Felice Farina

Felice Farina (born 14 August 1954) is an Italian director.

Felice Farina is a Rome-based artist. He grew through the ferment of Roman avant-garde theatre, both as an actor and backstage, developing - at the same time - a strong interest in animation and special/optical effects for film making. Since 1980 he thus experimented filmmaking riding the transition from traditional to digital imaging, producing several works mixing analogical and numerical techniques in film and multivision. In the same years he started applying elements of technical and industrial design to the field of arts, focusing on the relation between art and science and collaborating to several projects of kinetical and scientific art.

As film director he directed several documentaries and three shorts before jumping into his first feature film in 1986, at the age of 28. He spent many years in directing motion pictures, developing a great interest both in film drama research and in the new expressive challenges coming from compositing images and sound in the new multi-layer virtual environments.

Filmography

Movies

• Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (co-written and directed, 1986)
• Affetti speciali (1987)
• Sposi (co-directed, 1988)
• Affetti speciali (1989)
• Condominio (co-written and directed, 1991)
• Ultimo respiro (1992)
• Cheats (Bidoni) ( 1995)
• Senza freni ( 2004)
• The Physics of Water (co-written and directed, 2009)

Tv

• Stazione di servizio (Rai-1989)
• Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri (Rai-1991)
• Il caso Bozano (Rai-1996)
• Scardabà (Oscar per due) (Rai-1998)
• Nebbia in Val Padana (Rai-2000)

Documentaries

• The Trasimeno Lake, TV
• Matera, TV
• The tratturo, TV
• The Snakes of Cocullo, TV
• Santa Gemma, TV
• The Vesuvius, TV

Art Works

• Respiro (Breath), mechanical sculpture (with Gregorio Botta, 2008) Mart, Rovereto, 2010

External links

• Felice Farina at the Internet Movie Database