Antonella Rucci
Antonella Rucci was born in Rome in 1961. In 1987, she began to work with Rai, at first in the DSE (School Education Department) and on the TV shows Magazine 3 and Letti Gemelli starring Gloria De Antoni and Oreste De Fornari. She worked at Mondadori, creating and making home videos about Walter Chiari, Daniele Luttazzi, Gino Bramieri, Claudio Bisio, Aldo Fabrizi, Ugo Tognazzi, Gino Bramieri, and Anna Marchesini. Starting in 1995, she began to
collaborate as a writer on the renowned TV program Blob, which has been on the
air for 25 years. She made hundreds of daily episodes and many special episodes
for the program, primarily monographs on political figures and portraits of
musicians. Her political works include monographs on Umberto Bossi, Massimo D'Alema, and Barack Obama. Musical episodes include portraits of Lou Reed, Ivan Graziani, the Rolling Stones, Area, and the Italian new wave of the 1980s. Antonella passed away prematurely in January 2020, at 59 years of age. Antonella would set out her work on big sheets of paper. There was truly everything and more on them: colored notes, complex schema, circles and arrows summarizing ideas and connections for the broadcasts. The goal was to pinpoint the best possible choice and she pursued this goal in every edited piece, every
episode. Even though it had been many years since her first live evening
broadcast of Blob, there was always an analysis to carefully conduct, to see
whether a solution was constructive, a break was pertinent, a message was clear
and proposable. Her indecision was ethical in nature, the kind that creative
people often have when they follow their own passions and have so many possible
alternatives in mind that an option becomes plausible only after many others
have been discarded. We want to remember her this way, a tireless professional
who always loved and sought her work, a communications artisan, an eternally
young person who, throughout all these years, continued to let herself be
amazed by the light of the screen that illuminated her face.