Franco Brocani

Nacimiento : 1938-09-10,

Películas

Schifanosaurus Rex
Director
Le opere e i giorni
Director
Medicina, i misteri
Director
Triumph and Ruins
Director
A visionary journey among Roman vistas and various narrative structures that blend with music by Patty Pravo.
On Poetry
Director
An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli.
Clodia - Fragmenta
Screenplay
Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.
Clodia - Fragmenta
Director
Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.
Lucifer: El ángel maldito
Writer
Un chico es poseído por el demonio y mata a su madre tirándola por las escaleras. Su hermana es una monja, y con ayuda de un sacerdote, intentan sacarle el diablo del cuerpo. Pero ella no se imagina que su vida correrá peligro.
L'ippogrifo
Director
El sexo de la bruja
Writer
Sir Thomas Hilton, patriarca de una familia, reúne a todos sus sobrinos para repartir la herencia antes de su inminente muerte. Todos tienen parte de la fortuna excepto Evelyn, quien siempre ha odiado a la familia. Esa noche, en el castillo donde están reunidos, aparece muerto uno de los sobrinos, y todo indica que es por causa de la herencia; aunque hay algo más oscuro que hará presencia más adelante...
Signal from a Dying Planet
Director
Set in 1997, this short sci-fi film narrates the story of a normal world that slowly degenerates into an amoral and lifeless place.
Homage to William Blake
Director
Umano, decifrabile perduto
Director
The Minotaur Mask
Director
Night, Proud Sister
Director
Experimental short film.
Necropolis
Director
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
Necropolis
Writer
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
The Cage-Shaped Mirror
Director
The Paper Flower Sequence
Assistant Director
A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness.
Amor y rabia
Assistant Director
Cinco directores ofrecen sendas historias en las que se entremezclan el amor y la rabia.
La sequenza del fiore di carta
Assistant Director
A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness. Indeed, while the merry boy is walking, the episode shows the evil done by man during the Second World War.
Umano Non Umano
Self
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
Trapianto, consunzione e morte di Franco Brocani
Writer
Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.
Trapianto, consunzione e morte di Franco Brocani
Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.
Due o tre cose: a proposito di W. Hayter
Director
An art documentary portraying Stanley William Hayter – considered the inventor of modern incision – at work in his Paris studio. At the Hayter’s Atelier 17 artists have studied, since the early ’30s, including Brauner, Calder, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Miro, Matta, Picasso, and Chagall.
A settentrione
Director
The documentary describes the work of goldsmiths in Valenza, of cabinet-makers in Canelli, of farmers in the provinces of Alessandria and Asti where such activities are still the backbone of the local econimic structure. It analyzes also the politics of monopoly concentration pursued by the big industrial forces and its effects such as the impoverishment of the countryside, the decline of traditional activities based on craftmanship - a heavy toll on the future of the young.
By Now My Return to Knossos Is Certain
Director
The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.
Il pantano
Writer
Il nero
Writer
The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship between the local women and Afro-American soldiers.