Franco Piavoli

Franco Piavoli
Born	(1933-06-21) June 21, 1933 (age 91) Pozzolengo, Lombardy, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, producer
Spouse	Neria Poli

Franco Piavoli (born 21 June 1933) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.[1][2][3]

Biography

Piavoli studied law at the University of Pavia in Lombardy.[4] Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he made a number of short films: Uccellanda (1953), Ambulatorio (1954), Incidente (1955), La stagioni (1960), Domenica sera (1962), Emigranti (1963), and Evasi (1964).

Nearly 20 years later, Piavoli released his first feature film The Blue Planet in 1982, which competed at the 39th Venice International Film Festival. Piavoli directed Nostos: The Return in 1989, a film inspired by Ulysses' return to Ithaca in the Odyssey, and contains only sparse dialogue that imitates "sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages".[4][5]

In 2009, Piavoli worked with Ermanno Olmi on Olmi's documentary about food production Terra Madre.[6]

Filmography

Feature films

• The Blue Planet (1982)
• Nostos: The Return (1989)
• Voices Through Time (1996)
• At the First Breath of Wind (2002)
• Tender Presence (2004)
• Feast (2016)

Short films

• Surgery (1954)
• Sul lago di Garda (1959)
• The Seasons (1961)
• Sunday Evening (1962)
• Emigrants (1963)
• Convicts (1964)
• Lucid Deceptions (1986)
• Il parco del Mincio (1987)
• Landscapes and Figures (2002)
• Lo zebù e la stella (2007)
• The Flora Garden (2009)
• Là dove scorre il Mincio (2011)
• Fragments (2012)
• Untitled segment in Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

References

1. Chiti, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto (2002). Dizionario del cinema italiano: i film (in Italian). Gremese Editore. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-88-8440-137-3.
2. Invitto, Giovanni (2006). Fenomenologia del mito: la narrazione tra cinema, filosofia, psicoanalisi (in Italian). Manni Editori. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-88-8176-854-7.
3. Moliterno, Gino (29 September 2008). Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. pp. 391–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6254-8.
4. Guardiola, Rosario Rovira (2017-12-14). Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts: Sailing in Troubled Waters. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 9781474298612.
5. From the opening credits of Nostos: The Return.
6. "L' orto di flora". Cinéma du Réel. Archived from the original on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

Further reading

• Faccioli, Alessandro (2003). Lo sguardo in ascolto. Il cinema di Franco Piavoli [The listening gaze. The cinema of Franco Piavoli] (in Italian). Turin: Kaplan. ISBN 978-88-901231-1-5.
• Schillaci, Filippo (2020). Il cielo, l'acqua e il gatto. Il cinema secondo natura di Franco Piavoli (in Italian). Dublin: Artdigiland. ISBN 978-1-909088-38-2.