Michelangelo Frammartino (born 1968) is an Italian filmmaker.
Biography
Michelangelo Frammartino was born in
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
to
Calabria
Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian S ...
n parents in 1968. In 1991 he enrolled in the Architecture Faculty of the
Politecnico di Milano
The Polytechnic University of Milan (, abbreviated as PoliMi) is a university in Milan, Italy. It is the largest technical university in the country, with about 40,000 enrolled students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher ...
. Between 1994 and 1997 he attended Milan's film school, Civica Scuola del Cinema, for which he produced videoart installations and worked as a set designer for films and video clips. He also shot several short films: ''Tracce'' (1995), ''L'Occhio e lo Spirito'' (1997), ''BIBIM'' (1999), ''Scappa Valentina'' (2001), ''Io Non Posso Entrare'' (2002).
His first feature
''Il Dono'' premiered at the
Locarno Film Festival
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in 2003. His following film ''
Le Quattro Volte'' (2010) was selected at the
Director's Fortnight in
Cannes
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, where it won the Label Europa Cinema.
Since 2005 he has been teaching filmmaking at the
University of Bergamo
The University of Bergamo (; acronym: UniBG) is an Italian public university located in Bergamo, Italy. It was founded on 11 December 1968 and is organized in seven departments, three campuses and forty-one degree courses.
History
The University ...
. In December 2013 he held a workshop at the
University of Calabria
The University of Calabria () is a state-run university in Italy. Located in Arcavacata, a hamlet of Rende and a suburb of Cosenza, the university was founded in 1972. Among its founders there were Beniamino Andreatta, Giorgio Gagliani, Pietr ...
.
His 2021 film ''
Il buco'' was selected for the main competition at the
78th Venice International Film Festival
The 78th annual Venice Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 2021, at Venice Lido in Italy. This edition marked the festival's return to its full format following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, COVID ...
, where it received positive reviews and won the
Special Jury Prize.
Filmography
Short films
* ''Tracce'' (1995)
* ''L'Occhio e lo Spirito'' (1997)
* ''BIBIM'' (1999) – co-directed with Cafi Mohamud
* ''Scappa Valentina'' (2001)
* ''Io Non Posso Entrare'' (2002)
Feature films
* ''
Il Dono'' (2003)
* ''
Le Quattro Volte'' (2010)
* ''
Il buco'' (2021)
Installations
* ''Presenze s-connesse'' (1995)
* ''Ora'' (1995)
* ''La Casa delle Belle Addormentate'' (1997)
* ''Film'' (1998)
* ''Alberi'' (2013)
* ''Sguardi in Macchina'' (2013)
References
Sources
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External links
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1968 births
Living people
Italian documentary filmmakers
People of Calabrian descent