Mariella De Bernardi

Où en êtes-vous, Tonino De Bernardi? (2022)

A film commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, where the director captures moments of his daily life and of his relatives. ...

Percorrendo la spirale (1974)

Il quadrato. Definizione di spazio (1973)

With his film "Il quadrato. Definizione di spazio", Tonino De Bernardi represents an exception in the Italian underground scene: the author retired to private life and continued an experimental production, in a reduced format and in a private cinema contex ...

Warming Up (1973)

Shot between Italy and New York City, Warming Up is the journal of a season of creativity. The film-maker and his characters improvise scenes and sequences, and wonder how to make up a story as they go along. The recurring theme is how to make the world (o ...

Migration (1970)

A series of migrants who at times narrate and impersonate shards of myths, among them the Great Goddess, the Virgin of Bach's Magnificat, the Sulamite of Stockhausen's Song of Solomon ("I am black but comely"), tales by Herodotus, Kafka, Villon (as set to ...

Coda (1970)

A conclusion and recapitulation of the Eryngium cycle, Coda deals directly with the theme of self-portraiture. The first shot alludes to the end of Erichvon Stroheim's Foolish Wives, where the corpse of the hero-director is dispatched in a man-hole. Other ...