Industria Indipendente presents Cinema Industria: from the film KLUB TAIGA – Dear Darkness (Rä Di Martino, 2021), based on their homonymous performance, to Dammi i brividi ma non per la paura (2025), featuring the voice of Silvia Calderoni.
The collective composes scores for bodies, electronic instruments, voices, and surfaces, drawing on texts as well as sonic and visual elements. For the first time, they present several video works together to convey the multifaceted nature of their languages, playing with the cinematic device to express their devotion to being within: to watch–feel–listen together, to let go, to find oneself elsewhere.
The event will take place at the Cinema Hall.
Free admission until capacity is reached.
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INDUSTRIA INDIPENDENTE is a collective of performing and visual arts based in Rome, founded in 2005 by Erika Z. Galli and Martina Ruggeri. Their research is rooted in language, understood as an extended form of writing that inscribes itself on bodies, environments, and surfaces. It transforms into action and performativity, liquefies and expands through sound, voice, and light, dissolving the boundaries between self and other, here and elsewhere. At the core of their practice lies the convergence of perspectives that, by recognizing and merging into one another, open up new possibilities of expression. This takes shape as a shared, collective dialogue among multiple bodies, individual voices, and expressive signs. Regardless of the scale or dimension they choose to activate, their works consistently question and reflect on themes such as the “unproductive” nature of time, the creation of alternative and fictional worlds in which new communities and alliances take shape, and the continuous overturning and redefinition of individual and collective identities. Their research has generated hybrid formats and spaces such as Merende, an immersive, site-specific queer habitat based on the concepts of sharing and offering, in residence at Angelo Mai, Rome since 2018. In 2017, some of their texts were published, translated, and staged in four languages (Czech, French, German, and Romanian). Under the aliases Bunny Dakota and 555, they create collaborative landscapes and performances that merge tattooing, writing, and the sharing of knowledge with live music and DJ sets. In April 2020, they launched Radio India, a radio program created by the resident companies of Teatro India in Rome.