Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 86'
Pornodrome is the name of a non-existent rock band: nobody has ever produced, published or commercialized it, and yet the friends who make up the band exist and live in Turin and, whenever their obligations as professional musicians with other bands (Marlene Kuntz, Subsonica, Amici di Roland) let them, they get together to play their instruments, try out or organize a concert. This time Pornodrome only had three weeks to prepare a live show and a troupe was following the band around, one of them was a young Swedish actress who had come from Stockholm on purpose.
"Pornodrome is an abnormal work, it is unwritten and collective (in the sense that it was invented day by day, thanks to everyone's input, including the musicians, actors and troupe) and it's final aim is to achieve a shared participation as much as possible" (B. Catena).
Biography
film director
Beniamino Catena
Beniamino Catena (Ancona, 1968), after working as a self-taught filmmaker from 1982 to 1994, began working in Milan as an assistant director in advertising. He has made various short films that have made the rounds of national and international festivals (Bellaria, Turin, Locarno, Bastia, Valencia, Santiago del Chile, New York, Venice), his works have won awards and have been bought by television. He has published an interview of John Carpenter, directed a commercial for Dario Argento, and has been director of photography for video clips and documentaries. As a director, he has worked for a movie magazine on Tele+ and has directed video clips for Marlene Kuntz, Kuntz+Skin, CSI, Mao, Mango, Paola Turci and others.
FILMOGRAFIA
Preludio (cm, 1993), Marcia funebre di una marionetta (1994), Necrospettiva (cm, 1994), L'ultimo uomo (cm, 1995), Se il tuo occhio dà scandalo, cavalo (cm, 1997), The Man from Mars Project (cm, 2000), Quando si chiudono gli occhi (cm, 2000), Pornodrome una storia dal vivo (2002).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Beniamino Catena.
Plot: Beniamino Catena, Dan Solo.
Screenplay: Beniamino Catena, Nicoletta Polledro, Giulia Gentile, Alejandro De La Fuente.
Director of photography: Paolo Bellan.
Art director: Andrea Melñ.
Sound: Flavio Monti.
Music: Pornodrome.
Editor: Antonio Lucarini, Cristiana Donghi.
Cast: Dan Solo, Samuel Romano, Anna Valpreda, Andrea Bruschi, Rudi Borsella, Mauro Negri, Malin Norberg.
Produzione, distribuzione: Paolo Soravia per Milonga srl, via San Galdino 8, 20154 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-34534193, fax +39-02-34534669, e-mail milonga@energy.it.
Plot: Beniamino Catena, Dan Solo.
Screenplay: Beniamino Catena, Nicoletta Polledro, Giulia Gentile, Alejandro De La Fuente.
Director of photography: Paolo Bellan.
Art director: Andrea Melñ.
Sound: Flavio Monti.
Music: Pornodrome.
Editor: Antonio Lucarini, Cristiana Donghi.
Cast: Dan Solo, Samuel Romano, Anna Valpreda, Andrea Bruschi, Rudi Borsella, Mauro Negri, Malin Norberg.
Produzione, distribuzione: Paolo Soravia per Milonga srl, via San Galdino 8, 20154 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-34534193, fax +39-02-34534669, e-mail milonga@energy.it.