This year, E-M ARTS celebrates ten years of the Independent Film Show: an adventure grown in Naples, that is unique in its genre, highly refined, and very labour-intensive. Above all, it is careful to balance projectual rigour with educational and informational aims. Today an event dedicated to Independent Cinema is more necessary than ever in Italy, in Naples. This program leaves nothing to chance, clarifies misunderstandings and draws up a map of its subject. The projects on show go over and above simple readings, anecdotes about the works and their makers’ lives, the commonplaces of the age in which they are being shown. Instead they privilege an examination of the aesthetic attitude, ever-changing, and as well as that, they focus on research, exploration, creation and re-creation. The Independent Film Show, moving under the sign of this conviction, gives voice to film-makers and curators of each section of the five evenings - suggesting the way of getting close to each single performance. To discover meaning and value, comprehend technique and form, to find simple answers to complex questions, to avoid the affliction of lazy stereotypes. To render, that is, familiar a world which if on the one hand fascinates with the dizzying weave of connections it presents, on the other disconcerts because of its immanent intrinsic complexity. The programmes come out as the unforeseen result, yet not by chance, of the poetic research of so many voices which, through their eclectic trajectories push over and above what has already been seen, of the predictable, of the possible.

The Independent Film Show 10thedition, coordinated by Raffaella Morra, under the patronage of Regione Campania and Provincia di Napoli, with the support of Metropolitana di Napoli, will take place from the 10th till the 14th of November 2010 at the Fondazione Morra (Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, Piazza Dante 89 Napoli).