Filmography — scores by Umberto Sorbo

Cercando Bernadette

2024 Director: Bruno di Marcello

Biblical scholar Alberto Maggi dismantles the clichés built around Bernadette Soubirous, followed by a score that travels with him all the way to Lourdes.

Concert

Towards A Shining Light

2023

Fifty composers from twenty-five countries, each writing a one-minute self-portrait for clarinet, viola and piano trio. Mine is called “Tarantella Storta”.

Documentary

Un eretico in corsia

2020 Director: Bruno di Marcello

Three months in intensive care and a diary that became a bestseller: the portrait of Alberto Maggi, a biblical scholar long branded a heretic.

Documentary

Tornare a casa

2023 Director: Bruno di Marcello

Two years of searching to bring home the remains of a soldier lost in the Greek Campaign, from a hillside in Albania.

Feature film

La casa degli assassini

2019 Director: Bruno di Marcello

A thriller set in an isolated country house, where noises and voices bring back the murders committed there during the Second World War.

Cover of the album Transformacije by Camerata Vocale Split

Concert

Transformations

2022

Croatian traditional songs handed to composers around the world to be “transformed” with electronic means. Mine is “Izvor Voda”.

Image from Carlo Arace's photographic project

Installation

#quantaluce

2014

Naples in black and white, between blown highlights and closed shadows: Carlo Arace's photographs, Maurizio de Giovanni's short writings and my music, at PAN.

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