On Saturday, 11 February, 2023 Yuri Ancarani presented to the audience “The Challenge” (2016), the winning film of the Special Jury Prize of the Cineasti del Presente section at the Locarno Film Festival together with his recent feature film “Atlantide” (2021), screened in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival in 2021 and at MoMA in New York, together with musicians Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini and Sick Luke, who collaborated on the soundtracks of his films.
Born in Ravenna in 1972, Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video artist and film-maker. His works arise from a mixture of documentary cinema and contemporary art.
Winner of the ACACIA 2023 Award, the artist has exhibited his work in the most prestigious museums and exhibitions, including the Kunstverein Hannover (Germany); the Castello di Rivoli (Rivoli Torino, Italy); Manifesta 12 (Palermo, Italy); the Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, Switzerland); the 55th Venice Biennale; the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); the Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), also receiving important recognition, such as the ‘Special Prize of the Jury CINÉ+’ Cineasti del presente, 69th Locarno Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland); five nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA); and the ‘Grand Prix in Lab Competition’, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France). In 2022, he was a finalist for the best documentary at the David di Donatello Awards.
