Offscreen Notes
Gualtiero Jacopetti: 1919-2012
With the popularity of the documentary continually on the rise due to its permeability to splinter out into fictional terrains such as mockumentary, fake documentary, and reality programs, a special mention should go to one half of the co-founder of what he called the “anti-documentary,’ the mondo film, Gaultiero Jacopetti. Jacopetti worked in tandem with Franco Prosperi and Paolo Cavara to make the first mondo film, Mondo Cane, in 1961, and then a slew of follow-ups that would go on the influence a generation of even more lurid and more staged films in the 1970s and 1980s. Jacopetti died on Wednesday, Nov. 28 in Rome at the age of 91.
