Mario Ruspoli

Mario Ruspoli (born the June 17th 1925 with Rome and deceased the June 13rd 1986 with Villepinte in France) a Realizer of Cinema Italy N.

Biography

Wire of an big family of the Italian nobility, it was impassioned voyages and of Pataphysique.

Its work, often ignored because limited to the Short film, is of great importance in the history of the modern Documentaire, as well as that of Jean Rouch, Michel Brault or Pierre Perrault. It indeed forms part of these experimenters who knew to put technological advances of the catch of sight and the sound recording (lighter Caméra S, first synchronous Magnétophone S) at the profit of the artistic creation and an ideal of the documentary summary by the expression, perhaps illusory, of " Cinema vérité".

As of 1956, it makes to the the Azores a film on the last whalers to the harpoon entitled the men of the whale , document on a practice which one thought completed for a long time.

In 1961, it turns, with the operators of " Chronic of a summer " of Jean Rouch, documentary Michel Brault and Roger Morillère, two short films on the peasants in Lozere, " the unknown ones of the ground " , and treatment of the mentally ills, " Glance on the madness " , films which will be worth to him the regard of its pars and personalities such as Roland Barthes or Edgar Morin.

Large friend of the humorist and draftsman Chaval, it will carry out after his death two films in his homage starting from his drawings, " Chaval " and " Chavalanthrope ".

During the Years 1980, it will carry out several emissions on paleolithic parietal art (" Cro-Magnon, first artist " and " the Art of the world of darkness ") and the Corpus Lascaux realizes. It publishes also Lascaux, a new glance (Bordered, 1993 with the coll of B. and G. Delluc and Mr. Patou).

Partial catalog of films

1956 : men of the whale
1961: the unknown ones of the ground
1961: Glance on the madness
1964: last glass
1970: Chaval
1972 : Chavalanthrope

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