{{Short description|Italian cinematographer and director (1939–2023)}} {{Distinguish|Marco Masini}} {{Infobox person | name = Mario Masini | image = Mario Masini ritratto.jpg | caption = Masini in 2009 | pronunciation = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth-date|28 January 1939}} | birth_place = Savona, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{death-date and age|13 March 2023|28 January 1939}} | death_place = Stuttgart, Germany | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = }}
'''Mario Masini''' (28 January 1939 – 13 March 2023) was an Italian cinematographer and experimental director. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival with the film ''Padre Padrone'' in 1976.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monaco |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s7MUAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Mario+Masini%22+%22Cannes+Film+Festival%22+%22Padre+Padrone%22&pg=PA674 |title=The Movie Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Perigee Books |isbn=978-0-399-51780-8 |language=en}}</ref>
== Life and career == Born in Savona, Masini grew up in Tuscany and in 1961 he graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.<ref name="bio">{{Cite news |last=Di Martino |first=Bruno |date=14 March 2023 |title=Mario Masini, il cinema vissuto tra amore e professione |language=en |work=Il manifesto |url=https://ilmanifesto.it/addio-mario-masini-il-cinema-vissuto-tra-amore-e-professione |access-date=24 March 2023}}</ref> He started his film career as assistant operator of Vittorio Storaro in Daniele D'Anza's ''Pugni, pupe e marinai''.<ref name="den">{{cite news |title=Addio a Mario Masini, direttore della fotografia. Lavorò con Bene e i fratelli Taviani |url=https://www.ildenaro.it/addio-mario-masini-direttore-della-fotografia-lavoro-con-bene-e-i-fratelli-taviani/ |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=Il Denaro |date=14 March 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref> He is best known for his association with Carmelo Bene, with whom he collaborated as a cinematographer in all his films, including the Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner ''Our Lady of the Turks''; other notable collaborations include Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (notably being the cinematographer of Palme d'Or winner ''Padre Padrone''), Bruno Bozzetto, Giuseppe Ferrara and Vittorio De Sisti.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="den" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fumagallo |first1=Michele |title=Mario Masini, le luci, le ombre, i colori di Carmelo Bene |url=https://ilmanifesto.it/mario-masini-le-luci-le-ombre-i-colori-di-carmelo-bene |access-date=24 March 2023 |work=Il manifesto |date=11 March 2016 |language=en}}</ref> In the 1980s Masini retired from the industry to work as a teacher in some Steiner schools, and later moved to Stuttgart.<ref name="bio" /> He reprised his cinema activities in the early 1990s, working mainly in independent and arthouse international productions.<ref name="bio" /> Masini was also a director of experimental and often surrealist films.<ref name="bio" /> He died on 13 March 2023, at the age of 84.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="den" />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Masini, Mario}} Category:1939 births Category:2023 deaths Category:Italian cinematographers Category:People from Savona Category:Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni