Jean A.Gili
GIANFRANCO
MINGOZZI
A "Cineasta totale"
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Gianfranco
Mingozzi's work has evolved on different lines, from documentaries and
fiction, full and short length films, from cinema to television, from
an optical view that gives evidence of a permitted bulimia operation.
Nourishing his works of fantasy, using a realistic documentary
approach, Mingozzi adds, in his most successful films, a sort of
Unitarian theme, evident in the desire, example 'Cineasta', to be
present in his time - his historical films are proof of this, where he
doesn't give in to the figurative complaisance that often characterizes
this style, but on the contrary faces the themes with a documentary
glance that transfers the problems of the past into the prospect of the
presento To this is added a firm balanced sentiment between the private
and the public, among the private references and political judgement,
involving the most vivid sensibility and the most meditated criticismo
Therefore in a multi form work and deeply Unitarian, even under its
appearance hetero genetically, Gianfranco Mingozzi finds miraculous
balance equilibrium in confluence between reality and imagination. From
the 'documented point of view' dear to Jean Vigo, giving his work a
sort of permanent apprehension between realistic and fantasy. From the
documentary to fiction, in an active constant research, always escaping
in front of everything that risks being uncertain, Mingozzi inscribes
to a TRAETTORIA among the most originai in the contemporary Italian
cinema. Mingozzi explores ali that the cinematographic expressions
offer in its numerous aspects to the Cineasti constantly deferring and
re -proposing the motives. He's a spy, in our time, seizing the reality
and reproducing it in a kaleidoscope without end.
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biofilmography
of
GIANFRANCO MINGOZZI
Gianfranco Mingozzi was born in Bologna (Italy) where he graduated in the school of Law.
In Rome he studied directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and worked as Fellini's s
assistent director (La dolce vita, Boccaccio 70). In 1964 he was employed with National film Board of Canada.
His first film was the documentary "LA TARANTA", which won the first prize at the
"Festival dei popoli" (Florence 1962).
OTHER DOCUMENTARIES INCLUDE
1963 • LI MALI MESTIERI
about strange works in Palermo
1963 • IL PUTTO
on the sculptor Giacomo Serpotta
1964 • NOTE SU UNA MINORANZA
about Italians emigrants in Canada -
Este Festival prize ‘64
1965 • COL CUORE FERMO, SICILIA
about sicilian mafia
"Golden Lion" in Venezia 1965- Nastro d'argento 1965
1966 • MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI, STORIA DI UN AUTORE
Bergamo Festival prize ‘66
TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND FICTION
1970 • PANTERE NERE - on the Black Panters Party in USA
1970-72 • C'E' MUSICA E MUSICA -
twelve one-hour programs in collaboration with the composer Luciano Berio
1978 • SUD E MAGIA (in memory of the etnnolog Ernesto De Martino) -
Four one-hour episodes
1981 • STEINBUL TREIN (from the novel by Graham Green)
TV film in four one-hour episodes
1982 • THE LAST DIVA, FRANCESCA BERTINI -
portrait of the silent-movie actress in three episodes
1983 • SULLA TERRA DEL RIMORSO -
one-hour program about
the birth and the deathof "tarantismo"
1984 • STORIE Dl CINEMA E Dl EMIGRANTI
seven one-hour programs about the presence of the italians in the american cinema
1988 • LA TERRA DELL'UOMO
three one-hour programs about the Sicily of Danilo Dolci
1991 • LA VITA CHE TI DIEDI
by the comedy of Luigi Pirandello with Piera Degli Esposti, Elena Sofia Ricci
1992 • VENTO Dl MARE
TV serial in four one-hour episodes with Gianni Garofalo, Jean Hebert, Ilaria Borrelli, Daniel Ciotti
1996 • STABAT MATER
(video) by the comedy of Antonio Tarantino with Piera Degli Esposti
1999 • CUORE MIO
(video) by the musical with Lina Sastri
2004 • MARIA DENIS, la fidanzata d’Italia
(portrait of a great actress of 30/40 years)
2006 • VENTO ANTICO
(documentary on etruscan civilization) with song of Vincenzo Cardarelli
2008 • GIORGIO/GIORGIA (story of a voice)
Giorgia O'Brien is one of the most famous diva of the Italian variety show of 50s and 60s.
She was a unique example of vocal and sexual transformation.
She was born in Palermo as a male, Giorgio Montana.
HIS FILMS
1967 • TRIO -
"Semaine de la critique" at the Cannes film Festival '67 -
Cicae prize at the Pesaro Festival 's67
1968 • SEQUESTRO DI PERSONA
Karlovj Varj Film Festival '68 - Noce d'oro from the Italians critics '68
with Franco Nero and Charlotte Rampling
1973 • LA VITA IN GIOCO (Morire a Roma)
Quinzaine des realisateurs at Cannes Film Festivaì '73,
with Mimsy Farmer, Giulio Brogi, Paolo Turco, William Berger
1974 • FLAVIA LA MONACA MUSSULMANA
with Florinda Bolkan, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Corlan, Maria Casares
1977 • GLI ULTIMI TRE GIORNI -
with Lina Sastri, Claudio Cassinelli
Festival di Taormina, Locarno, Cairo '77
1982 • LA VELA INCANTATA
Prize for best directlon in Valencia FestivaI '82 -
Festivals of Cannes (Quinzaine des realisateurs), Avignon, Wien, Seville,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Moscow. First Prìze at Prades '83
with Massimo Ranieri, Monica Gueritore, Lina Sastri, Paolo Rossi
1986 • L'INIZIAZIONE
by a novel of Guillaume Apollinaire
with Fabrice Josso, Claudine Auger, Serena Grandi, Marina Vlady
1987 • LE LUNGHE OMBRE
with Lina Sastri, Leonardo Ferrantini
Festival of San Francisco, Premio Italia '87
1988 • IL FRULLO DEL PASSERO
with Ornella Muti, Phiìippe Noiret
Festival of Istanbul, Madras, Cairo '88
1989 • L'APPASSIONATA
with Piera Degli Esposti, Nicola Farron
Festival di Annecy, lstanbul, Montreal, Tokio, Città del Messico,
Cairo '89, Best Actress at Valencia '89 - First Prize at Viììerupt '89
2001 • TOBIA AL CAFFE’
with Roberto Citran, Nicola Russo, Candice Hugo
Festival di Taormina, Pechino, Cairo 2000
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