Roberto Pacini
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) is an Italian
Italy
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director
Film director
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, author
Author
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and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and film
Film
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producer
Film producer
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.
Biography
He lives and works in RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. In 1987, he attended the Bottega Teatrale di Firenze (Florentine Theatre School) directed by Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI , popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director...
. In 1993, he was awarded a degree in Drama and Performing Arts at the Accademia Nazionale Silvio D'Amico
Silvio D'Amico
Silvio D'Amico was an Italian theatre critic, journalist ,and theorist of Italian theater. Not a Fascist himself, D'Amico was the major theater critic during the ventennio, the twenty years of Fascist rule in Italy...
(National Academy of Dramatic Arts), the most important Italian performing arts institute for theatre directors and actors.
Theatre
He made his debut as director in 1994 and since 1996 he has been a theatre playwright and director. The range of his performances belongs to the so-called Word Theatre; he developed its qualities creating drama compositions that already determine interpretation key and the work on the Text and on the Actors is essential.In years, he carries out in his own working method and style, visionary and grotesque, and his research gives unusual reading of classic works (Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
, Kafka, Pirandello, Shakespeare) and contemporary authors. Performances, usually located in spaces not appointed to theatre presentations, go beyond the realism dimension and they offer fantastic suggestions, irrational, with strong expressionistic tints. Original soundtracks – by musicians and bands - are always composed for every show.
Among the significant titles: La Locanda Hauser (Hauser Inn) (1995)http://set.it/4DCGI/Rec02_89418, from Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
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's tales, L'Ospedale dei Mentecatti (Hospital for the Insane People) (1996)http://www.set.it/4DCGI/Rec02_89416, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917...
by Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
, and La notte poco prima della foresta (The Night before the forests) (2000) by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director.-Life:Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty...
, the first time on national stages in an unabridged edition. By Koltès, he also realized the first Italian version of Heritage (2002).
In 2003, he has been nominated Artistic Director of CTD theatre company of Rome and produced Classic Works (Aeschylus
Aeschylus
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, Shakespeare, Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
) and Italian and International New Writing Works. He has founded and directed Cadmo & Armonia theatre company (1994) and afterwards Il Teatro di Puck (Puck's Theatre) (1998)http://set.it/4DCGI/Rec01_23862.
Cinema
Since 2001, he has been also a movie author and producer. In 35 mm and 16 mm production, he cooperated in Italian feature film productions and International co productions, as Producer, Executive ProducerExecutive producer
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
and Line Producer
Line producer
A line producer is the key manager during the daily operations of a motion picture production.The line producer supports the vision given by the director but does not have direct influence on the creative expression or narrative of the film....
.
Personal projects (Dv
DV
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, Betacam
Betacam
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), produced by Cinepuckhttp://cinepuck.tumblr.com/, are influenced by his theatrical origins and then they gain surreal and metaphysical dimension, even thanks to old format Super 8
Super 8 mm film
Super 8 mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format....
experimentations. For instance, Mr Filipponi, the true story of a poet who misses his poems, and Balloon (2010).
Late works
Among his late works as author and director, Sunlight (2006), institutional spot celebrating the 50th anniversary of Treaty of RomeTreaty of Rome
The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, was an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958. It was signed on 25 March 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany...
(Prix Europa 2006, Berlin
Berlin
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), Being Fed Up (2007), spot against discrimination to women for public service broadcasting, produced by Unesco
UNESCO
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(Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
), and For Instance (2009), for the World Food Programme
World Food Programme
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fighting hunger worldwide.
In 2010, he produced and directed Dreams & Colors, visionary documentary about Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans came there to watch the agones , and hence it was known as 'Circus Agonalis'...
in Rome, and Gaussian Copula Functionhttp://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=213&c=3&id_film=200014700&o=88 based on Felix Salmon's article published by Wired
Wired (magazine)
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about the disaster of Wall Street
Wall Street
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(2008).
In 2011, The Briefcase, about the World Financial crisis of 2007–2010, and Animals/Man, both of them released under the Creative Commons
Creative Commons
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license.
Selected works
- At the Night Cafè (1993)
- Hauser Hill (1994–1997)
- Cechov from Cechov (1995)
- Hospital for the Insane People (1996)
- Mr Agenore and Mr Bordon (1997)
- The Night before the forests (1999)
- The Alchemist of Mantua (2000)
- The Winter's Tale (2000)
- From an Under Accountant diary (2001)
- The Clouds (2002)
- The Chairs (2003)
- Sunlight (2006)
- Being Fed Up (2007)
- Mr Filipponi (2009)
- Dreams & Colors (2010)
- Gaussian Copula Function (2010)
- Balloon (2010)
- The Briefcase (2011)