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Paolo Rosa

Paolo Rosa studied at the Brera Academy. He entered the field of the visual arts, where he started various movements - such as the Laboratorio di Comunicazione Militante, and the Fabbrica di Comunicazione. In 1979 he made the film, Facce di festa, presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 1982 he was one of the promoters of Studio Azzurro, with whom he made several video environments, such as Luci di inganni; Il nuotatore; Vedute; and the cycles - Storie per cose, and Osservazioni sulla natura. In 1985 he directed the feature film, L'osservatorio nucleare del Sig. Nanof. The title role was played by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, with whom he later made: Prologo a diario segreto contraffatto (video, 1985), Correva come un lungo sogno bianco (1986), and La camera astratta (1987). He was one of the founders of the cooperative, Indigena, with whom he made the short films, La variable Felsen (1988) and Rimini Lux (1993). His most recent works include the co-direction (with Moni Ovadia) of the play, Ultima forma di libertà, il silenzio, for the Orestiadi of Gibellina as well as the video installation, Il giardino dei colori, made in Tokyo.