PERFETTA ILLUSIONE

Pappi Corsicato

(Naples, Italy, 1960) studied dance and choreography at the Alvin Alley Dance School in New York, and acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then worked as Pedro Almodóvar’s assistant in the movie Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), and made his directorial debut with Libera (1993), a series of three shorts presented at the Berlinale and winner of the Silver Ribbon for Best First Feature. He directed Black Holes with Iaia Forte and participated at the Venice Film Festival in 1995, followed by Chimera in 2001. Il seme della discordia (2008) and Another Woman’s Face (2012) were both in the competition section in Venice. He has also made music videos, directed for theater, and made documentaries on contemporary art, besides Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno (2012), which won the Pasinetti Award in Venice. In 2015 he presented at the Torino Film Festival the short Pompei Eternal Emotion, and in 2021 the other promotional shorts Return to Paestum and Carditello’s Stories. In 2020 he created and directed the TV series Vivi e lascia vivere.

FILMOGRAFIA

Libera (1993), I buchi neri (1995), I vesuviani (ep. La stirpe di Iana, cm, 1997), I colori della città celeste (cm, 1999), Chimera (2001), Diario di viaggio con fantasmi (doc., 2006), Il seme della discordia (2008), Ettore Spalletti (cm, doc., 2008), Questione di gusti (cm, tv, 2009), Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno (doc., 2009), Capo dio monte (cm, doc., 2010), Il volto di un’altra (2012), Pompei Eternal Emotion (cm, 2015), Vivi e lascia vivere (tv, 2020), Return to Paestum (doc, cm, 2021), Carditello’s Stories (doc, cm, 2021), Perfetta illusione (2022).