Ellis Donda

Ellis Donda

Birth : 1947-02-02, Aquileia, Italy

History

A very polemic student of Roberto Rossellini and a fan of Jean-Marie Straub's films, a fine experimenter, a lover of poetry, Ellis Donda worked - throughout the 70s and 80s - within a network of film critics, filmmakers, actors, avant-garde poets, public television producers and publishers. During his stay in Paris in the 70s, he spent time with Jacques Lacan and recorded the last interview with Roland Barthes. Long forgotten, his work is now subject to a new rediscovery by Italian curators and journalists.

Profile

Ellis Donda

Movies

Cinema Exercises
Cinema Exercises
Himself
A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.
Cinema Exercises
Cinema Exercises
Director
A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.
Other Epiphanies
Other Epiphanies
Director
An experimental interpretation of Joycean epiphanies.
Il Corpo Rubato
Il Corpo Rubato
Director
Made for Italian national television, Ellis Donda’s Il Corpo Rubato (The Stolen Body) is an experimental documentary on psychoanalisis in 70s/80s Italy, its analytical practices and forms of suggestion.
Paris '50 - Existence imagined
Paris '50 - Existence imagined
Director
An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.
Elective Affinities
Elective Affinities
Il Precettore
Adaptation of Goethe's novel.
Come cinema
Come cinema
Coordinating Producer
A film by Ellis Donda.
Come cinema
Come cinema
Director
A film by Ellis Donda.
Engel und Puppe
Engel und Puppe
Director
Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rossella Or (soon to become an avant-garde theatre actress).