Country: Italy
Year: 2019
Duration: 94'
The director Antonio Bido reconstructs his career through images, archival material, and interviews with colleagues and friends from the world of cinema. The story begins when he was given a small Super8 camera as a child. His love for this cinematographic means still continues today, with his most recent experiences in fiction and documentaries.
Biography
film director
Antonio Bido
(Villa del Conte, Padua, Italy, 1949), after making a few experimental films such as Dimensioni (1970) and Alieno da (1971), directed the thrillers Il gatto dagli occhi di giada (Watch Me When I Kill, 1977) and Solamente nero (The Bloodstained Shadow, 1978). During the 1980s, he specialized in making spectacular footage about the Armed Forces, directing and coordinating clips with hundreds of soldiers and vehicles. Many of these films won international prizes, such as Battaglione San Marco, which won the Grand Prix at the Lausanne International Film Festival in 1986. He returned to cinema with the ironical movie Barcamenandoci (1983); in 1986 he directed Mak π 100 and, after a brief experience in television, Blue Tornado (1991). Starting in the early '90s, he dedicated himself to making commercials, video clips, and theatre. In 2019, he made his autobiography in documentary form, entitled I miei sogni in pellicola, the basis for his 2022 version for cinemas.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dimensioni (1970), Alieno da (1971), Ventiquattro mesi (doc.,1973), Chivasso Aosta: 100 Km. Con le stellette (doc., 1975), Una marcia in più (doc., 1975), Il gatto dagli occhi di giada (1977), Non tutti i pesci vengono a galla (doc., 1977), Solamente nero (1978), Da Galileo ai Satelliti (doc., 1980), Angelo Beolco detto il Ruzante (doc., 1980), Idrovia Padova - Venezia. Strada del duemila? (doc., 1980), Praglia: piccolo mondo moderno (doc., 1981), Genio (doc., 1982), Protagonisti del cielo (doc., 1983), Barcamenandoci (1984), Effetto Azzurro (doc., 1985), 50 nodi sul mare (doc., 1985), Battaglione San Marco (doc., 1985), Marinai del cielo (doc., 1986), Top Team (doc., 1986), Incursori (doc., 1986), La fanteria (doc., 1986), Mak π 100 (1987), Ali silenziose (doc., 1987), Roma di corsa (doc., 1987), Soldati d’acciaio (doc., 1987), Il simulatore di guida per carri armati (doc., 1987), Una differenza tutta da vivere (doc., 1989), L’azione di comando del comandante di compagnia (doc., 1990), Blue Tornado (1991), I lagunari (doc., 1991), Operazione Locusta (doc., 1991), Ali sul Mare (doc., 1992), L’Accademia dell’Esercito (scuola di comandanti) (doc., 1992), Una scelta motivata (doc., 1993), Vespri siciliani (doc., 1993), L’Arma dotta (doc., 1993), Il De La Penne (doc., 1994), Nave Vittorio Veneto (doc., 1994), Pattugliatori (doc., 1994), San Marco (doc., 2000), Una squadra che funziona (doc., 2001), Incursori (doc., 2001), Profondo blu (doc., 2009), Portaerei Cavour (doc., 2014), I miei sogni in pellicola (doc., 2019).
Declaration
film director
“This autobiography was made like a docufiction, alternating scenes that were reconstructed with actors, and chats with directors, actors, and musicians who made Italian genre cinema of the 1970s great. The idea to reconstruct my biography through images, rather than on paper, stimulated me not only or not simply to 'remember,' but to 'give life' to these memories, picking them out and organizing them from the immense photo-film archive of my life, professional and not. Moreover, I also had fun reconstructing anecdotes, experiences, and important existential moments, becoming the director of myself and an informal 'interviewer' of friends and colleagues. It was a challenge I accepted with enthusiasm and the hope that the result will be a product that is not only captivating and professionally exemplary but also useful to young people with my own passion who have stubbornly decided to become a director 'when they grow up.'”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, FILM EDITING: Antonio Bido. MUSIC: Strato’s. CAST: Dario Argento, Pupi Avati, Claudio Bartolini, Lamberto Bava, Antonio Bido, Lino Capolicchio, Stefania Casini, Fernando Caso, Enzo G. Castellari, Ennio Cerantola, Stelvio Cipriani, Luigi Cozzi, Maurizio Dell’Orco, Steve Della Casa, Ruggero Deodato. PRODUCERS: Antonio Bido, R.P. Sullivan. PRODUCTION: Àgalma Film.
CONTACT:
Antonio Bido tony@antoniobido.it
