Antonino D'Ambrosio

D'Ambrosio is the author of Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk and the Movement that Shook the World (2012) and A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears. (2009) A Heartbeat and a Guitar was chosen by The Philadelphia Inquirer as a "2009 Book of Note,",[1] The Progressive "Favorite Book",[2] The Boston Globe,[3] among others.

In 2010, D'Ambrosio collaborated with artist Shepard Fairey and Jeffrey Deitch on the book Mayday.[4]

In 2013, D'Ambrosio wrote the cover story "How the Creative Response of Artists and Activists Can Transform the World" for The Nation.[5]

D'Ambrosio has produced more than 15 documentaries, films, videos, and visual art pieces. His recent film includes No Free Lunch starring Lewis Black. In September 2008, it received a notice of cultural distinction in Vanity Fair.[6]

D'Ambrosio is the producer, writer and director of the feature film Let Fury Have the Hour. The film was an Official Selection of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. The film was received positively by The New York Times and Time Out New York's Joshua Rothkopf, Indiewire,[7] PBS's POV,[8] The Huffington Post,[9] Complex magazine,[10] and COOL magazine.[11]

D'Ambrosio received support from Rob McKay of the McKay Foundation and the Democracy Alliance[12] for production of a documentary film based on Let Fury Have the Hour chronicling the movement of world citizenship.[13] The film has many musical contributions from artists including Chuck D, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Ocote Soul Sounds, Sean Hayes, Tommy Guerrero, Boots Riley, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Billy Bragg and others.[14] The film also features many of today's most creative thinkers and artists including playwright Eve Ensler, author Edwidge Danticat, scientist Jonah Lehrer, novelist Hari Kunzru, international human rights advocate Jack Healey, choreographer Elizabeth Streb, poets Staceyann Chin and Suheir Hammad, environmentalist Van Jones, and more. The film's score was composed by Wayne Kramer. The film includes original artwork from Shepard Fairey and animation by Seth Tobocman.

In 2014, D'Ambrosio was the executive producer of Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited, a tribute album.[15]

In 2015, D'Ambrosio participated in the musical transmedia Soundhunters produced by a_BAHN and broadcast on the Franco-German channel Arte. D'Ambrosio directed the film Speak the way you breathe in which he directed the musician Luke Vibert.[16]

In 1997 D'Ambrosio founded La Lutta NMC a non-profit media and film production group, the produces a range of work across diverse media.

• A Furious Heartbeat presented by Antonino D'Ambrosio and Shepard Fairey, Subliminal Art Project, Los Angeles, CA December 2009
• La Terra Promessa Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMC April 2009[17]
• This Is A Movement (2003–04)
• Speak the Words the Way You Breathe (1999-2003)

In 2010, artist Shepard Fairey invited D'Ambrosio to contribute the official essay for his solo-exhibit Mayday at the Deitch Projects in New York City.[18] The essay, "May Day Calling", is printed on the back of Fairey's signature "flag" print.[19]

In 2009, D'Ambrosio was Artist-In-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM where he launched the multimedia land-art installation La Terra Promessa: In Sun & Shadow.[17]

In 2008, D'Ambrosio was featured on Clash: Revolution Rock, an hour-long radio show also featuring musician Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.[20]

In 2006, he became New York University's Gallatin Lecturer, an honor bestowed upon a contemporary artist creating innovative and social engaging work.[21] In 2006 D'Ambrosio was invited to document the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign in Caracas, Venezuela at the World Social Forum.[22] His short film documenting the experience, In the Land of Bolivar, has been screened around the world. In 2005, D'Ambrosio was Artist-In-Residence in the Media Arts Department at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. He speaks extensively at universities and colleges throughout the country.

• Interview on WNYC Soundcheck, May 2011.
• Antonino D'Ambrosio and Shepard Fairey featured on GRITtv with Laura Flanders, May 2010.
• Antonino D'Ambrosio featured on GRITtv with Laura Flanders, November 2009.
• Antonino D'Ambrosio featured on The Clash: Revolution Rock, 2008.
• Interview of Antonino D'Ambrosio by Brian Lehrer, June 2008.
• Antonino D'Ambrosio Live from Prairie Lights Books, February 2005.