Stefano Miraglia
Donda Retrieved : Inquiry Into a Disappearance
Author(s) Stefano Miraglia
Format paperback book
Year 2026
Language(s) English
Pages 192 pages
Description
Born in Terzo d'Aquileia, Donda was an interdisciplinary author active in the Italian cultural landscape of the late 20th century. After studying sociology in Trento during the events of 1968, he wrote his first essays focusing on the social phenomenon of ballrooms in the Case del Popolo (people's houses) of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. He later studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia under the direction of Roberto Rossellini.
For RAI, he was a refined communicator (and the last journalist to interview Roland Barthes), making fiction films, documentaries, and experimental radio programs. He collaborated with the Venice Biennale in 1976 and with Rome's avant-garde artistic circles. He wrote numerous essays on cinema, psychoanalysis, music, politics, sociology, and anthropology. In the 2000s, he devoted himself to teaching cinema in schools, an experience that gave rise to his final films.
Texts by Ellis Donda and Stefano Miraglia.
Translations by Jim Sunderland.
Graphic design by Lorenzo Mason Studio.
This book is the result of the project Ellis Donda. Patrimonio di un intellettuale friulano (Heritage of a Friulian Intellectual), funded by the Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and carried out by Adriatico Book Club in partnership with Casa del Cinema di Trieste, Cinemazero, and Collectif Jeune Cinéma.
192 pages, 83 illustrations, monochrome offset printing, paperback
ISBN: 978-88-94573-1-69