TIMELESS VISIONS
ANNA NAPOLI
AND THE HISTORY OF FILM EDITING
RONIN FILM PRODUCTION YOUTUBE CHANNEL
AVAILABLE ON DVD
Anna Napoli's film career began before Leo Catozzo invented the film splicer and ended with non-linear editing.
She started her career at Fonolux in Rome, where she witnessed the great editors of that time at work, editors such as Adriana Novelli, Jolanda Benvenuti and Dolores Tamburini.
After working for the newsreel “Obiettivo” she collaborated with Tatiana Casini Morigi, working at the Ponti-De Laurentiis studios.
Later, as an assistant editor, she worked on various prestigious films, meeting some of the great editors such as Nino Baragli, Ruggero Mastroianni, Maurizio Lucidi, Alberto Gallitti, Kim Arcalli and also great directors, such as Luigi Magni, Marco Ferreri, Ettore Scola, Dino Risi.
After training for about ten years she finally got the chance to put her name to films as an editor.
Among the directors she worked alongside were Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, Del Monte, Natoli, and Dario Argento.
Her career also saw an epochal change in the movie industry: the arrival of non-linear editing.
Anna Napoli continued to make films, commercials, documentaries and even TV series using moviolas or software, and was the founder of the Italian Film Editors Association.
She continued her work alongside very different directors, including Luciano De Crescenzo, Renzo Arbore, Michele Soavi, Cinzia TH Torrini, Guido Chiesa, Asia Argento, Giancarlo Soldi, Marcello Cesena and many others.
In narrating her career Anna Napoli tells the story of film editing in Italy.
The thousands of frames that she observed, studied and edited in each work remained in her memory as “timeless visions”.
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