OikouMENAde

 OikouMENAde

AFAN Alessandro antini

OikouMENAde

Oil on canvas 50x60 cm. (2021)

 

 

Whispers from Teetotum

 

AFAN Alessandro Fantini

Whispers from Teetotum

Oil on canvas, 40×40 cm. (2021)

 

 

Auditions and predictions

This is my second TV audition I had back in 2008 in Rome for RAI, the national Italian network. Over the following years I had some more for movie roles as well, since I’ve always been attracted by the challenge of transposing with my whole phisicality the characters depicted by screenplayers (especially when they’re original characters from my own scritps). Nevertheless, TV remains my ideal “playroom” where experimenting by melting different visual and narrative styles.

One of the member of the jury, a famous TV host, voice actor and author who’s active on screen since the ’80, sarcastically commented that my “multitasking skill”of writing, editing, directing and conducting would risk to make me the only viewer of my own programs (despite the fact he’s a multitasking artist himself).

Though, his “light” mockery and the lack of a clear feedback (or evaluation) from the jury didn’t discourage me. Instead it pushed me to launch an indie “videozine” devoted to painting, cinema, literature and music on my Youtube channel, edited as it was an actual TV format.

So far it seems the 7756 viewers gathered by the 12 episodes of my “AFANzine” (and the 1.3000.000 gained during the broadcasting of an interview of mine on RAI in 2018) don’t exactly agree with that witty prediction.

It would be interesting to know if joking about emerging talents is a typical Italian habit or a wordlwide psychoaptitude test (and if the sons of celebrities working in TV and cinema had to sustain it as well in order to pass their auditions).

Are hands still fashionable?

 

The making of AFAN's REFLUO COR animated music video.

Watch the final result:https://youtu.be/h2UeWNNdZjo

Dedicated to those who still believe that drawing cartoons in the "old-school way" is outmoded.

 

REFLUO COR - The new AFAN's single

 

 

 AFAN Alessandro Fantini 

REFLUO COR 

 Music, lyrics, vocals by AFAN Alessandro Fantini 

Directed, edited, animated, produced by AFAN Alessandro Fantini 

EP available on Bandcamp: https://afanalessandrofantini.bandcamp.com/album/refluo-cor 

Registered with Soundreef AFAN 2021

GUDRAMA

 

GUDRAMA

 An ambient opera on two sides

 

Full album exclusively available on YouTube

 

A side 00:03

B side 20:34

 

Composed and directed by AFAN Alessandro Fantini

A Quiet scene in Los Angeles

 The art of AFAN Alessandro Fantini comes back to Los Angeles for the ENO brothers

I'm proud to announce that my art video "Verdigris", filmed for the Brian&Roger Eno's "Mixing Colours" project, will be part of the public multimedia installation "A quiet scene" that will be exhibited on the Jerry Moss Plaza at the Los Angeles Music Center from January 22 to February 21, 202 in collaboration with the no-profit radio Dublab.

My own contribution aims at translating into a "living painting" staged in front the Sangro Valley's twilight, the pensive state of mind conjured by the Eno brothers music during the first "lockdown" period.

"One of the qualities of art is that it allows a diving board from which to jump into one's own interior. It's a means of communication that encourages the whispers of personal interpretation. The pleasure of looking at these films is noticing how each one draws out something different from the music it accompanies. We hope you enjoy the dive." - Roger and Brian Eno

https://www.musiccenter.org/tmc-offstage/mixing-colours/