Roberto Pacini

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Roberto Pacini
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Born Florence, Italy
Residence(s)Rome, Italy
OccupationDirector, Author, Producer
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Roberto Pacini (born 1967 in Florence, Italy) is an Italian director, author and theatre and film producer.

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Biography

He lives and works in Rome. In 1987, he attended the Bottega Teatrale di Firenze (Florentine Theatre School) directed by Vittorio Gassman. In 1993, he was awarded a degree in Drama and Performing Arts at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art, the most important Italian performing arts institute for theatre directors and actors. [1] [2]

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, Kafka, Pirandello, Shakespeare) and contemporary authors. [3] 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), from Maupassant's tales, L'Ospedale dei Mentecatti (Hospital for the Insane People) (1996), from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, and The Night just before the Forests (2000) by Bernard-Marie Koltès, [4] 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, Shakespeare, Herman Melville) 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).

Film

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 Producer and Consulting Producer.

Personal projects (Dv, Betacam), produced by Cinepuck , are influenced by his theatrical origins and then they gain surreal and metaphysical dimension, even thanks to old format Super 8 experimentations. [5] In 2001 he produced and directed his first short film Dal Diario di un Aiuto Contabile (The Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper), a man and his daily war at work, from Chekhov 's classic tales, presented at Arcipelago International Festival of Short Film and New Images. [6] Among Super 8 works, Mr Filipponi (2009), [7] the true story of a poet who misses his poems, and Balloon (2010), a man lost in his thought. [8]

Sunlight (2006), institutional spot celebrating the 50th anniversary of Treaty of Rome (Prix Europa 2006, Berlin), [9] Being Fed Up (2007), spot against discrimination to women for public service broadcasting, produced by Unesco (Paris), [10] For Instance (2009), for the World Food Programme fighting hunger worldwide. [11]

In 2010, he produced and directed Dreams & Colors, [12] visionary documentary about Piazza Navona in Rome, and Gaussian Copula Function based on Felix Salmon's article published by Wired about the disaster of Wall Street (2008). [13] In 2012, The Man Wearing a Hood, a tribute to Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone , [14] and The Empty Chair, for the United Nations Population Fund, music by Moby. [15]

In 2017 FPM, [16] about some Italian Life imprisonment convicted persons, and in 2018 The Enthusiasm of a Child, [17] the story of "a remained young at heart 75 years old man who his face lightens, like a boy, when he speaks about his recycled bricks” for Circular Economy Stories, an Ecodom project sponsored by Banca Popolare Etica (the most important Italian Ethical banking institution) among others.

About the Brexit, he produces Not a Good Idea (2019) [18] for Brexit Feelings International project and 13 years later [19] on the occasion of the 2019 European Parliament election, music by Nine Inch Nails, the 2006 Sunlight extended version.

Creative Commons

Licensed under the Creative Commons, he produced and directed The Briefcase (2011), about the World Financial crisis of 2007–2010, Animals/Man (2011), a new spot for Public Service Broadcasting, Time (2013) against Death Penalty worldwide, [20] [21] [22] The Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper (2012–2013), a mini-web series from the original tale by Anton Chekhov, English version of his first short film with new footage, a new editing and music by Nine Inch Nails, [23] [24] and Shapes (2013) on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Bombing of Rome in World War II. [25]

In 2015, direction of Exit [26] an experimental video work presented as "The old and the new, on leaving", music by Chris Zabriskie, American artist he too inspired by Creative Commons and the open source movement. In 2019 he produced Sintuit, [27] "a 2064 television advertisement" but, in fact, a present-day video about the Global warming and in 2020 The Mall, a COVID-19 pandemic experience: “What IF?”. [28]

Late works

Among his late works, His Choice (2022) and Or Other (2020), [29] [30] originally produced for the World Health Organization HealthForAll Film Festival, and in 2021 The Dusk [31] "most set in the Twilight, the time period between astronomical sunset and dusk”.

Selected works

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References

  1. ↑ Hamlet Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine from De Gli Incamminati
  2. ↑ Lucrezia Borgia Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine from Teche Rai
  3. ↑ Shows Guide Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ The Night just before the Forests Archived 19 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine from Sipario
  5. ↑ Cambridge-Super8 Festival 2010
  6. ↑ IMDb release info Arcipelago International Film Festival 2001
  7. ↑ Festival du Film de Compiègne Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Festival 2010
  8. ↑ Balloon XXVII Marché International du Court Métrage
  9. ↑ Forme del corto Archived 5 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio, Short Films in Italy 2006
  10. ↑ Being Fed Up ICT-enhanced Public Service Broadcasting
  11. ↑ For Instance, fighting hunger worldwide for WFP
  12. ↑ Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films Archived 25 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine Festival 2010
  13. ↑ Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street by Felix Salmon, Wired News
  14. ↑ People and kids about an ancient Merry-go-round. A tribute to Rod Serling by Roberto Pacini
  15. ↑ In a 7 Billion World Women & Girls empowerment, for UNFPA
  16. ↑ Interview FPM presentation
  17. ↑ Circular Economy Stories from YouTube
  18. ↑ Roberto Pacini's opinion about the Brexit. For "Brexit Feelings" International project
  19. ↑ Many things have changed. But not for the better. In 2006 Pacini produced a Super 8 film making an institutional video in the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Treaty of Rome called "Sunlight". Now 13 years later, this film is its extended version.
  20. ↑ Financial Crisis – The Briefcase
  21. ↑ What's wrong with this?
  22. ↑ It's time to stop
  23. ↑ Is This Man a Monster? An Anton Chekhov classic tale.
  24. ↑ The Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper Webisodes (2012) at the IMDb
  25. ↑ Shapes on YouTube
  26. ↑ Roberto Pacini (31 December 2015). "EXIT". Video opera.
  27. ↑ Don't miss this opportunity! A 2064 television advertisement
  28. ↑ What IF? A Covid19 experience.
  29. ↑ Films4Health World Health Organization HealthForAll Film Festival: a wide range of topics, such as the challenges of providing health-care in remote areas and countries in conflict.
  30. ↑ The mime goes out and goes to the park: he begins to perform.
  31. ↑ It seems that he is talking, that he is saying something. But what and above all to whom? And he's trying to do something but we don't understand what. Another tribute to Rod Serling but with a very open ending.
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