Ver com os próprios olhos: o grande projeto de Roberto Rossellini

Abstract

In 1962, Roberto Rossellini anounced to the reporters covering his lecture in the Einaudi bookstore, in Rome: “Cinema is dead!”. From that moment on, he would dedicate himself to educational television. The research will follow his steps in his almost fifteen years of productions alongside the italian TV station R.A.I.. Analysing his texts, lectures and interviews, the objective is to understand the theoretical, practical and ideological consequences of the entitled “Great Project”. From the textual analysis, the research will find out how Rossellini made a diagnosis of his society and how he intended to transform it. At last, we’ll also verify how this theoretical basis is taken to the practice of film making, which techniques he used and how he worked dramaturgy. How the director found himself a method to take on his pedagogical goals. The audiovisual analysis will have as object the three-episode TV series The Renaisseance (1972).