Paolo Brunatto
Biography
Paolo BRUNATTO (1935, Paris - 2010, Italy) was educated in Painting at the the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and studied Architecture in Gevena. Here, he met Ricardo Bofill. After graduating, Brunatto decided to pursue a career in film. In 1960 he made his first documentary, Notes sur l'émigration. Espagne 1960, together with Jacinto Grewe. He was considered to be one of the main exponents of experimental and underground Italian cinema.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after having caused war and death, it has abandoned the now unlivable Earth. The visual experimentation aimed at the liberation of the gaze is intertwined with psychedelic visions on the one hand and with the orgone theory of Reichian memory on the other.
Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Series of documentaries on italian underground cinema through the portrayal of some of the most representative authors - Alfredo Leonardi, Tonino De Bernardi, Romano Scavolini, Piero Bargellini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi, Paolo Brunatto, Franco Brocani (and Mario Schifano), Paolo Gioli, Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi, Annabella Miscuglio, Massimo Bacigalupo - the cinema of the present confronts this movement so vital and courageous, which still remains an example for the new generations.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinematic rendering. I tried to visualize my present aspiration to recover, through the various ways taught by one’s experience, the easiness, directness and ripeness proper to children’s relationships and affective life. This film is maybe a track of this path backwards. – A. L.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Adriano
A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.