Dario Zanasi
Directing
Biography
Dario Zanasi is an author of documentaries, video-clips, and short films. Among his fiction works, he directed three short films: CONTRAPPASSEX (1995), LIMBO BOULEVARD (1997), LUNA (2000), which participated to numerous Italian and foreign festivals and won several prizes and awards. In 2004 he creates Latin Lover, Italian episode of the collective European film LARGE (2004), that was screened in all the 25 European states and also in Congo, Indonesia and Colombia. In summer 2004 Zanasi was one of the creators of CineCirco (Group 28senza), itinerant festival of Italian independent works (fiction, documentaries, video-art) that goes from Italy to Lapland and that is linked to the Midnight Sun Film Festival.
Known For
Twelve musicians who have never seen each other before, six Europeans and six Africans, in a house in Addis Ababa. Objective: to build a jazz concert in fifteen days . The way to get there is a fifteen-day coexistence that turns into a perennial jam session . It looks like the format of a reality show ; in reality it is MAISHA, a project of the European Union - precisely of the European Commission.
Maisha
Legendary opera stars Renata Scotto and Carlo Bergonzi are in peak form in this magnificent live 1967 performance of Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece. The cast also includes Mario Zanasi as Enrico and Plinio Clabassi as Raimondo. The NHK Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus are under the direction of Maestro Bruno Bartoletti.
Lucia di Lammermoor
A journey to discover the places of culture, through the history of seven libraries. All public, all with a mission: to create knowledge and make community in a society undergoing great transformation, in which the library has and will have an increasingly important role, between conservation and digitisation, between the speed of information and the slowness of reading.
Le biblioteche e la città - Conoscere per essere liberi
The Teatro del Mondo is one the most famous works by the italian architect Aldo Rossi. This surprising floating theatre sailed, in 1979, from Venice to Dubrovnik becoming a legendary event in history of architecture. The man and the architect trough the words of some of his best friends and fans.