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An afternoon with Franco and Dario, two young friends who made different choices at the end of compulsory school. Franco decided to continue studying, Dario chose to go to work in a mechanical workshop, to fix machines. It is the end of the first week of work for Dario, Franco is waiting for him outside the workshop, they spend a few hours together, playing, talking, and picking up on old conversations.
Through the reading of some of Sandro Penna's poems a boy, as if by magic, visually “relives” some of them, as if he were the Poet himself. A tribute to Sandro Penna, this short film, also dedicated to the "solar" beauty of these guys, immortalized by the poet's lyrics in time and space (in fact they will always be there and so, even between 10, 100, 1000 years). A tribute to purity, to the simplicity of unspoken things... to the beauty of images stolen from the monotony of the real world. In short, an attempt, through his unwitting complicity, to make a film-poem to dedicate to him.
Natural mountain environment, a free horse walks in the green, a cat, a rooster, in a cellar of an ancient farmhouse an old woman offers a cup of milk to a beautiful ceramist, the cry of an infant. Milk has always been life.
In the future people will consume more but probably in a personal way because they will be more informed and cultured.
The industry frees hands and increases the need for brains : the industrial sector gives way to the contractors.
How will services for the elderly be in Milan in 2000. The welfarist attitude will be overcome.
The popular ceremony for the deceased which is still celebrated in Magasa di Valvestino (Brescia) in the manner of the 18th century.
Produced in 1979/80 by the Valle Imagna District Library System and shot on 16 mm film, acquired by the Lombardy Region's Department of Culture, Erba d'Imagna is a delicate and realistic portrait of the people of Imagna. The most striking features of the valley's reality emerge in the old men, tough and resilient, tempered by hard work, each locked in their hard-won plot of land. The real thing, indeed. Men—like blades of grass—generated and preserved in their land.
The movie talks about Arlecchino wandering around Venice after the carnival and meeting other Venice carnival characters.
The early short films by Cesare Ronconi, winners at Salsomaggiore in 1985—a festival directed by Adriano Aprà and crafted with the collaboration of Marco Melani—are a remarkable experiment in cinematic form. Featuring static framing, these films unfold in a cosmic/comic loop that defies traditional staging and video conventions, offering a groundbreaking approach to visual storytelling.
Video excerpts from the homonymous video-installation produced in September ’86 for the “Arte degli Ambienti” Festival in Pantelleria. Later it was staged also in Firenze (October ’86), Perugia (April ’87) and finally in Palermo (June ’87, part of the collective exhibition “Per amor del Cielo” at the Modern Art Gallery). The installation is an ever-changing landscape of memories dedicated: “…to the black island, where a beloved shipwrecked friend, after having suffered for a long time has been turned into a fish”. The theme of the work is the shipwreck in all of its allegorical meanings. Mixing music, electronic images, voices, scenographic materials, GMM re-proposes the poetic reconstruction of a seascape populated by fishermen, castaways, wrecks, hallucinated backgrounds.
A film by Valentina Berardinone
My 1980 video performance Notte veloce was created by me thinking of a distant summer night, of a memory of a curious event, in which I saw a large nocturnal moth flapping its wings and colliding against a lit street lamp. Often the observations of simple events or casual encounters with abandoned objects and natural occurrences have been very important for creating my works in video and photography.
4 video-tapes VHS from the eponymous performance, sound.
3 video-games with the typical sound, made by computer by Centrovideoarte.
A film by Marico Valente
A film by Marico Valente
In Anabasi there is a fantastic projection of something strictly private, autobiographical: the author's relationship with his wife, which is poetically transfigured and goes through a series of metamorphoses: woman-fruit, woman-earth, praying mantis. (…) The recurring places inhabited or traveled by the Woman are the House and the Garden, a physical and mental place that becomes, from time to time, a primeval Eden and a Labyrinth full of dark presences. The Woman walks through the Garden-Labyrinth in search of a lost symbiosis with nature. Continuously enters and exits the Oedipal Womb-House. The vineyard and the cosmos in formation and perennial metamorphosis spring from his own body. At times they seem to incorporate it within themselves, in a panic relationship of total identification. The Garden, the Vineyard, the Sun allude to solar and telluric symbolism, to the great seasonal myths of fertility.
Fragments of an interior space has been realized in 1980 with P.P. Fassetta. Images roused by the meeting between reality and imagination and gathered in the mental space of the story, change as perceptions and states of mind change. The poetry of the bodily expression and the matter which is free to act in the vacuum, blend in the mutual feeling of nature.
“If you meet me, pretend you don't know me”, “I'm not like you”, are now classic phrases in the “furtive and veiled” homosexual relationship. This is for those who, out of fear, compromise or a thousand other reasons, decide to live their sexuality in a dissociated way. The "official" one, heterosexuality, and the clandestine one, homosexuality. Some do it very well ... others less so. Situations of this kind are more frequent than they appear. This short film wants to give the idea of how easy it is to border on melodrama in such cases.
The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his poetic and intellectual contributions to Italian Marxism than anyone except a highly intellectual Italian Marxist could possibly want to know. This is hardly surprising, given that the neophyte director of this film has a day job as an assistant professor of "the sociology of conscience." Pasolini, who at one point was convicted of the crime of "offending the religion of the (Italian) state" (Catholicism), later received the Grand Prize from the Catholic Film Office for his straightforward and stunning film of Il Vangelo Secundo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).
An Italian documentary.
Vocal polyphony, visual polyphony. A sound image that is created and destroyed in real time.
Like all works that use this process, the creation takes place in the presence of spectators who, live, participate in the process as it evolves. The work documents, without post-production assembly interventions, the particular possibilities of the system.
Starting from the image-sound produced in real time, with the video loop it is possible to obtain continuous transformations until arriving at sequences of abstract images and sounds which however retain the rhythmic scansion of the image-sound that generated them.
In free association of ideas, around 1200 drawings created with a black marker on "transparencies" follow one another in continuous metamorphosis.
During the days of the alarm by extreme pollution, the sound of Milan and the acid life of a tree, reduced to an electronic scansion in a bidimensional cybernetic space.
Marionetti is a tender, ironic character, always poised between situations of simple comedy (Marionetti/marionette) or sophisticated futuristic atmospheres (Marionetti/Marinetti).
The motif of water has been developed by Plessi using various media (film, photography, painting and video) since the late 1960s.
“Two dense, humming rainbows, their curves disappearing into the still whitish sky between dawn and day. Jets and clouds of vapor and, in height, these two bursts are replicated, twice four bands of neon, blue echoes red, orange, yellow: filters floating colors in the day to come. Water ripples, sand, hills, islands, clouds. Lands of oceans and open skies. Gestures and complaints, hands like voices that call the spirit to travel far. sail. Sea of green and blue twists and the South meets the South while spinning: “che catz' di bellezza, che catz'! Vulcani! Vulcani!” Sandra Reid.
Citazioni is inspired by the painting "The Hell of Musicians" by Hieronymus Bosch.
Shot on a breath-taking and stunning location the camera drifts like a maelstrom through a personal interpretation of Lingotto's urban history. People appear only to disappear again at the horizon of the image and to free the setting for new sceneries. A free adaptation of the life of Nietzsche and the writings of Gottfried Benn.
The video was created by the artist using archival footage of the Japanese poet Yukio Mishima in a failed attempt to occupy an Japanese army barracks which was followed by his suicide. In parallel to the projection the actor Sandro Lombardi did a live reading of Yukio Mishima’s The effeminate intellectuals.
“Apokalypsis Urbi et Orbi” is a dreamlike and poetic film about a Venice that no longer exists, shot in Super 8 in 1985 by Gianni De Luigi.
This work was part of my M.S. thesis Perceptual correspondences of abstract animation and synthetic sound developed at the MIT Media Lab in 1988. It is primarily a 3D visualization of synthetic sounds based on four types of audiovisual correspondences: spatial coincidence, temporal coincidence , volume/brightness, timbre/shape-color. Once created, the abstract objects, and consequently the sounds associated with them, were used to compose the audiovisual work.
A film for young people set in Venice in the 1930s.
Film about the videogame created by Federica Marangoni.
Short by Fabrizio Plessi.
A group of women following the worker-union-sponsored “150 hours” course to complete their secondary school education are mentored by feminist, activist, and writer Lea Melandri. Adriana Monti follows the women as they reconsider their role as housewives and the effects of this type of political education on their self-narration.
Last abstract movie made by Veronesi. The work is obtained by working directly on the individual frames of the film. Veronesi developed a systematic method for the visual transposition of sound, fully exposed in some theoretical writings published in the 1970s.
An abstract animated short in which a solitary figure journeys through a surreal tunnel filled with shifting imagery and symbolic encounters. The film uses experimental visual techniques to evoke themes of introspection, subconscious exploration, and existential passage.
A man and a woman, each them alone after an abortive love affair, and trying to re-establish a sort of equilibrium in their emotional life.
Video-installation project for Camere Incantate, Palazzo Reale - Milan (1980) curated by Vittorio Fagone.
Taken from the multimedia installation "Puccini/Opera", four synthetic settings from excerpts from Tosca, Boheme, Butterfly, Turandot. Production Pitti Immagine, Florence. First presentation within Pitti Trend 1987.
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