UNFINISHED ITALY | |
| with | Damiano Nasselli
Josè Sorbello Andrea Masu Roberto Festa Matteo Erenbourg Salvatore/ Michele Cammerata Alessandro Mustaccio Marco Dandrea Carmelo Caruso |
| directing | Benoit Felici |
| cinematography | Bastian Esser |
| editing | Milena Holzknecht |
| sound/ 1st AC | Philipp Grieß |
| 2nd AC | Loris Rizzo |
| music | Pasquale Bardaro and Rosa Balistreri |
| sound design | Sven Kurt Albertini |
| format | 1:2,35/ HD |
| genre | documentary |
| duration | 32 min |
| production | ZeLIG/ Italy/ 2010/ www.zeligfilm.it |
| website | unfinished-italy.com |
| festivals 2012 (selection) | Biennale di architecture di Venezia (rassegna design on screen)
2nd at CILECT international festival (competition mandible dell scull del cinema) WINNER at FIFE Paris/ 29. Festival international du film d'environnement/ best short documentary ECOdays Ferrara |
| festivals 2011 (selection) | Cork Film Festival
WINNER at Les Écrans Documentaires/ students competition Primed Marseille/ Prix International du Documentaire et du Reportage Méditerranéen CNEX Documentary Film Festival l'Alternativa Barcelona WINNER at Sedicicorto International Film Festival/ best film Cortitalia and special mention CNC (Centro nazionale cortometraggio) WINNER at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival/ best documentary (mediterranean short film award) Milano Film Festival 22nd Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival RIVER Film Festival/ Italy WINNER at Lago Film Fest/ best italian documentary film Cinemambiente Torino/ 14th Environmental Film Festival WINNER at Documenta Madrid/ 8th Festival Documentarles de Madrid Indie Lisboa/ 8th Internatinal Independent Film Festival Dokfest München/ Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival Sehsüchte/ 40. Internationales Studentenfilmfestival der HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg Le voci dell'inchiesta/ Pordenone WINNER at Riff/ Rome Independant Film Festival/ Best Italian Documentary Film 33rd International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand/ International Competition WINNER at 23rd Premiers Plans Anger/ Students Award |
| Italy, home of ruins: A foray into the unfinished, Italy's most prominent architectural style between the end of WW2 and the present day. Buildings in a limbo between perfection and nothingness, given up on halfway through their construction, fallen into ruin before they were ever used, are an integral part of the Italian architectural landscape: Stadiums without potential value of unfinished buildings in Italy and of man's ability to adapt them to his everyday needs. These ruins, whose future has already passed and whose present carries the taste of an eternal wait, act as an invitation to meditate about time. |
PULSATION | |
| with | Roger Vilder |
| directing | Antoine Favre |
| cinematography | Bastian Esser |
| editing | Laura Froidefond |
| sound | Benoit Felici |
| genre | documentary |
| duration | 20 min |
| production | Joao Guimaraes/ France |
| «Pulsation» is a documentary about the contemporary artist Roger Vilder. Considered as a major artist of kinetic art and a pioneer in digital art, Roger Vilder always worked in same aesthetic . Through the development of a piece for an exhibition, we will discover this artiste and the things that mean something for him. |
AM ENDE DER WIESE | |
| with | Robert Bachinger |
| directing | Michael Kranz Pauline Roenneberg Ariane Schröder |
| cinematography | Bastian Esser |
| editing | Gaby Kull-Neujahr |
| sound | Michael Kranz Pauline Roenneberg Ariane Schröder |
| sounddesign | Christoph von Schönburg |
| soundmix | Eberhard Weckerle |
| format | 1:1,78/ HD |
| genre | documentary |
| duration | 72/ 54 min |
| production: | HFF Munich/ Germany/ 2009 |
| website | HFF München |
| Am Ende der Wiese…. sieht die Welt ganz anders aus. Umgeben von selbstgebauten Schrottfiguren, bunten Lichtern, liebevoll zusammengetragenen Seltsamkeiten und eigenen Erfindungen lebt hier der weißbärtige “Graf” Robert Bachinger mit seiner Hündin Bambolina in einem alten Zirkuswagen. Tagsüber tuckert er auf seinem kleinen Traktor mit 6 kmh durch die Dörfer und sammelt Schrott, nachts sitzt er allein auf seiner kleinen Insel, spielt Gitarre und singt seine Lieder. Sie handeln von Menschen, von Tieren, von Schmerz und Glück, von Freiheit und von Einsamkeit. Denn wenn das Gras hoch ist, im Spätsommer, packt ihn das Fernweh, und er möchte hinaus in die weite Welt. Aber da ist ja Bambolina, die er nicht allein lassen kann, und plötzlich ist da noch jemand anderes, der ihn braucht…. |
SANTARAGIONE | |
| directing | Giulia Attanasio |
| cinematography | Bastian Esser |
| editing | Francesca Scalisi |
| sound | Michele Lezza Giulia Attanasio Manuela Wilpering |
| grip | Philipp Grieß |
| format | 1:1,78/ SD |
| genre | documentary |
| duration | 30 min |
| production | ZeLIG/ Italy/ 2009 |
| In the city of Bolzano, in Italy, a country whose right wing groups are growing everyday, the camera enters for an ideal night in a bar where a group of
militants meets. The film tries to reproduce the atmosphere full of contraddictions, without explaining the deep reasons of this phenomenon. It works on an emotional level. The result is a disquieting portrait, leaving everyone free to judge and reflect about what lives beside us. After Casa Pound brought a charge against ZeLIG, the film cannot be shown in puplic. |
PATER NOSTER | |
| directing | Valentina Pedicini |
| cinematography | Bastian Esser |
| editing | Kathrin Dietzel |
| assistant editing | Sven Kurt Albertini |
| sound | Kathrin Dietzel |
| format | 1:1,78/ SD |
| genre | documentary |
| duration | 17 min |
| production | ZeLIG/ Italy/ 2008 |
| An isolated community of 15 catholic Shaolin monks in the mountains of Bolzano. A young woman that made a radical choice in order to follow her dream and her Master. Laura, Kung Fu champion and warrior with a mystic vocation made a 10 year path of merciless training, meditation and life in an unordinary family. We lived by her side and what came out of it is a film as ambiguous, painful and courageous as her story. |
LA MEZZA STAGIONE (WT/ in Production) | |
| directing | Danilo Caputo |
| cinematography | Bastian Esser |
| set design | Alessandra Guttagliere |
| sound | Gianluigi Gallo |
| shootingformat | 1:2,35/ HD/ Sony F3 + AJA KIPRO MINI |
| genre | feature film |
| production | Fortuna Mosca Alessandra Ondeggia Franco Caputo Taratata Film/ Italy www.lamezzastagione.it |
| Una mezza stagione insolitamente torrida in un anonimo paese della provincia pugliese. La quotidianità, stagnante e trascinata, viene bruscamente intaccata dal ritrovamento di un neonato abbandonato in un cassonetto. Nel paese sconvolto tutti cominciano a guardarsi attorno, domandandosi “chi è stato?”. Emergono così alla superficie personaggi le cui storie entrano in collisione o si sfiorano impercettibilmente. La Mezza Stagione traccia così il ritratto cupo e insieme leggero di un’apocalisse minore: quella di un mondo logorato dalla tensione tra modernità e tradizione contadina, un microcosmo denso di nevrosi e scandali taciuti, un posto dove niente è ciò che sembra e dove tutti gli indizi sembrano condurre a nulla... finché una vecchia bambola non svelerà il segreto. |
skills
16 mm35 mm
HD (from EX to Alexa)
first experiences in 3D
lightcrame
dolly
camera car
climbing in winter and summer
skiing (mountain shooting experiences)
diving (diving licence Padi AOWD)
drivinglicenz A/B
experience acquired abroad:
EuropeMiddle East
Central Asia
Oceania
Languages:
German (native speaker)English (expert)
Italian (expert)
education
2007 - 2010
Diploma at ZeLIG - school for documentaryBolzano / Italy
major camera
2008
Exchange-program SRFTICalcutta / India
2003 - 2006
Various internshipsinter alia Panther GmbH - camera rental
EIN LANGER SCHLAG | |
| with | Flo Nadia Klaus Niko Michi Mohamed |
| idea/ cinematography/ editing |
Bastian Esser |
| genre | travel documentary |
| format | 1:1,78/ HD |
| duration | 27 min. |
| production | Greece/ Egypt (11/2010) |
Einer von uns | |
| directing | Elisa Bolognini Antonio Belia Marzia Mete Valentina Monti Gianfranco Pannone Andreas Pichler |
| cinematography | Tarek Ben Abdallah Bastian Esser and others |
| duration | 52 min |
| genre | TV-documentary |
| production | Miramontefilm/ ZDF/ ARTE 2010 |
| website | ARTE Miramontefilm |
| Seit 30 Jahren prägt Silvio Berlusconi die Italienische Gesellschaft, seit 15 Jahren dominiert er die Politik. Im Dezember 2009 gingen durch den Aufruf eine Facebook Gruppe mit dem Namen Popolo Viola - Violettes Volk - fast 1 Million Menschen auf die Strasse um den Rücktritt Berlusconis zu fordern. Doch trotz Skandalen und Prozessen ist seine Popularität in weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung ungebrochen. So wie der seiner stärksten Verbündeten im rechten Regierungslager, die separatistische Lega Nord, die bei jeder Wahl mehr Stimmen erhält. Wer sind die Menschen in Italien, die immer weiter Rechts wählen und Berlusconi unterstützen? |
No Man's Land | |
| directing |
Antonio Bellia Marzia Mete Valentina Monti Andreas Pichler |
| duration | 52 min |
| genre | TV-documentary |
| production | Miramontefilm/ ZDF/ ARTE/ SFI/ Rai/ BLS/ Media 2013 |
| website | ARTE Miramontefilm |
ARD, German TV, Tel Aviv,
Assistant Camera für Peter Juras unter der Studioleitung von Richard C. Schneider:
TEL AVIV – EINE HEBRÄISCHE STADT
documentation (90min / HD CAM)
Israel (05-06/2009)
JORDAN TAL
reportage (45min / HD CAM)
Israel (05-06/2009)
F24 Film GmbH Munich, 1. Assistant Camera
Bogner
advertisement, Camera Jens Hoffmann, mountainshooting on ski
(3D HD) St.Moritz/ Swiss (01/ 2011)
13TH STREET
corporate identity trailers for the TV Channel "13th Street" by F24,
(ARRI ALEXA), Munich (12/ 2010)
AUDI
advertisement by F24 (Canon 5D)
Munich (09/2010)
20 SECONDS OF JOY
documentary by Jens Hoffmann (60min / 16+35 mm)
Base Jump (incl. helicopter)
Dolomites / Italy (06/2006) / Kjerak / Norway (08/06)
Advertisement for Munich trade fair
(16 mm) / Munich (several days in 2006)
WHITE SPHERE
sports clip (16 mm)
Weißseespitze / Austria (04/2005)
YELLOW HANDS
Assistant Production of Music-Clip (5 min/HDV)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen / Germany (05/2005)
HFF Munich, 1. Assistant Camera
SPRENGER
short by Thomas Beckman (7min/16mm)
Munich (04/2007)
NADIA
short by Nuria Gomez Garrido (3 min/16mm)
Munich (03/2007)
STREIKBLUES,
short by Stefan Ludwig (20 min/ 16mm)
Munich (10/2006)
UFA, Panther & others
UFA, 2. Assistant Camera SOKO 5113
2. Assistant Camera SOKO 5113
series (2x45min/ 90min/16mm)
Munich (10-12/2006)
Panter GmbH
one-year internship at the camera rental-park
Munich (10/2005 – 09/2006)
short films
LA RUMOUR
short by Benoit Felici (10min)
Italy (2007)
DIE EADEPFL VON UNTN UNSCHAUGN
idea & camera
short film (8 min)
Italy 2007
REALITY STRIKES
short by Jakob Stark (4 min)
Italy 2007
KNECHTE DER ZEIT
short (5 min/ HDV)
Munich 2006
BEHAUSUNGEN
idea & camera
short (7 min/ 16mm)
Italy / Netherlands 2006
contact & impressum
Bastian Esserbastianesser(at)gmail.com
0049 174 218 94 75
0039 340 689 79 81
webdesign: Christoph Richter http://www.christophrichter.net/
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Links
Miramonte Film
F24 Film
Zelig school for documentary
unfinished italy
Fotogramma 25
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