Arcangelo Mazzoleni

History

Graduated in direction from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome and in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, he's a total artist: poet, documentary filmmaker, photographer and visual artist, writer of books on film language and theory. He taught Film at University, Screenwriting at Rai-Italian Radio and Television. He works in collaboration with his wife Mariella Buscemi, screenwriter and author. In recognition of his contribution to the arts the Calcografia Nazionale of Rome with the Ministero Beni Culturali has dedicated to the solo exhibition "Arcangelo Mazzoleni: Il Mondo al fuoco dello Sguardo. Films, Videos, Photos, Drawings and Mixed Media on paper".

Movies

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"By composing the rhythmic scores of the images of Black Sun I pursued “a beauty of power”, as the poet Pierre-Jean Jouve writes, rather than a beauty of harmony, drawing light sculptures that unfold over time and are engraved in the night of the retina according to optical-luministic scores regulated by the laws of an inner metric..." Arcangelo Mazzoleni, Work diaries, 2003