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Carlo Scarpa & Aldo Rossi Masters of Poetry & Memory
CARLO SCARPA E ALDO ROSSI, MAESTRI DI POESIA E DI MEMORIA CARLO SCARPA AND ALDO ROSSI: MASTERS OF POETRY AND MEMORY
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ITALY | 2020 | ITA | ENG SUBS | 59 MIN | DOCUMENTARY
PRODUCTION: Movie Movie per RAI Cultura-RAI 5 DISTRIBUTOR: Rai Fiction DIRECTORS: Conversano,Grignaffi ni
The fi lm is the portrait of two masters of Italian architecture, extremely different in training and vision, both in search of an architecture that transcends time: Aldo Rossi seemed to fi nd the answers in the abstract thought of things, Carlo
Scarpa in the concrete way of putting them into light.
The part dedicated to Aldo Rossi was also created inside the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, where, in 2019, the exhibition Aldo Rossi and Reason was held. The past and memory, monuments and what remains of people’s work over time are among the dominant themes of the Milanese architect, the fi rst Italian to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1990, the so-called Nobel Prize for architecture. Aldo Rossi was a complex fi gure in the Italian architecture of the second half of the 1900s, also thanks to the importance of his thought and theoretical elaboration, as well as to the impact that his writings have. In search of permanent values in architecture, he became a master for generations.
SEARCHING FOR AN ARCHITECTURE BEYOND TIME LIMITATIONS
FRANCESCO CONVERSANO AND NENE GRIGNAFFINI
Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffi ni have been collaborating with Rai for many years as creators, directors and producers with the Movie Movie, the small factory they founded in Bologna, that has been operating for over 30 years in the fi eld of fi lm production, making documentaries and reportages, privileging the "author documentary" as a place and genre in which to experiment with new languages and different narrative forms. In 2018, Conversano and Grignaffi ni directed and produced, with the supervision of the architect Michael Obrist of the University of Vienna, a three-part series entitled The Three Architects. Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Gio Ponti, also premiered at the Milan Triennale in 2019 and subsequently at the Maxxi in Rome.
