Carmelo Bene

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

Literature

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

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

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

^ "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

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

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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