Directing

Franco Brocani

Born 1938-09-10 · Murazzano, Piedmont, Italy

Franco Brocani was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was known for his avant-garde and experimental approach to cinema. Brocani directed films such as Necropolis (1970), which explored themes of death and the supernatural. His work often challenged traditional narrative structures, contributing to the experimental film movement in Italy.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Screck! poster
NR

Experimental short by Franco Brocani, Claudio Capotondi and Luca Maria Patella.

Screck!

1966

No artwork available
4.5

The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.

By Now My Return to Knossos Is Certain

1967

Clodia - Fragmenta poster
3.3

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

Clodia - Fragmenta

1982

Clodia - Fragmenta poster
3.3

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

Clodia - Fragmenta

1982

Necropolis poster
4.8

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa.

Necropolis

1970

Necropolis poster
4.8

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa.

Necropolis

1970

The Return of the Exorcist poster
6.0

An archaeology student photographs a mysterious naked woman by a waterfall, unaware that she is a female demon called Haggia, who soon takes possession of him via a cursed amulet.

The Return of the Exorcist

1975

Sex of the Witch poster
4.4

An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch!

Sex of the Witch

1973

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Franco Brocani.

Chi mi pettina?

1967

No artwork available
6.0

Reflections on the contemporary city, through quotations from José Ortega y Gasset, Oswald Spengler and Frank Lloyd Wright and images of Rome (in particular the EUR district, construction sites, walls covered with graffiti and torn posters, the Forum, the Altar of the Fatherland).

La città sublime

1975

Il nero poster
7.7

The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship between the local women and Afro-American soldiers.

Il nero

1966

No artwork available
5.0

Contemporary to La città sublime, also edited and photographed by Ceccarelli and Rubini for Corona, it is a continuation of the investigation into Rome in the mid-1970s from a particular point of view.

S.P.Q.R.

1975

No artwork available
4.3

A man wearing a mask of King Kong walks through a maze unrolling a ball of thread. Franco Brocani renewes his interest in the dens of perdition providing a free vision of the classic myth of the Minotaur. Shot in an art gallery in Rome and adapted from a story by Jorge L. Borges.

The Minotaur Mask

1971

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani poster
8.0

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

1969

Il pantano poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il pantano

1967

Due o tre cose: a proposito di W. Hayter poster
NR

An art documentary portraying Stanley William Hayter – considered the inventor of modern incision – at work in his Paris studio. At the Hayter’s Atelier 17 artists have studied, since the early ’30s, including Brauner, Calder, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Miro, Matta, Picasso, and Chagall.

Due o tre cose: a proposito di W. Hayter

1968

Triumph and Ruins poster
1.0

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

Triumph and Ruins

1997

Triumph and Ruins poster
1.0

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

Triumph and Ruins

1997

On Poetry poster
NR

An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli.

On Poetry

1984

L'Inventore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Inventore

1970

No artwork available
NR

“While you are alive, act like a dead man, and everything will be fine. Silence is the mother tongue.”

Click!

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Umano, decifrabile perduto

1972

Il Centauro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il Centauro

1971

No artwork available
NR

The documentary describes the work of goldsmiths in Valenza, of cabinet-makers in Canelli, of farmers in the provinces of Alessandria and Asti where such activities are still the backbone of the local econimic structure. It analyzes also the politics of monopoly concentration pursued by the big industrial forces and its effects such as the impoverishment of the countryside, the decline of traditional activities based on craftmanship - a heavy toll on the future of the young.

A settentrione

1967