Tinto Brass
Giovanni Brass (born 26 March 1933), better known as Tinto Brass, is an Italian filmmaker His
nickname Tintoretto (later shortened to Tinto) was given by his
grandfather Italico Brass, a renowned Gorizian painter of Austrian
(German) descent.
Brutal,
erotic and impressionistic, Tinto Brass is an Italian filmmaker whose
creativity and controversy have brought him to the forefront of the
filmmaking industry. No Tinto Brass video would be complete without
mentioning Caligula or Salon Kitty, only two of his infamous epic
erotic ventures, but they are only the tip of the proverbial
iceberg. Despite his age,
Tinto Brass clips show no sign of his slowing down any time soon. His
initial projects were repulsive to many with his scenes of animal
cruelty, but his art appears to strike a chord with many, as is
indicated by the popularity of Tinto Brass clips and videos on the
Internet.
Many of his films include directorial themes, such as the mirrors accented throughout Salon Kitty.Brass'
films follow an impressionistic style – they tend not to show immense
landscapes,but bits and pieces of the scenery and peripheral characters
and objects through pans and zooms, thus imitating how the viewer might
see the events if they were actually present. This
also gives the films an extraordinarily rapid pace. He often uses a
television-like multicam method of shooting, with at least three
cameras running at once, each focusing on something else.Sometimes
he even goes as far as to begin a scene with a mirror shot, then pan
over to the action being reflected, giving a disorienting feeling. His
erotic films – especially The Key, Miranda and All Ladies Do It – often
accentuate women's buttocks and hairy armpits, almost to the point of
fetishizing those particular physical features.
Brass' films in the 1980s and early 1990s had main been adaptations of famous erotic literary works, namely The Key (La chiave),The
Mistress of the Inn (Miranda), the novel Le lettere da Capri by Mario
Soldati (Capriccio), Fanny Hill (Paprika), and the novel L'uomo che
guarda by Alberto Moravia (The Voyeur), while 2002 film Senso '45 is an
adaptation of Senso, previously filmed by Luchino Visconti.
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