Tonino De Bernardi

Universi circoscritti 2 (2022)

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. ...

Il battello ebbro (2021)

Tonino De Bernardi: One Time, One Encounter (2021)

"Tonino De Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro" is a film about the duel between two friends who are very different from one another. Two different approaches, two characters, two views that only seem antithetical meet and then open up in front of a camera. O ...

Resurrection (2019)

The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy's last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginn ...

Ifigenia in Aulide (2018)

Italian director Tonino De Bernardi, a regular guest at IFFR, filmed on the Greek island Evia (or Euboea) during the refugee crisis. Many immigrants arrived on the Greek islands, as well as in Italy. De Bernardi also filmed the border town Ventimiglia, whe ...

14Reels (2016)

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city. ...

India’s Dream – Forty Years Later (2015)

India's dream was our (Europeans and Americans) dream in late sixties, in Europe and USA. What is it now, 2016? All the world has changed, and not in better, as then we dreamt. India too. A travel through time and life. ...

Verso la Strada del Sole (2015)

This last short of Tonino De Bernardi is a meditative film about his life and cinema: he recovers an experimental short film made in the 60s and sticks in the final part of the film a sequence with his grandson - a line of continuity between Tonino's cinem ...

Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014)

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them. ...

Hotel de l'Univers (2013)

"Why did you kill her?" Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Pari ...

Home Sweet Home (2012)

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancien ...

Iolanda, Child and Corsair (2012)

Adventure of children and adults, fancied trips and everyday tragedies. The city and the countryside. Real and dreamt life. An experimental film inspired to the life of Emilio Salgari and his novel Yolanda, daughter of the Black Corsair. The movie is part ...

Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno. (2011)

A film in seven chapters. A documentary overwhelmed by life. A story with no plot. A trip. From the countryside to cities, from Italy to India to Greece. Through the ages and generations, through the work of farmers and the exploitation of migrant bodies. ...

Materiale per Hellas (2011)

Medea Miracle (2011)

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness. ...

Butterfly Waiting (2010)

A quest for the identity of the mysterious Madame Butterfly. While the farmers till the land, she waits in distress for her American love Pinkerton, who promised to be reunited with her. ...

Passione di Giovanni (2009)

Per amore dolce amore (2009)

A video by Tonino De Bernardi ...

Ventaglio (2009)

A video by Tonino De Bernardi ...

Bread/Camellia's Square (2008)

Husband and wife Carlo and Grazia make bread in their wood-burning oven and also distribute it to the sellers. They work all night long, every day of the week, as their families used to do. They live in Gorgiti, a village in Tuscany, on the mountains near ...

India, visioni dal Maharashtra (2007)

Accoltellati (2006)

Past Present, Lay Angels Fall (2005)

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity. ...

Marlene de Sousa (2004)

Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished when the kids were four years old (Marlene is now a prostitute). ...

Serva e Padrona (2003)

Three young women at home, the eye of the camera doesn't leave them for a moment and shows them first in a narrow kitchen, then in a small bathroom in front of a mirror, then in a bare living room where they spend part of the evening. The three are the mis ...

Latitudini altre 42° 03' Nord (2003)

"A film of glimpses of ordinary persecution or exploitation, fragments of a love speech, that is, from different states of ordinary injustice. A film wandering from one latitude to another in the rejection of a definition. The spring for filming disparity ...

Terra (2002)

Lei (2002)

Working the Streets (2001)

A Neopolitan hustler named Antonello is living his life in Torino. He turns tricks as a transvestite, using the name Rosatigre, or more commonly, Rosa. His closest pal is Wanda, who exercises the same "profession" and, being his best friend, is also the in ...

The Way in the Woods (2001)

This film tells three different love stories, or alleged love stories, or, nevertheless, stories of sentimental relationships set in the Lazio countryside, Rome, and Naples. This is the reiteration - in different days and in different places - of an encoun ...

RosaTigre (2000)

This is a story about a Neapolitan guy, Antonello, immigrant in Turin, who, for a living, hooks on the street as Rosatigre. Sasà, a friend of his, tries to bring him back to Naples, but, after a tortured decision, Antonello chooses to come back North and ...

Ophelia Afar (2000)

Appassionate (1999)

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he l ...

Interminabile illusione - Sorrisi asmatici n. 3: Dal nord al sud (1998)

After an initial passage to the South, Sirens and Sirens go again to the North, some chasing each other and others going through new metamorphoses. Ale Sirena restlessly wanders among humans questioning the present and the past: like Giuli who lost the las ...

Sorrisi asmatici: fiori del destino (1997)

The story of certain "wayfarers", whose origin is linked to each of the four elements. Lucas Belvaux (Triton) is a creature of the sea and does not know the use of his legs, while Ines De Medeiros (Syrène) has already been on land for some time and is sta ...

You Are My Destiny (1997)

Destino o fato (1996)

Little Horrors (1994)

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tow ...

Uccelli di terra (1992)

In this film every person (or character) says that he or she is a certain bird, but this may not be true after all, because every one of them in the meantime keeps on being, or appearing to be, a person. And, meanwhile, there is someone who is searching fo ...

Italia '90: lavori in corso (1990)

Independent documentary about the hidden side of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. ...

Come ladro. Anche ladro di anime (1989)

Tonino De Bernardi was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. ...

Modi di essere. Eroine ed eroi (1988)

Elettra (1987)

Elettra is adapted from the tragedy of Sophocles and played by non-professional actors of Casalborgone. ...

Zibaldino 85 Il cammino difficile, prima parte: Felice Fischetti, poeta (1985)

Universi circoscritti (1983)

super8, color, sound, 180' ...

Donne (1982)

Un giorno nella vita (1982)

A film by Tonino De Bernardi ...

Modelli di comportamento (1980)

L'io e le aggregazioni (1979)

Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1976)

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 ...

La cerchia magica. Ed essere in tre tempi. Simultaneo (1971)

A Patrizia: l’irrealtà ideale, l’oggetto d’amore (1970)

Le cronache del sentimento e del sogno (1970)

Research on faces, made of color and superimpositions. ...

Le opere e i giorni (1969)

La gravida (o Le tre donne) (1969)

Short film by Tonino De Bernardi. ...

Il castello (1969)

Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante (1969)

Collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I. It is a collective film, the result of an operation devoid of any aesthetic purpose: to verify the existence of any harmony between a fairly large group (twelve people) of members of the independent Cooperative ...

La casa del soggiorno ovvero L'uomo che costruì le piramidi (1969)

Nei giardini di Arturo R. (1968)

Dei (1968)

The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of superimpositions. At first, the faces are very theatrical, made-up. It's not clear whether they are men or w ...

Il giardino erboso (1968)

Lune (1968)

Lune (Moons) is a fragment from Cronache del sentimento e del sogno (Chronicles of the Sentiment and the Dream) and consists of a series of images-in-images of faces and bodies. It is a study of the significance of the face, movement and the character of ( ...

La vestizione (1968)

The first part, composed of close-ups of faces shot at a sharp angle from below, takes place at the top of a ladder, where Pistoletto creates an ornate collar and a long cloak of cellophane that wraps Maria Pioppi. The action shifts then to the ground, whe ...

Fregio, ovvero An angel came to me (1968)

The former teacher films his students playing in the forest, holding bouquets of flowers, as if they were celebrating a spring rite, like a Greek temple frieze. ...

La favolosa storia (1968)

Il bestiario (1968)

Multiscreen 8mm avantgarde film. ...

Il sogno di Costantino (1968)

Il vaso etrusco (1968)

Performance based experimental film. ...

Il mostro verde (1967)

Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies. ...

Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23 (2023)

For Filmmaker Film Festival (2023), Fulvio Baglivi and Cristina Piccino asked some filmmakers (R. Beckermann, J. Bressane, D'Anolfi/Parenti, T. De Bernardi, L. Di Costanzo, A. Fasulo, F. Ferraro, M. Frammartino, S. George, ghezzi/Gagliardo, C. Hintermann, ...

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. ...

Marco Melani - The Man With The Golden Eye (2021)

"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, ...

Tonino De Bernardi: One Time, One Encounter (2021)

"Tonino De Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro" is a film about the duel between two friends who are very different from one another. Two different approaches, two characters, two views that only seem antithetical meet and then open up in front of a camera. O ...

Galileo’s Thermometer (2018)

A whole summer long, Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Villaverde stayed with Italian cult director Tonino De Bernardi, who was working on projects including a film version of Sophocles' Electra starring only local villagers. She sits at the table with the famil ...

Filmstudio, mon amour (2015)

Age Is... (2012)

Stephen Dwoskin's final film is a meditation on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing. The film is an ode to the texture, the beauty, the singularity of aging faces and silhouettes, a hypnotic poem in the Dwoskin meaning of the term whi ...

365 Day Project (2007)

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas' 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were ...

Ultimo bagliore e nulla (2003)

Ophelia Afar (2000)

Cinque Giorni Di Tempesta (1997)

Giovanni, a young boy who left Sicily for Bolzano to perform his military service , arrives five days early and is forced to stay outside the barracks before the official day of the call-up. Between surreal encounters and situations of all kinds, Giovanni ...

Tonino e le galline (1989)

Italian film-maker Tonino De Bernardi meets in rural Liguria an old countrywoman, Agnese, and her chickens. ...

A proposito di sbavature (1985)

Tonino De Bernardi, author of self-produced films, many Super8 and videos, talks about cinema and Turin. Shot on U-matic. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

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 ...

Erinnerung An Die Zukunft (1970)

Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini. ...

Bacino Casa del lupo o di Tonino Massimo e Piero (1970)

It exists only in a fragmented state. ...

Dei (1968)

The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of superimpositions. At first, the faces are very theatrical, made-up. It's not clear whether they are men or w ...

Il giardino erboso (1968)

Il mostro verde (1967)

Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies. ...