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- 'The Forbidden Fashion', a portrait of Roberto Capucci realized by [error] with Elda Ferri and Roberto Cicutto for Istituto Luce Cinecittà, is the story of an Italian Genius lent to Fashion. For Ottavio Rosati Capucci's fashion is forbidden and unique because the famous couturier, at the height of his success, stopped organizing defiles and began to present his works in museums around the world. Roberto was 26 years old when Christian Dior in "Vogue Magazine" presented him as "The best creator of Italian Fashion". He received the "Fashion Oscar" with Pierre Cardin and James Galanos. In 1980, after his international success, Capucci announced that he wanted to get out of the classic fashion system based on défilés and would only present his creations in Artistic Exhibitions. Since then his works appeared in the Museums of Munich, Wien, Berlin, Paris, New York, Washington, Luxembourg, Stockholm, Madrid, Strasbourg, Moscow, London, Lisbon, Firenze, Saint Petersburg and other cities. In 2013 his exhibition "La Ricerca della Regalità" at the Venaria Reale of Turin, attracted more than 20.000 visitors just in two days during the Easter period. The film shows for the first time, two albums of Capucci's drawings. One is the collection of sketches of Imaginary Characters, "Capucci Dionisiaco" (Firenze, Uffizi, 2018). The other is the album where Capucci ironically describes people and street fashion observed during his walks. The characters of the two albums come to life, thanks to Digital Animation, interacting with their creator. "The Forbidden Fashion" is set in Rome, Milan, Florence, London, Naples, Paris and Vienna. Roberto Capucci has opened up his roman house in Rome, near Piazza Navona, an attic with a garden-terrace with a 360 view of the city. The documentary includes interviews with Anna Fendi, Adriana Mulassano, Pier Luigi Luisi, Sidival Fila, Heike Schmidt, Silvia Ferino and princess Maria della Pace Odescalchi. Capucci tells the story of the dresses created for the award of the Nobel Prize to Rita Levi Montalcini, and describes his relationship with Anna Magnani, Silvana Mangano and Pier Paolo Pasolini, the only director with whom he worked for the cinema. The documentary includes the true story of an Italian girl who entered a museum and spent the night sleeping inside the wedding dress "Sposa Rossa" she wanted to wear for her wedding. A fiction reconstructs the dream where the girl becomes a boy who crosses the Naples subway filled with Capucci's creations. "La Moda Proibita" want to recount the history of a courageous European artist indifferent to economic industrial power of Prêt-a-portér. In the spirit of Capucci aphorism "Who follows the Fashion, is out Fashion". He is an excellence of the Italian twentieth century: a famous couturier who has managed to realize his dreams in reality without bending to the commercial fashion system. His life is exemplary from the psychological and cultural point.
- A Socioplay on the Road about 10 forms of Love. Turning point: the wedding of Tinto Brass and Caterina Varzi. Origin of "Bricconaggi" as Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018) and I cani dell'acqua marcia (2018) about Betrayal and Forgiveness. The story comes from the interweaving of three erotic sub-plots and takes place during the "Psychology Festival" of the Order of Psychologists of Lazio (Italy): nine events concentrated in five days. Among the most eccentric activities of the program the Order organizes (with months in advance and very meticulously) L'Amore in Piazza ('Love on the Road') a socioplay directed by Ottavio Rosati in collaboration with the students of the IPOD training school in Psychodrama and Psychocinema. The event should not happen in theaters, clinics, or in television studios as Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) but suddenly explode on the streets or in the squares of Rome. The President of the Psychologist Order, Nicola Piccinini and his right-hand bridle, Pietro Stampa expect something like a Flash-Mob to interrupt the habits of passers-by overcoming the barriers of social life and proposing brief meetings and clashes on the theme of Love. The aim of the Festival is to give to Roman people a friendly and new image of the psychology and its usefulness for the well-being of people and groups. Rosati with the collaboration of Francesco Marzano (executive producer of The Forbidden Fashion (2019)) accepts and proposes to the Order a spin-off of Il rischio della felicità (2011) the format that Ottavio has realized in Siena in 2011 with Luciana Santioli: an interactive socioplay for students with music, plays, parrots, fireworks, bibliographies printed on colored paper, interviews, megaphones, flowers, surprises, unexpected encounters and games in the Piazza del Palio. Apart from the two cities, there are many differences between the outdoor socioplay of Siena and that of Rome. First of all, instead of the couple of Cacatoa parrots Iside and Teto, this time Ottavio will have two nice cockers, mother and daughter at his side: Winnie and Duffy that Julia, wanted instead of the parrots of Ottavio since she lives in his house. Julia does not love birds. Many ingredients to animate the Romans and tourists by staging images, memories or poems on love in the streets of the historic center of Rome are a remake of those that Rosati has already used in Siena. From the point of view of directing and filming, it does not seem easy to challenge the indifference of tourists and bystanders or the irruption of cars and sounds in the historic center of the Capital. Therefore Rosati asks the Order to call the 'Ponentino Trio' a popular group of singers and performers who for years have kept alive the repertoire of the Roman songs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And here someone unleashes an invisible sabotage. The employees of the Order, in charge of printing and distributing the sheets - on their own initiative and without saying anything to anyone - remove from the sheets the box where passersby should indicate their email address to be able to receive an invitation to the final meeting of the event. Big mistake. Later the saboteurs will say they have omitted it so as not to violate the rules on privacy. Only a twist will keep the final appointment and make sense of the socioplay. Rosati decides to dedicate the final meeting to Caterina Varzi (lawyer, ex lover of the famous analyst Aldo Carotenuto and actual Muse of Tinto Brass, actress protagonist of Hotel Courbet (2009) considered among the twenty most erotic films in the history of cinema). Caterina Varzi arrives, dressed as a star, in the premises of the Order where there are only students of the IPOD school. After a long catharsis where she tells her story, her controversial loves and her psychodramas, she concludes the Festival of Psychology announcing her wedding with Tinto Brass the famous Italian director who put playful sexuality at the center of his cinema. Caterina is now his muse. Caterina also saved him after a stroke. The meeting with Caterina, advocate-actress-therapist, arouses many sharing in the group. Once again it is Art that comes to the rescue Psychology. A few months after Ottavio, Francesco, Roberta and other students of the IPOD School will witness the marriage between Brass and Varzi in the country villa of the director. A few months later: real love problems. Julia will abandon everyone, as always in her life: men and dogs. And Ottavio in the same spaces of "L'amore in piazza" between Trastevere and Campo de Fiori, will reveal to everyone his love for Francesco. And his gay jealousy. Even shouting and hugging. Exactly as Shakespeare writes in the phrase quoted by the Order of Psychologists for the Festival: 'Se non ricordi che Amore t'abbia mai fatto commettere la più piccola follia, allora non hai amato' ("As You Like it"). It is a scandal. It is a Coming Out and an Acting Out. It is a catharsis. It is an experiment. It is a play. It is an action of Openness, the contrary of what happened many years before when Ottavio's analyst had a secret sexual relationship with Fabio, Ottavio's partner. This situation becomes the subject of "Le Bimbe Atomiche" (Baby Bombes) the script for a movie. The pitch of L'Amore in Piazza ("between the Order of Psychologists and the Orders of Love" ) is based on a play on words. In Italian 'Order of psychologists' means the bureaucratic institution of the profession. But Order also means command, the injunction of Eros and Cupid. The opposite of putting in order.
- A psycho-thriller inspired by a real story. That, in turn, is inspired by two videoplays: Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018) and I cani dell'acqua marcia (2018) ad by a documentary about High Fashion The Forbidden Fashion (2019).
- As Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018) this videoplay by Ottavio Rosati is an example of 'Bricconaggio': the artistic and active catharsis of an old (but still present) trauma. One day in 2001 Ottavio discovered that his young and talented partner Fabio during his "psychotherapy", financed by Ottavio, made frequently sex with "dr. Hide" the famous analyst who for ten years had been the teacher of Rosati. After 16 years Rosati reveals the circumstances and the emotions that he didn't express in 2001, in order to avoid the complete separation from two loved persons fundamental for his identity. The Ottavio's performance is completed by the Voice Off of Maurizio Stuppiggia (Teacher of Psychodrama School IPOD) who explains the consequences of any affective trauma and the specific manipulation with which dr. Hide in 2001 blocked any reaction of Rage of his former pupil. Rosati's videoplay of 2018 ends with a joyful exchange of dogs and revelations about today's gay customs between Ottavio and his pupil Francesco Marzano, author of the book "Ciak si gioca". The two cockers, Winnie and Duffy are the main testimonials of everything, in homage to the phrase of Francoise Dolto: "In a family children and dogs always know everything". The title "I cani dell'acqua Marcia" is inspired by Emanuele Trevi's novel "I cani del nulla" (2003, Einaudi, Stile Libero).
- An European comedy about the struggle to save the Planet for Tinto Brass, linked to L'amore in piazza (2017) (2017). Wien 2008: the tenor Christopher Gluck is famous because at the Volksoper he sings 'The Bat' by Strauss with his cacatoa Sissy beating her wings and trilling to the rhythm of the music. To match Sissy with an equally extraordinary cacatoa, Gluck finds Romolo, a cacatoa who lives in Rome with the psychiatrist Trevi who trained him in the pet-therapy of children with extraordinary results. The two masters are exalted by the idea that Sissy and Romolo will be perfect mascottes for WWF ecological struggle. Trevi prepares a beautiful wedding cage on the terrace of his house in Trastevere overlooking the Botanical Garden, a paradise of trees, flowers and perfumes. Gluck brings the parrot-bride to Rome in secret of his gay partner, the special effects creator Maximilian Adonis who is insanely jealous of Sissy and would prevent her mating with any bird. Max says he is not interested in the future of the planet but only in the present: he has no children and doesn't want to have any. Gluck pretends he's going to organize an edition of Rigoletto in Caracalla where he will sing with Sissy in place of the hump. In Rome, the famous director Tinto Brass has been informed about the wedding of the two Super Cacatoa from his new Muse, the lawyer and actress Caterina Varzi who is Trevi's close friend. She has organized a photo shoot for a manifestation in favor of the Amazon Forest where Sissy and Romolo will pose at the Botanical Garden of Rome between flowers on a baby's pram representing the Amazon Forest. Brass is more sex-oriented than ecological: he wants to shoot the pairing of the two cacatoa for his new film. The first shots leave him upset: he discovers that sex between parrots takes place without penetration. Tinto Brass notices that Sissy, as an actress, feels that someone is watching her because she moves in favor of the lens and the best light and says: "A star is born, even if she is not a pornostar!". In the meantime in Wien Maximiian discovers that Sissy is in Rome not for a Rigoletto but for her marriage. He is horrified and looks for Robert (detective and escort) asking him to save an "innocent parrot". Robert understands "un parroco innocente" (an innocent parish) and accepts the work. Two days after the arrival of Sissy, Caterina brings Gluck and Trevi and their Super Parrots in Sicily for an important manifestation. They will animate a socioplay produced by Italian TV and the European Community for children's ecological education. Boys and girls carry the garbage on stage with the help of puppets in the form of parrots. When Trevi encourages children to tear in pieces the monster that wants to set fire to the Amazon Forest to create pastures. A teacher complains that the boys should be more reflective and less aggressive in their protest but Gluck and Trevi respond that the new generations should be destructive by all means against those who are destructive of a common good like nature. When parrots begin to fly around the hall and the stage to the rhythm of a waltz, it is a true triumph. Later, during the night, in the hotel Sissy disappears from the room. Trevi and Gluck are upset. Caterina calls the police. Also the mayor of the city arrives who was present in the socioplay and offers any kind of help the city can give. Police finds in the theater toilets some burnt parrot feathers and the heads of two roast chickens cut into pieces with a hammer. Gluck has a heart attack and is hospitalized. Trevi tries to remain calm and explains the gesture as an attempt to discourage their campaign precisely because it is very effective. The hotel mistress takes out a tarot deck. The cards say that Sissy is still alive and that they must wait for her in Sicily. She will return in flight if Romulus continues to call her from the theater terrace. This of course means not returning to Rome. What to do? . Here the thriller 'Cacatoas' stops without an end. Actually, this plot (a movie in a movie) has been imagined during a long "psychoplay on the road" that in 2008 had O. R. as director and Leo Riedel as protagonist in order to elaborate Leo's mid-life crisis. In real life Leo, after having married Silvia and having lived and worked with her for many years in a hairdressing shop, was becoming rich and safe from an economic point of view but not from an existential one. For this reason in 2008 he had turned in Rome to Ottavio, the dear friend with whom in 1975 (when they were both poor and full of enthusiasm) Leo had lived a short but important story of love that saved him from a PTSD and allowed him to recover his memory and his real name. During the psychodrama on the road in 2008, Ottavio (as director and as therapist) had the idea of shooting clips of 'Cacatoa' as a form of therapeutic videoplay with the participation of his two parrots Teto and Iside. Obviously in the definitive real movie the two levels of narration should be interconnected. In this sense, this five clips of 'Cacatoa' can be considered part of a movie in a movie. A third important (and tragic) level of the story comes from the inter-generational analysis of Leo's unconscious life that Ottavio Rosati did during the psychodrama on the road in Europe: Leo's mother had lied to her son about the identity of his real parent. When she was pregnant without being married, her father (a crude old-fashioned farmer) had driven her from home. Later Leo's grandfather hanged himself for shame after being accused of setting fire to a neighbor's barn. After the psychodrama on the road - and after losing on the roof of a taxi the hard disc with the clips of 'Cacatoa' - Leo returns once again to Vienna from his wife Silvia and his work. And in Vienna, in telephone contact with Ottavio, he has the courage to finally present himself to his real father. The meeting takes place at the same moment as Ottavio in Rome finally receives from the Ministry of the Italian University the document that authorizes him to open the Postgraduate School of Psychodrama and Psico-cinema. The synchronicity is impressive also because the house of Leo's father is located in the same district of Vienna where Jacob Levi Moreno did in 1921 the first experiments of the Theater of Spontaneity. The day after, Ottavio concludes the new editing of the clips for the comedy 'Cacatoa' and begins to write the script of the global film which includes the three levels of the story. Caterina invites Rosati to be her witness at the wedding with Tinto Brass that will be filmed in L'amore in piazza (2017). Rosati decides to dedicate the entire film to the struggle for the salvation of the Planet, concluding it with the return of Isis-Sissy from Teto-Romolo in the Botanical Garden.
- Antonio Bertoli, student and collaborator of Alejandro Jodorowsky and teacher of IPOD School of Psychodrama, connects trans-generational psychoanalysis to the theories of Haley and Erickson and the therapeutic mechanisms of Psychomagic.
- A TV socioplay with the advice of Malcolm Andrews (director of the Dickens Fellowship) that proposes to participants a multimedia play where the languages of theater, cinema, and video-jockey intertwine puppets and lyric music.
- A couple of gay artists both masters of talking parrots depart from Rome for an international competition for the most beautiful and playful specimen of Cacatoa Alba. Fabio's parrot is called Teto, Ottavio's is called Isis. The competition takes place on the island of Tenerife at the Loro Parque, the largest zoo of parrots and other exotic animals in the world. On the ship Fabio (who is a creator of special effects for the cinema) makes a dream where a group of inseparable sing two of his favorite songs: one by Lucio Dalla, the other by the vocal group of Take Six. The same night Ottavio, who is a director, dreams of doing a photo shoot at Naomi Campbell who wanders among the cages of Loro Parque in a wonderful dress by Roberto Capucci. At the hotel, after unpacking the bags, the two friends realize that Isis has begun to dance and gorge a few notes. Fabio is so impressed that he decides to really make the video of the two songs in computer graphics. But who made his dream? He or his Isis? He has no doubts about the intuitive and magical dimension in which the Cacatoas live, but his companion does not think the same way and teases him. In the evening at the hotel Robert turns on his laptop and finds on the web a video where the actress Valeria Solarino poses with two Cacatoas identical to them for 3D photos dedicated to Corriere della Sera, the first to be published in a newspaper. He remains stunned and calls Fabio because he runs to see. His cacatoa laughs and moves his neck up and down with the raised crest.
- Boys and girls play their dreams with professional actors. A new format by Ottavio Rosati from the experiment of Le Psychodrame (1956) by Jacob Levi Moreno and Roberto Rossellini. It will become Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) (Rai3 - Italy).
- A series written by Ottavio Rosati and Alfredo Antonaros for Raisat from an original idea by Rosati and [name/nm0686087] conducted with Teto and "Nanda" a voracious squirrel. Produced by Rai Sat Gambero Rosso. The surrealistic/comic myth of the series is that Sigmund Freud has reincarnated in a Cacatoa Alba and that, to purify his karma learning the theories of the psychoanalist Melanie Klein. Rosati, must take him to markets and restaurants where passers-by ask him questions about food. Rosati will respond through the Kleinian model, citing clinical cases and pieces of film, in a studio with cages and pets. Here the cacatoa wanders in the company of the blue-headed Amazon Miss. With them there is also the female squirrel Nanda, inside a cage set with pine branches. Her likeness with the Americanist [name/nm0686087] close friend of Ottavio, strikes Igles Corelli and Bruno Barbieri the famous chefs of the Gambero Rosso who bring her enormous quantities of fruit. The beautiful squirrel looks insatiable. Rosati suspects that Nanda secretly takes the fruit to a secret lover in her nest. Ottavio Rosati presents the subject of Il Pappafreud to Rai in the form of a comic story: Teto is the Cacatoa Alba president of my school of Pet Therapy. The teaching committee consists of an Amazon (Miss), a Krameris (Tweety), a rabbit (Angora) and a squirrel Callosciurus (Panza del Ventre). The secretary of the school is my friend Fernanda Pivano, the famous Italian writer and translator from Hemingway. From my last trip to Vienna my beloved Cacatoa gets agitated and talks in his sleep. The veterinarian observes that Teto speaks German. He administers him a homeopathic medicine but in vain: the disorder continues, even worse. I'm very worried. What to do? [name/nm0686087] invites me to go by train to Siberia in search of a shaman specialized in birds. I look for and find the most expensive: he accepts the case, takes Teto and goes with him to the smoke hut. I spend the night in the cold, dying of cold and looking at the tent from which emerge drums, fires and vapors. At dawn the Medicine Man comes out and makes a shocking revelation: my parrot is invaded by the spirit of an Austrian father of Psychoanalysis who fled to London where he had no respect for an important sorceress. Teto invaded by Freud? Such as? When? Why? I do not like this story. And then why does it involve my quiet existence? What have I got to do with Freud? The shaman does not answer. He asks and gets a thousand dollars and disappears into the woods. I'm back in Europe. On the train a suspect emerges: and if the city was London and the sorceress was the famous analyst Melanie Klein who discovered breast envy? Teto does not play or make drawings. He eats only sausage and drink only beer. At night, he continues to fidget. Halloween arrives. [name/nm0686087] and I have lunch at home with friends and pets. At the moment of the appetizer, someone knocks on the door. Who will be? Two Tibetan monks bow and donate a box of cigars. Teto shouts, flies to the box and takes a cigar. Miss and Titti peep. The squirrel shakes its tail. The rabbit trembles. Nanda adds two seats to the table. I immediately tell the story of the shaman. A monk caresses the rabbit, the other completes the Siberian revelation: Freud, in his life has made the mistake of believing that the strongest instinct is sex rather than hunger. He reincarnated in Teto to expiate the crime of having turned his worst pupils into parrots that repeat his words without understanding them. I am now the guardian of this Sacred Bird. I must instruct him on the new frontiers of psychoanalysis, starting from Klein's formulas relating to breast, milk and various orality. After the training, I will have to carry around my Pappafreud for markets, bars, restaurants to answer people's questions about the joy of food and drink. Only at the end of this pilgrimage my parrot will be freed from the spirit of Freud and will return to play like a simple cacatoa. The two monks leave full of Italian cakes, wishing peace and joy. Was it all a dream? I just closed the door from the library Miss and Tweety with a beak pull down a book of Klein: book "Envy and Gratitude." It looks like a sign! The phone rings: it is my friend Alfredo Antonaros, the writer, who invites me and Fernanda for Christmas at his house. On the table a Sacher Torte suddenly materializes with a red shrimp in the center. I shudder. Teto throws away the cigar. [name/nm0686087] looks out the window, turns pale and shows me a writing appeared in the sky: "The Magician Melania Does not Live More Here". I feel happy and smile. Everything is clear.
- Ottavio Rosati directs the first psychodramas held on italian theaters. Both starting from plays by the Nobel Prize Luigi Pirandello's: "Questa sera si recita a soggetto" (Tonight we improvise) and "Ciascuno a suo modo" (Each one in his own way). Starring Zerka T. Moreno, wife and collaborator of Jacob Levi Moreno the father of psychodrama. Both with the collaboration of the Americanist Fernanda Pivano. The first (1983) for Teatro Stabile di Roma at Flaiano Theatre, with the participation of actors from the Living Theater. The second (1986) at Carignano Theater for Teatro Stabile di Torino, starring the Nobel Prize, Dario Fo who gives his voice to Jacob Levi Moreno. In Turin, Zerka Toeman Moreno performs the strange role of "La Moreno (che tutti sanno chi è)" and directs the psychodrama of Pier Luigi Pirandello, nephew of Luigi Pirandello and son of the painter Fausto Pirandello. The sociodrama about "Ciascuno a suo modo" triggers an organizational conflict and a social scandal similar to those that Pirandello imagined in his comedy set in the city of Turin. When the event's funding is in danger of being blocked by financial blackmail, Rosati goes to Naples and takes to Turin a Pazzariello, an advertising auctioneer who runs with his band through the streets of the city, denouncing the scandal. It is a winning turning point. Fifteen years later, Rosati will perform Fantasmi al Valle (2012) the socioplay of the third play of the Pirandello's trilogy: "Six Characters in Search of an Author". The magazine "Atti dello psicodramma" dedicates an issue to the event. This spin-off begins in 2002 in Sicily produced by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with Leo Gullotta in the role of Pirandello and will be concluded in 2012 at the Teatro Valle di Roma where in 1921 happened the stormy premiere of Six characters.
- A socioplay about a poetry reading, between the docu-film Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001) and the "bricconaggio" Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018). The set is Valeria Moriconi Theater during the Women's Day in the margins of the show "La canzone della Nanda" by Giulio Casale directed by Gabriele Vacis.
- A sociodrama for "The Parents Circle Family Forum" in Tel Aviv, an Israeli-Palestinian association of 500 families who lost a close relative in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This important group has been founded by Yitzhak Frankenthal and Roni Hirshenzon. The joint meeting between Israeli and Palestinian participants and between the two groups' different narratives, reinforced their understanding of the other side, and motivated them to act together to promote reconciliation and recognition of the other side.
- Gli Sporcosauri" (2008) is the video (produced by Plays) of an ecological socioplay conducted by Ottavio Rosati, conceived by Ezio Donato (professor of pedagogy at the University of Catania) and realized by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with financial support from the European Community.
- Ipod-Plays School of Psychodrama interviews prof. Vezio Ruggieri about the relationships between body, psyche and theatre. The film contains extracts from "Da Storia Nasce Storia" the first television of real psychodramas photographed with many cameras as in cinema.
- For La Stampa: "the theatrical-television success of the year". Spin off of Giocare il sogno, filmare il gioco (1990), a format by Ottavio Rosati for Rai3 (Italy) that realizes in 1991 the Jacob Levi Moreno experiment of Le Psychodrame (1956) filmed by Roberto Rossellini in 1956 in France.
- A video.play from the hyper-text "Four decades of plays between Pivano and Von Franz" and the docufilm Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001). Ottavio Rosati presented it during the sociodrama about Anger according to the psycho-neurologist Jaak Panksepp" for the cycle "Sette Emozioni" (2018-2019) at OFF/OFF Theatre in Rome.
- The clinical research into the use of multi-angle shooting (Ipov3) in therapeutic systems starts from a comic psychodrama of [name/nm0347842] and Ottavio Rosati realized for "Fantasmi" (2002) origin of Fantasmi al Valle (2012).
- After Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) (Rai3) Ottavio Rosati elaborates with Alessandro Cecchi Paone, for a popular program of Rai 2, a series of family life stories answering the spectators who sent letters about the problems of their children.
- Ottavio Rosati realizes the sociodrama of Lady Macbeth for the 2006 edition of «Elogio alla Follia - Shakespeare e le Donne», meetings between theater and psychoanalysis conceived by "Tangram Teatro" with "Sistema Teatrale Torinese". For a strange coincidence the event takes place on the first of April "The Fool Day" in which Jacob Levi Moreno at the beginning of the twentieth century presented the first psychodrama in Vienna. Rosati's direction involves the audience in a series of crime ghosts such as the dagger, the theft of the crown, the launch of a poisoned arrow. He does'not read he images evoked by Shakespeare's tragedy from Freud's point of view but from the systemic model. In this perspective (interpersonal as well as intrapersonal) the assassination of the Old King is not caused just by the oedipal instinct of the son but from the instigation of a woman who, pushing her son-husband to kill his father, destroys them both and realizes her hate for the law and for the male world. Usually the outcome of this situation is not the neurosis of the child but his psychosis or the borderline condition. To distance himself from Macbeth mith, Rosati directs the action by wearing a "casula" the seamless tunic worn by Christ when he was brought to the crucifixion. This garment symbolizes the bond between the Priest, the Mass and the Sacrifice of Jesus. The director of a psychodrama, like the priest, should be considered an alter Christus in the sacrifice of the Mass and the "casula" covers the new man, created according to God in Justice. The empty spaces of Cavallerizza Reale of Turin host only the king's throne and are flooded by the vee-jay of Verdi's opera Macbeth that illuminates the action in place of the spotlights. Rosati dedicates this short to the philosopher and psychoanalyst Umberto Galimberti who suggested to the organizers of the Turin event about Shakespeare to replace his conference on Macbeth with a sociodrama organized by Plays.
- Director's cut of an episode from Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) a TV program by Ottavio Rosati inspired to Le Psychodrame (1956) by Jacob Levi Moreno and Roberto Rossellini. During the production Rosati (as show runner and conductor) and Claudio Bondì (as TV director) filmed some psychodramas that were not broadcast because Rai directors considered them too difficult for a television audience. This material today is available in Rai Teche Archives for psychologists and scholars who can study it for clinical and scientific reasons. Rai has also authorized the Ipod-Plays Psychodrama school in Rome to show and edit some videos but just for research and clinical training of therapists. Not for commercial use. In one of the most complex of these stories Rosati gives the conduction of the group to his friend Gianni Montesarchio and takes the role of "patient" protagonist of the play. Ottavio tells the story of his father Giovanni, born in Abruzzo in 1911 and entrusted to a maiden midwife "Zia Carmela" by his real mother who had not milk for him. Zia Carmela took the baby with her in a buggy when she went to assist the young mothers in the mountains and so also Giovanni could breastfeed: one breast was for the newborn, the other for midwife's psychodramatic baby. The psychodrama of this story of other times is intertwined with an incident that takes place on the set. The night after Rosati makes a dream about a train and a rail crossing and enacts it in the group with music, photos and toys. Step by step the play and the reaction of the group reveal unconscious meanings and the importance of other characters like Uncle Romeo, the gentleman who payed, as a psychodramatic father, the study of Giovanni saving his life. "History of a train and of a rail crossing" is the first trans-generational psychodrama filmed and directed like a movie. Their images and actions solve secrets and symbols that link our present life to the secrets of our ancestors. It is also the first psychodrama when the director reverses roles and becomes the protagonist of the story. Twenty years after the original Rai production, Plays and the IPOD Psychodrama Training School complete this episode with subtitles and images that facilitate its understanding.
- A script of the Televsion Italian Rai inspired by Il triplo psicodramma di Aldo Carotenuto (1994) episode of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) by Ottavio Rosati about the Aldo Carotenuto's best seller "Diario di una segreta simmetria" (1980). The book revealed the secret and dramatic story of the young Sabine Spielrein between Jung and Freud and the italian movie was to be directed by Nelo Risi, author of Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968). Ottavio Rosati who was the historical consultant and the author of the dialogues of the film, invited Tania Di Martino to realize this difficult screenplay. After many versions and the translation of the script in English, in 1998 Risi was making the casting but the production was stopped by the new Rai President who considered this story too difficult for a TV audience. Some years later, Roberto Faenza and David Cronenberg made two popular films from Carotenuto's book. The screenplay for Rai Cinema, which emphasizes Jung's para psychological researches, should be turned into a movie.
- The Capucci Museum (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) was the exhibition space, managed by the Roberto Capucci Foundation. It moved specially from Rome to Florence and was inaugurated on 27 October 2007 with the temporary "Back to the origins" exhibition, which met with considerable success with about 50,000 visitors. A year later it became a permanent exhibition, focused in particular on a series of twelve sculpture-dresses made for the 1995 Venice Biennale and originally not intended to be worn. The Capucci Museum was located in Villa Bardini. It was closed in November 2017, to be transferred to the 'Villa Manin' in Passariano (Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy).
- A short about the Roberto Capucci exhibition "Alla Ricerca della Regalità" at Venaria Reale. The first step of a project by Ottavio Rosati that goes on with the documentary The Forbidden Fashion (2019) and a movie about the famous couturier.
- A new approach that Rosati proposes at the Sapienza Faculty of Psychology in Rome, presenting Le Psychodrame (1956) by Jacob Levi Moreno and Roberto Rossellini. La Scacchiera becomes a "videoplay" when the director invites the patient to choose lights and music and to shoot his sequence-plan.
- The psychodrama (never broadcasted but published with an interview) of the series Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) where the analyst Aldo Carotenuto, author of the best seller "Diario di una segreta simmetria" (Ubaldini, Rome, Italy, 1980) plays three roles: Freud Jung and Sabine Spielrein. In 1998 the italian television Rai will invite Rosati to write A Secret Simmetry (1997), a script for a movie for Nelo Risi direction.
- Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The first Socioplay on the Road that in Rome has inspired L'amore in piazza (2017) about Love for the weddings of Tinto Brass and Caterina Varzi. Several groups of Siena high school students, accompanied by teachers, will meet in the Orto De 'Pecci ecological park. Everyone will bring a pen, a letter paper, an envelope and a one-euro coin. At the base of the event, the game of representation and spontaneous creativity in the group. Some You Tube videos from ipodplays channel and from "Improve Everywhere" websites show what is the sociodrama and the impromptu plays. Ottavio plays the role of Till Eulenspiegel and has two Cacatoa as assistants: Teto (in the role of Pappafreud) and Iside (in the role of Anima animalis). The parrots are very intelligent and empathetic and they help Ottavio in the phase of warming-up of the groups. The organizers of the event inform the youngsters that they will be able to extend the socioplay and its derivatives on a Facebook page with photos, video, exchanges and comments. A crew of six operators and four professional photographers follows the various phases of the socioplay. The shoot will allow both a traditional editing and a Multi-Angle Coverage of the event, realized in Ipov3. Two operators take up the event from above in the wide field (200 meters), from two diametrically opposed positions. One from the top of the hill, one from the lawn in front of the small zoo in Orto de' Pecci. Ottavio as Till Eulenspiegel hovers around the garden with two parrots on his shoulders and a pair of cameramen at his side. He goes to meet the boys as they enter, and introduces his feathered assistants. The boys play and have fun. One of the games with which O. breaks the ice is to talk to the students by doubling the voice of the cacatoa, as if it were a puppet. Pets often climb on the boys' arms and greet them. At the center of the garden the boys of the various schools form several small groups. Ottavio passes between them and launches provocative interviews. He uses role-playing and other psycho-play and improvement techniques to animate the play. Theme: friends and enemies of happiness. Ottavio goes through a megaphone, delivers it to the boys and invites them to shout in heaven something important on the theme of happiness: what it consists of and how to reach it. The megaphone must be kept high, addressing the group and the city. If students are afraid, O. insists. Some suggest not to think too much before speaking, but to let go. If the voice goes out little or badly, O. will repeat the action until they find the pitch and the right volume. The organizers stage a pile of sheets containing bibliographies on Happiness ordered by various themes. The sectors are: A. Happiness in love and affection; B. Happiness and mental peace, in political and social life; C. Happiness in work and success; D. Happiness in the ability to communicate effectively with others; E. Filmography of stories with winning heroes (of sport, of art, of research ...) capable of Resilience and of pursuing their objectives, overcoming crises and difficulties. Each of the five pages has a different color. O. asks the boys to turn around and exchange sheets so that everyone has a copy of the five sheets. While the boys are busy, O. intervenes in the subject, animating the game and also giving some interpretation of the dynamics. Ottavio invites each member of the group to write a letter to himself in the future, in which he describes hopes and goals of happiness. A few boys could read aloud parts of the letter. Every boy puts his letter in an envelope addressed to himself. The address, for reasons of privacy, is that of his school. The organizers deliver a euro and a flower to each participant of the socioplay. The conductor invites the group to leave the Orto de 'Pecci to go to the famous Piazza Il Campo where in summer the city organizes Palio di Siena. Ottavio invites every boy to look for a passerby on the street to whom he can offer the flower and the letter, proposing to read it and write two lines of commentary. The delivery ends as follows: "The person who will accept your letter will be your Postal Mentor. Give him a one-euro coin to buy a stamp with which to fasten the letter and send it. And tell him that with the rest of the euro he can do what he wants. " The action ends at Piazza Il Campo where the boys find themselves in a position in front of the big tower. Or it gives rise to a sharing on the encounter with passers-by who, naturally, reacted in very different ways. The second part of the event takes place about ten days later, in the schools. The group, in the company of the teachers, takes note of what has happened. How many letters are back to their authors? And with what comments? What happened to the forty cents of change? What do the guys think? It is a double socio-psychological test. The boys comment on the way adults have commented on the letters. The whole experience becomes a docufilm. Plays productions edit a professional video but also the students edit their video. Five cameramen work on the set to create (as well as the normal video) a multi-angle edition in IPOV3 directed by Antonio Rossi. In this way it will be possible to re-examine the event from five different contemporary points of view in order to study the reactions of a sub-group or of a single person to what happens on the main scene. It is the first time that Rosati uses IPOV3 for an improvised event. In 2012 he will still use IPOV3 at the Teatro Valle di Roma for "Fantasmi", the sociodrama about the Pirandello family produced by Plays with Cinecittà Holding and the Teatro Stabile of Catania.
- The americanist Fernanda Pivano and her struggle in Italy for "The Time Theatre" inspired by Allen Ginsberg, the Beats and the Hippies. By the author of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991). In 2020 Istituto Luce Cinecittà produces a new version.
- The film is all about Fantasmi (Ghosts) a multimedia performance created by Ezio Donato regarding the links between the Nobel Prize for Literature Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) and Jacob Levi Moreno (1889-1974) the father of Psychodrama. "Fantasmi" began in Catania for the inauguration of the new Aula Magna of Catania's University. Here the actor Leo Gullotta plays with students of the Theatre School of Catania characters of Pirandello's dramas and tales. The workshop was concluded after ten years in Teatro Valle in Rome where Ottavio Rosati directs the psychodrama of Pierluigi Pirandello, nephew of Luigi. The enactment elaborates traumatic episodes of Pirandello's family which inspired his masterpiece "Six Characters In Search Of An Author".
- Two series of socioplay by Ottavio Rosati about the neurological origins of emotions, according to Jaak Panksepp with scenes of the play "Grandi Feste con Fuoco" about the writer Fernanda Pivano and her secrets.
- 2018–2019TV Episode
- 2018–2019TV Episode
- 2018–2019TV EpisodeThe socioplays about SEEKING-EXPECTANCY system show that it is a general-purpose system for obtaining all kinds of resources that exist in the world, from nuts to knowledge, to creation. It participates in all appetitive behaviors that precede consummation - energizes the dynamic eagerness for positive experiences from from sexual possibilities to political power. It is the emotion of problem solving and detection.
- 2018–2019TV EpisodeThe FEAR system according to Panksepp is an INTRINSIC part of the brain. Many people still think that the capacity for fear is learned and that both people and animals learn to fear by anticipating danger. If this were true, we would not be afraid of anything at birth. But WE ARE. Probably some relations and experiences with disturbed and disturbing people can increase the FEAR system discovered by Panksepp. For instance my young executive producer is an excellent and nice collaborator when the work is already started. But when I express to him a new idea, a new project, his first reaction is of FEAR. Why? Because the systematic negative approach of his father to the creativity of his son was "No!". Our socioplay about FEAR show how we can understand and change similar situations.
- 2018–2019TV Episode
- 2018–2019TV Episode
- 2018–2019TV Episode