Aldo Di Russo

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
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2023 WOMEN'S STORIES IN A MEN'S WORLD
The title might sound banal, but it is meant to tell of the strength women have put into resisting a condition that has seen them grow in roles and professions, but also suffer oppression and violence from a world that reacts to every attempt at transition. Mario Cesarano: the archaeologist - narrator, takes us into the world of myth, among the most important texts of classical literature, together with the female figures that have marked western culture, alongside 6 films, theatrical dramas set in as many situations of today, with women of today grappling with problems that remind us of the values and sense of the tragic of the ancient world. A ebook with more than two hours of videos to watch and study.
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2022 DIONYSUS WAKE UP
A digital AV tale through the artworks of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, which preserves precious findings about the god Dionysus and the cult migrated from ancient Greece to the Tyrrhenian coast. A story that archaeologist Mario Cesarano enumerates by walking through a virtual set constructed from the fragments of vascular figures. A number of traditional Neapolitan songs were reconstructed, extracting from the text meanings relating to Greek philosophy and the influence of Dionysus, god of theatre, on the Neapolitan world
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2022 THE SAINT ANGELO IN FORMIS FRESCOES
An itinerary and a tale through one of the most interesting medieval painting cycles, which superimposes Byzantine typology on the modes of Italian painters. A moment of transition, a building site and a workshop. An itinerary through the images of the extraordinary iconic fresco cycle of the Biblia Pauperum as evangelisation of the formerly pagan people. Gigapixel technology was used to map the frescoes with a detail and resolution never used before. The theatrical reading of the gospels corresponding to the figurations was entrusted to actors and filmed inside the Basilica
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2022 THE GREEKS DISEMBARK TO CAMPANIA
A museological itinerary built together with Mario Cesarano of the Naples Superintendency and the MANN to highlight the revolution generated by the encounter between the Greeks and the inhabitants of this land and what remains of their common philosophy in everyday life. Some finds from the archaeological museum read in an unusual light: the mosaic Memento mori and 'a livella' the Farnese Heracles and Maradona as examples
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2021 AD HOC
A portal dedicated to telling the story of archaeology accessible to the disabled. A collaboration between the University of North Macedonia, the University of Koper and the University of the Aegean and the University of Tor Vergata to build a portal linking the histories of a number of archaeological sites that are accessible to the disabled. New media technologies and research methodology were used to avoid the mere transposition of content.
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2020 QUEEN OF THE SEAS
A eBook by Dorothea Papathanasiou about the history of the island of Chios which, in my opinion, is an extremely intelligent and new way of developing culture, tourism, European citizenship and teaching methodology together. The long history is a fascinating tale equipped with great masterpieces of painting that are not illustrations of the text, but corresponding stories. We travel towards the construction of new digital languages which, well integrated, offer opportunities with no limits.
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2020 411 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 11 DAYSIC
In the framework of the European project INNOVIMENTOR this e Book by Dorothea Papathanasiou combines the history of Corfu Island and its reflection on the history of Europe with a multimedia language that is an experiment in digital publishing.A set of films and animations created for this book make it a reading tool and a stimulus for research. The container was born from the collaboration of various professionals who actively live in the world of digital communication.
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2019 NAPLES UNINTERRUPTED MUSIC
An exhibition that endorses the idea that the organization of everything that focuses on music is connected to the weaving of civil life, is the intangible heritage of the city. Paideia, Aristotle would have said, who not by chance inserts his treatise on music in the book of politics. The exhibition is an emotional journey between signs of time and history in which the visitor can reconnect his experiences by giving himself sense to the fragments in the path and creating the thread that joins them
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2019 IL SOGNO AUTUNNALE
a surreal film that celebrates the figure of Emilia Gubitosi: the first Italian composer and founder of the Associazione Scarlatti. A hundred years after its foundation, Emilia returns to check what has been done with her creature and establishes a relationship of teacher-disciple with a little disorientated child. A technologically advanced reconstruction of a virtual scene with four actors acting inside a villa reconstructed in 3D from a drawing by Nicola Rubertelli. The film is also part of the exhibition on "Napoli musica ininterrotta".
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2019 AFAM
Direction of the institutional spot that the Ministry of Education has produced to celebrate the AFAM sector: art academies and conservatories, which benefit from an international prestige that is growing every year. Michele Placido, a former student of one of these academies, appears in a tunnel of contemporary images that bring together dance, acting, design, set design, music and singing, building a multifaceted and kaleidoscopic reality.
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2019 'O PRINCIPINO
An imaginary plot set in an imaginative Naples and used to decorate a Harpsichord in the exhibition. It is a fresco that tells of a child of the bourgeoisie who, on a summer day in 1955, discovers music, Naples and the "civilization of conversation". He will become a remarkable musician and archetype of every success that starts with talent and is organized around the studying, the maestros, the ability to listen to others, the dialogue. The film is also part of the exhibition on "Napoli musica ininterrotta".
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2019 THE BREAD; THE WINGS AND THE SWORD
Projection mapping on the castle of Monte Sant’Angelo. An imaginary dialogue between a soldier who fought against Turks in the Lepanto battle believing in the power of military organization and a baker praying to saints and believing only in the faith as protection against danger and troubles.
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2018 DIONYSUS: MYTH AND HISTORY
Dionysus: myth and history. Audiovisual content design for a storytelling research platform to be used in a museum. From the prototype to the journey inside the Greek deity, starting from the finding of a Roman statue now preserved in the Historical Archaeological Museum of Nola. A network of knowledge from Campania to many of the European museums. Horizon 2020 - Pon I&C 2014 - 2010 MISE
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2017 COSME DIVERTIMENTO
Our main aim is to diversify tourism offers in peripheral destinations with heritage-based products and services: Creation of stakeholder alliances and skills alliances we can internationalize locally operating micro-enterprises and facilitate their uptake by the global market. Motion, emotion and imagination will be keystones in our journey. Peripheries that have a good story to tell can become the center of a new vision, the audience is in tune with the mood and the language of the storytelling.
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2017 LOOKING FOR MYTHS
Our purpose is to travel through a magnifying glass and look for a new experience and taste. Ten places in the south of Italy are filling the gap left by Goethe, who, shipping from Naples to Palermo, cut out of his Journey one of the most ancient parts of Italy, rich in history, heritage and culture. But this heritage is an incredible container of stories, myths, and traditions.
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2017 BRIGANDS
A narratve museum in the city of Padula tells the epic of brigandage during the unification of Italy (1860). Between legends and political pretenses, many criminal gangs have taken possession of some villages in southern Italy. The museum imagines a French photographer who would follow the exploits of the bandits as reporters. A French photographer really existed in those years in Padula
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2016 JOE PETROSINO MUSEUM
The small house where the great “cop” was born has been restored and converted into a museum against organized crime. A film inspired by Joe’s biography guides visitors. It shows Petrosino’s considerable merit and credibility in defending honest Italian immigrants proud to contribute to the creation of a new country.
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2015 ASSISI: THE RESURRECTION OF BEAUTY
Milan Expò 2015 “Padiglione Italia“ Audio visual “the strength of beauty”. A terrible earthquake destroyed most of the upper part of Assisi’s Saint Francis Basilica, now restored and rebuilt. A short movie shows how beauty can overcome difficulties and Giotto resumed his place as the father of modern painting.
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2015 THE STRENGTH OF LIMITS
Milan Expò 2015 “Padiglione Italia” Audio visual “the strength of limits”. 22 short stories of people who, thanks to lateral thinking, went beyond their own limits and produced successful business and innovation. Short video in computer graphic animation and a Pepper ghost effect video installation was shown as a metaphor for each story. About 20.000 people per day visited the show.
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2015 THE STRENGTH OF DOING
Milan Expò 2015. “Padiglione Italia” Projection mapping of 22 stories from entrepreneurs that changed the market setting up their future through the strength of doing. AV stories were projected onto a wood sculpture as if it were a skin of light that changed continuously to show how skill and diligence can win in the market. They are presented as examples for the new generations.
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2015 IL SENNO DEL POI
A Film to present Public investment in European projects related to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency multi-regional Operational Programme (OP) for the Italian regions of Apulia, Campania, Calabria and Sicily for the period 2007-13.A concept that recalls the Greek theatre: the starting point of Western values and thinking from the myths that gave birth to our civilization.
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2014 FATTI AVANTI ( COME FORWARD)
Invitalia, govern agency, makes possible start up. Implements enterprises of people with talent, strategies but no experience of money. Rendez vous has been conceived by advertising agency as two space shuttle coupled with gears in sync. The inspiration mood is clearly referred to 2001: a space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, a classic movie that in that collective imaginary reminds the future.
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2014 A NATURAL STORY
The “natural story” we tell in this book is the opposite of some prejudice according to popular beliefs. To understand what nature shows we must learn to formulate conceptual abstractions which can fruitful relate what falls under our senses and the need to understand the causes becoming part of the process called life. Agriculture meets these rules, having been created by man, for man.
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2014 STORIES FROM ITALY
Traveling in the South of Italy, looking for personal stories of entrepreneurs supported by public investimenti, we found smiles, enthusiasm, clever approach to the market, competence and devotion to the company where common prejudice expects backwardness. Ancient culture and deep heritage make them now ready for the future.
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2014 DEBATE AT THE IMPERIAL COURT OF FREDERICK II
It is a book, about three meters wide on the wall in the Museum of the Frederick II in the castle of Lagopesole. It revives a conversation between Pier delle Vigne, political adviser of the Emperor and Jacopo da Lentini, notary and poet. Their debate reveals their logical way to procede and their deep classical culture on the eve of the Constitution of Melfi, between papal excommunication and baronial privileges.
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2013 A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES
The film is an unusual point of view on an Investment Institution promoting business opportunities. In other words it manages dreams from Cinderella to Shakespeare and Homer. Poems seem to be very far away from company strategies, but this film is demonstrating how culture is part of the company profile. Produced in computer graphics, it is blending together hand made drawings, shooting and virtual set.
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2013 CHARLES DARWIN: A MAN WHO CHANGED IS MIND.
Coming up with the idea of using his words to recreate the story of his anguish which led to changing the world, was the great challenge. Being capable of changing one’s mind, like Darwin was, returning from his trip around the world, is the starting point of every scientist. The show is being exhibited at the Turin Natural Science Museum and has been awarded with the BLUE GENIUS at the Medienfestival 2013.
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2012 QUERELLE DES FEMMES
From visual portraits of the Farnese family, we focus on the question of women during the Italian Renaissance. Did they have their own Renaissance or was it for men only? Julia Hairston from the University of California, Rome, helped us in this brief investigation. The documentary was produced as part of the project "La Tuscia Farnese" .
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2011 REPRESENT ITALY
A multivision is created on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Italian Parliament. A chronological summary of the events that changed the history of Italy is the setting for the quotes drawn from the founding fathers of the state and significant moments of literature and culture. This thread holds together a long history of ideas that supports the path of the debate on institutions and on parliamentary democracy.
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2011 GENIUS LOCI.
A spectacular projection on the facade of the building of the Farnese Palace in Caprarola. A show that combines elements of theater, film and audiovisual languages is exceeding the conventional schemes and balances the story and the real. Images push the architecture towards a fantasy storytelling, while the stones of the facade and its glorious past give back immaterial light to the sense of reality.
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2011 FARNESE PALACE MUSEUM.
A narrative museum, made of old patterns and broken continuous continuity of the paradigms of the story to enhance the rooms in the basement of the palace, which are now reopened to the public after a restoration and many years of closure. The rooms have been "re painted" through light effects and projections that lead back to a story narrated by the underground themselves, exposing to the public all the glory and the pettiness of a kingdom once the center of Europe
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2011 THE WORLD OF FREDERICK II
A narrative museum and a multivision exhibit in the court of the Castle Lagopesole to tell the deeds and ideas of the great German Emperor. From the facts of history to the drama, the historical characters are told as men, with their passions, their fears and jealousies. A mixture of languages: from theater to film to the continuous search for appropriate forms of expression in the field of the cultural communication.
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2011FOUNDED ON WORK
Traveling around Rome using imagination, freeze magic corners of eternal city . The title reminds the first article of Italian Constitution that projects the job like foundation of freedom, right and dignity, giving the possibility to imagine a world to construct through the job that was the mirror of these principles. The show is a multivision that animates street images shot by two photographers blending their works with graphic and repurposing their own vision in a common one
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2011TRAVELING NOTEPAD RIDIND A DROP
A series of personal considerations transformed into a film, after a visit to the plants and men who deal with the cycle of water distributed and disposed of for the life of the city of Rome. From an analysis of men, resources and technologies, it derives the certainty that this is an uncommon example of corporate culture and civic sense, of an industrial structure aware of the social role it plays in performing such a delicate and vital service.
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2010 GOOD MORNING "ANTO'".
Through the story of the of Antonio Piccininno, the last of the singers of Carpino of the first generation, narrated by himself, and through a conversation with Roberto De Simone the relationship between popular art and imagination is explored. The film is focused on how these have contributed to the future delivery and the survival of certain structures while affected by a new "oral component" that represents the tradition of a new context.
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2010 SEE GATE
A multivision for the reception center of Torre Mileto that told in a metaphorical way the sea of Gargano. I went to search among the writings of Bacchelli his travel notes written in About the sea of Gargano. The images to be created, then click or shooting in a place they had to abandon their "being the owner of a place "and become the picture of a great sea, metaphorical, away from postcards and recognizable representations.
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2010 HEART DAY 2010
A 30-second spot for reflect on the importance of protecting the Earth and its natural balance. Heart Day 2010 was dedicated to water and biodiversity. The idea that guided the creation of this spot was to think of stopping a moment in time and transform our perception of the space to reflect on what the earth has given us so far
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2010 THE BEGINNING OF A PAINTING.
A circular multivision for the Museum of Prehistory, which surrounds the viewer within large representations art of the prehistoric age. The images are juxtaposed to the words of great artists, to testify as there is a continuity of thought in the history of art and artists as well as prehistoric scene could put in their fears and their hopes, far from being "primitive" as some consider them.
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2010 INQUIRY AT PAGLICCI CAVE.
Proposed at the beginning like a detective story, a mystery is revealed as the work that scientists around the world, they are doing since more than forty years to investigate and reconstruct the life, gestures, landscape, diet and the daily life of a group of people who lived in the cave of the Gargano 25,000 years ago. An unique finding, a field of data and knowledge, an archive of works of art that look prehistoric today seem an absolute modernity. A place still not very well known in Italy.
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2010 TOSCA.
The Archive of the Rome Opera House accessible through the net. The iconographic heritage was taken this experiment that presents Tosca through the elements of the construction of the invisible to the audience of the theater. Annotations in the hand of the director, the costume designer, become part of the drama along with stills of the tests made homogeneous by digital manipulation of the images.
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2009 TRACKS
At San Marco in Lamis, in the Park of Gargano, is in course of preparation the Dinosaur Park, a museum - exhibition about the discovery of many dinosaur footprints dating back 130 million years ago in this area. The museum contains 6 projectors in this show as the centerpiece for the reception of visitors who introduces the topic before the tour begins. Some basic principles of paleontology are dealt with emotional and impressive images and effects.
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2009 PUGLIA RUNS, RUNS.
At the Fiera del Levante, Puglia Region has chosen to set up for the second consecutive year in an octagonal audiovisual space. The projection, built on an eight synchronized projectors multivision, took place around the audience who was able to move during the show within the space. Legislative activities of the Region have been grouped into themes and exhibited in order to demonstrate how strategic decisions were in line with the philosophical principles of modernity.
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2009 LAMPADAS
The subject is the Castle of Cagliari, the most ancient and noble district of the city seen from the eyes of a contemporary native writer. , Sebastiano Arquer 1561 died at the stake in Madrid invoking the love of his too far away ward. An attempt to integrate information for tourists with a cultural stimulus for the identity of the place, the hidden stories and the sense of the place.
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2009 IN THE WAY TO EUROPE
Pilgrims from all over Europe made trips to Rome or to the cave of the Angel. The pilgrimage is the first chance to meet people from different cultures and traditions. The people in Gargano, because of their geographical location, away from the great lines of communication, but central to the cult of St. Michael, have preserved the gift for hospitality to different cultures as a forerunner of the European Union.
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2009 READING THE CITY
The show is the third part of the trilogy intended for the opening of the annual meeting of ACER. This show defines the city as a layering of history and personal stories that intertwine every day to define living spaces. The red thread gives the activity of building a cultural meaning itself, as Thadt which is set in motion to write a novel or to compose a symphony. In fact, the builder today becomes a mediator between imagination, possibility, technologies, and individual and collective needs towards the definition of the city that does not exist.
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2009 THE MIRACLE OF ZE' PEPPE
An investigation behind the scenes of the Carnival of Manfredonia. A passion that unites all generations and all social classes who work together for one month a year exchanging experiences, values and enthusiasm. Recovering, sometimes unintentionally, the tradition of celebrations in honor of Dionysus, directly from the culture of the ancient Greek, of which the Sipontines were guardians and witnesses.
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2009 RICCARDO BACCHELLI'S GARGANO
A documentary that uses the travel diaries of Riccardo Bacchelli written during two stays in the Gargano guest of Giustiniano Serrilli, his companion of University in Bologna. Today we have retraced the same ways that the great writer covered, highlighting what seventy years later has completely changed in the area and what has remained intact: hospitality, tradition, values. It is about honoring the great writer of the twentieth century and the hospitality of a land... together with experiencing that travel literature can become a narrating voice.
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2009 RIGNANO: A LIVING NATIVITY SCENE
A documentary that represents one of the most important traditions of the area: an entire town that, at Christmas, reconstructs the life of last century's crafts, customs and traditions, in the form of a living Nativity scene. The film asks who are the true crib figures, whether the people in costume performing the scene or the visitors who go to the advent just learned the story. The poetry that the crafts of the past emanate perfectly makes the idea of what the country of Rignano represents.
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2009 BRIGANTS IN GARGANO
A documentary born out of a conversation with Raffaele Nigro about his latest book: "Giustiziateli in campo", in which the of post-unification southern banditry is addressed from the literature point of view generating the myth of the social hero. A way to be away from life by the misery and political difficulties of the moment and to return to life through chronicle and literature. Particular attention is paid to the historical and literary episodes that have featured the Gargano.
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2008 PUGLIA: FUTURE AND ANCIENT HEART
An octagonal screen conceived on a multivision that surrounds visitors at the entrance to the Pavilion of the Puglia Region at the Fiera del Levante. A narrative path links the strategic choices in research experimentation and use of renewable energy sources with the culture that has given rise to one of the major civilizations of the Mediterranean, from Federico second to the construction of Castel del Monte.
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2008 INVENTING THE CITY
The second part of the ACER trilogy takes us to the frontiers of imagination and perception as the interpretative keys necessary for everyday life. Every place, every palace, every corner of our city can be taken into consideration by its use and how it is viewed, without us as "interpreters" what is built by man would be "invisible". A Felliniano paradox gives a citation to the idea that life is a continuous narrative.
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2008 GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI
Through his own words taken from his memoirs, we produced a journey through the history of the ideas of the two worlds hero. His principles, his loves and battles are the result of the same mood that Garibaldi imagines, to leave in inheritance to his son and all the young Italians. The episode narrated during the landing in Marsala of a little girl who shouts "Viva Babbaldi" from the balcony refers directly to what my great-grandmother eyewitness of the landing told me.
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2007 LA RAI PER LA CULTURA
The catalogue of programs that RAI has produced over the years is now distributed online. Rai pioneers a new distribution model, it's now possible to buy a single program, where previously the sale was limited to the whole series. It will be interesting to experiment with a distribution market in transition towards the use of the network.
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2007 TEATRO DELL'OPERA in ROME ARCHIVE
Design of the usage interface of the documents of the Archive, a cultural site of great proportions for different thematic reading. Costumes, sketches, sets, scenographies, stories of great artists and great artisans who together make the work of an opera theatre. An Italian reality within the history of theatre and opera with Rome as the world's protagonist.
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2007 UDC NATIONAL CONGRESS
The Center as a metaphor for an audiovisual on a screen of 56 meters by 8 meters used as the backdrop of a stage - Agora. An open square where each speaker is confronted with his own ideas. Not a background, but a context for each speaker. The system was managed for three days strictly live, sometimes without even pre-testing. A 65m x 9m screen with unique high-light images and multi-vision animations.
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2007 THE UNIVERSE OF KNOWLEDGE
A web Tv born from a research by rai and Unicity. A platform born and modified over time based on the needs of designers. The fruition system focuses on the great heritage of interviews with philosophers of the 20th century carried out by RAI, transforming them for use within the University of Naples. The platform was developed in collaboration with the Campania Region
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2007 REMOTE ASSISTENCE FOR PATIENTS
Design and implementation of a remote control system for a rehabilitation of patient at home after a disease. Using a typical domestic ADSL band, the system allows remote monitoring of the patient's activities with good resolution, as well as a centralized system for booking the examination and recording and comparison of findings.
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2007 LIVING THE CITY
Opening multi-vision of the ACER 2007 congress inspired by the "invisible cities" of Italo Calvino. The origins of a city are lost far away and reach the first necessities of man to be together, to form a network. The ideal city that considers itself centered on culture or industry, religion or nature has today become the expression of that "urban breath" as Italo Calvino says representing the discriminating quality of life of citizens.
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2006 ENERGY IN MOTION
As part of the Children's Village of the Meeting dell'Amicizia in Rimini, a series of initiatives - showcases on energy and energy saving issues - have been planned. Burattinai and actors from Human Art, led by Mauro Sarzi have given life to very engaging shows and great impact on children. A dedicated section brought children into contact with experiments in physics related to the use and transformation of energy.
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2006 RAPHAEL ANTOLOGY
By exploiting the great resolution of the images that RAI has made available, the user of this application will be able to access the details of the works of Raphael in an extremely accurate way. Audio guides expressly created by Prof. Ferdinando Bologna accompany every enthusiast in the life of the great painter.
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2006 ACTA DIURNA
The Luigi Sturzo Institute has started an organization project to build new models of fruition and cultural communication with the digital documents in its possession. Guido Gonnella's archive is the pilot of the project itself that will see the light by the first half of the year with the part of the "acta diurna" of Osservatore Romano.
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2006 VOICES FROM CONSTITUTION
Design and direction of a Multivision produced with watch out technology for the 60th anniversary exhibition of the Constituent. The 3-minute projection has been designed to close the exhibition path, creating a suitable atmosphere for the event. The work was supported by Phil Ogden as art director.
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2006 PARLIAMENTS'S REBIRTH
La Rinascita del Parlamento Design and management of a multimedia catalogue in DVD as a support to the exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Constituent. The DVD contains, in addition to the documents on display with the possibility of exploring them in great detail, also multimedia material provided by Rai teche and the Istituto Luce, which can be explored and researched through various access keys.
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2005 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONSTITUTION
Design of an information system for the archiving and management of documental and multimedia contents related to the Italian Constitution and aimed at organizing events for the celebration of the 60th anniversary.
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2005 THE DAWN OF THE REPUBLIC
Design of Internet applications for the use of documents and information paths already created on the occasion of the publication of the CD-ROM of the same name created for RAI. On this occasion, the archive was made available to network users.
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2005 THE LIVORNO REFINERY
The refinery and its city, two organisms that live at the same time close by, approached by the mutual complicity of daily life A film that shows the gestures made every day by those who work there to make possible the simple daily gestures of each of us. Make a cafe, turn on the engine of the car to go to work, warm up the house
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2005 MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS
An online application that allows the user to visualize through a thesaurus themed exhibitions questioning in real time 145 museums of the Campania Region and extracting images and the relevant data sheets of the works concerned. These works are catalogued by the experts using a network. The works can be examined and linked by the portal to their natural location.
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2005 HISTORY OF CAMPANIA
an online application through which it is possible to visualize the salient facts of the history of the Region and the correlations with the historical events that have characterized them. Supported by a wide-ranging of audiovisual documentation. The interface is able to manage correlations by interoperating with the portal in real time.
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2005 PORTAL OF REGION CAMPANIA CULTURE
The Campania Region's cultural heritage and activities portal is the A development and management environment through an editorial staff spread throughout the territory, able to feed the data for the use of the document contained in the portal itself through different points of view: thematic and geographical routes, institutions or events.
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2004 DANCE
The dancing Satyr was exhibited in Japan during the World Expò within a sphere representing a pearl. Giuseppe Rotunno took care of the lighting. For this reason, software programs have been developed able to synchronize the light phases and the synchronized projections suitable to manage the entire story.
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2004 IRIDE
Creation of two films for the "IRIDE" strategy, a program for the enhancement of corporate culture for the Italia fuel distribution company. A film based on interviews with executives and consumers, while the second was made by composing, in a witty and effective way, the company's images with those taken from the great cinematographic films of the past.
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2004 TORCITOTHEME PARK
Design of strategies and thematic attractions for a theme park located near Lecce. A bridge between East and West, between cultures from whose contamination modern western civilization is born. The themes and attractions were derived from local episodes and traditions.
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2004 AICHI UNIVERSAL EXHIBITON
Design of the exhibition strategies through a scenic machine that communicates the overall impact of the Italian Pavillon. The modes of representation were taken from the cinematic culture. Cinecittà Studios. Giuseppe Rotunno and Dante Ferretti participated in the project
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2003 LUISS UNIVERSITY PRESS INFORMATION SYSTEM
Design and implementation of the network structure for Luiss University Press, capable of remotely and cooperatively managing both the management and control flows of publishing activity in every phase, and the promotion and communities born around each book.
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2003 CARAVAGGIO AN IMPOSSIBLE EXHIBITION
An online application for the enjoyment of the works of the great painter utilizing an on line system allowing to access painting with a large and accurate detail. Each work is linked to the artist's byografy The interface is extremely intuitive.
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2003 MARCONI SELENIA COMMUNICATION
The innovative design of the designed site integrates advanced backoffice features for updating content. A section dedicated to web streaming allows the site to be a powerful multimedia tool. As far as the hardware part is concerned, it should be noted that a particular attention to security issues has oriented the choices of connectivity on powerful Unix servers.
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2002 HERTZ TRADE SHOW PAVILLON
Creative and technological solutions to increase the communicative power of the car rental company in Italy. A multimedia gallery illustrated Hertz's partnerships in the industry. A large screen with computer graphics animations.
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2002 UDC FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS
Creative, technological design and direction of the filming and projection systems for the National Congress of Center Democrat Party. Two large screens drew the public's attention to the main phases of the congress, distributing the signal to the press room and the main national television channels.
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2001 PIDMONT SET
Design and realization of technologies and information content for a staging by Ettore Vitale for the "Enoteca del Piemonte". Seventeen synchronized screens to show the movie stars drinking wine. The gigantism of the screens contributed to the scenic effect
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2001 ENRICO FERMI AND THE ITALIAN PHYSICS
Catalogue and scientific biography made for the centenary of the birth of the Italian scientist by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the University La Sapienza in Rome. A way to highlight an often forgotten aspect of Italian cultural heritage: Science. The CD Rom is a layer published and distributed by the magazine "Le Scienze".
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2001 THE WAY OF EUROPE
A series of historical-informative itineraries created thanks to archives of the Teche Rai and edited by Rosario Villari for the Rai Educational editions in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Through the documentary films of the time, the key milestones of European unification
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2001 MOBILE LABORATORY
The environment and its protection. On board the mobile laboratory for environmental monitoring required by AgipPetroli our crew was able to document all stages of the work. An experience that Agip has presented during many Italian fairs, interacting with the services offered to customers, information on the environmental compatibility of cars and their intelligent use.
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2000 THE TABLES OF VON SCHROERER
The La Sapienza University's chemistry museum in Rome celebrated the opening after the restorations, distributing this Cd Rom in which the nineteenth-century didactic panels subjected to conservation restoration were illustrated. A way to enter the history of ideas, characteristic of the progress of science and its way of teaching it
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2000 ANSA PRESENTATION
A cd Rom which presents the history, positioning, technologies and services of the largest Italian press agency. This results from an in-depth study of the future market needs arising from new information technologies. The Cd Rom has been distributed to all customers in Italy and abroad and used by the sales force as an institutional presentation
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2000 CORTEMAGGIORE
An interesting journey trough Eni's research and innovation centres, discovering the technologies used in the production of fuel and oil synthesis products. The most important surprise was to discover that the documentary turned into a journey of enthusiasm and passion of researchers.
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2000 INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION
Design and realization of a multi-vision audiovisual on three synchronized screens for the setting up of the company's conference room. With the material turned for the occasion, a documentary archive has been created for internal training purposes
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2000 INSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTARY
Thanks to the collaboration of Alex Rowbotham (graphic designer)and Andrew Mc Ray, ( the soundtrack), it has been possible to make this documentary that reviews all the international activities of AgipPetroli. No spoken text accompanies the movie as usual. The suggestions are entirely left to the visual and music
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2000 FIVE CENTURIES OF MEMORIES
A great artistic and cultural heritage in a multimedia system available to the public. The system that could constitute the seed of a permanent museum for one of the largest Banks in Europe. Banca di Roma museum will be set up in the years to come.
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1999 VITTORIO DE SICA
A tribute to the great director through a critical review of his works and interpretations as a singer and actor, in relation to his biography, which coincides with one of the most important periods of Italian movies. The multimedia system was printed and distributed by Cd Card at a foreign press conference.
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1999 PHONOLOGY ATELIER
A multimedia system able to navigate through the scores and the realization of great masters such as Berio and Maderno and their experimental research in modern music. The CD Rom was published by Eri in support of a book on the subject written by Paolo Donati.
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1999 FUORICLASSE
Rai Educational program that compared some Italian schools in a quiz of general culture. This is the first programme in Italy where the interaction between spectators took place through the internet. A live graphics system read the internet data processed the statistics and offered them in video.
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1999 SINT COMMERCIAL
An advertising spot for the Arabian markets shows cars, motorcycles and motorboats racing on a racetrack made from the oil can that was one of the design and marketing elements of the product. The system has been designed and entirely realized the computer graphics
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1999 FIVE CENTURIES OF MEMORIES
A great artistic and cultural heritage in a multimedia system available to the public. The system that could constitute the seed of a permanent museum for one of the largest Banks in Europe. Banca di Roma museum will be set up in the years to come.
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1999 MULTIMEDIA BALANCE SHEET
The company balance sheet presented through a multimedia system that can have much more than just economic data. The international presence has been highlighted through the creation in computer graphics of satellite maps rendered on an altimetric model and made film.
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1999 PLAY CARDS
Design and production of a modern version of the classic collection of players' figurines. The traditional figurine is replaced by an interactive Card capable of being read by the PC, which represents a real monograph of the footballer: goals, exciting images, technical data sheets, screensavers, original desktop backgrounds, statistics and data to be downloaded weekly via the Internet.
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1999 PRINGLES PRESENTATION
Interactive system realized with three-dimensional modeling and animations in computer graphics for internal communication for the new product launch. A comparative study of the competition had to show the sales force the strategic positioning of the product in an evocative way
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1999 BOLT PRESENTATION
At the time of the launch of the soap on the market, the company presented the reasons why of the advertising campaign through an interactive romantic CD that was both supportive to speakers during the event and distributed, though password-protected, as a motivation to the sales force.
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1998 ACQUAMEDIA
First London Internet Exhibition. Acquamedia is the first European Interest Group registered in Brussels in the new media sector. Founded by Adimedia and Clear Water Communication. An artisan engraver, he created for the public a home page of an internet site surrounded by technologies displayed by the group. The metaphor was evident to the public and other exhibitors, the emphasis of communication was on the message.
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1998 CAROSELLO
An interactive application to celebrate the advertising section that represented a fundamental step in the Italian cultural panorama. The most important actors have measured themselves with the storielle in pills proposed by Carosello. The database allowed a chronological and diachronic view of the sequences in order to show for each product, the evolution of the communication
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1998 VIRTUAL DIORAMA
In the furrow of technological innovation for communication technologies, Eni has promoted the design and creation of a virtual animated diorama able to show two typical days aboard an oil platform. The interaction between reconstructed materials and filmed materials has been so well integrated that the public is impressed. The show has been repeated in different venues and awarded fly by Texaco as "Innovation in communication".
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1998 ROUTES OF PHYLOSOPHY
A fruition model designed to make accessible to the general public of enthusiasts, students and curious the enormous wealth of interviews with contemporary philosophers that RAI has accumulated over years of research. Distributed in the school by Paravia.
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1998 ST PETER FACADE RESTORATION
An extremely ambitious communication plan has led to the creation of a series of interactive CDs for journalists and the general public that could represent extremely heterogeneous data. Radar exploration of the rock and sixteenth-century paper documents at the same time as the thesis of restorers. The system has allowed us, beyond the technologies, to build extremely innovative models of fruition for cultural heritage.
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1997 ENI ENVIROMENTAL REPORT
Health, safety and environment is the title of the group's budget presented to the press and the public through multimedia support. The application has been used as an info point in trade fairs, just to spread the technologies used by Eni in the sector through the animations of strong impact created for the occasion.
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1997 JOURNEY TO GELA
First of a series of documentaries produced by the oil company in the places where the refineries are located. Outside the company custom, the documentary brought the cameras among cycle workers and citizens to sew a portrait of the relationships between industry and territory that had the cut of an investigation rather than an institutional film.
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1997 L'ALBA DELLA REPUBBLICA
Inserted in the program History of Italy Multimedia of Rai the interactive system allows a sophisticated navigation through the documents provided by the historical archive of the Chamber of Deputies and Teche Rai. The research was published by Rai Educational and distributed by the weekly Panorama (120,000 copies). The work has won the most prestigious industry recognition - the 1997 BIMA Awards in Great Britain
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1996 THE SINGLE EUROPEAN CURRENCY
A documentary titled " The single Europea Currency" shows Agip as one of the most used fuel brand in Europe. Shot in the main European capitals where the Agip brand is present, through interviews with passing customers he presented, in the mix of languages and accents, the company look, courtesy and quality of service as a point by all recognized company characteristic.
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1996 ENVIROMENTAR REPORT
An entirely multimedia way of presenting the annual environmental report to the international press. The cd Rom contained a precise explanation of the technologies implemented by the group for the protection of the environment in which it operates.
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1996 ENI ISTITUTIONAL PRESENTATION
Produced at the time of the privatization of Eni, Il cd Rom was distributed in 20,000 copies and displayed in the main Eni offices around the world. It contains numerous examples of computer graphics animation and a sophisticated color table compression system to allow the system to work on a low-profile, high-performance system. The Cd Rom received the prestigious AMI gold award in Philadelphia.
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1996 70TH ANNIVERSARY
An interactive system to retrace the seventy years of the Italian company in a synoptic table that reconstructs the main events of Italian and foreign politics. The system printed on CD Rom was distributed in 15000 copies to celebrate the company's seventy years.
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1996 THE SEE
Produced for the Ravenna OTC, a three-screen multi-vision system integrates Eni's off-shore activities in the Italian maritime tradition, between imagination, fascination and everyday life. From Fellini's great stories to the daily activities of extraction at sea, it has been realized with a multilayer system in computer graphics on video laser
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1996 PANORAMIC MULTIVISION
A panoramic screen video made through the synchronization of video laser discs, allowed the illustration of the salient balance data in an extremely suggestive way. The film was used as a walk in the event and for other events of the year.
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1995 SPLENDORS OF RAVENNA
An interactive interactive Cd Rom built for the tourist promotion of Ravenna to foreign audiences. It contains historical and artistic information as well as information on gastronomy and popular traditions. Originally conceived as a tribute to the delegates of the world conference on off-shore technologies, it was then distributed by the publisher Longhi through its multimedia catalogue.
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1995 IMPIANTI IN FIORE
A motivational multivision carried out to support the award ceremony of the best floral decorations of the service stations. The flower was adopted as a metaphor of attention to the customer and context. For the occasion, a prestigious international team was created, including Phil Odgen and Nick Kateringam. The program won the Goald Award Ami in Philadelphia.
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1995 ABBOTT TRADE SHOW
The client wanted to show the centrality of the human factor in their value chain. For this reason, the metaphor chosen was that of humanism, characterized by the small temple of Bramante and the golden proportions of the project. Each element of the stand referred to this choice, including quotes from former philosophers' ranks combined with key corporate phrases
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1995 THE SLEEPING GIANT
Motivation film for the Agip sales network. Market research had identified the size of the company as a brake on customer care behaviour by service employees. This is why this film was shot, which sought, in a witty way, to highlight precisely the flaws to be corrected. The film made use of unusual computer graphics effects in a corporate documentary. It was used by Agip's marketing team in a road show that touches the whole of Italy
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1994 LEVANTE TRADE SHOW
A monitors video wall displays the positioning of the oil company through the juxtaposition of images, the system was synchronized with a series of light projectors from the ceiling projecting a few phrases onto the floor. Hundred thousand visitors cue the stand until night
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1994 LA NOTA GIUSTA
A documentary filmed in a North refinery at a corporate safety event. The right note was precisely a counterpoint between an orchestra conductor seeking balance and life in the refinery in search of the best possible product with an environmentally friendly and safe working process for the workers. The absence of accidents for many years showed that the right note had been found there
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1993 BARCELLONA TRADE SHOW
Inside a pavilion reconstructed as if they were nuts cast on a table, there was a 48 projector multivision that illustrated the phases of the AgipPetroli cycle and international positioning. A lot of space was reserved for Ferrari sponsorship in F1 races.
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1993 THE TWO ISLES
A documentary focusing on Taranto, its refining activity and the island where the old town was built. The district was rising again thanks to the restoration by the European Union and was returning to mankind one of the most evocative and rich corners of the peninsula's history. The interviews with the inhabitants of the old Taranto have set a bridge between the millennial culture and the ability to actively relate with the new industrial activity
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1992 TOSCA IN THA TIME AND PLACE OF TOSCA
Multivision designed by Mario Convertino for the presentation to the international press of the media event of the year. From operatic tradition to technologies for the first time used for a live recording of such a complex event. The work was presented in the setting of Castel Sant' Angelo.
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1991 NIEFTO: FIRST WESTERN FUEL STATION IN MOSTOW
Welcomed by a warm and enthusiastic audience, an institutional multivision on Italian and foreign activities was presented with a final dedicated to the Soviet public and the Joint venture that saw them join the great Italian brand.
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1991 CLOSE TO EMATHOLOGY
Artistic direction of a convention dedicated to new methods of analysis. Important films from the past, such as Close-up Meetings of the third type, or Return to the Future, were the pretext for a spirited but effective container for the presentation of new company products. Video and multivision technologies have been combined together. Synchronization was guaranteed by a Sony video laser.
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1991 OVER TO YOU
A multivision entirely created in animation for the world symposium on leadless fuel, ironized about the discovery of Italy by the congressmen described as a journey by Christopher Columbus from the West and Marco Polo from the East. A sort of history, on the contrary, to welcome more than a thousand scientists from all over the world. The work won the Ami Bronze Award in Los Angeles.
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1991 MADE IN ITALY EXHIBITION IN IRAN
A stand and a video wall presented in Iran at the Made in Italy event. An exhibition among the best technologies proposed by the Italian oil group in an international context
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1991 WOLD CONFERENCE ON FUEL
A huge installation of more than one hundred projectors created at the entrance to the Italian pavilion a show of great charm and strong emotional impact. The more purely corporate aspects have been presented in counterpoint with the Italian culture very appreciated in Brazil
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1991 FAO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Audio-visual on the occasion of John Paul II's visit to FAO. It showed through the synchronization of three video laser sources the work of sensitization that Fao carried out in less developed areas of the world.
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1991 ERICSSON TRADE SHOW
Communication as an opportunity to rationally intersect different elements from all over the world and digital media. A kaleidoscope large so that we could get inside was the metaphor of global communication
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1991 A STORY THAT CONTINUES
A multivision created to show the fundamental events in the history of Italy connected to the technological and economic achievements of a large industrial group. Inside some sequences created with mixed technology: photography and animation
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1990 SMAU ERICCSON VIDEO WALL
A video wall with two synchronized laser video sources to create a metaphor for the change in the quality of everyday life that is predictable for the development of digital technologies applied to communication.
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1990 ANTONIO'S DREAM
A completely metaphorical film based on the sequences of movies that have made our story. The history of film culture is the story of the ideas and aspirations of the man that a great international energy company has made its own in everyday practice. The experiment proposed to AgipPetroli to make a presentation using only metaphorical references and not images directly related to the company
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1989 OPERAZIONE CORMORANO
A multivision presented on the occasion of an event in defence of the landscape organized in Sardinia and realized with the technique of animated drawings. Inspired by "the old man and the sea", she tells of a boy to whom a cormorant teaches how to safeguard the beaches in order to protect his life.
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1988 AURIGA
The launch of Auriga. The largest merchant ship in the world, it was launched in Genoa. For the occasion, a multivision made with images taken during the works highlighted the work through the gigantism of its components. How large can a propeller be compared to a man?
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1987 WORLD GAS TRADE SHOW
A rotating cube consisting of hundreds of synchronized monitors has been created to tell a story by images. The system was synchronized on a rotating platform capable of slowly following the audience as in a carousel and with a series of light projectors that sent phrases on the floor to support the audience.
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1987 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAS DISTRIBUTION IN NAPOLES
Audiovisual exhibited at the Pompeiian farmhouse in the villa of Naples traces the history of the "gas heating companies" and the intellectual movements that characterized the distribution of this form of energy in the Neapolitan city. Naples was the first city in the world to be illuminated with gas.
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1986 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
It is not easy to explain all the activities of the Eni group and its importance in Italy's industrial heritage to children at the lower school. For this reason, a world-shaped character was invented who jumped from one image to another and provided a "red thread" for the creation of this consciousness and support to the teachers' activity.
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1985 VULCANO PROJECT
A video made with multi-vision animated collage technology to illustrate Eni's research into the installation and underwater maintenance of the plants by means of robotic systems. The audiovisual has been presented in both film and video format.
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1984 GOOD MORNING SOUTH
The theses of a conference of Young Entrepreneurs have been represented through an audiovisual multi-vision realized with the technique of animated collage. The strategies of the conference were written and produced in an evocative way and with great emotional impact.
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1983 CRESCENDO CON BRIO
The metaphor for a system of enterprises is an orchestra. The fusion of individual instruments and individual individuality allows for a concert, a single voice. Created for the conference of Young Entrepreneurs of Capri, this audiovisual featured in a suggestive form the theses of the conference itself.
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1983 ECONOMY BETWEEN THE TWO WW
The Italian economy between the two wars. Inside the evocative setting of the Colosseum of Rome, included in an exhibition of industrial artefacts unique of its kind, a multivision created the right spirit to venture into the visit. The achievements of Italian technology supported by the music of that time.
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1982 CARABINIERI HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Inside the restoration of the Carabinieri museum, a series of audiovisual have been installed, capable of retracing their history before proceeding to visit the museum itself. A separate section, at the end of the visit, showed the activities and techniques of investigation.
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1981 GALAXY ENI
At the Milan Trade Fair, the multivision was projected onto a cylinder 36 metres in circumference, inside which spectators could see a sky with galaxies in formation. Each galaxy metaphorically represented a sector of Eni's activity that took shape from it.
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1980 ITALIAN VOLLEYBALL FEDERATION
The opening of the annual conference was done through a multivision to show the activities and results of the federation. The images were made in the field through a register camera system to allow animation of the sequences. The first presentation took place in San Remo. The audiovisual was used for the various phases of the Mickey Mouse trophy and presented to the annual assembly in Cortona.
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