Franco Piavoli

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Franco Piavoli (born June 21, 1933 in Pozzolengo , Lombardy ) is an Italian film director .

Life

Piavoli graduated with a degree in law , but was then primarily interested in botany and behavioral research and worked as a photographer. From 1961 he made documentaries on his subjects, which received critical acclaim. In the meantime he almost turned away from filmmaking and almost became a teacher, since his income as a director was barely enough for his family. In 1981 he presented a full-length work, the visually stunning Il pianeta azzurro . In this film, the nature lover shows the cycle of a day and the four seasons, the few people who appear in the images of nature appear small and lost. In his subsequent films, too, nature, the passage of time and the cycle of life were central themes. In addition to film work, Piavoli also worked for a long time in the theater and opera, in the 1984/1985 season he staged around two operas by Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi .

His first feature film followed in 1989: Nostos - il ritorno focused on the sea and its tranquility - as in all of his films, Piavoli, who also writes, films and cuts them, relies on visual language and minimizes dialogue. His next film, Voci nel Tempo (1996), takes place in a small Lombard village and depicts the moments in life and feelings of the villagers of different ages: the first scenes in spring take place among children, then it shows adults and finally, towards the end of the film, the old people are in autumn to see. In his last full-length feature film to date, Al primo soffio di vento (2002), the camera follows the very different worlds of the members of an Italian family of six. In 2007 the Centro Coscienza devoted a retrospective to his early photographs. In the 2010s, Piavoli directed several short films.

Piavoli, who founded the production company Zefirofilm, has received numerous awards for his work, including a Silver Ribbon at the Nastro d'Argento in 1983 and the FEDIC Award at the Venice International Film Festival in 1996 . Prominent fellow directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci and Andrei Tarkowski received praise for him. The film historian Gian Piero Brunetta writes in his history of Italian film : “Franco Piavoli, loner and anomaly , developed a poetry and an ability to tell stories only through images, unlike any other in recent cinema history - in Italy and abroad”. Piavoli's films are full of "epic and lyrical breath", the influence of ancient poets such as Homer or Lucretius can be felt in him. “He knows how to make wind, water, sky and clouds the stars of the film. He knows how to capture the symptoms and signals sent out by nature. Like a shaman , he puts them into a symphonic story in which noises and sounds are no less important than the images. "

Filmography as a director

  • 1954: Ambulatorio (short film)
  • 1961: Le stagioni (short film)
  • 1962: Domenica sera (short film)
  • 1963: Emigranti (short film)
  • 1964: Evasi (short film)
  • 1981: Il pianeta azzurro (feature film)
  • 1986: Lucidi inganni (short film)
  • 1987: Il parco del Mincio (short film)
  • 1989: Nostos: Il ritorno (feature film)
  • 1996: Voices in Time ( Voci nel tempo ; feature film)
  • 2002: Al primo soffio di vento (feature film)
  • 2002: Paesaggi e figure (short film)
  • 2004: Affettuosa presenza (medium length film)
  • 2007: Lo zebù e la stella (short film)
  • 2011: Là dove scorre il Mincio (short film)
  • 2012: Frammenti (short film)
  • 2013: Venice 70: Future Reloaded ( episode film , a short film by Piavoli)
  • 2016: Festa (short film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvia Carlorosi: A Grammar of Cinepoiesis: Poetic Cameras of Italian Cinema . Lexington Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4985-0985-5 ( google.de [accessed December 17, 2019]).
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rom, Gremese 2002, p. 334
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ^ Company website
  5. ^ Mary Hanlon: Celebrating the Earth: The Films of Franco Piavoli. June 7, 2008, Retrieved December 4, 2019 (American English).
  6. ^ Gian Piero Brunetta: The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century . Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-11988-5 ( google.de [accessed December 16, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Piavoli, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Pozzolengo