Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 52'
Lucio Amelio began managing art galleries in 1963, using his energy to attract artists like Beuys, Warhol, Twombly and Rauschenberg to Naples and supporting the international fame of Southern Italian artists like Longobardi, Paladino, Alfano and Tatafiore. His most important work dates back to 1980, the day after the earthquake, when he appealed to painters and sculptors the world over to create a work of art that would evoke the tragedy of the earthquake, which would be on permanent display in Naples. This is how Terrae Motus was created, an imposing collection of canvasses and sculptures by over one hundred artists. It is a very precious collection, but above all it is an extraordinary creative reaction to the catastrophe. It was initially displayed at Villa Campolieto, a villa on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, but it has been moved to the Reggia di Caserta. Since Lucio Amelio's death in 1994, his sisters have gathered up the reins of his professional activity.
Biography
film director
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).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Mario Martone.
Director of photography: Angelo Pacchetti.
Editor: Gianni Lari.
Cast: Lucio Amelio, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Nino Longobardi, Mimmo Paladino, Ernesto Tatafiore.
Production company: Milena Ripellino per RAI radiotelevisione italiana, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-36821.
Director of photography: Angelo Pacchetti.
Editor: Gianni Lari.
Cast: Lucio Amelio, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Nino Longobardi, Mimmo Paladino, Ernesto Tatafiore.
Production company: Milena Ripellino per RAI radiotelevisione italiana, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-36821.