The House of Cinema

Is located on the ground floor of a wing of Palazzo Mocenigo, San Stae, and offers space for watching classics films in the original version, Author movies, movies and videos of Venetian production, books presentations and meetings with the authors in a large exhibition space and ten individual workstations for the guided navigation to internet sites dedicated to the history of cinema and for consulting of more than 7000 titles stored.
This space will host until June 13, 2015 the incredible photographic exhibition “Lights, sights and candy floss. Rides and Park workers in Venice", organized in collaboration with the communication and IVESER, the Venetian Institute for the history of the resistance and contemporary society.
Collaboration created to continue the research work, storage and enhancement of large photographic Venetian heritage  of the second half of the twentieth century, documenting the society and the city territory.
The path consists of thirty photographs taken between the years '50 and '60 at the Luna Park of Riva degli Schiavoni and rides hosted in other Venetian square.
Quick photographs, taken mostly in the evening, without a tripod and without flash, that return an image of great dynamism and charm almost Futurist, confirming the awareness of a new way of doing photography in accordance with established experimental trends internationally.
Pictures of Luigi "Gigi" Ferrigno are accompanied by texts by Tiziano Bolpin, instructor of Directors and Archive Manager communication.

Opening: from 16.03.15 to 13.06.15
timetable: from Monday to Friday, 09-13/15-22.30
Tickets: admission free
Info: http://www.comune.venezia.it/