Ignazio Fabio Mazzola

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.

A film commissioned by architects Vitangelo Ardito and Nicoletta Faccitondo (Polytechnic University of Bari) as a companion piece to the book 'Umberto Riva. Perciò è sempre una sorpresa - 19 conversazioni'.

Between 1968 and 1969, Maurizio Sacripanti designed a pavilion for the Expo '70 in Osaka, the intention was to represent Italy in a world fair through an architecture that was physically in motion, as a symbol of a country that was moving forward. This undone project, which exists only on paper, stands as a testimony of a unique, historical period in Rome's architecture scene.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

A short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola & Gianmaria Giannetti.

Drawings by Luca Guido.

Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the sound of a bell alters the logic of the system.

Photographs by my father Giacomo Mazzola and a video depicting Sironi’s painting Mountains: a gesture of remembrance in three chapters.

The municipal cemetery of Parabita (Lecce, Italy), designed by Alessandro Anselmi, presents in its composition a prominent relationship with historical forms of architecture. In da DO a DA this relationship is extended to other important 20th-century constructions existing in the Salento area.

A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.

A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

T presents details of the houses built in La Martella (near Matera, Italy) by architect Ludovico Quaroni and his collaborators in the 50s. In T the rationalist façades are shown by way of high-contrast abstract glimpses.

A film on the Casa del Portuale, built at Calata della Marinella (Naples) by architect Aldo Loris Rossi between 1968 and 1980. ALR: suggestions arising from the architectural project, with original music by Vittorino Curci.

The Pharmacist's house, the New System of Squares and the Pirrello house: three projects made for the town of Gibellina Nuova (Trapani, Sicily) by architects Franco Purini and Laura Thermes. A dialogue between three architectural projects: on fragmentation and accuracy.

_ _ (Due rasi) originates from a double suggestion: the first concerns a teaspoon used by a person dear to me to sweeten the coffee, the second comes from a movement that I repeated frequently as a child on the balcony of my paternal grandparents’ house.

Considerations on the theme of origin, emerging from a few reels of Super 8: interiors of a house and a Sicilian landscape, emptied of its inhabitants by the act of editing.

For several years now, Gianni Asdrubali's artistic research has been carrying on a discourse on the concept of emptiness, up to its development in an adimensional frontal surface. Zakkete is an attempt to translate part of his work into a filmic dimension, bearing in mind the gestural nature of Asdrubali's work.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.