Alessandro Fantini

Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Actor, Animator, Cinematographer, Concept Artist, Illustrator, Music Composer and Storyboard Artist

Roma, Italy

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About Alessandro

Alessandro Fantini was born in Sangro Valley, Italy. His creative inclination arose during his early childhood when he began drawing comics and writing tales influenced by gothic authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan le Fanu. Disliking art school teachings, he learned oil painting techniques by himself and started painting his first canvases in 1993. During the nineties he developed his own visionary style blending the surrealist attitude with hyperrealism and Flemish painting methods. In 2002 he graduated with first class honours in modern literature with a thesis about the relationship between Italian culture and the PreRaphaelism.

Since 1998 he wrote, directed and produced movies and music videos digitally, composing also their soundtracks and writing lyrics for songs performed by himself. His short movies "Tiranti Transit", "Nepente", "The road to Shakti" and "The rain frames" were broadcast on European Sky Channels between 2006 and 2010. He wrote and illustrated the book "The Night's Veil"(2006) and the dark-fantasy novel "Endometria"(2007) both published by Liberodiscrivere and presented at the International Turin book fair. His self-portrait was published in 2004 inside the Jean Michel Jarre's "Aero" album booklet. His artworks have been shown in several group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in Pescara, Turin, at the London Brick Lane Gallery and at the Rome Dorothy Circus Gallery.

In 2008 he released his first art book entitled "The Sinovial Gaze" covering more than a decade of painting activity.
In 2009 he directed and animated the music video of the international jazz musician Lorenzo Tucci's hit "The Sky".
In 2010 he directed the feature movie "EDOnism" filmed in Tokyo and produced by Lorenzo Fantini.
In 2011 he directed the mystery thriller "Epithell" and the animated music video for the Lorenzo Tucci's single "Hope".
In 2012 he exhibited in the international group show "Green Blood" held at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome.
In 2013 he exhibited in the international group show "Painted Sound" held at the Flower Pepper Gallery in Pasadena, California, U.S.A. In the same year he directed the documentary "Bryant's ode" filmed in New York, a video "foreword" to the mystery movie "New York, a venture" filmed in Manhattan the following year.

Gender:
Male

Body type:
Slim

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Mediterranean

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AFAN shooting the movie "NEPENTE" in Rome (2009).

Bodil Jørgensen and AFAN Alessandro Fantini in a scene from the film "ROME" directed by Niclas Bendixen (in Danish cinemas from 22 February).

Prepping the tools of craft for my scene in the upcoming Niclas Bendixen's movie (Rome, February 16th, 2023)

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Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky by AFAN Alessandro Fantini

Credits

When in Rome (2023 - 2024)
Film by Niclas Bendixen Actor To celebrate a lifelong marriage, Gerda and Kristoffer travel to Rome to relive the city where Gerda was once an aspiring art student. When they run into her former teacher and lover Johannes, Gerda is reminded of the life she used to live, and Kristoffer is sidelined while Gerda wanders the streets of the Eternal City in search of her long-lost youth.
MALORDA (2015 - 2022)
Series by AFAN Director Amidst the chaos of precariousness that makes tough approaching the godfathers disputed by hordes of lackeys, the Studio Malorda aims to offer a free service for solving the most common employment and social problems. If the current disorder makes you oppressed by the horde, you just need the healthy chaos of Malorda.
AndroFonos (2020)
Film (short) by Alessandro Fantini Director They have isolated him for a lifetime Will the past be able to isolate them from him?
Draw in (2018)
Film (short) by Alessandro Fantini Director It will draw you in if you'll draw it. Sometime the rugged countryside isn't the ideal place where isolating yourself from the world (surely not from all the other worlds).
New York, a venture (2014)
Film by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini (Adventure and Mystery) Director Alessandro Fantini New York, a venture (2014) Since last decade computers and mobiles are relentlessly altering and crumbling our perception of social reality and present time. Nevertheless it’s the unexpected email Adam gets from his cousin Kevin inviting him to join his secret venture in New York City, to trigger the chain of events that will lead him to restore his own lost reality. A random incident in Central Park that makes him lose every natural and artificial connections to the surrounding world, will be nothing but the first stage of a self-discovery through the darkness of memory. Yet, only the verses of Amy, the enigmatic poetess of Central Park, will eventually enlighten the path of his quest with the colored Flames of a Vision that once split two lives, and now is about to reunite them in the cleansing whiteness of a stocking cap. Directed, written and edited by Alessandro Fantini Cinematography and special effects by Alessandro Fantini Music by Alessandro Fantini Cast: Adam Clairfield: Craig Williams Amy Bolnes: Kyrie Vickers The lady of Central Park: Karen Goldfarb The lunatic of Central Park: Henrik Khim Rehr The first runner: Vincenzo Fantasia The second runner: Said Raissi Kevin Alcott: Alessandro Fantini Camera assistant at the Central Park Zoo: Lincoln Athas Dialogue consultant: Craig Williams Produced by AFAN PICTURES Filmed in New Jersey and New York City from June to July 2014.
NoMen (2013)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini (Mystery and Thriller) Director
Iconosphere (2012)
Internet by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini (Fantasy, Mystery and Sci-Fi) Director
Epithell (2011)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini (Mystery, Thriller and Film-Noir) Director
EDOnism (2010)
Film by LAFAN productions (Mystery, Sci-Fi and Thriller) Director James Hallway came to Tokyo looking for the dream and a life with his beautiful wife, Sophie. Instead he found a life of toil, torment and alcoholism. Unable to face his descent into self destruction, Sophie left, abandoning him to his downward spiral into the gutter. When things can't get any worse, his grip on reality is stolen from under him as he experiences all manner of hallucinations and ultimately a coma. When he is revived he begins to learn some terrifying truths about his condition and his connection to a long forgotten legend from ancient Japan.
Nepente (2009)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini (Mystery, Thriller and Film-Noir) Director After welcoming in their flat an amnesiac girl popped out near "Park of Aqueducts" in Rome, Giorgio and Claudio will soon realize they aren't dealing with a simple case of disappearance, since her dark chaser won't stop at nothing to get her again.
Colostro (2008)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
aVoid (2007)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
La strada per Shakti - The road to Shakti (2007)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Le Cornici della pioggia - The rain frames (2006)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Tiranti Transit (2005)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
MDMA (2005)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Daimon (2004)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Login Praeneste (2004)
Film by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
A Glance Beyond (2003)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Venere Grave (2003)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
I Mystai (2003)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Azimut (2003)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director
Il Dittico delle Delizie (2003)
Film (short) by AFAN Pictures - Alessandro Fantini Director

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Awards

Official selection of Dobbs Ferry "Movies4Movies" indie film festival, New York, USA
(2017)
Official selection of "Selva Nera" fantasy film festival, Padua, Italy
(2017)
Official selection of Tokyo Filmex international film festival, Tokyo, Japan
(2010)