressed by the Capital in design and architecture. Specifically, it is an itinerary that tries to translate the… Find out more
RUFA and the association MoCA, promoter and organizer of the “Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna”, now in its fourteenth edition, are renewing their collaboration. Specifically, it is an international competition that embraces multiple expressions of the arts: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art, performance, virtual art, land art, urban art, design. An event that… Find out more
A project to bring the world of image and the world of fashion together in a unified manner. It is in this assumption that “B&W – Black & White, The Migrant Trend” is outlined. An experience that comes from observing the creative and unique style of the migrant people. A style that, while finding personal… Find out more
If, as Fredric Jameson says, postmodernism is the time in which we passed from the alienated subject to the fragmented one – the collapse of the depth of the modern unconscious that determined a large part of Western culture – how can we interpret the self-portrait today? What does it mean to represent oneself when… Find out more
Until 6 September it is possible to apply for an internship or placement in a European country. Registration is open for Erasmus+, the international program that allows students or recent graduates to access an internship or placement (training through work), autonomous and funded, to be carried out in foreign companies or enterprises, during which to… Find out more