Shot in Danslab in occasion of “Our Invisible City” event
1-2 October 2011.

With Jack Gallagher, Erik Kaiel, Bruno Listopad, Gabriella Maiorino, Tim De Mey, Jette Schneider, Robert Steijn

Art works in the foyer by BIT Dansdramaturgie, Babette Wagenvoort, Melanja Palitta, Eric Schrijver & Jette Schneider

Performance by: Thami Fischer, Heleen van Gigch, Marjolein Vogels, Thieu Besselink and Rozemarie Heggen (cello)

More information: danslab.nl

CREDITS:
a film by Federico Bonelli
interviews and extra camera by Sagi Groner

Texts by Jette Schneider

Music inserts:
Simone Giacomini – a hundred arms (2011)
Tamara Kravtsova – Tango (Две слезинки)
Hector Zazou Feat. Siouxsie Sioux – The Lighthouse
A. Tellmann – Orchestersuite d-Moll TWV55 second movement
Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan

Special thanks to:
All Danslab choreographers, workers and guests & Zeebelt Theater workers and guests,
All dancers and students that stayed for the night, and to their patience with the camera.
To Simone Giacomini for letting us use his music, to Valentina Campora for being such a good actress,
to Victor Nieuwenhuis, Maartje Seifert and Ines Sauer, Massimo Benvegnu’,
Marco Pasi, Jorden Lentze, Valentina Campora, Diane Elshout, Judith Schoneveld, and all those who helped along with suggestions.

This film is commissioned by Danslab and supported by SNS REAAL Fonds & VSB Fonds. With special thanks to Zeebelt.

(c) 2011
Federico Bonelli Productions for Danslab
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Grinding teeths this summer… the day the Bastille was taken. That day on the beach. The storm is ahead. Never seen something like that.

A group of artists set a meeting on the beach to discuss with the common people about the meaning of art in the actual times. Their purpose is to make art instead of propaganda… To build bridges…

Under the storm a shelter on the beach becomes a metaphor of the time ahead. Times of change that has come, time of small comforts. Time of solidarity, of learning and sharing what’s learned… times for poets.
So they decide to overcome their fears and isolation and to ride the storm…

Enjoy this little film…

Proserpina-3, a photo by luterozero on Flickr.

14/15 April in Amsterdam Melkweg the project umbrasolis (http://www.umbrasolis.net) presentet itself with two choreographies and a short musical piece. For more informations go to the website.

Many thanks to all that made this possible!

Rooting – Sequence 01: Kore from Umbra SOlis on Vimeo.

Giovanna Rovedo dances her solo as Kore, the girl. From the premiere of the performance “Rooting”. Premiere in Melkweg, Amsterdam, 14/15 April 2011.

This is a video memory.

video: Francesco Cavaliere and Victor Nieuwenhuis
edit: Federico Bonelli

Ipertensione Polmonare – viverci e conviverci from amip-onlus on Vimeo.

Da Viareggio a Bracciano, da Eboli a L’Aquila: un viaggio dentro la vita quotidiana di Margherita, Augusta, Luigi, Loredana, MariaPia, Glenda, AnnaMaria e di nuovo Luigi, colpiti da una malattia grave e sconosciuta. L’Ipertensione Polmonare ha cambiato la loro vita. Da una sedia della cucina o dalla panchina di una piazza, il racconto spontaneo dei malati di Ipertensione Polmonare insegna che “ogni giorno non è scontato”. La loro è una lotta che non va contro la malattia, ma che è per la vita.
In Italia si contano quasi due mila casi di Ipertensione Polmonare, anche se continua ad essere difficile stabilire dati certi.
“Ipertensione polmonare. Viverci e conviverci” è il primo documentario in Italia voluto per far conoscere i volti e le storie di chi combatte una malattia rara e progressiva che colpisce a qualsiasi età.

Il documentario, realizzato dall’A.M.I.P. grazie ad contributo della PFIZER, sarà diffuso online sul sito www.assoamip.net, nei centri di cura specializzati ed eventuali proiezioni in HQ (broadcast) possono essere concordate con l’associazione.

Per ogni esigenza di proiezione o re-broadcast contattateci.

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Le interviste sono state realizzate da Marzia Papagna. Musiche Originali di Quinto Quarto e Albert Vila.

Back from the lake of Bolsena, where I contributed to the realization of the new Symphonic Film from Lucas Van Woerkum, “the Isle of the Dead”.

The production effort of Certo Production will be premiere in Den Haag the 25th of February, played LIVE by Lucas, along to the Residentie Orchestra.

The following is the trailer.
more information to follow…

It’s a project that dates back to 1995, commissioned by the Cannes Film festival. I just found out now. Is really interesting. You can have fun exploring all the contributions, some are really splendid, other less, sometimes just show the ego of the director. A very nice and instructive morning… use the clip attached here to start your exploration.

Lumière et Compagnie

- 41 registi internazionali vengono coinvolti in una sfida molto particolare: realizzare un cortometraggio con le tecniche di lavoro che c’erano alla data dell’invenzione del cinematografo, nel 1895. Ecco cosa hanno realizzato potendo utilizzare solo tre sequenze, ciascuna al di sotto dei 52 secondi e girando il sonoro in presa diretta.

- Lumière and Company (1995, original title “Lumière et Cie”) was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules:
1. A short may be no longer than 52 seconds
2. No synchronized sound
3. No more than three takes

- 41 réalisateurs ont tourné 52 secondes de leur choix sans son et en trois prises maximum avec la caméra originelle des frères Lumière.

Back from Italy. Back to the base. A hard time this one. Spoleto has changed. I could cope only partially with it. Maybe I could not.

I will write something about it as soon as possible. For now I want to thank those that against all odds have stand with me and presented their short film.

24 and 25 June in Spoleto, in the off-space of the Spoleto Festival, by the well-chosen name of rossobastardo live space, the 8th Cinema Solubile will be held.

LATE NEWS::::
You can find a stream of the Cinema Solubile pictures and infos online at the event facebook item: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=124185684282475&ref=ts

Th event of the 24 will be starting around 22:00 in the Osteria Rosso Bastardo, close by to Piazza del Mercato in Spoleto.
The event of 25 doors will be open at 24:00

BUT
Let’s start with order.

We have been scanning, as usual, for talents and film-makers for a wile, to make our list of invitation and fill it with 11 top film-makers, misfits, video experimentalists and 7th art fornicators… and made a nice list…

And

I asked myself just this morning, after reading the net for news (f*** the papers): “I have my flight to Italy booked for the 19th of June, will I be late for the revolution?”

And

Scanning the net I bump into the news that the Center for Experimental Cinematography of Rome has been occupied by it’s students. Guess what: the government is going to cut the school out, in a chaotic attempt to cut on expenses that does not touch the privileges of the powerful idiots that rule my (former) country…

And

I bump on Elio Germano and Valerio Mastrandrea (famous italian actor) intervention at the assembly of the school… he reports the words of his 90 year old agent, that after having fought a battle on the phone lets him sit down and says to him “ma voi quando e’ che v’encazzate?”. It translates from a nice roman accent like: “so when do you start to get mad?”. Valerio says also, “it is a good time for you, because Cinema is Dead, so is a great time to invent what it will be reborn into”.

I am not a fan of the Center. But I am of what it should be, that is all in his name: “Sperimentale”. Cinema is something you learn making and watching films. That is why you cross the street from the center and there is “Cinecitta’”. But to make good films you have to learn to risk with experimentation. It’s not it’s students to pay for years of clientelar mismanagement and for the opportunistic laziness of those that this Italian cinema have killed…

SO

I publicly invite the Occupants of the CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA to participate to the 8th Cinema Solubile edition in Spoleto.

At this moment I am trying to put myself in contact with their representant and find ways to give them a concrete possibility to express their perspectives. I will keep you all informed on these pages.

and also on if you want to help to spread the world on the damned facebook you can.

A great RED One frame of Alberto Novello as Sebastian; from “The White People”,
(DOP Victor Nieuwenhuis)
soon from CineSol production.

Directed by Federico Bonelli
DOP Victor assisted by Tarek

(more infos soon)

cast and crew photo (by Nicholas Le Goff)

We got blogged by Vladimir, you can find more photos from the set there: Off-Side.me

Another experimental film-happening, this time in a empty building.
If you feel like to explore a chance driven, unconventional operation on a film set, and you have time friday the 19th of March and you can be in Amsterdam, then drop me a email for details…

Some details:
The project code name is “the blue whale”. Is a tribute to the come-to-age of two friends (the 15th of march both) and a short film made as a happening (or a happening around a short film).

The theme of the whole operation is sanctity and sin.

It will be shot in the premises of a office building in Amsterdam in two phases; the first one will be sunday the 14th of March. You can call the production (as above stated) and get the indications on how to get there.

Production-wise we are looking for extras to act out some performative acts with a psychomagic carachter. THese acts will be agreed upon and found out on sunday and then shot on the following friday by a professional film crew.

All film is no budget and self sustained on a voluntary basis…