EQUUS INTERNATIONAL Film Festival® Finalist A Cavallo Del Tempo Casts Museum as Storyteller

Gianmarco D’Agostino learned that his documentary, A Cavallo Del Tempo (Riding Through Time), had been selected as a finalist for the 2019 EQUUS INTERNATIONAL Film Festival® awards just as he was leaving San Francisco for Geneva to accept a United Nations award. “This beautiful news,” he told EIFF founder and organizer Janet Rose, “makes these days even more amazing!”

Riding Through Time is D’Agostino’s multi-vision work, produced and directed to complement an exhibition on the history of the horse at the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Italy. Museum director Eike Schmidt says, “”The whole concept of this exhibition appears encapsulated in a splendid pair of 4th Century BC bronze and ivory chanfrons, designed to protect a horse’s forehead, nose and muzzle: the silhouette of the embossed metal sheeting follows the outline of the horse’s elongated anatomy, but on the inside, far from displaying the anatomy of a horse, it depicts the features of a human face sporting a helmet on its head. Horse and rider become a single fused being. From the Old Stone Age to the end of the 16th Century, the exhibition explores this relationship which has marked the history of mankind from the outset and which is still so surprisingly relevant to our own time”.

In Riding Through Time, the visual correspondence that D’Agostino has created between the exhibit in the museum and images from life, paired with an immersive soundtrack, further enrich this exploration into the friendship between man and horse over the centuries.

This beautiful and unique “exhibition film” will screen at the EQUUS INTERNATIONAL Film Festival on Thursday evening, March 14, at The Loft, a warm and intimate setting in downtown Missoula, home of the film festival. An encore screening is anticipated during a special event at the Resort at the Paws Up on Friday evening, March 15, at another uniquely-Montana venue, The Wilderness Outpost.

“This is a very powerful presentation, to use a museum setting to explore the history of the horse through the centuries. This is such a unique format and venue, and exemplifies our own mission of education and understanding, with the added benefit of reaching new audiences in what would otherwise be a very unlikely setting in which to learn about the horse. I hope other museums around the world will consider such a unique and stunning presentation,” Rose said.

“It is always valuable to have a filmmaker present to talk about their film, and we look forward to Giancarlo’s personal appearance at our film festival,” Rose continued. “Montana, even in March, is a very spectacular place.” “In fact,” she adds, “Montana is spectacular anytime of the year and especially where the horse is concerned.”

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