La coda
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Mix Film)
Italy, 1989, 1'50"
Toccafondo made some 1200 drawings of the silent movie star Buster Keaton and subjected them to his process of transformation. His hero collapses, climbs and parades on an ever-changing canvas that is set to exhilarating violin music.
La pista
Gianluigi Toccafondo, Simona Mulazzani (Mix Film)
Italy, 1991, 2'
An accordion, a tango, images carried along by the rhythm, and a tribute to Fred Astaire.
La pista del maiale
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Salvucci/Toccafondo)
Italy, 1992, 3’10”
The life of a pig revisited as a legend.
Nevesta / La sposa / The Bride
Gianluigi Toccafondo (neodvisni/independent)
Italy, 1992, 2'13"
A bride leaves her father’s home to reach her love.
Zločinec / Le criminel / The Criminal
Gianluigi Toccafondo, Simona Mulazzani (Trans Europe Film/La Sept ARTE)
France, 1993, 4'50"
Following a criminal's escape through the city. "The simplest surrealistic act would be to go into the street with a revolver and shoot at random into the crowd." (Breton)
La biennale di Venezia
Gianluigi Toccafondo, Asia Argento, Marco Giusti (La biennale di Venezia)
Italy, 1999, 1’
Trailer for the 56th Venice International Film Festival.
Pinocchio
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Toccafondo/La Sept ARTE)
Italy, France, 1999, 5'50"
Toccafondo’s Pinocchio is full of soul, with all the warmth, beauty and cruelty of the real world intact in the realm of fantasy.
Essere morti o essere vivi è la stessa cosa / To Be Dead or To Be Alive Is The Same Thing
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Tele +/Fandango)
Italy, 2000, 3'43"
A frame comes alive in the drawing, transforming, colouring and regenerating itself. A journey through some of Pasolini's works in search of a type of comedy that is physical, almost jester-like. Totò's gestures, Ninetto Davoli's laughing eyes, Silvana Mangano's physicality. Out of 1200 drawings he made based on Pasolini's films, the director chose half to create this visual poem.
Briganti senza leggenda / Thugs With No Legend
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Les Films de l'Arlequin/ARTE France/Archimede Films)
France, Italy, 2012, 15'
In the countryside around Rimini, two ingenuous thugs try to rob a couple of elderly farmers. The latter, tired of being swindled, decide to seek revenge and conceive a diabolical, very effective plan.
Trento Film Festival
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Montura)
Italy, 2000, 0'35"
Trailer for the Trento Film Festival.
C’mon Tigre feat. Mick Jenkins: Underground Lovers
Gianluigi Toccafondo, Marco Molinelli (K7 Records/Kobalt Music Publishing/AMRA)
Germany, Sweden, UK, 2021, 4'30"
“[The film] has the structure of a real feature film condensed into just over four minutes. A man and a woman go through a night of excess until they lose control among food, drugs, sex, and the neon lights of Tokyo.” Gianluigi Toccafondo
Dreamland
Gianluigi Toccafondo (Lirica/Voxfarm)
Italy, 2021, 14'40"
A meaningful journey into the Italian cultural heritage throughout musical quotes from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, lithographs by Giovanni Battista Piranesi and lines by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
