Running concurrently with the ArtHouse Memes Film Festival Part Two co-organized by the UCHV Film Forum and ECC-Italy

The Palazzo Talks & Workshops are co-organized by the European Cultural Center-Italy, a parallel exhibitor of the Venice Biennale, and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. The collaboration with ECC-Italy started with exhibitions and screening by the UCHV Research Film Studio & Film Forum. The intellectual retreat in Venice provides an opportunity for professors from different academic fields to engage with the cinematic oeuvre of Afro-American auteurs introduced in the ArtHouse Memes exhibition created by Erika A. Kiss and her Princeton students. ArtHouse Memes has already been viewed in Venice by hundreds of thousands of people since its April opening and can be seen until November 24 in Palazzo Mora. The exhibition is based on Kiss’s Princeton course Hidden History of Hollywood . The films studied in class are transformed by students into new video art and video essays. The participants of the 1^st Palazzo Talks will be able to stream the six films chosen for informal discussions from this website soon.