Directing
Ellis Donda
Born — Died
1947-02-02 — 2023-11-26
Place of birth
Aquileia, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
A very polemic student of Roberto Rossellini and a fan of Jean-Marie Straub's films, a fine experimenter, a lover of poetry, Ellis Donda worked - throughout the 70s and 80s - within a network of film critics, filmmakers, actors, avant-garde poets, public television producers and publishers. During his stay in Paris in the 70s, he spent time with Jacques Lacan and recorded the last interview with Roland Barthes. Long forgotten, his work is now subject to a new rediscovery by Italian curators and journalists.
Known for
A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel.
Le affinità elettive
1979
10.0An experimental interpretation of Joycean epiphanies.
Other Epiphanies
1986
10.0An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.
Paris '50 - Existence imagined
1981
10.0A film by Ellis Donda.
Come cinema
1976
10.0Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rossella Or (soon to become an avant-garde theatre actress).
Engel und Puppe
1975
10.0A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.
Cinema Exercises
2007
Film credits
Series credits
Behind the camera
10.0An experimental interpretation of Joycean epiphanies.
Other Epiphanies
1986
10.0An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.
Paris '50 - Existence imagined
1981
10.0A film by Ellis Donda.
Come cinema
1976
10.0Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rossella Or (soon to become an avant-garde theatre actress).
Engel und Puppe
1975
10.0A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.
Cinema Exercises
2007
10.0Made for Italian national television, Ellis Donda’s Il Corpo Rubato (The Stolen Body) is an experimental documentary on psychoanalisis in 70s/80s Italy, its analytical practices and forms of suggestion.
The Stolen Body
1982
A film by Ellis Donda.
Non vado a scuola
1976