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<strong>AIC</strong><br />
Avventura per<br />
professione<br />
Quanto sto per scrivere è<br />
soprattutto dedicato ai giovani<br />
che, amanti dell'avventura,<br />
intendono intraprendere la<br />
professione del cineoperatore.<br />
Ci sono molti modi di affrontare<br />
il proprio lavoro, c'è chi lo fà in<br />
maniera pacata e ragionata,<br />
scegliendo un lavoro d'ufficio o<br />
altro pur sempre sedentario, e<br />
chi invece, per scelta o per caso,<br />
si trova ad affrontarlo in<br />
maniera per così dire più o<br />
meno movimentata. C'è infine<br />
chi lo fà vivendo una continua<br />
avventura.<br />
10 ritengo di appartenere a<br />
quest'ultima categoria di<br />
persone.<br />
Tutto cominciò circa venticinque<br />
anni fa, quando un giovane e<br />
affermato regista, che aveva già<br />
girato diversi film di successo,<br />
mi prese come assistente<br />
operatore (il direttore <strong>della</strong><br />
fotografia era il caro amico Aldo<br />
Nascimben) per filmare una<br />
serie di documentari sull'Africa<br />
per conto <strong>della</strong> RAI.<br />
11 lavoro si preannunciava assai<br />
duro e pericoloso, come lui<br />
stesso ci tenne a precisare prima<br />
<strong>della</strong> partenza, e come in effetti<br />
si dimostrò essere durante i tre<br />
mesi di lavorazione girando in<br />
lungo e in largo tutta l'Africa.<br />
Come dicevo, la mia avventura<br />
cominciò venticinque anni fa e<br />
What I'm about to write is dedicated, above all, to young people who love<br />
adventure, and intend to become Directors of Photography.<br />
There are many ways of approaching one's work. Some people go about it<br />
in a calm, reasoned manner, opting for an office job, or something<br />
similar, while others, by choice or by chance, find themselves doing<br />
something fairly active. Then, there are people who choose to live a<br />
continual adventure.<br />
I believe that I belong to this last category.<br />
It all started about 25 years ago, when a young director who had already<br />
made a name for himself with several successful films, hired me as<br />
assistant cameraman (our dear friend Aldo Nascimben was the Director<br />
of Photography) on a series of documentaries he was going to shoot in<br />
Africa for the RAI.<br />
The assignment promised to be both tough and dangerous, which he<br />
himself pointed out to us before we set off. And the three months of<br />
shooting, which took us the entire length and breadth of Africa, proved to<br />
be just that.<br />
As I said, this adventure of mine began 25 years ago, and is still<br />
continuing, because since that that first job as assistant cameraman and<br />
on all the others that followed as Director of Photography, I have always<br />
worked with that same Director.<br />
His name is Folco Quilici Everyone who knows him, and has followed his<br />
extraordinary career, is fully aware of the kind of journeys he<br />
undertakes, and in which parts of the globe.<br />
On that first job in Africa, I found myself standing a few feet away from<br />
prides of lions, herds of elephants and other ferocious animals, which was<br />
a totally new experience for me! I also entered into contact with some of<br />
the extremely primitive tribes, and began to understand the customs and<br />
RICCARDO<br />
GRASSETTI