- 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.—Luciana Santioli
- Rome, Trastevere. Ottavio Rosati, wearing a red sweatshirt with a crow and the words "My grandfather worked with Hitchcock" comes out from his house on a terrace, climbs over a dividing wall and penetrates from the window into the empty apartment that for twenty years he shared with the americanist Fernanda Pivano, the writer ambassador of four generations of writers from Hemingway to the beats. We find ourselves in the old palace that Pivano described in her novel "La mia Kasbah" (1988) and where Rosati in 2001 made the film "Generations of Love" dedicated to her. Now we are in 2018 and Ottavio enters the bedroom of the flat where a cameraman is waiting for him to shoot a "Bricconaggio" that is a performance dedicated to the catharsis of emotions, conflicts and unfinished accounts. His action consists in throwing eggs on a portrait of Pivano hanging on the wall above a blanket. Each egg corresponds to a censored memory or a secret finally revealed. Ottavio completes the catharsis of his hate with a declaration of forgiveness, admiration, gratitude and love for his Nanda. And with a shower of flowers on the fragments of the eggs that caused the picture to collapse on the floor. Rosati presented the Bricconaggio in 2010 in Rome University and Casa del Cinema, as a new genre of improvised video-play between the psycho-cinema (theorized by JL Moreno in his book "Psychodrama") and the 'Psicomagia' by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The protagonist of a Bricconaggio, however, operates alone and not in a psychodrama group. The subject of this "Perdo-Nanda" is the hyper-text "Four Decades of plays with the Pivano and the Von Franz" (www.plays.it/ipod) that describes, with numerous links to videos and archives journalistic, the long history of love and work that bounded Fernanda and Ottavio from 1973 to 2001, before the Pivano's divorce from Ettore Sottsass. Ottavio Rosati and Marco Greco (director of the Torino Psychodrama School) presented "Perdo/nanda Pivano" in 2019, during the round table for "Psychodrame" (1956 - INA France) the short film by Roberto Rossellini with Jacob Levi Moreno rediscovered and restored by Marco Greco and in the program of the 36 Torino Film Festival.
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