Industria Indipendente, a collective founded by Erika Z. Galli and Martina Ruggeri, works with a language that enters bodies, environments, and surfaces. It is a form of writing that transforms into action and performativity, and liquefies into sound, dissolving the boundaries between self and other. Cinema Industria presents a selection of videos, created in collaboration with other artists, which take shape as rewritings of performative gestures, traces remaining from broader constellations of work. KLUB TAIGA – Dear Darkness (2021), through the gaze of Rä Di Martino, explores the theatrical scene of the performance of the same name; Dammi i brividi ma non per la paura (2025), with the voice of Silvia Calderoni, investigates the imaginative power of writing; while BLUE BLUE BLUE LIMBO (2025), through the mark of Sathyan Rizzo, opens a liminal dimension between vision and olfactory perception.

The screening is followed by a conversation between the artists and Michele Bertolino.

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Sathyan Rizzo, BLUE BLUE BLUE LIMBO, 2025, 1’
Based on the exhibition of the same title by Industria Indipendente, curated by Michele Bertolino 
Produced by SNAPORAZVEREIN, ALMANAC, and NERO 
 
BLUE BLUE BLUE LIMBO is a perfume, developed by Industria Indipendente, that becomes a performative device, an object that intersects with the identity of the person who wears it and transforms it. It is a liquid capable of telling stories, a scent that expands and resonates vertiginously. The project, presented here through the fragrance and the advertising video directed by Sathyan Rizzo, is the result of a multi-year research process conducted by the artists on the potential of bodies, their porosity, and their capacity to build and shape collectivities. The perfume is conceived as a language able to inscribe itself into the flesh, to become a vehicle for contact and encounters, and to imagine. It embodies the possibility of transformation, of moving through all possible versions of the self, and doing so together. 
 
Industria Indipendente, Dammi i brividi ma non per la paura, 2025, 27’
Voice: Silvia Calderoni
Music and text: Industria Indipendente
Visual development: Rä Di Martino
Editing: Luca Brinchi
Translation: Maria Vittoria Tessitore, Sara Spinelli 
 
In 2024, Industria Indipendente began writing a collection of texts, objects, and performances around the literary character of Quixote (Don Quixote). The first movement is a short film created for the Short Theatre festival, in which writing and imaginative vision are at the center of the spectator’s experience. Two characters, both real and at the same time fantastical – Don Quixote and Kathy Acker (writer, radical and magnificent icon of postmodern experimentation) – become the sources and figures through which to narrate writing and its transformative power, immersed in the fiction of a story about an eclipse that splits the sky, ready to lull everything into sleep except for them. 
 
Rä Di Martino, KLUB TAIGA – Dear Darkness, 2021, 26’ 
Cinematography: Alessandro Chiodo
Executive production: Cronache Marziane
Based on the stage work of the same title by Industria Indipendente
With Annamaria Ajmone, Steve Pepe, Yva & the Toy George, Federica Santoro, Martina Ruggeri
Lighting: Luca Brinchi, Erika Z. Galli
Original music and lyrics: Industria Indipendente, Steve Pepe, Yva & the Toy George 
 
While working on the theatrical production KLUB TAIGA – Dear Darkness, conceived for the 2020 Venice Biennale, Industria Indipendente immediately felt the desire to introduce another gaze from within the performance. For this reason, they invited Rä Di Martino to place her gaze inside a scene filled with traces, sounds, and objects that the spectator might only just glimpse. The request was not to follow the diachrony and entirety of the performance, but rather to rewrite its images and vision.

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The event will take place at the Cinema Hall.
Free admission until capacity is reached.

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From February 27 to March 4, the Cinema Industria program by Industria Indipendente will be screened in the first-floor room dedicated to UNAROMA LIVE.

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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. Associated artists of Teatro di Roma between 2020 and 2023, where they produced Klub Taiga (2020) and La mano sinistra (2023), Industria Indipendente has presented work in numerous venues and festivals, including Biennale Teatro, Romaeuropa Festival, Triennale Milano, Théâtre Paris-Villette, Fondazione Merz, Santarcangelo Festival, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Istituto Svizzero, Short Theatre, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, and Piccolo Teatro di Milano.

MICHELE BERTOLINO (Savigliano, 1992) is Associate Curator at Centro Pecci in Prato. Since 2021, he has collaborated with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) as coordinator of the Young Curators Residency Programme and tutor of CAMPO – Course of Curatorial Studies and Practices. He has worked with several Italian and international institutions, including MAMbo (Bologna), Last Tango (Zurich), Modern Art Institute (Glasgow), HEAD (Geneva), and Palazzo Gucci (Florence). In 2025, he curated VIVONO. Art and Affections, HIV-AIDS in Italy, 1982–1996, the first institutional exhibition to reassemble the forgotten history of Italian artists affected by the HIV-AIDS crisis. Between 2018 and 2021, he was social content curator and assistant curator for FUORI – Quadriennale d’arte 2020. He edited Tongue on Flames and Porpora, photographic books by Lina Pallotta. In 2016, together with Bernardo Follini, Giulia Gregnanin, and Seraphine Pala, he founded Il Colorificio, a project space where he worked on monographic presentations of Daria Blum, Giulia Crispiani, Caterina De Nicola, Marco Giordano, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Michele Rizzo, and Giovanni Testori. His writings have been published in NERO Magazine, Flash Art, and Mousse Magazine, and his essays have appeared in several monographic volumes. In 2022, he published L’Ano Solare. A Year-Long Programme on Sex and Self-display with Il Colorificio, and Albe e tramonti a Praiano with Giulia Crispiani.