In 2004 director Matteo Bellinelli from the Swiss-Italian TV TSI approached me for a documentary on me and my magic. I managed to include information that would educate the public about magic, its history, science, psychology, and also some of my talented colleagues. I’m happy to say that this is not just an ego-tripping showcase, a danger every “documentary” runs, but an informative and entertaining look at the art and science of magic.<\/p>\n
You’ll get a glimpse of me at my home, as well as on tour in Paris, Milano, Saragossa, and of course my home town Basel, where I perform and meet magic friends. We visit the Playing Card Museum in Issy les Moulineaux, George Proust’s Mus\u00e9e de la Curiosit\u00e9 in the Marais, arguably Paris’s most charming quarter, a magic convention in Spain, see Juan Tamariz, Vanni Bossi, Manolo Tena, Bebel, Yves Carbonnier and other remarkable magicians perform and give original insights into magic, plus lots more.<\/p>\n
I think that this documentary, whose original title is Il giardino dei giochi segreti<\/em> (“garden of secret games”) was inspired by an old Italian manuscript on magic, gives a truly inspiring view of the world of conjuring. This is the version subtitled in English and called The Secret World of Magi<\/em>c, which never aired, as far as I know. The original Italian version was broadcasted in 2004 on various channels in Switzerland and Italy. The first airing was on a Sunday evening 8 pm, prime time, on TSI1 (Televisione Svizzera Italiana).<\/p>\n To watch\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>. Happy Holidays, and very best wishes for 2021!<\/p>\n PS: I’ve given you<\/em> 24 gifts in the past 3 plus weeks, and I hope you have enjoyed them. If you would like to make me<\/em> a gift, well, then promise me to study and perform magic with dignity. And if you insist to make me a more tangible gift, do not send wine, liquor or boxes of cigars, as this is detrimental to my health (come to think of it: why not :-), well, then I have an idea for you: I have gathered all 24 installments of the Magic Advent Calendar<\/em> in one PDF\/e-book, which is available on my webshop for \u20ac 24 (24 days = \u20ac 24, what else?), but you can have it for \u20ac 12 until December 31, 2020. So, to make each other a gift: CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone! We’ve come to the 24th and last installment of the Magic Advent Calendar – sniff, sniff \ud83d\ude41 …BUT I left the best (?) and certainly most personal item for the last day, and here it is: In 2004 director Matteo Bellinelli from the Swiss-Italian TV TSI approached me for a documentary on me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2513,"featured_media":7321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magic-advent-calendar-2020","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MAC-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/mq2-2-1.jpg\")
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