Claudio Pazienza
Claudio Pazienza was born in Roccascalegna (Italy) in 1962. In 1985, he graduated in European Ethnology from the secular Université Libre de Bruxelles. He discovered photography and then cinema with the aid of Super 8 and by frequenting the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (now Cinematek). He has been directing and producing films since 1986, and started his own company (Komplot sprl) in 1998. He is a regular speaker at several film schools. Polyglot, he holds Italian nationality and has lived in Brussels since 1980. His work cinematographic essays and so-called creative documentaries, happily mixing research and experimentation. His cinema blithely mixes research and experimentation.
Related to this realisator
Painting with Falls
Subscription access
_Painting with Falls_ is first and foremost an investigation into a painting : _Landscape with the Fall of Icarus_ painted by Pieter Bruegel around 1555. The author's personal reading of this painting raises countless questions. Here's one that could contain them all: what does it mean to _look_? Unemployed people, anonymous passers-by, philosophers, a psychoanalyst, politicians and the directo...
Vanishing Exercises
Does mourning have a sell-by date... like yogurt ? And what do you mean exactly by the term "mourn"? Talking to his philosophy teacher (passionate about Nietzsche and tap dancing), the author is about to go on many voyages. Some are static and seek the personal experience of the two friends. Other trips put words to the test of geography: naming, describing what is there, in front of ...
Money
L'argent raconté aux enfants et à leurs parents takes a close yet humorous and ironic look at the metallic gauntness of a coin, and, in snatches, tells the story of a working-class family, incapable of successfully marrying needs, desires and means. The anxiety of debt is perceived from father to son. An evident source of concern for the son (author of the film), soon to become father himself.
Painting with Falls
Subscription access
_Painting with Falls_ is first and foremost an investigation into a painting : _Landscape with the Fall of Icarus_ painted by Pieter Bruegel around 1555. The author's personal reading of this painting raises countless questions. Here's one that could contain them all: what does it mean to _look_? Unemployed people, anonymous passers-by, philosophers, a psychoanalyst, politicians and the directo...
Vanishing Exercises
Does mourning have a sell-by date... like yogurt ? And what do you mean exactly by the term "mourn"? Talking to his philosophy teacher (passionate about Nietzsche and tap dancing), the author is about to go on many voyages. Some are static and seek the personal experience of the two friends. Other trips put words to the test of geography: naming, describing what is there, in front of ...
Money
L'argent raconté aux enfants et à leurs parents takes a close yet humorous and ironic look at the metallic gauntness of a coin, and, in snatches, tells the story of a working-class family, incapable of successfully marrying needs, desires and means. The anxiety of debt is perceived from father to son. An evident source of concern for the son (author of the film), soon to become father himself.
