Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 90'


A ballet between past and present, between North and South. The past has no direct voice, which comes from the present, it urges and maybe even confuses, it breaks in and interrupts, between fiction and "reality."

"I resuscitated IL RAPPORTO CONIUGAL PARENTALE, my 'underground' film, I made it interact with my cinema today. PASSATO PRESENTE (a grammatical verb tense which doesn't exist) ANGELI LAICI CADONO is an attempt at first person cinema, a film of the impossible: movie theater cinema cancels the first person. As a director, I have no past, perhaps I am only PRESENT PERFECT (LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF… but what if you ended up hating your neighbor, so distant, so un-close?). The time of life can be infinitely conjugated, according to your will. I'll take it from the 'noche oscura.' Back then I was still in the making, we're all still in the making now: I live in movement between different zones, opposite ones, I go from one to the other, I'd like to be a connection between them, but I'm not. I'd like to be between VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY, poles of life and cinema." (T. De Bernardi)

Biography

film director

Tonino De Bernardi

(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).

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