RETROTOPIAS

“A journey in a place that does not exist to narrate poetically identity, multifaceted heterogeny and stratified by means of several lenses that show the contradictions and the beauty of the contemporary urban agglomerations” – is like autodefine the project Retrotopias, that begins on 5 of September a series of exhibitions, interventions and artistic performances. […]

2018-2014: ME / WE

ME / WE _ the absence of image bothers you? n Alterity The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. “For outness is but the feeling of otherness ( alterity ) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.” n Alterity (Coleridge) the state of being other or different. n otherness the quality of […]

2010: RIMET TROPHY, THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE WORLD CUP

RIMET TROPHY, THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE WORLD CUP RIMET, A INCRÍVEL HISTÓRIA DA COPA DO MUNDO RIMET, L’INCREDIBILE STORIA DELLA COPPA DEL MONDO (52′, documentary, HD, Italy/Brazil/Argentina/UK) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + FILIPPO MACELLONI/LORENZO GARZELLA (NANOF) CAST: CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES, JOÃO HAVELANGE, GARY LINEKER, JORGE VALDANO, MARTHIN ATHERTON, PIERRE LANFRANCHI, KEVIN MOORE, DARWIN PASTORIN, ALBERTO CERRUTI, […]

2009: NOVUS MUNDUS: CONTEMPORARY ART IN LATIN AMERICA

2009: NOVUS MUNDUS: CONTEMPORARY ART IN LATIN AMERICA (26′, documentary, HD video, Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI camera/fotografia: pier paolo giarolo | ivan giordano editing/montaggio: tiziana pietrangeli | manfredi marchetti | césar meneghetti music/musiche: matthew mountford CAST: IRMA ARESTIZABAL, ALBERTO BARAYA (COLOMBIA), FERNANDO FALCONI (ECUADOR), PAUL RAMÍREZ JONAS (HONDURAS) RAMSÉS LARZÁBAL (CUBA), LUIS ROLDÁN (COLOMBIA) DARÍO ESCOBAR (GUATEMALA) […]

2009: L’INCONTRO

2009/2010: L’INCONTRO/THE ENCOUNTER (68′, documentary, HD, Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: WILLIAM NEGRI, MIRKO PAVINATO, PARIDE TUMBURUS, FRANCESCO JANICH, CARLO FURLANIS, ROMANO FOGLI, MARINO PERANI, HELMUT HALLER, EZIO PASCUTTI, ANTONIO RENNA, BRUNO CAPRA, EDMONDO LORENZINI, HARALD NIELSEN E GIACOMO BULGARELLI. PRODUZIONE B+W FILMS, ARCOPINTO E RETROBOTTEGA. June 7, 1964. The whole city […]

2006-2007: MONTAGE SERIES IV

2007: TERRORISTA

TERRORISTA / TERRORIST (29’ documentary, digital video, Brazil) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI CAST: percy sampaio camargo | célia vasconcellos executive producer | photography dv _ludmila ferolla editing _willem dias original music _fernando forni sound and mix_fabio pagoda directing assistant | stills| photography S-8 _yuri sampaio production | additional photography, editing and visuals _césar meneghetti produced by mares […]

2006: TACCONE FUGA IN SALITA

TACCONE FUGA IN SALITA (32’, documentary, digital video, Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: VITO TACCONE Travelling back in time Taccone, a famous Italian champion of cycling, reveals with painful anger the hidden folds of the most popular Italian sport of the 60’s. He find himself to confess various secrets that never would […]

2005: COMIZI E QUANT’ALTRO

COMIZI E QUANT’ALTRO / COMITIA AND ALL THE REST (78’, documentary, digital video, Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: GABRIELE RUSSO Spring 2004 – Provincial elections in Calimera (Lecce). A young lawyer from Salento, a left wing activist, candidate himself as an independent in the Udeur lists. The documentary follows his trajectory during three […]

2004-2005: MONTAGE SERIES III

2005: CONTRAMÃO

(15’, fiction, digital video, Brazil/Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: MARCOS ROGÉRIO TUFALI, CARLOS MARTINS, DANIELA CECCHINI, SILVANA PANZOLDO, REBECA GERBEROFF, FABIO DE ALMEIDA E PERCIVAL DE CARVALHO. Traffic and unemployment have made the work of the deliveries in motorbike one of the more common jobs among young working class people of São Paulo. […]

2004: SOGNI DI CUOIO

SOGNI DI CUOIO | SOCCER DREAMS | SONHOS DE BOLA (72’ documentary, 35mm, Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO WITH: Mario Kempes (coach), Darwin Pastorin (journalist), Luca Spatafora (trainer), Aldo Graziani (Sport consultant Global Sporting Football), Alessandro Aleotti (manager and buyer of US Fiorenzuola), Ivan Gavazzi, Raffaele Cataldo, Antonio del GranCaffè Roma (supporters), THE TEAM: Oscar Colombo, Guillerme Galliardi, […]

2002: MOTOBOY

MOTOBOY (55’ doc version; 64’ docu-fiction, DIGIBETA, Brazil/Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: MARCOS ROGÉRIO TUFALI, CARLOS MARTINS, DANIELA CECCHINI, ZANZA CHAGAS, REBECA GERBEROFF, ALICE DE ALMEIDA. subject | direction | camera: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI | ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO Screenplay | co-direction ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO editing | photography: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI production: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI | ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO co-production: […]

2002: CACHORRO LOUCO

2002: ZAPPATERRA

ZAPPATERRA | LANDTILLER – I Diari della Sacher (26’, documentary, DIGIBETA, Italy) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI / ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO WITH: MARGHERITA IANNELLI Produced by Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti for Sacher film in collaboration with RAI3 e TELE+ Production designer: Fabrizio Amato Photography: Andrea Gioacchini Soundman: Luigi Pini Editing: César Meneghetti Sound editing: Gianluca Costamagna Mixage: […]

2001: SENZA TERRA

SEM TERRA / SENZA TERRA / LANDLESS (15’, docu-fiction, DIGIBETA, Italia/Brasile) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI / ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: NANNI CALVI, ELIZABETH BROSCH, MARIA TARQUI, CARLA ELIZABETH, JOVINA ZULMIRA. An existence scored by an uncommon event: born in the sea. The story of a man that since his birth seek for his land without never reaches it. […]

2001: A SUD DEL SUD

A SUD DEL SUD / THE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH (14’, docu-fiction, DIGIBETA, Italia/Brasile) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI / ELISABETTA PANDIMIGLIO CAST: CARMELO TUDISCO In age of New Economy and globalization a new figure of worker is diffused: the retired. Carmelo, catanese craftsman, sixty-five years old, are is due to make a choice: to begin from old […]

1998: INTERFERENZE

INTERFERENZE / PLATITUDES / INTERFERÊNCIAS (88’, fiction, 35mm, Italia) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSARMENEGHETTI + ELISABETTA PANIDMIGLIO CAST: CESARE APOLITO, MASSIMO DE LORENZO, STEFANIA ORSOLA GARELLO PRODUCTION/PRODUZIONE: MARVEL MOVIES Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Elisabetta Pandimiglio Fotografia e cameraman: Giulio Pietromarchi Montaggio: César Meneghetti Suono: Bruno Pupparo Musiche originali: Tiberio Pandimiglio / I figli delle stelle Trucco: Giovanna Turco Microfonista: Decio […]

1997: PONTOS DE FUGA

PONTOS DE FUGA / PUNTI DI FUGA / POINTS OF PERSPECTIVE exhibition: Candido Portinari Gallery, Rome 1997. Year of production: 1996-1997 Media: mixed media objects, photography, drawing, acrylic paintings, film projection. [it] PONTOS DE FUGA / PUNTI DI FUGA / POINTS OF PERSPECTIVE è una selezione di opere di piccolo formato realizzate con tecniche miste (pittura, fotografia, oggetti) […]

1996: PUNTI DI VISTA

PUNTI DI VISTA (10’, fiction, 16mm, Italia) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI ELISABETTA PANIDMIGLIO CAST: CESARE APOLITO, MASSIMO DE LORENZO, STEFANIA ORSOLA GARELLO Soggetto: César Augusto Meneghetti e Elisabetta Pandimiglio / Sceneggiatura: Elisabetta Pandimiglio / Fotografia: Arnaldo Catinari Montaggio: César Augusto Meneghetti Suono : Fabio Felici / Aiuto operatore: Daniele Sala / Organizzazione: Cinzia del Curatolo Giuseppe […]

1996: ZONA(IN)VISIBILITÀ

Z0N∂[in]√iSiBiLità / Z0N∂[in]√iSiBiLidad∑ / [in]√iSiBiLityZ0N∑ Length: 5′ video and 55’ video-installation Year of production: 1996 and 1998 Production: César Meneghetti Concept, (re)shooting, editing: César Meneghetti Media: video, colour. Public views: ZONAINVISIBILITA’, Galleria Assenzio, Roma, 1996. VISIBILITA’ ZERO, video d’autore, presso la Galleria Comunale D’arte Moderna e Contemporanea., Roma 1999. DIROTTAMENTI, video d’autore, Cinema De Amicis, Milão, 1999. I° Electronic Art International Biennial. Palazzo delle […]

1995: LIMITE[S]

LIMITE[S] video-installation Length: 110’ Year of production: 1995 Production: César Meneghetti Concept, (re)shooting, (re)editing: César Meneghetti Music: Heitor Villa-Lobos Media: Tecnica mista su scatola di legno 100 X 80 X 100 cm analogical Video (Hi-8 onto Betacam SP), Monitor 21’, videoregistratore, pellicola 35mm e cassetta video Public views: Cândido Portinari Gallery, Rome, May 1995 I BIENNALE D’ARTE ELETTRONICA […]

1995: RE-PENSAMENTO

RE-PENSAMENTO – O PENSAMENTO BRASILEIRO César Meneghetti and Lee Swain Curators: Frederico de Moraes and Maria Lúcia Verdi Year of production: 1995 Media: 12 Objects (box form) / multiples and 2 Installations Public view: Galeria Candido Portinari, Rome, Italy MIART, Milan, Italy. BOOK: O pensamento brasileiro, IILA Palma, Palermo, April 1995. ISBN: 88-770-4244-3 [br] Pensar o Brasil […]

1995: IMAGE WITHOUT OBJECT

IMAGE WITHOUT OBJECT – video object Length: – Year of production: 1995 Concept: César Meneghetti Media: h 16 cm x 29 cm Russian film canister 1930-40’s, crayon, china graph, kodalith, 7′ Black and White noise screen. Public views: Electronie d’arte ed altre scritture, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, April 1995. Galleria Paola Verrenghia, Salerno, 1995 [it] […]

1995: CARNIVAL ART

[it] A cura di Achille Bonito Oliva e Umberto Scrocca Year of production: February 1995. Media: Happening/Installation: Chair, 16mm film, 16mm projector Reading: Maria Lucia Verdi Music: DJ X-MEN Invited artists: Clovis Aquino, Lucia Barata Public view: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy http://www.electronicartcafe.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Art_Cafè book > electronic art cafe 1995-2005 – litorama ed. […]

1995: SUBTERRENEAN

SOTTERRANEI | SUBTERRÂNEOS | SUBTERRENEAN installation Year of production: 1995 Concept: César Meneghetti Media: 7′ Black and White noise screen, 35mm film Public views: Public views: Mostra d’arte contemporanea, Comune di Bassano in Teverina, Italy, 1996 [it] Un rettangolo dai toni cupi, sospeso tenta di visualizzare pittoricamente il passato, la regressione, il subconscio, con immagini in cui […]

1994: MERCURE, POSE VIDEO

MERCURE – VIDEO POSE installation video and music performance Length: 15’ Year of production: 1994 Concept, camera, editing: César Meneghetti and Antonio Trimani music by Erik Satie arranged by Giorgio Reda to the Ensemble Microcosmos With: Franco Aiello / clarinet, Fausto Castiglione / cello, Luigi Intrieri / flute, Pietro Morelli / guitar, Ivano Morrone / […]

1994: No Limite do Tempo

NO LIMITE DO TEMPO Year of production: 1994 Exhibition: Galeria Candido Portinari, Rome, May 1994 Media: Painting, Drawing, Photography, Videos Texts: Alessandro Masi, Stefania Aureli, Elisabetta Pandimiglio. NO LIMITE DO TEMPO é un lavoro che va alla ricerca di un’identità che superi le strettoie dei ruoli sociali e delle divisioni geografiche. La sperimentazione tecnica si pone come tentativo […]

1990-1992: VIDEO MUSAKS

VIDEO MUSAKS video insípido e música inodora N. 1, N. 2, N. 3 VIDEO MUSAK 1 (2’30”, video insípido e música inodora, experimental, Italy, 1991). VIDEO MUSAK 3 (4′, video insípido e música inodora, experimental, Italy, 1992). VIDEO MUSAK 2 (3′, video insípido e música inodora, experimental, Italy, 1992). Year of production: 1990-1991-1992 Production: César […]

1990: 2984 twonineeightfour

2984 twonineeightfour (15’, fiction, 16mm, UK) DIRECTION/REGIA: CÉSAR MENEGHETTI CAST: ARTURO VENEGAS, HARRIET BENSON Anthony Phillips Rainer Burton Chief policeman Harriet Nieves Woman in the station, nurse Jens Pitergaar Man in the station Robert Evanson Newpaper seller Nicholas Geenshields Student Clive Saunders Policeman and Sylvia Young Theatre School Pupils as Mary’s pupils Kevin, Jason, Mathew, […]

1989: SKIES

SKIES Photographic series, 12 cybachrome prints 30 x 40 cm Year of production: 1989 Media: photography Public views: Fulhan Road Arts Centre, London, September 1989