Alberto Bona

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Alberto Bona
Born (1978-11-07) 7 November 1978 (age 43)
Italy
Occupation Actor, playwright, film director

Alberto Bona (born 7 November 1978) is an Italian actor, playwright and film director. [1]

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Biography

Alberto Bona started his career as a cartoonist in Italy, before moving to London, where he started to work within theatre and independent film productions. He wrote and starred in the surrealistic play Salvador! staged at the Barons Court Theatre in 2004, [2] where he played surrealist Salvador Dalí. This play led the photographer Marco Sanges to ask Bona to pose for a series of portraits. [3] It began a creative collaboration culminating with the art film Circumstances, awarded as 'Best Art Film' at the Portobello Film Festival in 2008. [4] With Sanges, Bona co-directed Pondering of a lonely wonderer and La Sonnambula. Together, they have also worked at the Hackney Empire devising the surrealistic art exhibition Big Scenes. [5]

Bona wrote and starred in the play "Tremamondo - The Angel of Fencing", directed by Giampaolo Zennaro, staged at the Teatro Carlo Goldoni (Livorno) in Livorno. [6]

In 2014, Bona produced a film about Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead. [7]

Opera, documentaries and music videos

Bona has worked with opera director Giampaolo Zennaro, both as his assistant and a video artist. [8] Together they staged La fanciulla del West in Limoges, Rigoletto in Almeria, Cavalleria Rusticana and Traviata in Livorno. Classical music has also inspired him to make documentaries, including Story of a Luthier.

Bona directed the music video for the song "Meet me in Winter". The track and the video were produced by Ian Dean.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Actor

Director

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References

  1. ↑ "Wall Street International".
  2. ↑ "El Universo".
  3. ↑ "I ritratti impossibili di Marco".
  4. ↑ "Circumstances, Best Art Film".
  5. ↑ "Big Scenes". Archived from the original on 6 February 2010.
  6. ↑ "Tremamondo".
  7. ↑ "Cinema Museum".
  8. ↑ "Italo Europeo".
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