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Peppo Rapisarda

Peppo Rapisarda (Catania, 1956) began his activity in the visual arts as a photographer at an important geographical agency in Turin. He entered the audiovisual field when he made several documentaries on Piedmontese and Lombard artists for Turinese art galleries in 1978. He is also involved in video art and has participated in a Sicilian series on video art. In 1980-85 he worked on documentaries dealing with social issues and collaborated with several regional Tv stations. At the end of the 1980's he worked for the advertising agency, Aba Pubblicità, where he collaborated on making industrial videos and commercials. In the 1990's he returned to television, where he directed several films and entered his videos in several Turin Film Festivals. At present he is a teacher at the video workshop of the Piedmont Region managed by the cooperative, Animation Valdocco.