Gianni Toti


Gianni Toti was an Italian poet, writer, journalist, and cineaste. In the early 80s he created "Poetronica".

Biography

Graduated in Law, he published poetry books, articles and novels. He was partisan against Nazism and Fascism in the Italian Resistenza and, for many years, journalist and correspondent for the political newspaper L’Unità. Editor-in-chief of "La voce della Sicilia", "Lavoro", and of the cultural review "Carte segrete".
In the early 80s he began an experimentation where he mixed poetry, cinema and electronic art, creating a new language, which he defined "poetronica". By realizing his works he collaborated with specialized cultural centers, such as CICV, that gave him the possibility to utilize technologies and equips of technicians for creating artistic projects.
In his works Toti mixes history, politics, legends, oral traditions, folk culture. His writing contains idiomatic expressions, neologisms, words taken from many languages.

Film and Video Poem Opera

Film

Novels

Among his numerous poetry books we remember:
Director of poetry collections: