Giovanni Maderna
Giovanni Davide Maderna (Milan, 1973) is an Italian film director.
In 1995 Maderna directed his first short film, La Place, in Lyon, France, equal winner at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.[1] After a few other shorts in 1999 his first feature film This is the garden (Questo è il giardino) won the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize for Best Debut Film at Venice Film Festival (and was hailed by french newspaper Liberation as the work of the new Antonioni). Then he directed Imperfect Love (L'amore imperfetto, 2001) which also premiered at Venice Film Festival.
With his films Schopenhauer (2006, in competition at Locarno Film Festival) and four years later Heaven without Earth ("Cielo senza terra" 2010, Festival di Venezia in Competition at Venice Days), co-directed with Sara Pozzoli, he started a season in quest of a deep renovation of cinematographic language, striving to merge very different and apparently inconsistent influences. It is an attempt to drive filmmaking to a clear simplicity, releasing it from both contemporary realism and patronising author's approach. He overtly quotes as source of inspiration directors Robert Bresson, Alberto Grifi and Otar Iosseliani, but also hollywood helmers Leo McCarey and Preston Sturges.
He founded the production company Quarto Film and since 2007 worked with authors such as Francesco Gatti, Dario Buccino, Filippo Ticozzi, Sara Pozzoli, Mauro Santini, Tonino De Bernardi and Giovanni Cioni.
In 2005 he dedicated a video-interview (conducted with Antonio Moresco) to the great Italian experimental film-maker Alberto Grifi.
In 2012 he curated the independent section at Venice Film Festival "Cinema Corsaro", a selection of works marked by an unconventional and experimental approach to both production and direction. In this occasion he presented his new film Carmela, saved by Buccaneers, co-directed with Mauro Santini and part of a series of experimental films loosely based on Emilio Salgari's "Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro Nero".
Look Love Lost (2012) is a film made with private footage recorded over a few years and edited in a single session on Christmas Day 2011.
In 2015 founded the London based production company El Entertainment Ltd, named after Luis Bunuel's "El".
Filmography
- La Place (1995)
- Jahilia (Occidente) (1996)
- Com'è bella la città (1997)
- Dolce Stil Novo (1998)
- Questo è il giardino (1999)
- it:L'amore imperfetto (2001)
- Bologna (2005), 16-2-05, Giovanni Maderna and Antonio Moresco meet Alberto Grifi
- Schopenhauer (2006)
- Cielo senza terra (2010) (Co-directed with Sara Pozzoli)
- Carmela, salvata dai filibustieri (2012) (Co-directed with Mauro Santini)
- Look Love Lost (2012)
References
- ↑ Nanni Moretti: diario di un autarchico - Page 54 2012 "... sulla non ammissione “timbrando” il manifesto del suo film con la scritta “escluso dal Sacher Festival”. la Sacher d'Oro della prima edizione viene attribuita ex aequo a La place (la piazza) di Giovanni Maderna e Silhouette di Matteo Garrone ..."