from 1976 to 1980 I spent my childhood in Abruzzo, Montesilvano in the province of Pescara. Then the village was a sea of \u200b\u200bagglomeration of buildings under construction and asphalt roads, the elementary school I attended was arranged at a local school classroom with a teacher and several old school friends who came from the hinterland, farmers' sons seeds illiterate.
My house was near the railway skirted a field and fallow, the only space we had in the area to play. In that area, my fever started to film for the camera and the movies, a passion for me, quite prohibitive. At the time, fans of home cinema used the 8 mm film cameras or Super 8, which cost a fortune, because in support of these needed to buy a projector and a screen of that size to be able to see their projections. Then, for those who wanted to do some 'post-production, it needed a little slow motion and a mechanical splicer with tape to make a rough cut and spliced \u200b\u200bfilm editing. I though this was not envying those who had neither one is something I could do the other thing, because she did not have camera or projector. Taken by anxiety but I could not and should not have to give up fantasies, just dismounted, and an old pair of binoculars along with a small wooden box I built a fake camera and the image with this take everything. My imagination went further, I could not be me doing the shooting, but a fictional character, who wanted to shoot it, because I figured not exactly young, but about fifty years, operator of the Rai and film maniac. Was born in my imagination a Deo, who replaced me every time with my parents went out for a walk. Deo, took possession of my personality took over everything with his camera, but the reality revealed a child of just over ten years with his wooden box. Deo was not active and did not live in Montesilvano, Deo lived in Florence, in my hometown and in his home imaginary filed its shots in an archive for a trace of his walks, his life. Deo disappeared with the arrival in my adolescence, forgotten between childhood games, but his stock has remained in my heart. The passion for shooting was awakened when I grew up and then when digital technology has enabled me to cultivate this passion since then I have never stopped to produce videos, short films and movies, in full freedom, and self-taught independent filmmaker .
to fantasize more ... Deo, passed away January 30, 2011, and on his deathbed he told me: "Go to my house, entering the office, the film library is that there is yours, and make good use, you deserve it And thanks to you I have experienced. The contents of the film library emotions cause you only appreciate if you know the least that's around you, in essence, in its aspects of photography, good vision ... goodbye "
Today I feel the need to bring to light that 'Store, those shots that are still in my mind, bringing it all back in time and retrace the life of Deo.
Deo, then materialized and his shots, made through detailed digital reconstruction, came to light thanks to the chosen settings and the minimalism that has marked them in my memories.
The profile now Deo is rebuilt, I describe here to faithfully followed in respect of how I imagined in my childhood.
name: David Santignani, friends Deo.
was born in Florence, May 20, 1927, son of Leah and Joseph Giovannini Santignani, a dealer in tripe and offal to the central market in Florence. He worked with his father until 1952, when he was hired as an assistant to RAI radio programs of study. Passionate about cinema in 1956 bought his first 8mm camera with which he experienced his first shooting. "Simplicity minimum" will be his first work of experimental cinema. With the advent of television and was promoted with his camera operator will run the world, without abandoning its own ambitions. Together with his cousin Dino is proposed for any adventure, the more bizarre stories of his class.
Deo also distinguished himself as a good uncle, had no children, but two sons Luciano grandchildren, his brother, they called him "Grandpa Deo."
the age of sixty years, was suffering from a serious illness to the view that forced him to abandon his passion for ever. Deo so he retired in absolute silence in the hills of Tuscany to the day of his death, January 30, 2011.
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