Written and directed by Giorgio Ferrero
Cinematograpy and co-direction Federico Biasin
Music and sound Giorgio Ferrero, Rodolfo Mongitore (Minus&Plus)
Cameras and editing Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin, Enrico Aleotti, Filippo Vallegra
Best italian movie (74th Venice Film Festival)
Next:Wave Award (CPH:DOX)
Produced by VENICE BIENNALE and MYBOSSWAS
A film directed by Giacomo Durzi
Drawings: Mara Cerri, Marta Guidi
Soundtrack available on Spotify, iTunes, digital stores.
Short film score and co-direction.
Movie end titles original music.
Short film score and co-direction.
Booktrailer and book tour original music.
Special guest: Isabella Ragonese.
Film score artistic production and mix.
Book tour original music.
Special guest: Alba Rohrwacher
Film score.
Film score, sound design and mix.
Film score
Original music
Palazzo Madama, Torino.
Quadraphonic music installation.
The cyclical nature of the composition is a reference to the motors, repetitions and circular mechanisms, while the material that formed the basis for Leonardo’s inventions can
be heard in the muffled sounds of the wood instruments.
180° Dome installation for Giarard Perregaux
Swiss Haute Horlogerie since 1791
premiered at the SIHH of Geneve.
Palazzo Madama, Turin
Eventò Biennal, Bordeaux
A project by Marzia Migliora.
Interactive directional music and voices installation by Minus.
Four months of work to create 25 internal sounds in a high-performance car interior.
MAXXI, Rome
A project by Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
5.1 Exhibition Sound by Minus
Menzione speciale, Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2010, MAXXI, Roma.
Museo del 900, Milan
Twenty-two paintings by some of the greatest artists of the XX century are interlaced through a journey of words and sounds, designed by Minus at Museo del Novecento in Milan.
An interactive experience in harmonious time.
Experimental film directed by Carlo Lavagna
Sound art by Minus
Produced by MYBOSSWAS and SOUNDAY
Artistic supervisor – Stefano Fontana (Stylophonic)
video screenplay – Marzia Migliora
directed by – Federico Biasin
dop – Walter Magri
post – Fabrizio Bonaga
the& played at:
club to club
mtv brand new arts tour
mtv days
traffic free festival
Giorgio Ferrero and Rodolfo Mongitore, composers and producers, authors of music for film, sound installations and songs, are Minus & Plus. They are co-founders of the multidisciplinary creative studio MYBOSSWAS, based in Turin.
They exhibited musical and sound works at the MAXXI in Rome, at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, at the biennial in Bordeaux and in Lisbon, at Palazzo Madama in Turin. They made music for the cinema, for the theater and for the narrative of authors such as Daniele Gaglianone, the De Serio brothers, Stephen Fingleton and Paolo Giordano. They signed the music and sound of films selected for the international competition at the Venice Film Festival, at the Locarno Film Festival, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, at the Rome Film Festival, at the Edinbourgh and Sydney international film festivals. In 2013 they released the first album of music for images “Interferenze”, codirect and composed the soundtrack for the film ‘Riverbero’ (in competition at the Rome Film Festival, at the Glasgow Film Festival and at the Brooklyn Film Festival).
Many international brands such as Nike, Valentino, Cassina, Barilla, Condé Nast chose them to compose music for their commercials. Alfa Romeo chose the two composers to realize the sound identity of the new cars launched in 2016.
In 2016 Il Corriere della Sera exclusively publishes the album ‘Black and Silver’ based on the music composed for the performance conceived for the launch of Paolo Giordano’s latest novel.
They have performed in festivals such as Traffic, Club to Club, Mtv Brand New Arts, Sala dei 500 at Lingotto, at Elfo Puccini Theater, at the Guido Monzani forum in Modena, in the Santa Maria Church in Chiavica di Verona and accompanied live actresses like Alba Rohrwacher (awarded in Cannes Film Festival) and Isabella Ragonese.
Giorgio Ferrero presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival his first feature film ‘Beautiful Things’, for which he signed screenwriting, direction and music. The film won the award for Best Italian Film according to the young under 26 jury and “the best first feature award” at Cph:Dox in Copenhagen. In Venice he also presented his first short film in virtual reality Denoise, made during the shooting of the feature film. With Federico Biasin (co-director and director of photography of Beautiful Things, Denoise and Riverbero) and Rodolfo Mongitore (co-author of the soundtracks) he lead the multidisciplinary studio MYBOSSWAS in Turin.
Filmography / Theatre
2010, Pietro (fiction film, director: Daniele Gaglianone)
2011, Sette opere di misericordia (fiction film, director: Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio)
2011, Polvere (feature doc, directors: Niccolò Bruna, Andrea Prandstaller)
2011, Ruggine (fiction film, director: Daniele Gaglianone)
2011, Le tre distanze (feature doc, director: Alessandro Pugno)
2012, Nozze d’Agosto (feature doc, director: Andrea Parena)
2012, White Man (feature doc, directors: Alessandro Baltera, Matteo Tortone)
2012, Il corpo umano (theatre, director: Paolo Giordano)
2013, Riverbero (shortfilm, directors: Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin)
2014, Survivalist (fiction film, director: Stephen Fingleton)
2014, Pequenas Mentiras Piadosas (feature doc, director: Niccolò Bruna)
2015, Dissolvenze (theatre, directors: Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio)
2015, OdisseA te (theatre, director: Municipale Teatro)
2015, I Ricordi del fiume (feature doc, directors: Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio)
2015, La terra che connette (feature doc, directors: Anfrea Fenoglio, Matteo Tortone)
2016, Le ultime cose (fiction film, director: Irene Dionisio)
2017, Ferrante Fever (feature doc, director: Giacomo Durzi)
2017, Denoise (vr film, directors: Giorgio Ferrero, Federico Biasin)
2017, Beautiful Things (feature hybrid film, director: Giorgio Ferrero)
2018, Bar Malfè (fiction film, directors: Alessandro Abba, Enrico Giovannone)
Discography
2012 Mystar (song)
2013 Interferenze (album)
2014 Il nero e l’argento (ep)
2016 Pequenas Mentiras Piadosas (song)
2017, Survivalist
2017, Holden (song)
2018, Plomo Fever (ep)
2018 Il volto (Leonardo da Vinci installation soundtrack)
2018, Jardines de plomo (ep)
2018, Donne che vedono il futuro (song)
Exhibitions
2009, Cromotime (Experimenta Design, Lisboa).
2010, Stanze (multichannel sound art for Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio at MAXXI in Rome, special mention at Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea)
2010, Emura Experience (multichannel generative soundtrack for Daikin exhibition at Elita Festival).
2011, Quelli che trascurano di rileggere si condannano a rileggere sempre la stessa storia. (binaural sound art for Marzia Migliora at Museo del Novecento, Milan)
2012, Tragedia in atto (mono directional music and sound art for Marzia Migliora at Eventò Biennale, Bordeaux)
2015, Donne che vedono il futuro (surround music and sound art in Palazzo Madama, Turin)
2015, Il Volto (Leonardo da Vinci selfportrait quadraphonic music at Palazzo Madama, Turin)
2017, The temple of time (quadraphinic dome installation, ISHH Geneve)
After three world tours of the film in cinemas, some festivals proposed to the international distributor Filmotor to produce the screening with the performance of the live soundtrack.
On stage in addition to composers Giorgio Ferrero and Rodolfo Mongitore (Minus&Plus) Luisella Ghirello and Alessandro Malavasi (cellos, percussions, vibraphones, voices) and Roberta Cortese (voices).
Information about the tour: weare@beautifulthings.it
Beautiful things soundtrack live performance
Giorgio Ferrero (scriptwriter, director and composer) and Rodolfo Mongitore (co-author of the music and the sound of the film) have presented together with Luisella Ghirello (a cellist and the actress of the film) a brand-new musical performance within an anechoic chamber.
special guest: Isabella Ragonese
11 maggio 2014 – Sala 500 Lingotto, Torino
28 giugno 2014 – Caffeina, Viterbo
8 ottobre 2014 – Hai paura del buio?, L’aquila
19 ottobre 2012 – Torino (OGR)
16 novembre 2012 – Cuneo (Teatro Toselli)
17 novembre 2012 – Milano (Teatro Elfo Puccini)
20 novembre 2012 – Verona (Chiesa Sconsacrata Santa Maria in Chiavica)
21 novembre 2012 – Bologna (Libreria Coop Ambasciatori)
22 novembre 2012 – Firenze (Libreria Ibs.it)
3 dicembre 2012 – Roma (Libreria Feltrinelli)
4 dicembre 2012 – Genova (Libreria Feltrinelli)
23 dicembre 2012 – Piacenza
10 maggio 2013 – Lodi (Festival Comportamenti Umani, Teatro alle Vigne)
19 maggio 2013 – Torino (Salone del Libro, Sala 500 – Lingotto)
22 maggio 2013 – Modena (Forum Guido Monzani)
8 giugno 2013 – Cagliari (Leggendo Metropolitano)
7 settembre 2013 – Mantova (Festival Letteratura)
22 settembre 2013 – Pordenone
Minus&Plus
Beautiful Things Artbox
LP + Digital soundtrack + Book + DVD
2018
available on beautifulthings.itMinus&Plus, Magri, Miride, Fornasier, Le luci della centrale elettrica
Ruggine
Soundtrack
2012
iTunesMinus&Plus
Beautiful Things Artbox
LP + Digital soundtrack + Book + DVD
2018
available on beautifulthings.itMinus&Plus, Magri, Miride, Fornasier, Le luci della centrale elettrica
Ruggine
Soundtrack
2012
iTunes