Circumstantial photography: using a picture to reconstruct an event

29 january 2020 
with Paolo Fattori and Goffredo De Pascale (Chi l’ha visto?)

Paolo Fattori and Goffredo De Pascale (Chi l’ha visto?)

 

On the evening of 18 November 1989 Denis Bergamini died after being run over by a lorry on the Jonica highway. The Cosenza soccer team's striker and idol of this League Division 2 team's fans was only 27 years old when he died. Both his former girlfriend and the lorry driver, the only witnesses to the accident, claim that Denis committed suicide. But is that really true? The mystery is still open, though it has been solved in part thanks to a handful of photographs. The encounter aims to demonstrate the techniques of television investigation through the study of evidence such as photographs and ground plans to try to find out what really did happen.
 

Paolo Fattori has worked on many programmes for Rai, La7 and Sky: Sfide, Residence Bastoggi, Amore Criminale, Città Criminali. He won the Drago Leone prize at the Valdarno Cinema Fedic in 1999 with his documentary El Cerro Rico - la montagna d'argento, a tale of miners at work in Bolivia. He directed the documentary film La classe operaia va all’Inferno in partnership with Simona Ercolani, telling the story of a tragedy in which seven workers lost their lives in the ThyssenKrupp factory in Turin. He has been working with Chi l’ha visto? on Rai3 since 2019.
 

Goffredo De Pascale was born in Naples and divides his time between the cinema and reportage, working with the Sunday le for Il Sole24Ore, iO Donna, Corriere della Sera and numerous radio and television programmes for RadioDue and RaiTre. He won the Giancarlo Siani prize with his book Africa bomber and the Premio Enzo Baldoni award with his documentary Primo giorno di Dio. He has been working with Chi l’ha visto? on Rai3 since 2010. Acting in conjunction with Paolo Fattori he has also investigated the cases of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori, Attilio Manca, Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin.

Informazioni

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