THE TREASURE OF HIS YOUTH: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PAOLO DI PAOLO
SUN, 12/4, 7:00pm, 105 min SAG HARBOR CINEMA
Q/A with Director Bruce Weber; Sylvia Di Paolo in conversation with Nancy Buirski
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Director: Bruce Weber
Producers: Eva Lindemann Sanchez, Nan Bush
Editor: Antonio Sanchez
Cinematographer: Theodore Stanley
For 50 years, Italian photographer Paolo Di Paolo’s pictures were hidden away. Even his daughter didn’t know her father had been a photographer. But when she found a box of his photographs one day, she discovered that he had portrayed some of the most important people in the history of creative Italy. There were images of filmmakers and writers like Pasolini, Mastroianni, Anna Magnani, Bernardo Bertolucci and Alberto Moravia. She persuaded her father to show the pictures to the world.
For American photographer and film director Bruce Weber, Di Paolo’s pictures were a revelation. His tribute portrait is a stylish, elegant black-and- white film that turns the clock back to a bygone and romantic cinephile past. Bruce Weber’s award-winning films include six feature length documentaries, among them, the Oscar-nominated Let’s Get Lost, and numerous short films.