original title:
Angelo Froglia. L'inganno dell'arte
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country:
Italy
year:
2017
film run:
65'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (23/10/2017)
A posthumous portrait that includes life and works, equally audacious, of a controversial and marginalized artist, who had
a life so intense and deflagrating as short and painful. Reminded by the most like a docker with the hobby of painting, an
amateur, a junky, a degenerate, Angelo Froglia spends an unscrupulous, cursed existence, always behind the scenes,
among art workshops, political struggles, maximum-security prisons, drugs and great loves: a vortex of destruction involving
anyone approaching him. He died HIV-positive in January 1997, leaving a great, not only pictorial, production. An
unknown story, told by the voices of the few who were close to him. A story rebuilt through his writings, his paintings and
his original footages, in addition to the press and video archives of that time, trying to do justice to this profound, complex
and still controversial figure.
A violent, provocative, intransigent scream of freedom hurled from an Italian forsaken area and addressed to the whole
world.