How are you?
About two months ago, I received a
request from “2021 Unified Filmmakers Festival (UFM 2021)” the film festival which
is scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, for entry and produced a short
video for the festival.
The topic of the film festival is COVID19, which is currently a fearful disease worldwide, and I produced a video relating COVID19 and tuberculosis, which caused Modigliani's death.
Tuberculosis, which had been tormenting Modigliani for his life, was a horrible disease that was highly contagious and incurable at that time, and people avoided the infected, but they were generous toward alcoholics and drug users.
Modigliani, who was very
self-respecting, took an overdose of alcohol and drugs to conceal the fact that
he was a tuberculosis patient, eventually deteriorated the disease, resulting
in tragic death.
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| Amedeo Modigliani |
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| Jeanne Hébuterne |
I linked COVID19 and tuberculosis
because I think they are in similar situations although the times are different.
Although it was not selected for
the online screening, I would like to have that meaning in the memorial of
Modigliani once again and that it was my first work for the film festival.
This video is based on the contents
of my Modigliani novel, "Dedo, Modi, Modigliani," which was an entry
in the Amazon Book Contest.
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| Self-Portrait, Amedeo Modigliani (1919) |
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| Self-portrait, Jeanne Hébuterne (1916) |
Also what is meaningful in the
production of this video is that I used the soundtrack of 2004 film “Modigliani”
as background music by personal permission from Guy Farley, the music composer
of the film, which was directed by Mick Davis and starred by Andy García as
Amedeo Modigliani and Elsa Zylberstein as Jeanne Hébuterne.
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| Modigliani (2004) |
However, the video uploaded to
social media is a version of the background music removed from the original
video submitted to the film festival.
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| Grave of Modigliani and Hébuterne, Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Thank you
Dedo, Modi, Modigliani (Amazon)
Thank you.
