Video: 'Naturally Risen' a Fitting Epitaph for Una Pizza Napoletana

Posted by Adam Kuban, September 29, 2009 at 6:25 PM

Stills from the video "Naturally Risen". Click images to watch.

As Manhattarino fires up and finds its legs, it's not too early to take a wistful look back on Una Pizza Napoletana and its moody pizzaiolo, Anthony Mangieri--particularly if the nostalgia trip is in the form of a beautifully shot, edited, and scored video.

Art director and commercial artist Michael Evans is the genius behind the short making-of video called Naturally Risen, which follows Mangieri from dough-making to pizza-baking. Backed by a great Tommy Guerrero instrumental. You'll find the homage on Evans's site: divisionofsafety.com/NATURALLYRISEN. [via Pizzablogger via pizzamaking.com]

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Tags: Anthony Mangieri, Michael Evans, Una Pizza Napoletana, videos

10 Comments:

I'm totally feeling the Johnny Cash Man In Black bumper sticker on the fridge!

Pizzablogger at 8:12PM on 09/29/09

Forget Linda Lovelace, this is the real thing! Truly pornographic!

braciole at 8:20PM on 09/29/09

Very sad.

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 10:10PM on 09/29/09

I feel kind of dirty after watching that. And yes, Paulie Gee, it did make me cry.

ScottWiener at 1:05AM on 09/30/09

I teared up. Yep.

Prairie at 11:03AM on 09/30/09

such an excellent film.

what happened to him, did he end up going to SF?

Gambier at 12:45PM on 09/30/09

That was amazing, yet bittersweet.

My buddy drove by his new place in SF last week and said there was a line of people outside waiting to get in.

BKNY64 at 2:38PM on 09/30/09

@BKNY64 I don't think so.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 2:58PM on 09/30/09

@paulie gee That makes 2 of us

Pizzablogger at 3:01PM on 09/30/09

@BKNY64 Are you sure that wasn't Tony Gemignani's place? 'Tony's Pizza Napoletana'?

foolishpoolish at 3:18PM on 09/30/09

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