THE RETROSPECTIVE FESTIVAL & AWARDS
The Retrospective Festival: Ghislandi & Gutenberg Ltd, in collaboration with Hoffman, Barney & Foscari, promotes what has been, since its first edition, a classic, important and unmissable event in the London calendar and, subsequently, internationally, in terms of multidisciplinary festivals held outdoors (in summer, in the park) and indoors (in winter, in large theatres) with free admission for a limited number of spectators and two or three-day passes for everyone else. The style of the poster is also designed to attract a wide and varied audience, ideally united by the location of the festival, preferably in the centre of strategic residential neighbourhoods. Stemming from the historic broadsheet of the same name, initially distributed in print at leading international bookshops, from Rizzoli New York to Feltrinelli Milan, Foyles and Waterstones London, Retrospective Festival will bring to its stage, for three full days, the most important and influential artists, creatives, sound engineers and designers, writers, actors, illustrators, speakers for readings, directors of photography, filmmakers, debates, lectio magistralis, AI visionaries, designers, painters, architects, engineers, philosophers, monologists.
Poets, classical, jazz and avant-garde musicians, meta-improvisers, orchestral musicians, sculptors, master craftsmen of traditional trades, industrialists in the arts, culture and communication, film screenings in collaboration with multinationals, independent brands and film libraries, photographers, storytellers, singers and musicians from popular and middle-class backgrounds, without elitism. Bolstered by the appeal of a magazine that, in its first three issues – reprinted for the occasion and sold physically at the Festival at a lower price than in bookshops and online on Newsstand – boasted the most extensive, prestigious and diverse group of authors ever published by such a young magazine in terms of presence and penetration in the territory (both physical and virtual), edition after edition, the Festival will host on stage these and other authors published in the magazine, as well as personalities never before published or previously involved in any way with Ghislandi & Gutenberg. All this will be filmed over the three days – and before: including the board discussions, rehearsals and behind-the-scenes comparisons, behind-the-scenes production, the organisational machine and rehearsals of the personalities on the bill – by Hoffman, Barney & Foscari in collaboration with co-producers and executive producers eligible for BFI funds and others, institutions, private sponsors and television broadcasters under patronage; for distribution on three platforms or generalist or thematic TV channels on demand, both for cinema and the internet, including streaming, live radio, podcasts or on devices with a subscription.
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