The Fund includes film copies of his films, from the beginning with editing works up to his most recent experiences, and 250 folders and boxes including subjects, treatments, film proposals, contracts, production diaries, correspondence, press reviews, sketches of scenography, materials for unfinished or unrealized films
Tinto Brass turns ninety next Sunday, March 26th. In paying homage to the director, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia announces the deposit of his personal archive at the Cineteca Nazionale and the Luigi Chiarini Library, which after cataloging it will make it available to scholars and spectators.
The Tinto Brass Fund includes film copies of his films, from the beginning with montage works up to his most recent experiences, and 250 folders and boxes including subjects, treatments, film proposals, contracts, production diaries, correspondence, press reviews , scenography sketches, materials for unfinished or unrealized films: an authentic mine of documents spanning sixty years of Italian cinema history. Carefully preserved for decades by the director himself, the archive of films and documents captures the entire creative process underlying individual films, meticulously filed thanks to an accurate and articulated work of collection, reorganization and classification by his wife Caterina Varzi.
“Brass is known above all for the erotic genre – says Alberto Anile, curator of the Cineteca Nazionale – but his cinema has actually touched all genres, from comedy to westerns, influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and by Roberto Rossellini, of which he was editor, and endowed with a very singular anarchic and humorous approach. The Tinto Brass Fund will finally allow us to focus on the figure of this volcanic and controversial author, capable of influencing not only cinema but also society and customs”.