(December 2nd 2016) Prague Day for Maestro Vittorio Storaro, invited by Foundation Eleutheria to intervene at initiatives dedicated to his artistic production, organized in collaboration with Italian Embassy and Italian Cultural Institute. At 2.30 p.m., at Library of the City of Prague’s Great Hall, three-time Oscar winner for photography lecturing “Vittorio Storaro and digital cinematography”, dedicated to the new acquisition method of moving images as digital data stream , a system that has revolutionized the world of film production. After the conference will take place the delivery of Amu gold medal to Vittorio Storaro for its high artistic merits, by the dean of Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Famu), Professor Zdeněk Holý. Following the screening of Woody Allen film, “Café Society”, with Storaro as director of photography. It was presented out of competition as the opening film at Cannes, which has been realized with digital technology and is enjoying considerable international critics approval. At 6.30 p.m. in the Clam-Gallas Palace halls will be held the finissage of the exhibition “Roman civilization”, a visual journey that can take visitors over the space of visual representation and to open up access to personal photographic world of the teacher, always oriented toward ” the enigma of vision. ” Roman civilization Collection’s photographs constitute the culmination of a project that began in the late ’80s, when Storaro has traveled in Italy, Syria, Turkey, Greece and other countries that belonged to the Roman Empire to document the ruins and thus preserving the ancient splendor for future generations. The monuments were photographed with the technique of double exposure, not an easy task before the advent of digital photography. The cycle of events are organized by Eleutheria Foundation of brothers Augusto e Ottaviano Razetto, under the patronage of Embassy of Italy in Prague, Italian Institute of Culture, City of Prague, Prague City Hall 1, Prague Academy of Film,Television and performing arts (Famu), Italian-Czech Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. (Red)
