Panta: Musica

by Enrico Ghezzi

421 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Born in Lovere (Bergamo) in 1952, Enrico Ghezzi entered RAI, the Italian public service television company, in 1978 and was made responsible for film programming on RAI3. He offered cinema lovers a number of unusual and carefully chosen film cycles, such as "The dark mirror", "Eccentric visions", "Crazy women", "The magnificent obsession", "Colour black and white" and "Cinema of '68", many accompanied by on-screen commentary. Author of a well received book on Stanley Kubrik, he tried his hand at directing himself in 1987, shooting the 7-minute short "Gelosi e tranquilli" (Jealous and calm), part of a film in episodes directed by fifteen of the so-called "New Italian School" directors.
In 1988 he created, and still often presents, "Fuori orario" (After Hours), a late-night programme on RAI3, which shows things "never before seen" from the archives of TV broadcasters all over the world, offering sub-titled scenes from rare films and extreme examples from the international cinema culture. He achieved notoriety with "Blob", a programme created by Marco Giusti, which has been one of RAI3's most popular programmes since 1989. "Blob" introduced a new kind of TV programme, pulling apart and laying bare the communicative techniques of the television medium, creating a sophisticated intellectual linguistic game.