Asolo Art Film Festival, the world’s oldest festival dedicated to the relationship between cinema and the visual arts, has been run since 2017 by the non-profit cultural association Asolo Art Film Festival.
Founded in 1973 by critic and essayist Flavia Paulon as an offshoot of the Venice Biennale, the festival pursues a cultural mission that fosters international exchange and dialogue between cinema and contemporary art practices, promoting film, audiovisual work and video experimentation as tools for artistic research, expressive innovation and cultural growth.
Cinema is an act of collective memory.*
The medieval village of Asolo becomes a place for cultural engagement.
ASOLO ART FILM FESTIVAL further enhances the medieval village of Asolo, transforming its historic landmarks and natural landscapes into spaces for cultural engagement. Since ancient times, Asolo has attracted intellectuals, writers, explorers and cultural figures: Queen Caterina Cornaro established her literary court here, attended among others by Pietro Bembo. The village later became home to the English poet Robert Browning, theatre icon Eleonora Duse, composer Gian Francesco Malipiero, and English writer and traveller Freya Stark. It was also frequented by Eugene Benson, Henry James and Carlo Scarpa, Marius Pictor, Filippo De Pisis, Igor Stravinsky and Ernest Hemingway, who helped shape and strengthen its cultural identity. This rich heritage makes Asolo a unique setting for the Festival, where history, art and landscape engage in dialogue with the languages of cinema. During the Festival, Asolo becomes an ideal stage for filmmakers, artists, scholars and guests, drawing to the town a diverse audience of young people, local spectators, cultural tourists and cinema lovers.
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