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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1923-10-26
- event Death Date 2006-03-04
- school Known for: Sound
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- info Birth Place Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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The Sucker
1965-03-24
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The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
1969-01-01
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The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
1969-01-01
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Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
1983-09-30
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The Madwoman of Toujane
1974-05-15
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Up to His Ears
1965-12-04
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Bird of Paradise
1962-10-24
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Mr. Freedom
1969-01-08
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Rosa Negra
1993-06-25
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To Be Twenty in the Aures
1972-05-12
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Le voyage d'Amélie
1974-12-18
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The Unvanquished
1964-09-25
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Gloria Mundi
1976-04-07
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Band of Outsiders
1964-08-05
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Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre
1986-04-24
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We Shall Have the Whole of Death to Sleep
1977-01-02
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Pierrot le Fou
1965-11-05
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Hu-Man
1975-10-01
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The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
1966-09-05
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One Night... a Train
1968-09-06
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Utopia
1979-02-28
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The House of the Bories
1970-08-28
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Simone Barbès or Virtue
1980-02-27
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Guerre du peuple en Angola
1975-11-02
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
1971-03-01
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Zig Zig
1975-01-01
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966-12-08
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Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963-10-01
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The Married Woman
1964-12-04
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The Killing Game
1967-04-29
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Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
1966-05-04
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The People and Their Guns
1970-01-02
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968-04-24
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Notre mariage
1985-04-01
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Les jonquilles
1972-01-01
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Les jonquilles
1972-01-01
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Je suis Pierre Rivière
1976-04-07
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Instinct de femme
1981-11-07
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Rosa la Rose, Public Girl
1986-03-02
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The Ambassadors
1975-01-02
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Guys in the Cafe
1989-04-29
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Bay of Angels
1963-03-01
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Daguerréotypes
1975-07-14
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Far from Vietnam
1967-10-18
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Met Dieric Bouts
1975-08-15
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Oxalá
1981-05-08
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The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985-10-02
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Le temps d'Emma
1964-01-01
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Life Lesson
1995-04-11
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The Inner Scar
1972-02-02
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Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution)
1970-05-01
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India Song
1975-06-04
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Ana
1982-09-15
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Sweet Movie
1974-06-12
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Les Ajoncs
1970-02-04
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Djerrahi: une cérémonie soufie
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Last Exit Before Roissy
1977-08-10
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The Lovely Month of May
1963-05-01
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
1967-03-17
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La Charnière
1968-06-06
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Three
1969-12-23
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I Love You, I Don't
1976-03-10
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Sans Soleil
1983-01-01
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The Judge
1984-04-11
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La Jetée
1962-02-16
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La Jetée
1962-02-16
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Fragile as the World
2001-07-20
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A Question of Rape
1967-12-05
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The Vertical Smile
1973-03-19
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Carnaval de Guinée Bissao
1982-01-01
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La Fin des Pyrénées
1970-03-20
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Earthen Man
1989-01-01
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Silent as a Fish
1987-01-01
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The War Is Over
1966-05-11
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Salut la puce
1983-01-12
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West Indies
1979-01-02
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The Theatre of the Matters
1977-12-07
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Tout Va Bien
1972-04-28
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966-10-21
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Le rouge de Chine
1978-08-29
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Repórter X
1987-05-22
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Rocky Road to Dublin
1968-09-30
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Un soupçon d'amour
2020-09-09
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Delusions of Grandeur
1971-12-08
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Happiness
1965-02-10
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Magritte or the Object Lesson
1960-01-01
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C'est la vie !
1981-01-28
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La Machine
1977-09-17
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Method 1
1963-06-04
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Matar Saudades
1988-01-01
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Matar Saudades
1988-01-01
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Joy House
1964-06-12
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The Moving-Picture Man
1977-11-11