Antoine Bonfanti
26 ottobre 1923 — 4 marzo 2006 (82 anni)
Antoine Bonfanti (23 October 1923 - 4 March 2006) was a French sound engineer and a professor at cinema schools and institutes in France and other countries. He taught regularly at INSAS in Brussels and EICTV in Cuba, and occasionally at Fémis and ENSLL.
He was born 26 October 1923 in Ajaccio, Corsica, and died 4 March 2006 in Montpellier, France.
He began learning his profession as a trainee boom-operator on the film La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau. He is considered as being one of the pioneers of direct-sound in film-making on location: “the school of direct-sound is French - said the sound-engineer Jean-Pierre Ruh- it began with Antoine Bonfanti”.
He is characterised by his collaborations with directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, André Delvaux, Amos Gitaï, Jean Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Chris Marker, Gérard Oury, Alain Resnais, René Vautier, and Paul Vecchiali.
His primary occupation is the authenticity of sound: above all he likes building the whole universe of sound of one film, through every stage from filming to sound-mixing (that means the live-sounds, the ambiances in location and after the sound-effects, the dubbing and the mixing in auditorium). In this pattern, he had 120 films of which 80 feature films. Otherwise, his filmography includes about 420 titles of long and short Films of fiction or documentary; and within this number, some can be still missing because - as involved in cinema as in politics - Antoine did lots of "for free" that, may be, haven't been listed.
Member of the Résistance and, after, volunteer soldier in the war-years 1943-1945; militant, communist by spirit, vigilante, he is part of SLON collective - which later becomes ISKRA - and of the Medvedkine-groups.
He shared his sound-artist's talent and he has trained several generations of sound-engineers in many countries (Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Morocco, Mozambique, Peru, Portugal, Tunisia, Venezuela), where to make of the cinema is a matter of fight.
The film "Antoine Bonfanti - Traces sonores d’une écoute engagée" by Suzanne Durand, reconstitutes a professional path of more than 50 years which demonstrate a commitment going far-beyond the simple trade and his collaboration with a lot of film-makers; it is also an original approach of the sound's practical.
He recounts it himself also, interviewed by Noël Simsolo in a transmission on France-Culture, called "Mémoire du siècle, Antoine Bonfanti" on 20 August 1997, and broadcast during "Les Nuits de France-Culture" at midnight of 25 January 2016.
Antoine, nicknamed "Nono" by his Corsican family, "Toni" by his war comrades, "Bonbon" within the world of cinema, was born in Ajaccio in 1923. The family leaves again for Africa in 1926, having already spent some years in Conakry in "République de Guinée", (formerly "Guinée française"). His father is "receveur principal des postes" in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina-Faso (formerly "Haute-Volta"). Antoine spends some of his youth there but, when his eldest brother must go to high-school, the family returns to Corsica, before his father be appointed "percepteur" (tax-collector) at Saint-Rambert d’Alban, and after at Touquet-Paris-Plage. ...
Source: Article "Antoine Bonfanti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
He was born 26 October 1923 in Ajaccio, Corsica, and died 4 March 2006 in Montpellier, France.
He began learning his profession as a trainee boom-operator on the film La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau. He is considered as being one of the pioneers of direct-sound in film-making on location: “the school of direct-sound is French - said the sound-engineer Jean-Pierre Ruh- it began with Antoine Bonfanti”.
He is characterised by his collaborations with directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, André Delvaux, Amos Gitaï, Jean Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Chris Marker, Gérard Oury, Alain Resnais, René Vautier, and Paul Vecchiali.
His primary occupation is the authenticity of sound: above all he likes building the whole universe of sound of one film, through every stage from filming to sound-mixing (that means the live-sounds, the ambiances in location and after the sound-effects, the dubbing and the mixing in auditorium). In this pattern, he had 120 films of which 80 feature films. Otherwise, his filmography includes about 420 titles of long and short Films of fiction or documentary; and within this number, some can be still missing because - as involved in cinema as in politics - Antoine did lots of "for free" that, may be, haven't been listed.
Member of the Résistance and, after, volunteer soldier in the war-years 1943-1945; militant, communist by spirit, vigilante, he is part of SLON collective - which later becomes ISKRA - and of the Medvedkine-groups.
He shared his sound-artist's talent and he has trained several generations of sound-engineers in many countries (Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Morocco, Mozambique, Peru, Portugal, Tunisia, Venezuela), where to make of the cinema is a matter of fight.
The film "Antoine Bonfanti - Traces sonores d’une écoute engagée" by Suzanne Durand, reconstitutes a professional path of more than 50 years which demonstrate a commitment going far-beyond the simple trade and his collaboration with a lot of film-makers; it is also an original approach of the sound's practical.
He recounts it himself also, interviewed by Noël Simsolo in a transmission on France-Culture, called "Mémoire du siècle, Antoine Bonfanti" on 20 August 1997, and broadcast during "Les Nuits de France-Culture" at midnight of 25 January 2016.
Antoine, nicknamed "Nono" by his Corsican family, "Toni" by his war comrades, "Bonbon" within the world of cinema, was born in Ajaccio in 1923. The family leaves again for Africa in 1926, having already spent some years in Conakry in "République de Guinée", (formerly "Guinée française"). His father is "receveur principal des postes" in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina-Faso (formerly "Haute-Volta"). Antoine spends some of his youth there but, when his eldest brother must go to high-school, the family returns to Corsica, before his father be appointed "percepteur" (tax-collector) at Saint-Rambert d’Alban, and after at Touquet-Paris-Plage. ...
Source: Article "Antoine Bonfanti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmografia
| 1970 | The People and Their Guns · as Self |
| 2020 | Un soupçon d'amour · as Sound |
| 2001 | Fragile as the World · as Sound Designer |
| 1988 | Guys in the Cafe · as Sound |
| 1988 | Matar Saudades · as Sound |
| 1986 | Rosa la rose: fille publique · as Sound Mixer |
| 1985 | The Insomniac on the Bridge · as Sound Designer |
| 1984 | The Judge · as Foley Recordist |
| 1983 | Sans Soleil · as Sound Mixer |
| 1983 | Salut la puce · as Sound Mixer |
| 1982 | Ana · as Sound Mixer |
| 1982 | Le rose et le blanc · as Sound Mixer |
| 1980 | That's Life · as Sound |
| 1980 | Simone Barbes or Virtue · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 1979 | West Indies · as Sound |
| 1979 | Le rouge de Chine · as Sound |
| 1977 | Le théâtre des matières · as Sound |
| 1977 | The Moving Picture Man · as Sound |
| 1977 | La machine · as Sound |
| 1976 | The Ambassadors · as Sound |
| 1976 | I Am Pierre Riviere · as Sound Engineer |
| 1976 | In Hell · as Sound Editor |
| 1976 | Je t'aime moi non plus · as Sound |
| 1975 | Hu-Man · as Sound Mixer |
| 1975 | Daguerreotypes · as Sound |
| 1975 | India Song · as Sound Mixer |
| 1975 | Raging Fists · as Sound |
| 1975 | Zig-Zag · as Sound |
| 1974 | Sweet Movie · as Sound Mixer |
| 1973 | The Vertical Smile · as Sound |
| 1973 | Day for Night · as Sound Mixer |
| 1972 | Last Tango in Paris · as Sound Engineer |
| 1972 | To Be Twenty in the Aures · as Sound |
| 1972 | All's Well · as Sound |
| 1972 | The Inner Scar · as Sound |
| 1971 | Delusions of Grandeur · as Sound |
| 1971 | Lotte in Italia · as Sound |
| 1971 | Vladimir and Rosa · as Sound |
| 1970 | The House of the Bories · as Sound Mixer |
| 1970 | The People and Their Guns · as Sound |
| 1969 | Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad · as Sound Mixer |
| 1969 | Three · as Sound |
| 1969 | Festival panafricain d'Alger · as Assistant Director |
| 1969 | Festival panafricain d'Alger · as Sound |
| 1968 | Mr. Freedom · as Sound |
| 1968 | One Night... a Train · as Sound |
| 1968 | Rocky Road to Dublin · as Sound Engineer |
| 1968 | I Love You, I Love You · as Sound |
| 1968 | Be Seeing You · as Sound |
| 1968 | Be Seeing You · as Production Assistant |
| 1967 | Le viol · as Sound Mixer |
| 1967 | Far from Vietnam · as Sound |
| 1967 | The Killing Game · as Sound |
| 1967 | Law of Survival · as Sound |
| 1967 | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her · as Sound |
| 1966 | Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! · as Sound |
| 1966 | Naked Hearts · as Sound |
| 1966 | Si j'avais quatre dromadaires · as Sound |
| 1966 | Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? · as Sound Recordist |
| 1966 | The War Is Over · as Sound |
| 1966 | Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes · as Sound Mixer |
| 1965 | The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short · as Sound |
| 1965 | Up to His Ears · as Sound Engineer |
| 1965 | Pierrot le Fou · as Sound |
| 1965 | The Sucker · as Sound Engineer |
| 1965 | Happiness · as Sound Assistant |
| 1964 | A Married Woman · as Sound |
| 1964 | Have I the Right to Kill? · as Sound |
| 1964 | Band of Outsiders · as Sound |
| 1964 | Joy House · as Sound Designer |
| 1963 | Muriel · as Sound |
| 1963 | Le joli mai · as Sound |
| 1963 | Bay of Angels · as Sound |
| 1962 | L'oiseau de paradis · as Sound Recordist |