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Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene
	Carmelo Bene in Nostra Signora dei Turchi (1968)
Born	1 September 1937; Campi Salentina, Italy
Died	16 March 2002 (aged 64); Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater director, writer, film director, screenwriter
Years active	1967–2002
Spouses	Giuliana Rossi (1960–1965); Raffaella Baracchi (1992–2002; his death);
Children	1

Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002) was an Italian actor, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema.^[2] In 1968, his movie Our Lady of the Turks won the Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival) at the Venice Film Festival. ^[3] He died of a heart ailment in 2002.^[4]

Works edit

Literature edit

In 1979 he wrote, in collaboration with French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the essay "Superpositions". In 1984 his play Adelchi was published. In 1970 he wrote the screenplay A Boccaperta.

I Appeared to the Madonna, translated with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico (Contra Mundum Press: 2020)

Partial filmography edit

Oedipus Rex (1967, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) - Creonte
Nostra Signora dei Turchi - Our Lady of the Turks (1968, director, Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize) - The Man / Narrator
Catch as Catch Can (1968) - Priest
Capricci (1969, director) - Poet
The Syndicate: A Death in the Family (1970) - Billy Desco
Don Giovanni (1970, director) - Don Giovanni
Necropolis (1970)
Tre nel mille (1971)
Salomè (1972, director) - Erode Antipa / Onorio
One Hamlet Less (1973, director) - Hamlet
Claro (1975)

Selected bibliography in English edit

Carmelo Bene, I Appeared to the Madonna, tr. with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2020).
Carmelo Bene, "I am Non-Existent: Therefore I am," tr. by Carole Viers Andronico, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (spring 2014) 37–44.
Carmelo Bene, “Being in Abandonment: Reading as Non-Memory,” tr. by Rainer J. Hanshe, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (spring 2014) 45–49.
Carmelo Bene, "Well, yes, Gilles Deleuze!," tr. by Rainer J. Hanshe, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (spring 2014) 50–57.
Carmelo Bene, Our Lady of the Turks, tr. with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2021).
Gilles Deleuze, "One Manifesto Less," tr. by Alan Orenstein. The Deleuze Reader, ed. by Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia UP, 1993) 204–222.
Gilles Deleuze, "Cinema, body and brain, thought," in Cinema 2: The Time-Image, tr. by Hugh Tomlinson & Robert Galeta (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1989) 190–191; 220.
Gilles Deleuze, "Manfred: an Extraordinary Renewal," in Two Regimes of Madness, tr. by Ames Hodges & Mike Taormina (New York: Semiotext(e), 2006) 188-189.
Tristan Grünberg, "Outrageous Salome: Grace and Fury in Carmelo Bene’s Salomè and Ken Russell’s Salome’s Last Dance," in Performing Salome, Revealing Stories, ed. by Clair Rowden (Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2016) 171–189.
Emilio Villa, "Litany for Carmelo Bene," tr. by Dominic Siracusa, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (spring 2014) 58–67.
Amos Vogel, "Capricci," in Film as Subversive Art (New York: Random House, 1976).
Amos Vogel, "Our Lady of the Turks," in Film as Subversive Art (New York: Random House, 1976).
Amos Vogel, "Don Giovanni," in Film as Subversive Art (New York: Random House, 1976).

References edit

^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times. 19 March 2002.
^ (in Italian) Carmelo Bene on the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani
^ Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
^ III, Harris M. Lentz (9 April 2003). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN 9780786452071. Retrieved 13 June 2018 – via Google Books.

Sources edit

Umberto Artioli - Carmelo Bene, Un dio assente. Monologo a due voci, Antonio Attisani and Marco Dotti eds., Medusa, Milan, 2006. ISBN 88-7698-051-2
Giuseppe Leone, "D'in su la vetta della torre antica. Giacomo Leopardi e Carmelo Bene sospesi fra silenzio e voce", Edizioni Il Melabò, Lecco, 2015.
Giuseppe Leone, "D'in su la vetta della torre antica. Giacomo Leopardi e Carmelo Bene sospesi fra silenzio e voce", II Edizione, Grafiche Rusconi, Bellano-Lecco, 2016.
Carlo Alberto Petruzzi, Carmelo Bene. Una bibliografia (1959-2018), Damocle edizioni, 2018, 182 pp.

External links edit

Carmelo Bene at IMDb

[1] "Archives". Los Angeles Times. 19 March 2002.

[2] (in Italian) Carmelo Bene on the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani

[premi-3] Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.

[4] III, Harris M. Lentz (9 April 2003). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN 9780786452071. Retrieved 13 June 2018 – via Google Books.

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