Federico Nobili's Curriculum
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Federico Nobili
Writer, director, teacher and political consultant.
Born in 1967, he has a degree in Philosophy (Pisa, Italy), after
a scholarship in Paris (Université de Paris 1 - Sorbonne). Degree thesis:
Miracle and astonishment in Spinoza's Philosophy.
Since 1990 he is President of Gruppo Eliogabalo, an Association
dealing with audiovisual research and production, theatre, teaching
method, literature, music and organization of cultural events.
Since 1996 he is Artistic Director of Comunicare fa male - Communication
hurts (Fivizzano and Massa Carrara, North of Tuscany),
an original Festival mixing philosophy, literature, cinema, video, theatre,
contemporary art, science, international law, politics, with the presence
of some of the most important man of letters, artists, journalists and
scholars in Italy, and a lot of prestigious collaborations: Socìetas
Raffaello Sanzio (Cesena), Festival Confusion& dell'Appennino reggiano
(Reggio Emilia), Bottega di Musica e Comunicazione di Giovanni Lindo
Ferretti (Bologna), Associazione Kufia (Napoli), Futur Anterieur (Paris),
Fundación Gustavo Bueno de Oviedo (Spagna), Fundación Ortiz de La Habana
(Cuba)...
He worked in 1991 with French videoartist Robert Cahen. Between
1990 and 1999 he produced 39 experimental videos (presented in
some of the most important European Videoart Festivals: Locarno, Montbéliard,
Bruxelles, etc.), 3 documentaries and a successful and shocking
series of audiovisual installations (Stanza della Memoria
- Room of Memory - 2002, 2003, 2004, Palazzo Ducale di Massa;
Museo Cervi di Reggio Emilia).
He wrote directed and performed in La sesta ora - The sixth
hour (1995), an experimental movie by Franz Kafka.
He wrote directed and performed in 4 plays: Suicidati della
società - Suicided by society (1997), Una bella rivoluzione
- A fine revolution (1999), Nel grande incendio - In the
big fire (2001), La parola buio - Word darkness (2003)
Main publications: La bestia nel bianco - The beast into the white,
Buonanotte infinita - Infinite Goodnigth, Viaggio
involontario - Involuntary journey (Gruppo Eliogabalo
- 1995, 1998, 1999); Stanza dell'idiota - Idiot Stanza
(TraccEdizioni, 1997; translated in Russian by Kirill Sergeyev and published
in Moscow in June 2000); Comunicare fa male (Appunti sparsi per
una lettera non scritta a Jean Paul-Manganaro), in Réalités
et temps quotidien: Matériaux de la culture italienne contemporaine
(l'Harmattan, Paris, 2001); Esplodersi - To explode oneself,
in Scrivere sul fronte occidentale - Writing from the western
front (Feltrinelli; Milano, 2002).
He took part to the International Conference Rethinking Modernity
(Moscow, 2002).
He organized with Rita Scrimieri La realtà esplosa - The outburst
of reality: an International Conference on the relationship
between contemporary art and critical geopolitical situations in present
times; and a correlate Exhibition with Israeli artist Ronit Dovrat and
Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani (Massa, Palazzo Ducale; Fivizzano,
Convento degli Agostiniani; Prato, ex Macelli).
He teaches Philosophy and he is conducting a production project in Bologna
in the Bottega di Musica e Comunicazione - Music and Communication
Workshop, directed by the pop star and writer Giovanni Lindo
Ferretti.
He's organizing the 9th edition of Comunicare fa male - 2004.
The 26th of July 2004 there will be in Bologna the film preview of his
last movie: Il mattatoio di Dio - The slaughterhouse of God,
a visionary confrontation between the words of the most radical writer
of Modernity (Georg Büchner) and contemporary crisis of culture and
civilization.
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