Instead of writing books and
stuff, I'd rather preferred to make films. The problem
is that to make films you need (or at least you needed)
film, which is far more expensive than paper. Then you
need actors and many other complex things that require
abnormal quantities of money to be spent. Therefore
I thought that it was easier to write books instead,
and so I did and I do. However, now and then I can't
avoid messing up a bit with a camera, in front of behind
it, or even in front AND behind it at the same time.
Don't expect too much. Anyway, most of the stuff here
is on Italian, but there are a few items on English
as well.
TECNICAL
NOTES
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Recorded during SF Convention Eastercon, Bradford, UK
Saturday April 11th, 2009
INTERVIEW
TO ROBERTO QUAGLIA
(2003)
Salgotarjan, Hungary, July
2003. Roberto Quaglia has been invited as a honour
guest in the yearly Hungarian
science fiction convention "Hungarocon".
Some young film-makers of the Hungarian school
of cinematography interview him.
Language: English Lenght:60 minutes
Cast:Roberto Quaglia, Attila Galambos Director: Attila Galambos
Little speech on the origin of consciousness
(2007)
March 2007: This is a lesson held by Roberto Quaglia in the University of Bucharest, Romania, on the origin of human consciousness, based on the theory of the bicameral mind of Julian Jaynes
Language: English (with just some sentence in Romanian here and there ) Durata:120 minutes
With:Roberto Quaglia, Bruno Medicina
Interview to ROBERTO QUAGLIA on the September 11 Myth
(2007)
Made by TV
Language: Italiano Duration:13 minuti
With:Roberto Quaglia, Emanuele Montagna
This interview is available on the following formats:
TALKSHOW with SHECKLEY -
WATSON - QUAGLIA
hosted in Bucarest by Alexandru Mironov
(August 2004)
August 2004. After weeks
of travelling around Europe, a little tribe conposed
by Roberto Quaglia, Robert
Sheckley, Ian
Watson and others stops a few days in Bucharest,
Romania. We're invited for a talkshow in the studio
of a cultural TV channel. Alexandru Mironov is the host,
and the result is a good quality one hour long talk
show.
Language: English
(with just a few sentences in Romanian ) Duration:56 minutes
Cast:Alexandru Mironov, Robert Sheckley,
Ian Watson, Roberto Quaglia Directed by: in studio
July 2004. The great American writer Robert
Sheckley lives a few months in Genova with Roberto
Quaglia. One fine afternoon, on a nice terrace in genova
Quinto, in front of the sea, Roberto interviews Robert.
Language: English Duration:50 minutes
Cast:Robert Sheckley, Roberto
Quaglia Direction and cut: Roberto Quaglia
July 2000. The great American
writer Robert
Sheckley, guest of Roberto Quaglia in Genova,
meets his Italian fans in Piacenza, at the Fahrenheit
451 bookstore. Panel moderated by Vittorio Curtoni
and Roberto Quaglia.
Language: Italian
- Inglese Lenght:68 minutes
Cast:Robert Sheckley, Vittorio Curtoni,
Roberto Quaglia Camera: Max Morando
Genoa, Springtime 1990. The "Marco Dio Show"
is the adaptation for theatre of a literary work of
Roberto Quaglia. It never went really on stage, exept
just on one evening of springtime 1990, in the form
of a dramatic reading by 13 actors. It's a long story
why it actually went on stage that evening, and I
won't tell it here to you. If you understand Italian,
I'm telling the story on the Italian version of this
page. Luckily, someone made a video, so that that
event didn't disappear into oblivium completely. Unluckily
(for you) every single word spoken in the play - included
the words invented by me - are on Italian.
Story: The Marco Dio Show, originally written
in 1989, it's a TV talk show of the future, where
you can take a peek on what will be going on in the
Italian society in a few decades from now. Language: Italian Duration:120 minutes
Cast:Alberto Carpanini, Alessandro Testa,
Ciro Ciraudo, Corrado Roncallo, Franca Fioravanti,
Gabriele Galasso, Maurizio Mosca, Maurizia Burlando,
Mauro Montarese, Renato Leopoldi, Roberto Quaglia,
Saverio Soldani, Valentina Monica Pozzi Scene and costumes: Micaela Tentarelli Directed by: Roberto Quaglia
Year 1993. Gigi Picetti and Roberto Quaglia meet now and then to give birth to extravagant discussions about unlikely or even unexistent argoments, and everything gets on tape. More than ten years have passed since, and these clips have become an underground cult in some Italian circles.
TRASMISSIONI PER IGNORANTI (Programs for ignorants)
(1993)
Language: Italian Lenghts:44 minutes
Cast:Gigi Picetti, Roberto Quaglia Directed by: Nobody, trust me
Renzo Spinetti, and nothing else. At the time he was living in Sweden. He happened in Genova for a couple of hours, and in a couple of hours (around TWO) we've shot this little film. Cutting in rel time. Screenplay in real time. The plot? Well, that's still quite a mystery...
The Universal Principle Of Paranoia
(Il principio universale di paranoia)
(2002)
June 2002. In a genovese apartment on the beach of Boccadasse, one evening an unrepeatable conversation happen. Two extraordinary thinkers of our age, Mario Quaglia and Alexandru Caragea discuss for the first time together about maximum systems. What's strange? Well, in first place they speak different languages (English an Italian), and theoretically they both do not understand the language of the other one. In the second place, they manage to perfectly understand each others all the same. In the third place... well, those who'll watch the video will get it. Or not.
Watch it with Windows Media - (extremely low
quality, modem connection) - [25,6
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[100 Mb] - 250 kb/s
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