BIOGRAPHY
ANTONIO STEA
Born in 1991, from an early age he showed interest in theatre and film art by participating in workshops at school. At the age of 16, he wrote and directed his first short film. In 2014, he graduated from the Accademia del Cinema Ragazzi Enziteto (Bari), a course that allowed him to learn and perfect techniques related to the different fields of cinematography. During this period, he covers several roles on various sets, specialising in filming and video editing. Matured by these experiences, he began to make a series of film products, including short films, documentaries and video clips. He dedicated himself to the study of animation techniques, stop-motion and puppet animation. He wins the "Best Short Film" award with the animated short "Liminal" at The Next generation short film festival 2018, the first prize with the video clip "Grim July" at Cineconcerto 2019, the Best Music Video award at the "Roma Short Film Festival 2021", the " LONG STORY SHORTS International Film Festival" and the " Paris Art Film Festival 2021", a special mention in the Best Experimental category at the Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2020 and Best Animated Music Video at the "Festival Internacional de Cine Austral." for Nope Face, wins best music video award at Bracciano film exhibition with "Unit 02"
He also won Best Short Film and Audience Award at the Cortocircuiti 2021 festival with "IO".Currently working on several stop-motion works and music videos
FILMOGRAPHY
Disorders
March 2021
Following childhood disordes and consequent psychic problems, the protagonist will find himself facing the inevitable
Stranger
September 2019
«Stranger» is the tale of a man who is foreing to himself, to the reality and to his counterpart.
He needs to look at mirror with an outer gaze to declare himself and to find his home: If the human limits his spirit in the individualism, he won’t find a gateway.
It remains only the sound of a bigger machine which immobilizes the human life in puppet walls.
Liminal
October 2018
Environmental disasters, wars, selfishness and indifference. Where will reality be pushed up to? We can't know it surely for now. However, some machines are already here to project us into devasted worlds, letting us virtually take part into their events. But... what would it happen if we got stuck into an endless loop?
Gregor
October 2017
Gregor's work makes him a gray man without a happy future. But one day..
Loyd
September 2015
Loyd works in a slaughterhouse.His task is to kill the cattle that go to slaughter.
His work will keep him in front of a stark choice
Io
September 2020
The gaze belongs to the individual: always looking at the outside from the inside. Inside and out are the same image at a mirror. Here the space is not a space.
Uomo - A football story
May 2019
In a remote pitch of Southern Italy, Football is more than just a game. Real Sannicandro, the local team, has reached the first category, an historical goal for this little Apulian town. Between the passes and runs of a winter training surfaces the tale of one of the supporters’ favorite player, Lamin Sanyang, a young player from Gambia who became part of the team thanks to the collaboration with the SPRAR Center of Sannicandro di Bari.
Into the light
October 2018
Grey people seek light
Vito - The World of Saint Nicholas
December 2015
The work is meant to represent a different point of view, that of a child, the atmosphere during the feast of St. Nicholas in Bari (Italy) linked to religious worship and the popular folklore.
Poppò
Agosto 2012
Sannicandro 1956
MUSIC VIDEO
Wind day - Checco Curci
June 2022
Animal and human silhouettes wander in the twilight in undefined spaces.
They seem to move in a dream before being hurled into the nightmare of the real.
The blurs produce tension and feed the imagination.
The only clear and recognisable presences reveal the sense of that wandering.
But the awakening is bittersweet, and the destination still far away
Unit: 02 - Violent Scenes
January 2022
The protagonist of Antonio Stea’s new short film for the italian quiet-psych band Violent Scenes recognizes himself in Nature, filmed with an endoscopic camera, and welcomes it into his body, turning purple. Purple is the color of Sahasrara, “the crown chakra”, through which the individual, perceiving the Unity of the Whole, can access the next level.
I still got time - Loperfido
March 2021
People extracted from their everyday lives and transported into a physical but at the same time emotional void.
A sort of limbo where inside the characters wander endlessly, detaching themselves from time and space.
Nope Face - Violent Scenes
December 2019
The unworkable gateway and the utopian disclosure of the Greek physis is described by loneliness of "Lavorare stanca" written by Cesare Pavese and by Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical squares. Nope Face is a screen’s character, it's the mask of a tree in an ordinary wood.
Grim July - Violent Scenes
December 2018
Grim July is a mood. There are men who live to love, men looking for love. There are men who work just enough. Solitude is pleasant if shared with the love of your life: a man, a woman, a dog, a child, a people. You, sweetheart.
Fight - Tears of Sirens
November 2017
Live set
Oh là là! - Lazzaretto
April 2022
Oh là là! is a video clip shot with the pixilation technique, whereby the movement of the musicians is cadenced as if it were an archetypal march of spectres, under a blood moon.
The idea is that of "a party band in a dark forest"
Geremia 1111 - Lazzaretto
April 2021
Mysterious and ethereal atmospheres transport you into a flow of dreamlike religious rituals full of memories
Don't take me home- Ivan Piepoli
October 2020
The story is about a man who tries to inhabit his home, but his relationship with it becomes increasingly claustrophobic
Bored - Comfy Pigs
November 2019
The boring life of a lonely man
Violent Scenes - Live at Teatro Rossini
April 2018
Live concert at Gioia del Colle
Over Way - Kinky Atoms
September 2013
Look at the city, the claustrophobic forest of roofs and floors to cover the horizon, the metropolitan forest of arcades and courtyards, but it is also
a search for a reversal of perspective, a free glimpse of the sky in which to hover: "you can find a way to fly? "
Paris Film Art Festival
2021
THE NEXT GENERATION FILM FESTIVAL
2018
BEST SHORT FILM
BEST SHORT FILM
LIMINAL
LIMINAL
CINECONCERTO
2019
FIRST PLACE
GRIM JULY
LONG STORY SHORTS
International Film Festival 2020
LONG STORY SHORTS
International Film Festival 2020
FICA
Festival Internacional de Cne Austral
Roma Short Film Festival 2021
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
NOPE FACE