Country: Italy
Year: 1934
Duration: 48'
001 marks the hundredth anniversary of Francesco Pasinetti’s birth. For such occasion, the Veneto Region set up a committee to celebrate this multifaceted Venetian intellectual, who has also been a director, a professor at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome, a critic, a playwright, a photographer, and a radio author. Among celebrating the initiatives, a box set containing all the films he directed will be released after many years of research and restauration in collaboration with Cinecittà Luce, Cineteca italiana and Cineteca nazionale. The box set will be accompanied by the book La scoperta del cinema (a collection of essays on his works) and the publication of his thesis, which was the first in Italy (and perhaps in the entire world) to raise cinema among the ranks art forms.
To celebrate this anniversary, the Torino Film Festival will present four movies: Il canale degli angeli (1934), a lyrical documentary on the Venetian lagoon, Città bianca (1942), Lumiei (1948), dedicated to the path of the river in Veneto, and Latte per la città (1949), a film edited by Pasinetti tracing the milk supply chain from the milking phase to distribution.
Biography
film director
Francesco Pasinetti
Francesco Pasinetti (Venice, Italy, 1911 - Rome, Italy 1949) was the first Italian student who graduated in history of cinema. He was the author of the first history of cinema (Storia del cinema dalle origini ad oggi, 1939). Film critic and director, he debuted in 1934 with Il canale degli angeli; it was going to be his first of a series of documentaries dedicated to Venice (Gondola, I piccioni di Venezia and Venezia minore, all released in 1940). He directed many short films dedicated to figurative arts (Arte contemporanea, 1948), to the working world (Lumiei, 1947) and to social issues (Città bianca, 1942). He also wrote comedies for feature films by Amleto Palermi and Luigi Chiarini. He collaborated with the Venice Film Festival and in 1946 became the director of the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il canale degli angeli (mm, doc., 1934), Sulle orme di Giacomo Leopardi (cm, doc., 1941), Venezia minore (cm, doc., 1942), I piccioni di Venezia (cm, doc., 1942), Città bianca (cm, doc., 1942), Piazza San Marco (cm, doc., 1947), Lumiei (cm, doc., 1948), Arte contemporanea (cm, doc., 1948), Il giorno della salute (cm, doc., 1948), Scuola infermiere (cm, doc., 1949).
Cast
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regia/director
Francesco Pasinetti
