Antoine Bonfanti
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- October 26, 1923
- Died
- March 4, 2006 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Ajaccio, Corsica, France
Biography
Antoine Bonfanti (23 October 1923 - 4 March 2006) was a French sound engineer and a professor at cinema schools and institutes in France and other countries. He taught regularly at INSAS in Brussels and EICTV in Cuba, and occasionally at Fémis and ENSLL. He was born 26 October 1923 in Ajaccio, Corsica, and died 4 March 2006 in Montpellier, France. He began learning his profession as a trainee boom-operator on the film La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau. He is considered as being one of the pioneers of direct-sound in film-making on location: “the school of direct-sound is French - said the sound-engineer Jean-Pierre Ruh- it began with Antoine Bonfanti”. He is characterised by his collaborations with directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, André Delvaux, Amos Gitaï, Jean Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Chris Marker, Gérard Oury, Alain Resnais, René Vautier, and Paul Vecchiali. His primary occupation is the authenticity of sound: above all he likes building the whole universe of sound of one film, through every stage from filming to sound-mixing (that means the live-sounds, the ambiances in location and after the sound-effects, the dubbing and the mixing in auditorium). In this pattern, he had 120 films of which 80 feature films. Otherwise, his filmography includes about 420 titles of long and short Films of fiction or documentary; and within this number, some can be still missing because - as involved in cinema as in politics - Antoine did lots of "for free" that, may be, haven't been listed. Member of the Résistance and, after, volunteer soldier in the war-years 1943-1945; militant, communist by spirit, vigilante, he is part of SLON collective - which later becomes ISKRA - and of the Medvedkine-groups. He shared his sound-artist's talent and he has trained several generations of sound-engineers in many countries (Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Morocco, Mozambique, Peru, Portugal, Tunisia, Venezuela), where to make of the cinema is a matter of fight. The film "Antoine Bonfanti - Traces sonores d’une écoute engagée" by Suzanne Durand, reconstitutes a professional path of more than 50 years which demonstrate a commitment going far-beyond the simple trade and his collaboration with a lot of film-makers; it is also an original approach of the sound's practical. He recounts it himself also, interviewed by Noël Simsolo in a transmission on France-Culture, called "Mémoire du siècle, Antoine Bonfanti" on 20 August 1997, and broadcast during "Les Nuits de France-Culture" at midnight of 25 January 2016. Antoine, nicknamed "Nono" by his Corsican family, "Toni" by his war comrades, "Bonbon" within the world of cinema, was born in Ajaccio in 1923. The family leaves again for Africa in 1926, having already spent some years in Conakry in "République de Guinée", (formerly "Guinée française"). His father is "receveur principal des postes" in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina-Faso (formerly "Haute-Volta"). Antoine spends some of his youth there but, when his eldest brother must go to high-school, the family returns to Corsica, before his father be appointed "percepteur" (tax-collector) at Saint-Rambert d’Alban, and after at Touquet-Paris-Plage. ... Source: Article "Antoine Bonfanti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
Un soupçon d'amour
Movie · Sound
Fragile as the World
Movie · Sound Designer
Life Lesson
Movie · Sound Mixer
Rosa Negra
Movie · Sound Editor
Guys in the Cafe
Movie · Sound
Earthen Man
Movie · Sound Mixer
Killing the Saudades
Movie · Sound, Sound Mixer
Silent as a Fish
Movie · Sound Mixer
Repórter X
Movie · Sound Mixer
Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre
Movie · Sound mixer
Rosa la rose, fille publique
Movie · Sound Mixer
Notre mariage
Movie · Sound Mixer
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Movie · Sound Designer
The Judge
Movie · Foley Recordist
Sans Soleil
Movie · Sound Mixer
Salut la puce
Movie · Sound Mixer
Ana
Movie · Sound Mixer
Carnaval de Guinée Bissao
Movie · Sound
Le rose et le blanc
Movie · Sound Mixer
Oxalá
Movie · Sound Mixer
C'est la vie !
Movie · Sound
Simone Barbès or Virtue
Movie · Sound Re-Recording Mixer
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
Movie · Sound Mixer
Utopia
Movie · Sound
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
Movie · Sound
Djerrahi: une cérémonie soufie
Movie · Sound
Le rouge de Chine
Movie · Sound
Daguerréotypes
Movie · Sound
Exit 7
Movie · Sound
We shall have the whole of death to sleep
Movie · Sound Mixer
Last Exit Before Roissy
Movie · Sound Director
The Theatre of the Matters
Movie · Sound
La Machine
Movie · Sound
The Moving-Picture Man
Movie · Sound
Aide-mémoire... pour une autre histoire
Movie · Sound
Gloria Mundi
Movie · Sound Editor
Je suis Pierre Rivière
Movie · Sound Engineer
I Love You, I Don't
Movie · Sound
Hu-Man
Movie · Sound Mixer
Zig Zig
Movie · Sound
The Ambassadors
Movie · Sound
Met Dieric Bouts
Movie · Other
India Song
Movie · Sound Mixer
Raging Fists
Movie · Sound
The Madwoman of Toujane
Movie · Sound
Le voyage d'Amélie
Movie · Sound
Sweet Movie
Movie · Sound Mixer
The Vertical Smile
Movie · Sound
Day for Night
Movie · Sound Mixer
SOUVENIR DE GRASSE, Un certain 12 Juin 1973
Movie · Sound
Belle
Movie · Sound
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Movie · Sound
Les jonquilles
Movie · Sound
The Inner Scar
Movie · Sound
Tout Va Bien
Movie · Sound
Last Tango in Paris
Movie · Sound Engineer
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Movie · Sound Mixer
Delusions of Grandeur
Movie · Sound
Struggle in Italy
Movie · Sound
Vladimir and Rosa
Movie · Sound
The House of the Bories
Movie · Sound Mixer
The People and Their Guns
Movie · Sound
Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution)
Movie · Sound Mixer
Les Ajoncs
Movie · Sound
La Fin des Pyrénées
Movie · Music
Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
Movie · Sound
The Pan-African Festival in Algiers
Movie · Sound
Mr. Freedom
Movie · Sound
Three
Movie · Sound
One Night... a Train
Movie · Sound
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Movie · Sound
Rocky Road to Dublin
Movie · Sound Engineer
Be Seeing You
Movie · Sound
The Killing Game
Movie · Sound
Far from Vietnam
Movie · Sound
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Movie · Sound
A Question of Rape
Movie · Sound Mixer
Law of Survival
Movie · Sound
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Movie · Sound
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Movie · Sound
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Movie · Sound Mixer
The War Is Over
Movie · Sound
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Movie · Sound Recordist
If I Had Four Dromedaries
Movie · Sound
Naked Hearts
Movie · Sound
The Sucker
Movie · Sound Engineer
Up to His Ears
Movie · Sound Engineer
Pierrot le Fou
Movie · Sound
Happiness
Movie · Sound Assistant
The Unvanquished
Movie · Sound
Band of Outsiders
Movie · Sound
The Married Woman
Movie · Sound
Le temps d'Emma
Movie · Sound
Joy House
Movie · Sound Designer
Muriel, or the Time of Return
Movie · Sound
Bay of Angels
Movie · Sound
The Lovely Month of May
Movie · Sound
Method 1
Movie · Sound Engineer
Bird of Paradise
Movie · Sound Recordist
Magritte or the Object Lesson
Movie · Sound Engineer