Animated Psycho-Erotic Dramas.Using had-painted paper puppets and background sets, these four films explore in graphic detail a personal vision of God, Satan, Man and Woman.
WHERE IS IT ALL GOING?
WHERE DID IT ALL COME
FROM?
7 minutes, color animation,
silent, 1970
Jury award, 1st San Francisco
Erotic Film Festival, 1970.
Distributed by Canyon Cinema,
San Francisco.
THE
SECRETE OF LIFE
15 minutes, color animation,
sound, 1971
Award: Yale Film Festival,
1972
Distributed by Canyon Cinema,
San Francisco.
FILET OF SOUL
16 minutes, color animation,
sound, 1972
Award: Bijou Film Festival,
Chaicago, 1974
Distributed by Canyon Cinema,
San Francisco.
SHAMELESS
14 minutes, color animation,
sound, 1974
Film Study Collection, Museum
of Modern Art, NYC
Distributed by Canyon Cinema,
San Francisco.
Other Films
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
3 minutes, B&W, sound,
1970
Visual tension filmed in
the wild.
Out of distribution.
CONFESSION
3 minutes, B&W, sound,
1970
Documentary style examination
of murder fantasy.
Out of distribution.
MR. SANDMAN
2 minutes, B&W, sound,
1973
Animated drawing on desert
landscape.
Lake Pyramid, Nevada.
Out of distribution.
EXERCISE
14 minutes, B&W, silent,
1975
Rephotography animation
and surface alteration of found and original 16mm film that seeks to visually
define “redundancy of spirit”.
Out of distribution.
SWEET AND SOUR
12 minutes, color rephotography
animation, silent, 1976
Award: Ann Arbor Film Festival,
1977
Distributed by Canyon Cinema,
San Francisco.
“The ‘sour’ part--police footage documenting the corpse of an accident victim--is made ironically palatable by the addition of masks that block out the most gruesome part of the frame, while pieces of ‘sweet’ bits of old home movies are enriched by handcoloring and looping. These two contrasting flavors alternate with each other towards an ambiguous and elusive effect; the amusing material grows funnier, the gruesome scenes more meditative.”
| Ron Epple, Filmmakers’ Newsletter, 1977 |
BOOK OF DEAD
15 minutes, color rephotography
animation, silent, 1978
Award: Ann Arbor Film Festival,
1979
Distributed by Canyon Cinema,
San Francisco.
“Faccinto’s films emanate auras like Kirlian photography. By ruthlessly probing his own fantasies and obsessions, the filmmaker reflects some of the outrage and horror of the world we live in.”
| Linda Gross,
Los Angeles Times, Movie Review, Sept. 30, 1978 |
"Rita" from Filet of Soul
.
"Video Vic" from Shameless
Confession
Mr. Sandman
Sweet and Sour
Book of Dead