18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
November 2, 2000 - Pasolini Today
ESSERE MORTI O ESSERE VIVI È LA STESSA COSA
Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 2'
A frame comes alive in the drawing, transforming, coloring and regenerating itself. A journey through some of Pasolini's works (La terra vista dalla luna, Che cosa sono le nuvole? , Uccellacci e uccellini) in search of a type of comedy that is physical, almost jester-like. Totò's gestures, Ninetto Davoli's laughing eyes, Silvana Mangano's physicality.
Biography
film director
Gianluigi Toccafondo
Gianluigi Toccafondo (San Marino, 1965) graduates at the Art Institute in Urbino in 1985. In 1987 he moves to Milano and works with Mixfilm. Two years later, he makes his first short film La coda, winner at the Festival di Lucca in 1990. Since 1992 he has been making film and TV trailers, commercials and exhibits his works in Italy, France, USA and Japan. In 1993 he makes the short film Le criminel reaching the finals at Cartoon d'Or in 1995. He works for many magazines, like "Linea d'ombra," "Lo straniero," "Internazionale," "Mano," "Abitare," "Teléma."
FILMOGRAFIA
La coda (cm, 1989), La pista (co-regia Simona Mulazzini, cm, 1991), La pista del maiale (cm, 1992), Le criminel (cm, 1993), I bambini e la TV (cm, 1995), Pinocchio (cm, 1999), Essere morti o essere vivi è la stessa cosa (cm, 2000), La piccola Russia (cm, 2004).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e animazione: Gianluigi Toccafondo.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it