Bosnia Mourns Documentary Filmmaker Dinno Kasalo

Tributes are putting into the highly regarded documentary filmmaker who won lots of worldwide awards and devoted his life to nature, who has actually passed away aged 71. Dinno Kasalo. Picture: Private archive. Dinno Kasalo, documentary filmmaker and master of photography from Bosnia and Herzegovina, has actually passed away aged 71. Throughout his profession, Kasalo made lots of documentary of, as he liked to state, “an undefined category”. He devoted his life to nature and was well-known for his movies about the abundant nature surrounding mountain Prenj and Neretva river near Konjic. Kasalo called it “Planet Prenj”, where he was investing his retirement years. News of his death has actually brought homages to his work and his life from numerous previous associates, buddies and nature enthusiasts. “He was a special individual, experiencing the world through the lens of an electronic camera; the electronic camera was his eye,” Bosnian movie director Dino Mustafic composed on Twitter. “Like Dziga Vertov, he was an author efficient in viewing truth in its total truthfulness and appeal with the eye of his electronic camera, which was more ideal than that of a human,” Mustafic included. “Dino, the news of your death has actually deeply shaken me,” Bosnian author Ibrahim Spahic composed on Facebook. “I am overwhelmed by a sense of scary, unhappiness, and discomfort in my chest. Eyes are the mirror of the soul, and I can not pertain to terms with the reality that they will no longer witness the delight of the buttercup in the mountainous rapture through the lens of your cam, nor see the black, clear, and worthy gazes of your horses fading away in the mist,” Spahic included. Throughout his profession at Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dinno won 41 global awards. He typically risked his life and pressed his body beyond limitations in order to inform the story. His movies have actually been revealed at celebrations all over the world. He produced the very first documentary series in BHRT’s production after the war. He retired from his position as editor in 2017.

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