CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
Giorgio said that in film there is
a timing, that everything has to be just right, and as well that
places and their events always suggest themselves to him. So it
is no surprise that his work ranges from the cinema verite style
of Il Contratto (before the Nagra was available and the
term was coined), through the neo-realist documentary style of
his other migrant films, to the magic of Clay, with a dash
of pragmatism, particularly in Boys in the Age of Machines,
and in the PNG films. In Giorgio’s films the breeze blows in and
from Carlton, to and from Eltham and the PNG: leaves, light, movement,
stillness, beauty and truth are the stuff of Giorgio’s films.
Graeme
Cutts, May 2003
See also
Some notes on the films of
Giorgio Mangiamele by Graeme Cutts
And The
adventure of Clay compiled by Bill Mousoulis
FILMOGRAPHY:
Il Contratto
(1953, 92 mins, B&W, 16mm), unfinished.
Unwanted
(ca 1957, B&W, 16mm), lost.
The Brothers
(1958, 20 mins, B&W, 16mm)
The Spag
(1962, 37 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Ninety
Nine Per Cent (1963, 41 mins, B&W, 16mm)
Boys in
the Age of Machines (1964, 20 mins, COL, 16mm)
Clay
(1965, 84 mins, B&W, 35mm)
Beyond
Reason (1970, 79 mins, COL, 35mm)
Papua
New Guinea Joins the Silk World (1979, 22 mins, COL, 16mm)
South
Pacific Festival of Arts (1980, 65 mins, COL, 16mm)
"Living
Museum" (1980, 34 mins, COL, 35mm)
The Caring
Crocodile (1981, 13 mins, COL, 16mm)
Sapos...
(1982, 54 mins, COL, 35mm)
As
cinematographer, and director of photography:
Sebastian
the Fox (12 out of 13 episodes), directed by Tim Burstall,
(1962-1963,
each 11 mins, B&W, 35mm)
The Crucifixion:
Bas Reliefs in Silver by Matcham Skipper, directed by Tim
Burstall, (1963, 11 mins, B&W, 35mm)
On Three
Moon Creek: Australian Paintings by Gil Jamieson, directed
by Tim Burstall (1963, 7 mins, COL, 35mm)
AWARDS:
Winner of
the Silver Award, Silver Medallion and Kodak Silver
Trophy at the Australian Film Awards Competition in 1965 for
Clay.
Winner of
an Honorable Mention at the Australian Film Awards Competition
for Ninety Nine Per Cent in 1963.
Winner of
an Honorable Mention at the Australian Film Awards Competition
for The Spag in 1962.
Film about Mangiamele:
Nigel Buesst's
documentary Carlton
+ Godard = Cinema features extracts from Giorgio's films,
and interviews with Giorgio and Graeme Cutts.
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Australian
Film, 1900-1977,
Ross Cooper & Andrew Pike (OUP, 1978).
"Giorgio
Mangiamele", Interview by Graeme Cutts, Cinema Papers,
Number 90, October 1992.
"Giorgio",
Quentin Turnour, Cteq: Annotations on Film 4/97, in Metro
No.112, 1997.
"Giorgio
Mangiamele - Passionate filmmaker, 13 Aug 1926 - 13 May 2001",
Scott Murray, The Age, May 22, 2001.
"Farewell
to a passionate poet of the image", and "Mangiamele’s
last interview", Rob Ditessa, Italy down under, No.6,
Spring 2001.
"Envisioning
the Italian Migrant Experience Down Under: Giorgio Mangiamele,
Poet of the Image", Raffaele Lampugnani, Italian Historical
Society Journal, Volume 10, No. 1, January-June 2002.
Web Resources:
"A
Profile of Giorgio Mangiamele", Alex Castro, Senses
of Cinema, Issue No.4, March 2000.
"Giorgio",
Quentin Turnour, Senses of Cinema, Issue No.14, June 2001.
Longer version of the above item.
"Giorgio
Mangiamele - Passionate filmmaker, 13 Aug 1926 - 13 May 2001",
Scott Murray. Reprinting of the above item, in Senses of Cinema,
Issue No.14, June 2001.
Comedy
and Humour, Stereotypes and the Italian Migrant in Mangiamele’s
Ninety Nine Per Cent (PDF
document), Raffaele Lampugnani, Fulgor, Vol.3, Issue 1, December
2006.
©
Graeme Cutts, May 2003
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