Carmelo Bene


Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene was an Italian actor, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema.
In 1968, his movie Our Lady of the Turks won the Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival) at the Venice Film Festival.
He died of a heart ailment in 2002.

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

Partial filmography

Oedipus Rex - CreonteNostra Signora dei Turchi - Our Lady of the Turks - The Man / NarratorCatch as Catch Can - PriestCapricci - PoetThe Syndicate: A Death in the Family - Billy DescoDon Giovanni - Don GiovanniNecropolis Tre nel mille Salomè - Erode Antipa / OnorioOne Hamlet Less - Hamlet
  • ''Claro''

Selected bibliography in English

  • Carmelo Bene, I Appeared to the Madonna, tr. with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico.
  • Carmelo Bene, "I am Non-Existent: Therefore I am," tr. by Carole Viers Andronico, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 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 45–49.
  • Carmelo Bene, "Well, yes, Gilles Deleuze!," tr. by Rainer J. Hanshe, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 50–57.
  • Carmelo Bene, Our Lady of the Turks, tr. with a preface by Carole Viers-Andronico.
  • Gilles Deleuze, "One Manifesto Less," tr. by Alan Orenstein. The Deleuze Reader, ed. by Constantin V. Boundas 204–222.
  • Gilles Deleuze, "Cinema, body and brain, thought," in Cinema 2: The Time-Image, tr. by Hugh Tomlinson & Robert Galeta 190–191; 220.
  • Gilles Deleuze, "Manfred: an Extraordinary Renewal," in Two Regimes of Madness, tr. by Ames Hodges & Mike Taormina 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 171–189.
  • Emilio Villa, "Litany for Carmelo Bene," tr. by Dominic Siracusa, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, Vol. VIII, No. 1 58–67.
  • Amos Vogel, "Capricci," in Film as Subversive Art.
  • Amos Vogel, "Our Lady of the Turks," in Film as Subversive Art.
  • Amos Vogel, "Don Giovanni," in Film as Subversive Art.