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Light and cities told in 60 seconds
In Rome, the award ceremony of the fifth edition of the
AIDI international video competition
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n May 17 th , following the end of the first day
of the 2018 AIDI National Congress, the eight
winners of the 5th edition of the international
video competition “Riprenditi la città, Riprendi
la luce”, a review of short films organized
and promoted by AIDI, have been awarded
in the auditorium of the MAXXI museum in
Rome. The support of leading companies in the
lighting field, many of which firmly believed
in this competition since the very beginning,
has been once again fundamental to its
success: Enel X and Gewiss as Gold sponsors;
A2A Illuminazione Pubblica, Acea, Arianna,
Neri, Osram, Philips Lighting (now Signify)
and Reverberi Enetec as Meeting Supporter;
Cariboni Group, iGuzzini Illuminazione, Iren,
Performance in Lighting and UL as Silver
sponsors; Posytron as technical sponsor.
Once again, the competition asked the young
and the very young to represent in their short
movies the importance that light plays in their
daily lives, in order to know and understand
how, through light, they interact with the city
in which they live, study or work. With over
120 videos received, many have accepted this
invitation to represent light in their daily space
and time through their attentive gaze and
sensitivity.
This edition has seen two categories – the under
18s and the under 30s – confront the three
proposed themes: LIGHT AND PLACES, LIGHT AND
WORDS, LIGHT AND ART. Two were the special
prizes: the jury’s one and the photography
one. In addition to the prizes awarded to
each single winner, all the finalists received
a free year subscription to Playtrip, a digital
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storytelling platform. Presented by Mariella
Di Rao and Moko, speaker of Radio 105, the
award ceremony was introduced by a short
introductory video made by Tommaso Giacomin
– among the winners of the previous edition of
the competition, with Bright it up! –, and by
Margherita Suss, chairwoman of AIDI, and Dante
Cariboni, AIDI vice president and CEO of Cariboni
Group. Both recalled how the competition,
now at its fifth edition, was born and thanked
all those who have always supported it and
believed in it.
The award ceremony then started with the two
special prizes. The Milanese duo that won the
previous edition’s under 18 category, Diego
Valenzise and Massimo De Laurentiis, both 17
years old, won the Jury Special Prize with Disegno
di Luce – іљєѐфётіѴт. Luca Moscatello (head
of Installation, Operation & Maintenance for
Enel X) and Aldo Bigatti (Senior Advisor Lighting
Strategy of Gewiss) awarded them the 1,000
euros prize, for a video that “explores, with great
originality and poetry, urban feelings through
light, which is the key to the birth of new stories
and emotions.” Silvano Oldani, director of LUCE,
awarded then the “Light and Photography”
special prize, and the relative 1,000 euros, to
Giorgio Ghiotto, 18 years old from Rome, for his
Sorrisi a LED, “for the wise use of photography,
and because photography itself becomes a
means to fully live the spaces of the city.”
Alessandro Calosci, film producer and juror,
then introduced to the under 18s category,
complimenting the quality of the presented
videos and remembering with affection his
Master, Ermanno Olmi, who recently passed
away, to whom a warm applause was dedicated
by the audience. The three winners of the
category – one for each thematic section –
respectively won 500 euros in book voucher and
an iPad. For LIGHT AND PLACES, Christian Mazzola
(CEO of Arianna) and Giuseppe Grassi (head
of the Technical Office of A2A Illuminazione
Pubblica) awarded La lumoj de la urbo (“The
lights of the city”, in Esperanto language) by
Giorgia Nguyen, 18 years old from Verona. Made
in collaboration with Federico Soffiati and
Giorgia Valea – fellow students of the “Liceo
Artistico Statale” of Verona, whose students
were particularly present in this edition –,
the video won “because it well represents the
journey as a universal experience of mankind,
which could not be accomplished without
light.” Pure Light by Vlada Maria Gaina, 17
years old from Verona, also a student at the
aforementioned Verona Art highschool, won
the LIGHT AND WORDS thematic section of
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