Saturday, December 22, 2018

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

AFAN plays DOCTOR FAUSTUS

AFAN plays DOCTOR FAUSTUS 




 

AFAN Alessandro Fantini plays Christopher Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS 

 Over his last hour, Doctor Faustus vainly struggles to save his soul from a past of ambition and lust, as he gets closer and closer to the future price he's doomed to pay in the eternity promised by the devil's deal. 

 Directed and edited by AFAN Alessandro Fantini

 Music by AFAN Alessandro FAntini.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Sunday, November 25, 2018

MALORDA at the SELVA NERA FILM FESTIVAL


 

Alessandro Fantini, versatile artist working in a wide range of artistic expressions, from painting to filmmaking, who had presented the singular science fiction feature film Edonism at the first edition of the Selva Nera film festival, of Italian production but shot entirely in Japan, is back with a short film (excerpted from the seven episodes webseries) always characterized by intelligence and sense of the grotesque, which will appeal to lovers of that branch of the most bizarre fantasy fiction.  

Dr. Malorda solves your problems, but be careful what you ask for ...

Stefano Bovi and Massimo Bezzati, founders and directors of the SELVA NERA FILM FESTIVAL

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

You Tube premiere of "New York, a venture"

Get ready for the You Tube premiere of my indie movie "New York, a venture" shot in Manhattan and screened at the Dobbs Ferry Movies4movies film festival in 2017.

Share the watch page and make sure to be there tomorrow  at 4:00 p.m. (Central European Time).

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO4v09s9pQ4

 

 

 



Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

DRAW IN


    


DRAW IN (2018)

It will draw you in if you will draw it

Sometime the rugged countryside isn't the ideal place where isolating yourself from the world (surely not from all the other worlds).

 Directed, written, performed, edited and produced by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.

 Music, sound effects and cinematography by AFAN Alessandro Fantini. 

AFAN PICTURES 2018

Friday, August 31, 2018

TEASER


    

Teaser (2018) 
Directed and edited by AFAN Alessandro Fantini 
Music by AFAN Alessandro Fantini

Monday, August 27, 2018

Stabat Onusta Aestas

 

 

AFAN Alessandro Fantini,

 Stabat Onusta Aestas,  

Oil on canvas 50x70 cm. (2018)



 

 

Monday, August 13, 2018

About untraced artistic paths

My answers to the fineartamerica.com interview:

1. If someone were to film a documentary about your life, how would the story go?

Actually, since my adolescence I started writing a sort of screenplay of my own life, just like I was aware I was going to shoot it by myself at a later stage in my existence. Indeed in 2012 I’ve directed a bio-documentary about my artistic path up until that year. The opening scenes showed the landscape of the Sangro Valley in Middle Italy, where I was born and where I currently live. The image of the Sangro river (from the Spanish word “sangre” meaning “blood”) starting from the snowy mountains and ending in the Adriatic Sea, is presented as a metaphor of the inner stream of visions and irrational desires nurturing my creative quest from childhood to these days. Somehow every painting, movie, musical composition and novel I’ve created until now could be defined as a blood cell floating along the mystical side of the river. Therefore, the topography of the valley could be used as an allegorical map of my own human and artistic odyssey.


2. What were your biggest triumphs and challenges? What decisions did you make that shaped or changed the direction of your life? Who influenced or mentored you along the way?

To be honest I think that nowadays the fact of being a creative person is a challenge itself. No one will take your artistic vocation seriously until you’re able to show that you’re making a living with it. Maybe the biggest triumph is when you’re completely free to create without being forced to constantly show or explain what and why you’re working on certain projects. Choosing to not become a teacher or a factory employee after graduating with honours to keep working on my artworks, was the most important and daring decision I’ve taken in my life (however in Italy is hard to make a career as a university teacher without the support of a family of teachers or influent people).
I’ve always been a self-taught artist. Aside of the lessons of masters such as Vermeer, Dalì, Magritte, Giger, Wyeth, Kubrick, Bunuel, Lynch, over the years no one influenced or taught me anything useful. On the contrary, I must thank every art critic or professional working in the arts and showbiz who tried to convince me that an artistic career was a colossal waste of time. In a certain sense, the sheer amount of art I’ve produced over the last two decades is even the natural feedback to the defeatism surrounding me. It’s like I need to create an imaginary world where I can find a shelter from the nihilism and the brutal pragmatism of contemporary society, allowing me to give an aesthetic interpretation of the latter.

3. Did you pursue your childhood dreams, and are you happy with where your life is at today?

Being an artist means preserving the playful anarchy of the childhood. Only in this attractive chaos it’s possible to exert the freedom to create new rules and aesthetic dimensions. Like Nietzsche once wrote, maturity means rediscovering the seriousness one had as a child at play. The artistic activity is the better way to preserve it. Though, happiness isn’t a term relatable to the creative process. For me the main motivation of an artist life is to constantly challenge the boundaries of his own “safety zone”. That basically means living in a persistent yet voluptuous state of prolific anguish.

Friday, August 10, 2018

Glair Boat

 Glair Boat (from the album "Trinity of Dementia")

 

The inspiration for the song "Glair boat" came from my childhood memories of an ancient Italian tradition consisting in putting the glair of an egg into a glass jar full of water during the night between 28th and 29th June. "The Saint Peter's boat" is the name given to the final shape taken by the glair in the early morning. According to the popular belief Saint Peter blows in the jar shaping the glair in the likeness of a vessel. It was then possible to forecast the agrarian vintage or the child's future by observing the inclination of the sails. In my song I describe the singular case of a community attempting to sail a river by a giant glair ship doomed to sink, until a child decides to reach the estuary aboard his own little boat. 

 

Exile of Kelpie

AFAN alessandro Fantini 

 Exile of Kelpie (Water power trance)

Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm (2018) 




Wednesday, May 23, 2018

TRINITY OF DEMENTIA out now


"They know nothing at all, yet profess to know everything. They are ignorant even of themselves, and are often too absent minded or near sighted to see the ditch or stone in front of them".

Erasmus - The Praise of Folly


 

Over thousands of years human madness has taken many forms, but only the 21st century has brought the most insane combination of them: cyber-egotism, cyber-ignorance and cyber-greediness aka the Trinity of Dementia.

 

Conceived, composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.

Lyrics, vocals and effects by AFAN Alessandro Fantini. 

Cover art by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.

 

Trinity of Dementia is out now on Spotify and Deezer.

 


Saturday, April 14, 2018

IGNORANCID

AFAN Alessandro Fantini
IGNORANCID

The music video of the new single "Ignorancid" from the upcoming AFAN's concept album.

Directed, animated and edited by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Music, lyrics and vocals by AFAN Alessandro Fantini. 

Thursday, February 8, 2018

AFANzine - Pre-Raphaelites






AFANzine - Art as told by AFAN Alessandro Fantini Pre-Raphaelites In 1848 three friends started the most revolutionary "reactionary" movement in the history of Art: the “Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood”, inspired by the bright simplicity and linear purity of Medieval art and Italian painting before the mannerist style developed after Raphael.


 Between video-magazine and documentary, informative program and video-art, in this series conceived and produced for the web, the multimedianic artist AFAN Alessandro Fantini browses the art currents and the artists who have contributed to its aesthetic training over the years, affecting the development of his personal multi-faceted approach to creativity.

Monday, January 1, 2018

AFAN 25


2018 marks the 25th anniversary of AFAN Alessandro Fantini's relentless painting journey (to be celebrated in an upcoming multimedianic retrospective). 

AFAN 25 (a quarter-century with AFAN's paintings) 

Conceived and edited by AFAN. 
Music composed by AFAN (excerpts from "Antalgica" and "Gorgonia" albums).