Paolo Brunatto

In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after having caused war and death, it has abandoned the now unlivable Earth. The visual experimentation aimed at the liberation of the gaze is intertwined with psychedelic visions on the one hand and with the orgone theory of Reichian memory on the other.

The journey, which began in India two years earlier, comes to an end at a farmhouse in Tuscany. The two travelers—Poupée and Paolo—decide to "rest" in the countryside, where they begin to discover the pleasures of self-analysis and contemplation. Their Indian experience bears fruit, and Taoist wisdom comes to their aid. The two protagonists seek to discover (don't laugh) the meaning of life.

A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.

In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinematic rendering. I tried to visualize my present aspiration to recover, through the various ways taught by one’s experience, the easiness, directness and ripeness proper to children’s relationships and affective life. This film is maybe a track of this path backwards. – A. L.

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An investigation into the motives of Spanish workers who migrated to Switzerland in the late 50s, early 60s turns into a sometimes caustic, sometimes melancholic rumination on the land they left behind. A work in between cultures and cinematic modes, a starting point, an opening statement - a clarion call.

An investigation into the motives of Spanish workers who migrated to Switzerland in the late 50s, early 60s turns into a sometimes caustic, sometimes melancholic rumination on the land they left behind. A work in between cultures and cinematic modes, a starting point, an opening statement - a clarion call.

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A documentary on film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci's movie on the icon.

Tak is a work composed of 15 pieces, which I called "visual songs." The film's structure mirrors that of a pop music LP. Tak is a tribute to this genre of music, and in that sense, it is stylized and decorative. Its content is subtle, subconscious, and almost unrecognizable. (P.B.)

Tak is a work composed of 15 pieces, which I called "visual songs." The film's structure mirrors that of a pop music LP. Tak is a tribute to this genre of music, and in that sense, it is stylized and decorative. Its content is subtle, subconscious, and almost unrecognizable. (P.B.)

The two friends alternate behind the camera, filming their two principal subjects, their partners Anita and Poupée.

A short documentary filmed on Super 8 at the remote Tibetan hamlet of Tashi Jong located in the Indian Himalayas during the summer of 1973.

Short film by Paolo Brunatto with Roberto Benigni performing a fake political rally in Capalbio. Shot for the Italian television.

In a Tunisian village marked by poverty and ruin, fragments of daily life mingle with the desolation. Amidst the rubble, sacred Islamic images abandoned in the dust stand out—a powerful, symbolic vision of faith, decay, and resilience.

A journey spanning Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal alongside hippies and beatniks of all nationalities. The lives of a group of young Italians captured on the road to Asia.

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play’s rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented also by the Living Theatre). Bene's artistry is encapsulated in one sentence: “One cannot continue to prostitute the idea of theatre, which stands only for a magical, brutal link with reality."

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play’s rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented also by the Living Theatre). Bene's artistry is encapsulated in one sentence: “One cannot continue to prostitute the idea of theatre, which stands only for a magical, brutal link with reality."

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia".

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia".

Documentary focused behind the scenes of the making of the play 'io' by Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella

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Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella are two artists that use their bodies like objects. Their works are exaltations of the object compared to the subject. The interpreter is more important than the author. The role of artistic expression is to represent what is not there. Cinema is an improper weapon because it is in the wrong hands. The solution would be - according to the two artists - for cinema as well as all art to be managed by those who have imagination and who are not down to earth.

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The journey, which began in India two years earlier, comes to an end at a farmhouse in Tuscany. The two travelers—Poupée and Paolo—decide to "rest" in the countryside, where they begin to discover the pleasures of self-analysis and contemplation. Their Indian experience bears fruit, and Taoist wisdom comes to their aid. The two protagonists seek to discover (don't laugh) the meaning of life.

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A tribute to the human and artistic greatness of a genius that continues to surprise us.