Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 57'
A visual essays on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), analyzed in relationship with his older works and featuring an interview with the director. “Actually they are two very different proposals, two distinct ‘visual essays’ – that is writing an essay through images – that go beyond a regular report written with words, delivering an essay written with images and sounds, that is a mode homologous to the object of critical discourse. Designed to be extra features in the DVD version, they also want to go beyond the regular way these are conceived, to stand as examples of what can be done in the field of critical contributions that accompany the digital edition of movies.”
Biography
film director
Adriano Aprà
Adriano Aprà (Rome, Italy, 1940) founded the quarterly publication “Cinema & Film” in 1966 and of which he was the director until 1970. During that period he also played the main character in Othon (1969) by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Between 1971 and 1976 he co-directed Filmstudio 7 in Rome and later become director of the festivals in Salsomagiore (1977-1989) and Pesaro (1990-1998), and finally director of the National Cinematheque in Rome (1998-2002). From 2002 to 2007 he taught cinema in the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
Olimpia agli amici (1970), Girato a Roma - Una città al cinema (4 episodi/episodes, doc., tv, 1978), Rossellini visto da Rossellini (mm, doc., 1992), Circo Fellini (mm, doc., 2010), All’ombra del conformista (mm, doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Adriano Aprà
fotografia/cinematography
Roberto Romei
montaggio/film editing
Mauro Ruvolo
suono/sound
Alberto Passagrilli
produttore/producer
Gianluca Curti
produzione/production
Minerva Pictures
