For the past decade or so I have been working in multiple areas of the television and film industry, both in Italy and the UK. As anyone in this business knows, the most important thing is to adapt and retain the willingness to recycle oneself. I have been a 1st and 2nd AD, production assistant, supervisor and fixer and also a camera operator. For ...
Read MoreFor the past decade or so I have been working in multiple areas of the television and film industry, both in Italy and the UK. As anyone in this business knows, the most important thing is to adapt and retain the willingness to recycle oneself. I have been a 1st and 2nd AD, production assistant, supervisor and fixer and also a camera operator. For the past five years, while continuing to work in such roles for cinema and television, I have mainly been occupied as a producer/director for numerous international home-video labels (British, American and German for the most part). As of now I'm responsible for more than 150 featurettes and three feature length documentaries and for each one of these works I have been responsible for every aspect.In all this, I have always found time to work as an essayist and columnist for a number of monthly publications and webzines. This activity, since 2018, has culminated in a number of books. The first I curated in its entirety is DARKENING THE ITALIAN SCREEN, published by the American McFarland Press. The book concentrates on the birth and rise of Italian genre and exploitation cinema.
Extract from the Dread Central review:"Anyone who has an interest in Italian cult cinema needs to purchase a copy of the new book Darkening the Italian Screen by Eugenio Ercolani, as it offers a comprehensive analysis of how horror and related genre films evolved throughout the country.
Throughout the massive 334 page tome, Ercolani describes in detail the full history of Italian genre films, including horror, westerns, police thrillers, and more. He starts off with the routes of Italian cult cinema, detailing how the country’s film industry started to rebuild itself after the end of World War Two. The book is packed with interviews and in-detail essays".
BOOK TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBkX84-e4WEMy next book will be concentrating on William Friedkin's seminal cult Cruising and the phenomenon it generated, and is scheduled to be released in October 2020, published by Liverpool University Press.At the moment I am looking for a job for which I can unite all these areas I have had the possibility to move within.
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