Film premier of Fabrizio Federico's movie Pregnant (''the epitome of chaotic film poetry'') will be screening in Portugal on Feb 22nd in the city of Porto which will be presented by the renowned Film Panic Magazine. 'Film Panic Presents' which is a monthly program of underground cinema & experimental contemporary films continues this month and will also feature Avant Kinema's short Orphine
Became a nude life model to fund his film 'Black Biscuit'
Used to run away from home and look for WWII grenades in the local Italian mountains.
During the editing of Pregnant his diet consisted of yogurt mixed with marijuana.
Was nicknamed Bibio by his family.
As a child he was obsessed with ex presidents, ants, volcano's & atomic bombs.
Drove a van into an inflatable movie screen at the Tribeca Film Festival.
To fund his first film he went from door to door asking people to donate £1.
He is the founder of the Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival.
For his film Anarchy In The UK he wanted to hire a Jack The Ripper impersonator to be the onscreen narrator.
Was tasered after a group therapy session for climbing on a roof and not wanting to come down due to a noise complain.
As a child he repeatedly shaved his head because he liked the hair cut of Holocaust prisoners.
Was recruited at a party to appear in a telepathic communication's contest on US cable TV.
Joined a rockabilly band as a guitarist to get into character for the film LOON.
Survived a house fire at the age of five
Was a rapper in a band called NSC (New Suburban Crackers)
Released an album under the name MAO which was recorded at Aleister Crowley's notorious Boleskine House besides Loch Ness, he also took one of the chairs back as a souvenir.
Took part in a Past Regression Therapy interview where he recalled 5 past lives
While in America he seduced married women over the phones at KISS 108 radio station, while at night sidelining as a gigolo in the Roxy nightclub in Boston.
During a surprise visit to the Scientology headquarters in East Grinstead he helped a member escape by swapping clothes with them.
His guitar teacher vanished and was put on a missing persons list but never found.
Collapsed in Spain while filming 'Pregnant' during the desert scenes and was rescued by an old man.
Hanging out in the notorious old pent house Boleskine. The vibes in the place are unreal. I took a chair home, would have been a shame to see it ruined. It's like stepping into a void, especially the back room, black ooze drips from the taps and there's a sulfor scent mixed with weed in the house. Back of the house you can see the mountain scene that was used in the Song Remains the Same.
He's a bit of an enigma, filmmaker Fabrizio Federico (aka Jett Hollywood). Take this year, he's starred in two celebrated international underground films 'The Kingdom Of Shadows' & 'In Search Of The Exile' in which he exhibits his 'primal therapy' acting technique, suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by insomnia during the shoots, followed by back to back projects in state of the nation film 'Anarchy In The UK', made on the road as his Ziggy Stardust alter-ego Jett Hollywood. The film has followed cancellations in certain movie theaters do to disputes over the film's content regarding cinema bodies.
''I just feel things are really building up after 2016, everything's about to explode, and Im not talking about Armageddon.''
His next project 'Loon' has been in pre-production, the movie has been filmed in shady locations through out the macabre country side of the Midlands. Including abandoned karate studios, ghost hunts, and at live vintage rock & roll shows.
''It's been a really confusing year, amusing with lots of happy accidents. I've got a really warped sense of humor about how a film come's together, you cast a spell and you watch it all come true. And the guitar playing has been a blast, just being able to go mad on stage, it's like setting a stick of dynamite alight, the anticipation washes over you before you blast off! Mixing cinema and rock & roll together is a lethal ritual.''
Federico's wigged out sense of style when it come's to cinema is quite scrappy. Storing graveyard soil inside his guitar case, pouring toothpaste on actors faces and his habit of improvising whole movies based on a chosen image puts him in a class of filmmakers (Lars Von Trier, Harmony Korine, Xavier Dolan, Werner Herzog) who see the process of making a film as one of the last true adventures in modern society.
FILM SUBMISSIONS: http://straightjacketguerrillafilmfestival.com/ Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival 2017 is now open for Feature Film submissions and Music Videos. It's FREE to submit till June 3rd. To submit your work for the 2017 Festival's consideration, simply email us a YouTube link to your Feature film (must be over 70min in length) or to your Music Video (must be for a gigging band). Please also include your production info, bio, website and film synopsis to: ants-productions@hotmail.co.uk Submission Deadline is June 3rd, 2017
When
filmmaker Fabrizio Federico takes to his battered camcorder he is
stepping into another world. The British born movie-maker directs with
such exuberance it seems as if he and the camera are bound together by a magic spell. Call it alchemy, the occult, mysticism - Not every filmmaker is prepared to bewitch the spirits into leading you
artistically. Here are some examples of filmmaker's who did: Lucifer Rising (1972) Lilith (1964) Pregnant (2016) Attenberg (2010) Last Chants For a Slow Dance (1977) Gummo (1997) Performance (1970) Rosemary's Baby (1966) The Devils (1971) The Witches (1966) Starry Eyes (2014) The First Power (1990) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Federico
moved to Italy when he was five years old after surviving a house fire,
after which the gifted child soon took to painting and learning guitar
at an early age. By the age of fifteen he had become a teen prodigy at
guitar and art, appearing live at many jazz and classical venues
including the prestigious Boston Hatch Shell in the USA, where he lived for ten years. Here he discovered underground cinema. This talented andcomplex artist with a wicked sense of humour has become a symbol for DIY revolt.Driven and self taught Federico is a visual-maestro with a globe trotting streak, having already filmed in Spain, Cuba, Hungary, France, Poland, Germany, Bermuda and Morocco. All his works are self financed by banks instead of producers or film studios. His raw style includes the complete disposal of scripts, actors or any other cinema norm. His debut film Black Biscuit (2012) became notorious. Confrontations would erupt at the mere mention of the movie between film fans both rigid and spirited, young and old on internet film forums, or vitriolic reviews, even on radio and at public appearances.Especially over the meritsof cult and experimental cinema andits integrity in mainstream cinema's media coverage value, a phenomenon very similar to the French New Wave or Dogme 95 era.
By
the time his next feature Pregnant (2015) was released his reputation
for being a possessed talent created problems and controversy in rigid mainstream film institutions. During Pregnant'spre-production
arson charge surfaced which coincided with his ill health and isolation
around this time. By this time he had created a Ziggy Stardust
alter-ego called Jett Hollywood (a filmmaker from Mars) who was
responsible for the films The Evolution Of The Earth Angel and later Anarchy In The UK. Jett Hollywood committed cinema suicide. In 2016 Federico ran the first Straight-Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival,
which incorporated experimental filmmakers from across the world. His
films have been called psychedelic, nightmarish and angelic, all
executed with a Peter Pan sense of wonder. He has even been called ''the
devils filmmaker''. His PINK8 film manifesto even caused his
films to be banned from universities after it was discovered that film
groups were screening his films on campus including his new film Loon (2017) which is about a folie a deux relationship.
Director of the celebrated and baffling films Black Biscuit (2012) & Pregnant (2016), and now after his turn as the filmmaker from Mars; the bastard offspring of Ziggy Stardust, called Jett Hollywood, today he has created two films that inspire the viewer; first with how a man can find the strength to chase's life's joys by metamorphing into a new idea, even a modern superman, s seen in The Evolution Of The Earth Angel (2015) then Anarchy In The UK (2016) about cinema's wildside in the UK and it's punk DIY rip it up and start again ethos. Federico is regarded as one of the most gifted filmmakers in Europe. An underground hero both flawed and admired, a product of his times and another era. A spaceman.
His film manifesto PINK8 shuns many of the tricks of the filmmaking trade in an effort to recapture the truth, spontaneity and inventiveness of the medium: his passion for imaginative filmmaking was first demonstrated in his debut feature film Black Biscuit. A giving perception A genuine original ahead of his time, a provocative innovator. Critics and the mainstream public haven’t always been so kind; he has been reviled for being shocking, wicked and lurid.
The root of all the films is that his directing incorporates true emotions, making cinema both altered and dangerous while working with non actors. Renowned for his creativity and innovative ideas. Pregnant crystal meth aesthetic was a cocktail of sound and vision about the the 21st century's intense addiction to technology & celebrity. Incorporating his eclectic cinema taste of new and old mixed with his wired, avant garde experimentalism. Fav Movies: Ciao Manhattan The Brown Bunny Attenberg JFK: Zapruder Film Sweet Sweet Backs Bad Ass Song Dusty & Sweets Mcgee The 3 Amigos Shampoo The Great Rock & Roll Swindle
