Pasinetti, Francesco

Pasinetti, Francesco

▪ Italian filmmaker
born June 1, 1911, Venice, Italy
died April 2, 1949, Rome

      Italian motion picture director, historian, critic, comedy writer, screenwriter, and film scholar.

      At age 19, Pasinetti began writing film criticism for a Venetian newspaper. In 1933, having submitted the first Italian thesis on the topic of motion pictures, he received a degree in art history from the University of Padua. The next year, on a limited budget, he directed the documentary Il Canale degli Angeli (“The Canal of the Angels”). For this film, Pasinetti visually captured a melancholy atmosphere, using the Laguna Veneta—the lagoon that surrounds Venice—as a backdrop. In 1936 he became a teacher of motion picture direction and screenwriting at the Centre for Experimental Cinematography in Rome. His documentary Film di tutti i tempi (1939; “Films of All Time”) was later shown at the Venice Film Festival. That same year he published the precise and well-documented Storia del cinema dalle origini a oggi (“History of the Cinema from Its Origins to Today”).

      During the late 1930s and early '40s Pasinetti collaborated on numerous screenplays and wrote four successful comedies: Lontananza (1937; “Distance”), La sorella (1939; “The Sister,” a collaborative work), La richezza (1941; “Riches”), and Tutti hanno ragione (1942; “Everybody Is Right”). He also directed dramatic and lyric works, including operas by Gian Francesco Malipiero (Malipiero, Gian Francesco), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus), and Gaetano Donizetti (Donizetti, Gaetano). Starting in 1941 he served as director, cameraman, and editor for a series of documentaries. Notable among them are Sulle orme di Giacomo Leopardi (“Following Traces of Giacomo Leopardi”), eight short subjects dedicated to an intimate study of Venice, and many medical documentaries.

      In 1945 Pasinetti collaborated on a collection of theoretical essays called La regia cinematografica (“Directing Motion Pictures”), in which he endorsed the theories of Sergey Eisenstein (Eisenstein, Sergey Mikhaylovich). Three years later he edited and published an expanded and improved Italian edition of the German text Kleines Filmlexicon, under the title Filmlexicon, piccola enciclopedia cinematografica (1948; “Filmlexicon, a Small Encyclopedia of Cinematography”). After World War II he became director of the Centre for Experimental Cinematography, a position he held until the day of his premature death.

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