Paolo Brunatto
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PERSONAL DATA OF PAOLO BRUNATTO
Born in: PARIS (France)
Born on: 07/26/1935
Dies at: MOROLO, Frosinone (Italy)
BIOGRAPHY OF PAOLO BRUNATTO
Film director. Considered one of the greatest exponents of Italian underground cinema, he was born in Paris to an Italian father and French mother. During his adolescence he moved to Florence where he first attended classical high school and then followed the painting courses held by Ottone Rosai at the Academy of Fine Arts. In Geneva, while studying at the Faculty of Architecture, he met Ricardo Bofill, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration that leads them to create the model of a completely experimental house in Ibiza. In those years, however, the passion for cinema and television took over and pushed him to abandon his studies. His first documentary, “Notes on emigration – Spain ’60”, made in 1960, won an award at the Moscow Film Festival. In 1963 he began collaborating with RAI as a freelance director, making numerous reportages, investigations and documentaries including “Montale a Milano”, “L’ipnosi”, “Kafka” and “Comisso”. In the same period he made two documentaries for the big screen – “L’angelo e Satana” and “Insomma” – and collaborated with Carmelo Bene for “An hour before Amleto + Pinocchio” and “Bis”, works passed over in silence and rediscovered only in 1994 by the Taormina Festival. Throughout the sixties he worked feverishly for RAI programs such as “Sprint” or “Tempo libero” and one of his reportages, “Lavorare stanca” (1966), was presented at the Festival dei Popoli. In 1967, on the occasion of the International Exhibition of New Cinema in Pesaro, he came into contact with American underground cinema and from that moment he dedicated himself to the creation of a circuit of independent Italian filmmakers. In that same year he left for a journey that touches distant territories including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal, during which he shoots “Come dolce morte …”, a film ‘on the road’ that will mark his work and above all his existence. The following films – “Tak” (1968), “Will I dare to disturb the universe?” (1979) and “La voce di esta joy” (1971) – entered rightfully among the experimental films, but in the same period rediscovered the passion for drawing and dedicates himself to the creation of a comic, “Will our heroes succeed? …”, which achieved great success in the underground world. After a long wandering that took him between 1971 and 1973 in Northern Europe, he resumed collaborating with RAI by curating the Italian edition of “Cancer” by Glauber Rocha and shooting some documentaries on the most eminent personalities of Italian culture, from Pasolini to Zanzotto, from Alberto Mondadori to Neri Pozza, up to Luigi Malerba and Mario Luzi. In 1975 he resumed his activity as an independent filmmaker and organized at the Filmstudio in Rome, together with Enzo Ungari and Adriano Aprà, a review dedicated to Italian films made in super8, in which the first short films by Nanni Moretti were screened. The following year he founded Karma Film, which aims to relaunch independent filmmakers, and during the 1980s he traveled frantically around the world making documentaries and reportages for RAI. Interested in Third World cinema, he arrives at the Azzurro Scipioni in Rome where Silvano Agosti gives him the opportunity to organize meetings on the culture of Tibet. In 1983 the Filmstudio dedicated a long review to him entitled “Paolo Brunatto Festival”. At the end of the Eighties he collaborated with Bernardo Bertolucci for the backstage of “The Last Emperor” (1987) and “Piccolo Buddha” (1993). In recent years, he continues to fight for the visibility of underground Italian cinema, curating the series of films “I clandestini del cinema italiano”, broadcast on the Cult satellite channel. Throughout his life he continued to paint and in 2006 the “Studio di Canova” Gallery in Rome dedicated an exhibition of his works to him. He dies at the age of 75.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY PAOLO BRUNATTO
Desperately vital
Role: Film director
Year: 2006
Confessions of a borgataro (We are the story)
Role: Film director
Year: 2005
THE SENSE OF MYSTERY
Role: Film director
Year: 2003
HIDDEN NEPAL
Role: Film director
Year: 2001 Go to the complete Filmography
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