Chemello Mario

email:
mario@apapaja.com
sito web:
http://www.apapaja.com/

Bio

He comes from the province of Belluno, lived in Venice, and then moved to Bologna, where he now lives and runs a production company that deals with both cinema and TV: Imago Orbis.

He graduated from DAMS (art, music, and spectacle) at the University of Bologna, with a degree in art history; he has always worked in the audio-visual field as an operator, director of photography, and director.

After a DEA in visual anthropology at the EHESS of Paris, several shorts, research, and anthropological documentaries on Africa (Forme del ricordo and La medicina degli antenati), he now works as a free lance reporter and operator for Format, TGR Mediterraneo, Videomusic, and RAI 1.

In 1996, he and his friends created the Imago Orbis production company.

His productions vary between industrial documentaries to reportages, to cultural documentaries (ethnology, art, society), to “no-limits”. From 1998 to today, he has produced and co-produced some shorts and full-length films for the big screen.

In the following years, together with his authorial and entrepreneur job inside his production company, he’s been writing two books about African handcraft and about the head-rest in the ancient and tribal cultures.

Filmography

1992 Forme del ricordo.

1993 La medicina degli antenati.

1994 A pesca con Greenpeace.

1996 Sahara Occidentale: un muro lungo vent'''anni.

1997 Dalle onde alle dune.

1999 Studenti italiani a Mostar.

2000 Zambia: la terra degli orfani.

2002 Plastination.

2003 Il soccorso in montagna, una storia semplice e concreta.

2005 I forti inutili del Cadore (incompleto).

2009 I cercatori di miraggi

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