The Front Room Gallery is proud to present Zimmerfrei, a collective of artists (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor, Anna Rispoli) whose complex practice is located on the crossways of cinema, theater, music and performance. Mixing formal languages, the group produces kaleidoscopic sonic and visual works that investigate real and imaginary urban environments, where the mental and the physical blend in a coherent narrative of human experience.

“Panorama Bologna” a concentrated temporal portrait of the Italian city, Bologna is a video installation that was shot in the Piazza Maggiore using slow motion and camera rotation to show the panorama of the city.

Amongst the tourists and cleaning workers, old men, unaware passer-bys and migrant families, who use the central plaza as a social meeting point, the emblematic figures who inhabit the square can be recognized by their repetitive daily rhythms. Some are performers, asked to join the circular set and slow down their bodily movements for hours. Around the camera their iconic actions and vibrant presence create a constellation of distances, revelations, encounters shown with extreme long shots and close-ups.

The footage, has subsequently been sped up to create a visually haunting seperation between the main actors in the piece and the townspeople, who flitter, accellerated like bees, in and out of the scene. The main charactors are affected with an eerie isolation in the mist of the busy, crowded italian square.

Above both humans and architecture of the square the light of the sky is constantly changing from night to day.

“Stereorama” is a series of original 3-D visors for stereoscopic viewing. The images are stills of a micro-theatre that can be observed at one’s own tempo: time is frozen but not perspective and sound.