Franco Brocani

Schifanosaurus Rex (2009)

Le opere e i giorni (2006)

An inexorable journey through mental and visionary archaeology. Not real encounters, but ghostly iridescence, enticements in a game of reflections. ...

Medicina, i misteri (2002)

Triumph and Ruins (1997)

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97. ...

On Poetry (1984)

An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli. ...

Clodia - Fragmenta (1982)

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 Return of the Exorcist (1975)

An archaeology student photographs a mysterious naked woman by a waterfall, unaware that she is a female demon called Haggia, who soon takes possession of him via a cursed amulet. ...

The Hippogriff (1974)

Sex of the Witch (1973)

An old man dies and as his relatives await their dosh they start getting killed, sort of by a witch! ...

Signal from a Dying Planet (1972)

Set in 1997, this short sci-fi film narrates the story of a normal world that slowly degenerates into an amoral and lifeless place. ...

Umano, decifrabile perduto (1972)

Homage to William Blake (1972)

Night, Proud Sister (1971)

Experimental short film. ...

The Minotaur Mask (1971)

A man wearing a mask of King Kong walks through a maze unrolling a ball of thread. Franco Brocani renewes his interest in the dens of perdition providing a free vision of the classic myth of the Minotaur. Shot in an art gallery in Rome and adapted from a s ...

Necropolis (1970)

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona o ...

The Cage-Shaped Mirror (1970)

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on whispered excerpts from Goffman's seminal Asylums on total institutions, paired with a poignant citation from Poe ...

Love and Anger (1969)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in ...

The Sequence of the Paper Flower (1969)

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. ...

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani (1969)

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 ...

Due o tre cose: a proposito di W. Hayter (1968)

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, Ka ...

A settentrione (1967)

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 mo ...

By Now My Return to Knossos Is Certain (1967)

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 (1967)

Screck! (1966)

Experimental short by Franco Brocani, Claudio Capotondi and Luca Maria Patella. ...

Il nero (1966)

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. ...

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot tha ...

Umano Non Umano (1969)

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances. ...

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani (1969)

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 ...