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Renato Meneghetti

1981–present

Photography, Cinema and Theatre

In 1981-82 he shot Divergenze Parallele, a 103-minute feature film of which he is author, director and sole performer, presented in 1983 at the Venice International Film Festival, De Sica section. In 1985 he turned it into Patavanitas, a concertante solo for mime and orchestra at the Roman Arena in Padua, awarded the Fenice d’oro. Alongside cinema, photography and more than thirty video art works shown at international festivals.

Divergenze Parallele

1983

Feature film shot in 1982 with Lorenzo Trento at the camera and Claudio Mainardi on photography, presented at the 40th Venice International Film Festival in 1983 (De Sica section). Best editing award at the XXII «Laceno d’oro» Neorealist Film Festival in Avellino; since 2013 in the archive of the Cineteca Nazionale, Rome.

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Insania (the photobook)

1981

1981 photobook: more than a thousand photographic self-portraits taken by Claudio Mainardi.

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Patavanitas

1985

Ouroboros

Oltre l’apparenza

Cycle begun in 2017.

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