Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 45'
Even if Brocani remained kind of isolated from the Italian experimental cinema, nobody can deny that his Necropolis has become, as Di Marino puts it, like a zip, an interface between some experiences of Off culture of that time and a more complex idea of film experimentation which desired more visibility. Brunatto and Zeichen, trying to portray Brocani, had to refer to his friendship with Mario Schifano, his travel mate of a lifetime. Necropolis by Brocani is a film totally out of fashion, conservative in its need to represent and sublimate narcissistically the "sense" of history, a distant answer to a political question raised in Trapianto, consunzione e morte di Franco Brocani by Mario Schifano.
Biography
film director
Paolo Brunatto
Paolo Brunatto (Paris, 1935) has studied painting with Ottone Rosai in Florence and architecture in Geneva. He has made more than 500 documentaries, reportages and experimental films. His works have been screened at all major International Film Festivals and distributed in more than 26 countries.
FILMOGRAFIA
FILMOGRAFIA ESSENZIALE/ESSENTIAL FILMOGRAPHY
Appunti sull'emigrazione (1960), Nous Irons a Tahiti (1962), Un'ora prima di
Amleto + Pinocchio (1960), Bis (1966),
Vieni, dolce morte (1967), Tak (1968), Oserò, turbare l'universo? (1969), La
voce di Esta Joy (1971), Il comizio (1977), Dove va la poesia? (1979), Le ferite
dell'infanzia (1980), Nostalgia di un kolossal (1987), Un Oscar ben portato
(1987), Chi è Ryuchi Sakamoto? (1988),
Kailash - La Montagna Sacra (1988), Perché Buddha? (1992), Il sogno di Aun San
Suu Kyi (1992), In cerca di una perduta ragione di vita (1996), Gli estremi non
si toccano (1998), Diario australiano (1999), Angeli & Killers (1999), La Dea
delle piccole cose (2002),
Il senso del mistero (2003), Assenza, più acuta presenza (2003), Tragico errore
(2003), La memoria della meraviglia (2003),
Tradimento d'amore (2003), Un pomeriggio a New York (2004), Schegge di utopia
(2004).