UNA DISPERATA VITALITÀ

Mario Martone

(Naples, 1959), theatrical and film director, began his activity in 1977, in the avant-garde climate of the times, and founded the group Falso Movimento, which created performances that combined elements of theater, cinema and visual arts. Ten years later, he founded Teatri Uniti, a company that promotes encounters between Neapolitan artists of the new generation, and which produced his films independently. His first feature film, Morte di un matematico napoletoano, won the Jury's Grand Prize in Venice in 1992. His later films, L'Amore molesto and Teatro di guerra, were both presented at Cannes. He has directed both classic theater and lyrical theater. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the director of the Teatro di Roma, where he carried out radical changes in the programming, giving more space to the arts and to the "new theater". He has also inaugurated a new performance area, the India, by recuperating an old, abandoned factory along the Tiber River.

FILMOGRAFIA

Nella città barocca (doc., 1984), Morte di un matematico napoletano (1992), Rasoi (mm, 1993), Lucio Amelio/Terrae Motus (doc., 1993), Veglia (doc., 1993), Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita (cm, ep di Miracoli – Storie per corti, 1994), L’unico paese al mondo (regia collettiva, 1994), L’amore molesto (1995), Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller (doc., 1996), Una storia Saharawi (doc., 1996), La salita (cm, ep di I Vesuviani, 1997), La terra trema (coregia/co-director, Jacopo Quadri, doc., 1998), Appunti da Santarcangelo (doc., 1998), Teatro di guerra (1998), Una disperata vitalità (1998), Un posto al mondo (coregia/co-director, Jacopo Quadri, doc., 2000) Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano (doc., 2001), L’odore del sangue (2004), Caravaggio – L’ultimo tempo (mm, doc., 2004), Noi credevamo (2010), La meditazione di Hayez (cm, doc., 2011), Il giovane favoloso (2014), Capri-Revolution (2018), Il sindaco del rione Sanità (2019), Qui rido io (2021), Nostalgia (2022), Laggiù qualcuno mi ama (doc., 2023), Mimmo Jodice. Senza tempo (mm, doc., 2023).