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Two men on a lonely island. Based on Beckett.

A visualized prayer.

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

"Her was shot as my contribution to a collective film of the Italian Film-makers' Cooperative, "Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante", which started out as a Dadaist protest against police brutality. I used a "Newsweek" cutting about the Chicago Convention riots, about a woman being beaten up, and isolated in every line a symbolic word, which returns in the second part with an extension of its original meaning. I remember showing it with an 8mm projector at the USIS Rome Library in winter 1970 as part of a concert of American music." Massimo Bacigalupo

Unlike Reflex, Schifano's center of interest in this very short film is Gattinoni's models and not the photographer.

An art documentary portraying Stanley William Hayter – considered the inventor of modern incision – at work in his Paris studio. At the Hayter’s Atelier 17 artists have studied, since the early ’30s, including Brauner, Calder, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Miro, Matta, Picasso, and Chagall.

A film by Alfredo Leonardi

A woman sits, smokes, and reads in various states of 16mm exposure.

A nonfiction, autobiographical film that seeks to explore the journey from both the sentimental and socio-political perspectives of a college student.

Various hunting systems with huts (in this case, “capanno” is an artificial shelter, the simplest of which actually resemble a tent). Decoy birds and assistants. What are decoys used for? How are they selected and trained?

A year in balance, between international events and glimpses of daily life, through the voices of young people from different backgrounds.

The faces of beauty are infinite, if you only want to look at them, and the ones of infancy are the most divine. –A. L.

Toni is an elderly man who lives in a nursing home in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso). Every night he has a nightmare: crows attack him and peck at his face, leaving him frozen in terror. For him, the nursing home is a waiting room for death, but he still wants to live. Around him are other elderly people in bed and in the dining room.

Succiso, province of Reggio Emilia: the valley is slowly collapsing and people are forced to abandon their homes, which are now unsafe.

“In Green / Gray Story, for the most part, [one saw] vertical streaks and textures, with patterns that flew by. It was partly washed film on which I etched and I drew elements after washing. I used color inks, but since I did not have the money to make color copies, I had the film printed in black” -PH.

Vincenzo reads a Beat poem during the years of the cultural revolution.

Italian mondo documentary

Mondo style documentary about European nightlife.

Portrait of the painter Ennio Calabria: the title refers to one of the dominant themes in his paintings.

Documentary on the Indigenous tribes that live in the Venezuelan Llanos.

"indian ink on 16mm film" -CC

They were projected during the theatrical event.

"The Silken Ladder" - Dormont is the teacher and guardian of the beautiful Giulia, and he is determined that she will marry Blansac despite her continual rejection of his advances. The fact is that Giulia is already married to Blansac's friend Dorvil, who every night is able to exercise his conjugal rights because Giulia lowers a ladder made of silk down to him from her bedroom window.

The almost impassive recording of a common jacket hanging on a balcony slowly slides into the analysis of the mechanisms of perception, where the lines between reality and illusion are revealed somewhat labile.

First film of Ugo Nespolo

A young man reads Ginsberg in his briefs, and shows off his body.

The documentary describes the work of goldsmiths in Valenza, of cabinet-makers in Canelli, of farmers in the provinces of Alessandria and Asti where such activities are still the backbone of the local econimic structure. It analyzes also the politics of monopoly concentration pursued by the big industrial forces and its effects such as the impoverishment of the countryside, the decline of traditional activities based on craftmanship - a heavy toll on the future of the young.

Tv inquiry produced by Rai and directed by Ugo Zatterin.

Experimental short.

New to Livorno, a man meets a crying woman on a bridge at midnight, in this tale of love and heartbreak. Believed to be lost.

Documentary on the Italians who have migrated to work in Switzerland.

16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.

Dressed in military uniforms characters are engaged in the pursuit of a woman, during which they shamelessly expose their nudity.

Di Gianni records an archaic festivity that takes place on August 15th on the mountains near Potenza.

A day in the life of a young student, Paul, who commits suicide with his girl friend. We follow him in theschoolroom, where he fantasizes about space travel while the instructor goes over the dates of WW2 and his companions read "Playboy". He walks in a city covered with postcards for coming elections. Discusses life and death with a friend, Harald, meets a pretty acquaintance, Mara, with whom he makes love, and finally turns on the gas in his study.