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About
Paolo BONFIGLIO
Was born on 1972.
Selftrained, he has always been interested in drawing, art and cinema.
He worked in many ateliers and theatres as scene-painter in collaboration with Emanuele Luzzati.
He planned and painted the background of the music band "Il Gran Teatro Amaro" and he made the art performance "Komedia" in Kratzeburg in 1999.
He took part to various exhibitions of drawings and comics.
He started his film making activity by planning the video event for the festival "Bergolo 2001". He worked as a teacher at Genoa School of Animation and Cartoons.
In 2004, he carried out the art film "Fragments", based on the music by Mick Harris (Napalm Death, Painkiller, Scorn).
He took part to the tour of the musician Mick Harris all over France, playing videos in live shows. He made the projection of the film “Fragments” on the wall of the Art Center "Tacheles" in Berlin. He made live projections of the instant-art-movie "Putan CLUB" in collaboration with the poet and musician François R. Cambuzat (Kim Squad, Il Gran Teatro Amaro, L'Enfance Rouge) in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia.
In 2006, the film “Fragments” is selected and shown at the International Festival of Independent Cinema “Les inattendus” of Lyon. “Construit comme un montage diapos à partir des dessins et des peintures du réalisateur, de photografies et de vidéos, l'artiste explore les limites de l'invisible et de l'indicible, fasciné par la mort et sa représentation...”, Les inattendus.
He showed the art video "ARS" at the "Museo della Lanterna" in Genoa and he made video live shows at "Magazzini Generali" in Milan. He made live projections for the theatral performance "VU" and for the art exhibition "i_City". In 2007, he carried out the animated film "MATER", based on the music of Mick J. Harris.
The film "MATER was shown on 6th October 2007 at "L’ Espace Canopy" for the "Nuit Blanche" in Paris and it was presented during the exhibition “Shoot Off”. It was part of the on line group exhibition on the web site of the "Artandyou" gallery and shown at "LE STUDIO Art and You" art gallery in Paris with a selection of original drawings taken from the film.
The film "MATER" won the first prize of the international contest "Arts Numériques Art & You", Paris 2007.
He took part to two group exhibitions in Venice and Genoa and travelled all over Europe in order to present his film "MATER" in several festivals of animation and independent cinema.
In the first period of 2008, Bonfiglio went to France, Belgium and Spain for the third tour of the video-music project "Putan Club".
He got in touch with the independent film company "malastrada.film", wich he started to collaborate with.
In autumn of the same year, he travelled around Europe in order to show his film "MATER" during several festivals.
In December he drew his new serie of pastel drawings called "Oblio", inspiration for the film "mortale" made during 2009.
Paolo Bonfiglio has shown his drawings and paintings all over Europe. His films have been projected all over the world.
He lives and works in the Langhe.
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news:
"mortale" written, drawn, animated, directed by Paolo Bonfiglio, music by Mick Harris,
produced by VIDEONERO, distributed by malastrada.film
Italy, 2009, 6 mins. 48 secs., PAL, color, 4:3, animation (pencil and cutter on paper)
The strange story of a man, a dog and a crow lost in a snowscape.
A story about survivors.
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An interview with Paolo Bonfiglio
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The drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio are made with the pencils bought on the Sonia Bowmar-Scothern's website.
If you were interested in the original drawings by Paolo Bonfiglio,
please contact: videonero@gmail.com
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You can buy the dvd of the film "MATER" on the web site of "malastrada.film"
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Contacts: videonero@gmail.com
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Filmography.
- "Fragments", 2004/2005, 72 mins 00 secs., mixed media, music by Mick Harris
Produced by VIDEONERO.
First edition: DVD (10 copies signed and numbered) and booklet (100 copies) by Casavecchia
Second edition: DVD (10 copies) by Casavecchia
- "Putan CLUB", 2005/2006/2008/2009, instant art movie, mixed media, music and texts by François R. Cambuzat
Produced by VIDEONERO
Distributed by Trasporti Marittimi
- "ARS", 2006, 51 mins. 00 secs., mixed media, music by Mick Harris
Produced by VIDEONERO.
DVD (5 copies) by CASAVECCHIA
- "Good memories", 2006, 60 mins. 01 secs., film 8 mm.
Produced by VIDEONERO
DVD (1 copy), MiniDV (1 copy) and video tape (1 copy) by CASAVECCHIA
- "VIDEONERO", 2007, instant art movie, mixed media
- "MATER", 2007, 07 mins. 20 secs., animation (pencil on paper), music by Mick Harris
Produced by VIDEONERO
Distributed by malastrada.film
DVD (10 copies signed and numbered) by CASAVECCHIA
DVD by malastrada.film
- "ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS", 2009, 01 min. 00 secs., animation (pencil on paper),
music recorded in Ekaterinburg by Tommaso Rolando
Produced by VIDEONERO
- "mortale", 2009, 06 mins. 48 secs., animation (pencil and cutter on paper), music by Mick Harris
Produced by VIDEONERO
Distributed by malastrada.film
DVD (10 copies signed and numbered) by CASAVECCHIA
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Recent personal exhibitions.
2008, "Cinemautonome", "Spazio Basaglia", Torino (I), curated by "malastrada.film"
2009, "(non) rassegnA(r)ti": "CSC" - Centro Stabile di Cultura, San Vito di Leguzzano (I), curated by Renato Del Maistro
Recent group exhibitions.
2007, "i_City","Loggia della Mercanzia", Genova (I), curated by Elisabetta Rota
2007, "La Nuit Blanche: SHOOT OFF", "Espace Canopy", Parigi (F), curated by Marie Tassius
2007, "SHOW OFF: Art numériques", "Le Studio", Parigi (F), curated by "Art and You"
2007, "V.I.T.R.I.O.L.", "Galleria A+A", Venezia (I), curated by Roberta Gucci Cantarini
2007, "Cross Over", "Palazzina S. Maria ", Genova (I), curated by Stefano Chiantera
2008, "disguardi dislocati, conversione#1", "Cava di Croce Santa", Rosolini (I), curated by "malastrada.film"
2008, "Play/1", "Zelle Arte Contemporanea", Rutino (I), curated by Federico Lupo
2008, "Teatro della Tosse", "Teatro della Tosse", Genova (I), curated by Paola Ratto
2009, "THE FRAGILE", "The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity", Bhimtal (IND), curated by Sergio Zavatteri
2009, "Human Emotion Project", "La Sala", "Brancaleone", "Portuguese Bookshop Gallery", Cigüñuela (E), Roma (I), Macau (RC) curated by Debbie Douez, Carlo Fatigoni, José Drummond
2009, "Rencontre asymetrique", "Accademia di Francia di Villa Medici", Roma (I), curated by Raphaelle Paupert-Borne
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"Mortal: be afraid of what is over you. Don't hope in what is in front of you. You won't excape from what is behind you. You won't avoid what is below you."
taken from an icon of the 17th century (Tret'jakov gallery, Moscow)
About "mortale".
This is the new art work carried out by Paolo Bonfiglio after "MATER", the animation film which has brought him all over Europe through the most interesting festivals and art galleries.
"mortale" is the second chapter of a series of films made in collaboration with the english musician Mick Harris, who underlines the hurtful rithm of the walking along the mortal river.
In this second chapter there is also something sick in the human being.
A sentimental relationship with the "Beast", where life and death are blended in an unspeakable dreadful unicum.
The art/cinema by Paolo Bonfiglio is both the horror outside his genre and the enchantement, dualism deep inside the human heart.
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About Paolo Bonfiglio's cinema.
...It's very hard to put the works by Paolo Bonfiglio within the limits of the animation film. As a matter of fact, the unique of his cinema and his artistic act was born outside the animation and it increases onr more step the borders and the relation with the visual arts. This is the first strong point of films like "MATER" and "mortale".
Completely out of the Asifa's rules, Bonfiglio puts all his learning of really good artist in drawing, painting, comics, scenography and live music video making (made in collaboration with Mick Harris, who has created all the sound tracks for the seven chapters which compose this series).
Bonfiglio is an attentive observer and re-inventor of the space where he lives and of the "souls" which have marked his life experience.
The artist gets the subjects, the landscapes and the visual fragments for the "mono-stories", which populate his films, exactly from the Langhe hills, where he has grown, and from the shadows of life which struck him all over Europe, where Bonfiglio develops his artistic training.
Then he uses everything in a extremely "distopian" idea of the world.
His topics deal with life like cross-road of death, his characters are lost in a social and spatial chaos who we can look only what remains of.
In one sense it's the imaginative remains of the last decades. The result of a ruinous twentieth century based on totalitarianisms and wars which probably makes the society of tomorrow hopeless (and the collaboration with Mick Harris ,one of the most important European musician of the second half of the past century, is not by chance).
The cutting time are especially too long for the language of the animated cinema and too short for the figurative art.
Eventually, we get to the second innovation of the Bonfiglio's work: what is intentionally outside the rules of the artistic perception it's simply a revelation of the human nature, too big to be realized and too small to be saved from the abyss.
The projection and the exhibition of the drawings taken from the film are in one sense the translation and the union of this two long roads.
The "arts" of Bonfiglio blend inevitably in a direction of moving images. His subtle and innovating act probably extends the conception of the cinema in a sphere of the visual art still to be written and to be searched.
(from "The horror and the enchantement" by Giuseppe Spina,
in ArteCinema, l'Italia sottoterra - printing edition)
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