Your Full Name
My full name is Francesco Biccheri, but I’m mostly known as “Frenky”. Most of my friends discovered my real name just through Facebook.
Tell us about yourself and what you do
I work as video maker for a commercial spot factory, but in my free time I’m a video maker for me. I also like working with photography, specially with different kind of cameras and mix everything with videos.
If you have a bachelor degree/education background; what is it?
I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, graduated in painting, but I painted really really few, I just practiced photography in the dark room most of the time.
Where are you located?
I’m from a little italian town called Gubbio, but now I work and live in Florence.
Explain your creative process in a project? What are usually the challenges and how you go around it?
I only keep little sparks from what happens in the life or from suggestions taken looking around…later I think about the best way to realize it and I start to work and create. This process, from the idea to creation, often is very fast. Just sometimes the creative process is very long.
My work is always changing and I feel free to follow every way I can…I use to mix few media together, like video, digital and analog photography, music, sounds…I try do the best I can working with simple stuffs, as simple toycameras or simple sounds and with these little pieces I try create something complex.
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Photo Manipulation: Zink-PoGo from Frenky on Vimeo.
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I love your “Photo Manipulation: Zink-Po-Go” video. What techniques did you use? Tell us more about it.
“Photo Manipulation: Zink-Po-Go” is born by a collaboration with one of my friend, a photographer called Francesco Capponi (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dippold/). He’s very creative with photography and he started to manipulate photos printed with Zink paper and Polaroid Pogo printer.
Later I received as a gift the same printer and I also started to manipulate photos trying different ways. We exchange our manipulations and we had the idea to make a video to share our experiences with people who likes same ways to use photography in alternatively way. We met one day at his studio and we just started to record some scene, some manipulation, in a very free way, trying to find a funny way to show our work.
Later I edited the movies and we just uploaded the final version on Facebook and Vimeo. In few days it was viewed by thousands visitors and shared in a lot of sites and blogs.
The rest is in the video…
How do you promote yourself?
Just on internet…that’s why I’m still quite poor…but anyway it’s a good way…
An example: I discovered few video art festivals on internet, and I completed online entry form and sent them a copy of my video “Paesaggio Composto #3″: I was finalist at “Videomedeja” Video Art Festival 2009 in Serbia, selected for the catalogue of “Celeste Prize 2009″ and selected for “Biennale of Young Art” 2010 in Moskow. And also without internet I wasn’t writing for your site!
What would be your strangest assignment you have done? Why so?
Mhhh…someone proposed me to film some porno movie in East Europe…
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Paesaggio Composto #3 from Frenky on Vimeo.
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Who is the person you look up to in this industry? Why so?
I love Zbigniew Rybczyński, for his simply creativity, but very emotional and intensive. And of course videoartists as Bill Viola, specially for his working about time and perfect construction of image and the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin for his way to work with body.
How does the global economic recession affecting the industry, or the least affecting your business/ work/project?
I was out the global economic recession fortunatly just because I’m out from business…
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La pazienza ha un limite (Patience has its limits) – c.a.l.m.a. from Frenky on Vimeo.
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What’s one thing you wish you knew when beginning this passion?
I think If I have a time machine I would do the same things I’m doing now. But maybe it could be more interesting, because analog stuff to work with was more creative and not so used by most of the people. Today digital world allows everyone to create video or music or photography. But just very few things are interesting or so creative. Because machines have replaced ideas.
A great film-maker is…..
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Name 3 your favorite books.
“Autodafè” by Canetti Elias, “Il deserto dei tartari” by Dino Buzzati and “Mort à crédit” by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
If you have online portfolio (website/awards/credits/client’s showcase), what is the URL?
Video: http://www.vimeo.com/frenky
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/francescobiccheri/
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Pat Pend in “Moka” (finalista al Premio Videoclip Italiano ‘08) from Frenky on Vimeo.
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