Alberto Bona (born November 7, 1978) is an Italian actor, playwright and film director.
Alberto Bona started his career as a cartoonist in Italy, before moving to London, where he started to work within theatre and independent film productions. He wrote and starred in the surrealistic play Salvador! staged at the Barons Court Theatre in 2004, where he played surrealist Salvador Dalí. This play led the photographer Marco Sanges to ask Bona to pose for a series of portraits. It began a creative collaboration culminating with the art film Circumstances, awarded as 'Best Art Film' at the Portobello Film Festival in 2008. With Sanges, Bona co-directed Pondering of a lonely wonderer and La Sonnambula. Together, they have also worked at the Hackney Empire devicing the surrealistic art exhibition Big Scenes.
Bona wrote and starred in the play "Tremamondo - The Angel of Fencing", directed by Giampaolo Zennaro, staged at the Teatro Carlo Goldoni (Livorno) in Livorno.
Currently, Bona is producing a film about Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead.
Opera, documentaries and music videos
Bona has worked with opera director Giampaolo Zennaro, both as his assistant and a video artist. Together they staged La fanciulla del West in Limoges, Rigoletto in Almeria, Cavalleria Rusticana and Traviata in Livorno. Classical music has also inspired him to make documentaries, including Story of a Luthier.
Bona directed the music video for the song "Meet me in Winter". The track and the video have been produced by Ian Dean.
Agatha and the storm (Agata e la tempesta) (2004)Dermo sluchaetsa (2006)Cat's smack (2007)The scrupulous torment of the polite man (L'uomo garbato) (2008)Pondering of a lonely wonderer (Pensieri di un viandante solitario) (2008)Circumstances (2008)L'Assenza (2013)The scrupulous torment of the polite man (L'uomo garbato) (2008)Pondering of a lonely wonderer (Pensieri di un viandante solitario) (2008)The sleepwalking girl (La sonnambula) (2009)Story of a luthier (Storia di un liutaio) (2009)So in Love (2010)Elgar Cello Concerto (2011)Meet me in Winter (2011)Actor
2021
The Darkness: Jussy's Girl (Short)
2019
Piercing Stillness (Short) as
Abate Borlon
2018
Sugar! (Short) as
Doctor Filibus
2016
Miike Snow: My Trigger (Music Video) as
Russian General
2014
(R)evolution (Video short) as
The Cyclist
2013
Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher (Short) as
Carl
2013
L'Assenza (Short) as
Stravinsky Man
2011
Meet Me in Winter (Short) as
Villager (uncredited)
2008
Circumstances (Short) as
Salvador Dalí
2008
The Polite Man (Short) as
Narrator
2008
Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer (Short) as
Viandante
2006
Dermo Sluchaetsa (Short) as
Soldier
2004
Agata and the Storm as
Dancer (uncredited)
Producer
2021
The Darkness: It's Love, Jim (Video short) (producer)
2021
The Darkness: Jussy's Girl (Short) (producer)
2019
Piercing Stillness (Short) (producer)
2018
Sugar! (Short) (producer)
2017
Music Sound Machine (Short) (producer)
2017
Eso (Short) (producer)
2016
The Bucolic Land of Peccioli (Documentary short) (producer)
2014
Contemplazione (Short) (producer)
2009
Story of a Luthier (Documentary) (executive producer)
2008
Circumstances (Short) (producer)
2008
The Polite Man (Short) (executive producer)
2008
Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer (Short) (producer)
Writer
2019
Piercing Stillness (Short) (screenplay)
2018
Sugar! (Short) (screenplay)
2016
The Bucolic Land of Peccioli (Documentary short) (co-writer)
2009
Story of a Luthier (Documentary) (written by)
2009
La sonnambula (Short) (written by)
2008
Circumstances (Short) (screenplay)
2008
The Polite Man (Short) (written by)
2008
Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer (Short) (story)
Director
2011
Meet Me in Winter (Short)
2011
Elgar Cello Concerto (Short)
2009
Story of a Luthier (Documentary)
2009
La sonnambula (Short)
2008
The Polite Man (Short)
2008
Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer (Short)
Editor
2011
Elgar Cello Concerto (Short)
2009
Story of a Luthier (Documentary)
2008
Circumstances (Short)
2008
Pondering of a Lonely Wonderer (Short)
Art Department
2006
Dermo Sluchaetsa (Short) (storyboard artist)
