Portraits è la nostra serie di interviste con i migliori registi italiani di video musicali un format originale, creato da Videoclip Italia e pensato per la lingua inglese (qui trovate la raccolta di tutte le interviste). Il nostro obiettivo è dare quanta più esposizione possibile ai registi italiani, dando voce alle loro ambizioni e al loro punto di vista, avvicinandoli al pubblico internazionale.
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BIO
From Campania, born in 88. Founder and creative director of Land Ho, strategy and communication agency, currently specializing in props film design. Board member of the Belafonte Foundation project, a research facility for languages and scriptures. He collaborates with several national and international agencies as a designer and art director. He has directed ads and music videos, and is writing a feature movie that talks about kosher cuisine and talc.
Always leave the hood light in the kitchen on for thieves. He is hospitable.
WHAT IS A MUSIC VIDEO?
«The opportunity to tell stories or portions of stories; small specific moments of a narrative. A perfect space to experiment with languages».
GENRES
«I like the plots full of subtexts in which you can have complex characters move with their own stories behind them. For example in Ca’ va by Germanò, it’s just a single frame in a planned sequence of a party among friends, and yet I think it was the longest treatment I have ever written. It tells the story of Alex returning from France after a complicated relationship; he’s happy to be back among his friends in San Cosimato, and also of one of his friends who is obsessed with canapés, aspic, and cakes».
APPROACH
«Usually I have a direct contact with the artist, and for this reason I work on a few videos every year and only for songs that I really like. During the writing phase I interview in depth the author of the piece and I collect their intentions, then I punctually twist them».
WORK METHOD
«I steal from the old, I learn from the young. I am kind».
YOUR BEST MUSIC VIDEO
«Stella by Giorgio Poi because we built 250 square meters of fake woodland and Matteo non c’è by Germanò because we literally tore the face off of Corrado Fortuna».
THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS WORK
«The jokes of the machinists, those about the electricians, the kraft, the fluo tape
on the clothes, the set designers, the jokes about set designers, the coffe machine of Palma, the
Volkswagen of Benjamin, Bianca and Leone, the comments by Zavvo, Thony, Peppino
di Capri, setting things on fire, the fights about who has to set things on fire, the joke
about the banana, the “cucumbers”, fruit in general, the time of the acknowledgements, the
editing, the casual fashion and matching suitcases. My favorite movie is “Volere Volare”».
Interview by Alessio Rosa
Translation edited by Kendal Bendheim