Azem KurticSarajevoBIRNJune 22, 202312:12Tributes are pouring into the respected documentary filmmaker who won dozens of international awards and dedicated his life to nature, who has died aged 71.
Dinno Kasalo. Photo: Private archive.
Dinno Kasalo, documentary filmmaker and master of photography from Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died aged 71.
During his career, Kasalo made dozens of documentary films of, as he liked to say, “an undefined genre”. He dedicated his life to nature and was famous for his films about the rich nature surrounding mountain Prenj and Neretva river near Konjic. Kasalo called it “Planet Prenj”, where he was spending his retirement years.
News of his death has brought tributes to his work and his life from hundreds of former colleagues, friends and nature lovers.
“He was a unique person, experiencing the world through the lens of a camera; the camera was his eye,” Bosnian film director Dino Mustafic wrote on Twitter.
“Like Dziga Vertov, he was an author capable of perceiving reality in its complete truthfulness and beauty with the eye of his camera, which was more perfect than that of a human,” Mustafic added.
“Dino, the news of your death has deeply shaken me,” Bosnian writer Ibrahim Spahic wrote on Facebook.
“I am overwhelmed by a sense of horror, sadness, and pain in my chest. Eyes are the mirror of the soul, and I cannot come to terms with the fact that they will no longer witness the joy of the buttercup in the mountainous rapture through the lens of your camera, nor see the black, clear, and noble gazes of your horses fading away in the mist,” Spahic added.
During his career at Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dinno won 41 international awards. He often riskied his life and pushed his body beyond limits in order to tell the story. His films have been shown at festivals around the world. He created the first documentary series in BHRT’s production after the war. He retired from his position as editor in 2017.
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