International Music Film & Video Festival URTIcanti 2^ edizione

The INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL URTIcanti is a festival and a competition dedicated to short films, short docufilms and works of video art to promote contemporary author music as a written or electroacoustic work. This specification excludes works of a specifically commercial nature.

The mission of the project is to popularise contemporary art music through images. It often happens that the non-expert listener perceives contemporary art music as an abstract, even too intellectual form of expression, and ends up distancing himself from it. In today's scenario in which the image is an almost indispensable element of every communication process, resorting to visual support - short films, short docufilms and works of video art - can serve to break down certain prejudices.
This Festival intends to make use of the concrete elements that images reveal so that contemporary music is closer and more easily accessible to an audience, even of nonexperts. As a mirror of the perfor