Directing
Tonino De Bernardi
Born May 24, 1937 · Chivasso, Italy (age 89)
Tonino De Bernardi (1937, Italy) made his first work at the end of the 1960s. His underground films were often projected in museums and art galleries. In his films, De Bernardi mixes life with his interest in literature, music and art. In 1987 he made his first official feature, Elettra, after Sophocles.
Known For
Age Is... · 2012Age Is...
★ 7.62012
MovieDocumentary
Stephen Dwoskin’s final film is a meditation on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing. The film is an ode to the texture, the beauty, the singularity of aging faces and silhouettes, a hypnotic poem in the Dwoskin meaning of the term which is long observations of very tiny details. A gesture, a pause, a look, a moment. Throughout his films intimacy has always played a leading role and this is also true for Age is..., all the faces being close friends, or close friends relatives and sometimes even Stephen himself.
Il bestiario · 1968Il bestiario
1968
Movie
4 screens overlapping in part in the shape of a crooked cross and having initially each petal a single color and scent but then resulting in a corolla of rose, lily-of-the-valley, lily, cornflower, and fragrant artichoke. "My bestiary".
RosaTigre · 2000RosaTigre
★ 4.42000
MovieDrama
This is a story about a Neapolitan guy, Antonello, immigrant in Turin, who, for a living, hooks on the street as Rosatigre. Sasà, a friend of his, tries to bring him back to Naples, but, after a tortured decision, Antonello chooses to come back North and to keep living “on the street”.
Little Horrors · 1994Little Horrors
★ 10.01994
MovieDrama
A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.
Cinématon · 1978Cinématon
★ 4.91978
MovieDocumentary
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Elettra · 1987Elettra
★ 9.01987
Movie
Elettra is adapted from the tragedy of Sophocles and played by non-professional actors of Casalborgone.
Warming Up · 1973Warming Up
★ 6.01973
Movie
Shot between Italy and New York City, Warming Up is the journal of a season of creativity. The film-maker and his characters improvise scenes and sequences, and wonder how to make up a story as they go along. The recurring theme is how to make the world (or read it as) an imaginative place...
Migration · 1970Migration
★ 4.01970
Movie
A series of migrants who at times narrate and impersonate shards of myths, among them the Great Goddess, the Virgin of Bach’s Magnificat, the Sulamite of Stockhausen’s Song of Solomon (“I am black but comely”), tales by Herodotus, Kafka, Villon (as set to music by Ezra Pound).
Third part of the Flower of Eryngium cycle.
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Lei · 2002Lei
2002
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