Antonello Matarazzo is painter, director and video artist.

His work is part of the most recent trend (“Medialism”) which combines various media (photography, painting, video, etc.). After a long experience of painting and installations, he experiments the picture in motion. Since 2000, the year of his first short film, The Fable (18th Bellaria Film Festival) – produced by Fuori Orario (Raitre) – his videos have been welcomed in many Italian and foreign film festivals (Mostra Cinematografica di Venezia, Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, Torino Film Festival, Festival du Film sur l'Art de Montréal, Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, InVideo, Festival del Cinema Locarno etc.). Some of these, like Mostra Int.le del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata and Festival Signes de Nuit in Paris, have also proposed retrospectives of his work.

He also produces music videos and artistic documentaries, wich include some of his colleagues of him in the artistic world. In 2009 he made a film-documentary entitled Latta e Cafè (4th Festival Int.le del Film di Roma), produced by Luigi and Aurelio De Laurentis for Filmauro. Starting from the experience of the Neapolitan sculptor and architect Riccardo Dalisi, he offers a particular view of the Neapolitan territory. The core of his research is based on the ambiguity between still picture and motion, often giving micromotion to photos through the use of morphing and warping. But the link between his painting, video and video installations is his tendency to explore introspective and anthropological aspects of mankind. This is the reason why in many Universities, like Brera, Roma 1, Chieti, Genova, Salerno, Pisa and Cambridge, his videos are shown as an educational tool in seminars and workshops. His work was showed in 2009 and 2011 editions of the Venice Biennale.

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Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2004 | 0:19:25

“Project Apollo" planned, from 1961 to 1972, a long series of human spaceflight missions, turning into a real conquest, one of the greatest dreams in history. Since then, no American has ever landed on the moon again, but on this side of the outer space, the adventure is keeping on...

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2004 | 0:19:25

"Meanwhile along the mountain-side across / came people in advance of us a little / singing the Miserere verse by verse..."
Dante Alighieri, PURGATORIO - Canto V

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2004 | 0:06:00

It has been several years since 1980, when an earthquake devasted Irpinia, South Italy. Although a massive reconstruction, some places, here and there, like dead memories or museums in the open air, can still remind everybody of such a tragedy. The long-standing, quiet, spooky ruins seem to claim their own right to survive, warning strangers not to pass. But a funny guy with a briefcase and a clue, turns up, unexpected...

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2004 | 0:04:12

A simple portrait of a my young friend, the usual explosive charge: beauty / innocence / malice.

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2007 | 0:03:30

tribal and TRIBAL, a comparison of two genres.

The execution of a tattoo to reflect on the distance between the tribal with the capital letter, that one identity, but also that of the poverty in Central Africa and the fashionable tribal, that in search for identity, but which celebrates only the large western weakness.

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2007 | 0:05:00

What do they share, apart from 'B', Beckett, Buster Keaton, Bene and Bergman? They all lead a wide-eyed actress to perceive their own view. The way they shift from physical to metaphysical appearance.

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2007 | 0:06:00

Piera is a successful actress, her life is always filled with plans, events and... obsessions.

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2008 | 0:05:30

The Armenian genocide is a story to be told in silence...

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2008 | 0:04:00

Never say "I".

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2010 | 0:04:40

Going back to the seventeenth-century iconography of the Vanitas, through an evocative visual metamorphosis "Karma baroque" tells over time and changes in the human body. "Karma" is a trip between life and death, a digital allegory in wich the body of the painting "re-mediates" the body of the video.

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2007 | 0:05:00

A dead man = 80 kg of meat, 4 buckets of water, 1 bag salt

Loosely based on “fatzer-fragment”, “Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer” by Bertolt Brecht, it’s a reflection on narcissism and the value of individual strength when applied in opposite direction to common sense.

Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
2012 | 0:06:00

As a matter of Madness, is to move in circles. And you find yourself still wondering what it is. Declined with evil and with good: the madness of love and mad killing spree, act of madness and insane utopia. Madness is the limit beyond the Madman. Based on the Variations on Bass Madness, one of the most popular music themes of Baroque European musicians.