Alessandro Pavone is an Italian videographer of documentary film and television. He has worked as a cinematographer or producer of a number of documentary programs including Vice, Frontline and Hunting ISIS , as well as producing work for BBC2 and Al Jazeera.
As a freelancer at independent production companies in London, Pavone produced BBC2’s Shroud of Turin: Material Evidence. [1] [3] The documentary was produced for Easter in 2008 for the twentieth anniversary of the 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin. [3]
From 2011 to 2015, Pavone was based in Kabul and Istanbul while covering the wars in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and Western African Ebola virus epidemic. [1]
In 2019, Pavone was the cinematographer of The Forgotten Heroes of Empire, an Al Jazeera documentary about Kenyans that served in the Second World War but were neglected as veterans of the British Army. [4]
Year | Title | Role(s) | Ref(s). |
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2008 | Shroud of Turin Material Evidence | Producer | |
2013 | The Longest Kiss | ||
2018 | Hunting ISIS | ||
2015–2023 | Vice | Cinematographer | |
2019 | The Forgotten Heroes of Empire | [4] [5] | |
2020 | Frontline | Local producer | |
2022 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story | Cinematographer | |
Secrets and Deals | |||
Life in the Taliban's Afghanistan | [6] |
The Shroud of Turin, also known as the Holy Shroud, is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man. It has been venerated for centuries, especially by members of the Catholic Church, as the actual burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus of Nazareth after his crucifixion, and upon which Jesus's bodily image is miraculously imprinted. The human image on the shroud can be discerned more clearly in a black and white photographic negative than in its natural sepia color, an effect discovered in 1898 by Secondo Pia, who produced the first photographs of the shroud. This negative image is associated with a popular Catholic devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.
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The Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth that tradition associates with the crucifixion and burial of Jesus, has undergone numerous scientific tests, the most notable of which is radiocarbon dating, in an attempt to determine the relic's authenticity. In 1988, scientists at three separate laboratories dated samples from the Shroud to a range of 1260–1390 CE, which coincides with the first certain appearance of the shroud in the 1350s and is much later than the burial of Jesus in 30 or 33 CE. Aspects of the 1988 test continue to be debated. Despite some technical concerns that have been raised about radiocarbon dating of the Shroud, no radiocarbon-dating expert has asserted that the dating is substantially unreliable.
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