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Most of this silent film was shot in Rome within one day, March 31, 1968, and edited in the camera (a 100-feet double8 BW film roll). It is divided in six episodes following an ancient Indian text, Katha Upanishad, in which a youth, Nakiketa, converses with Death. Every section presents an event of that day and refers to a writer and a painter. The film captures some of the excitement of Spring 1968 in Europe and elsewhere.
Made with objective images, captured in their 'found' reflections. Precise interventions of small rational animations.
Short film preparatory to an unrealized feature film. The life of a homeless man in Rome. The elderly man plays guitar on the street among passersby. Under a bridge over the Tiber, he makes himself a bed out of cardboard boxes; an old woman joins him, washing handkerchiefs in the river, and he approaches her.
Set in upper Irpinia, the documentary examines the practice of exorcism in what was the poorest region of Italy.
A film by Gianfranco Baruchello
The documentary was made on the occasion of the Seventh International Congress on Large Dams held in Rome in 1961.
The documentary reconstructs the writer's experiences in Brancaleone, in the province of Reggio Calabria, quoting extensively from letters published in the book Il vizio assurdo (The Absurd Vice). In search of references between past and present, various images of Brancaleone flash by.
A short film directed by Corrado Farina
Mondo documentary.
In Raiano, Italy, the feast of S. Venanzio is celebrated every year. Beside the official celebrations, the most secret and oldest ceremony is the "Cult of Stones": the devotees enter the caves where the saint used to live according to tradition, and rub their bodies on the stones to heal from evil.
16mm work by Marinella Pirelli.
16mm experimental film documenting Mario Ricci's "Illuminazione".
A document of the Bulgarian Orthodox Monastery of St. John/Ivan of Rila
Made in 1968, in which Ferrero revealed himself to be a great comedian. In Spettacolo, he dies hilariously on the stage, behind a half-naked young woman armed with a small silver phallus, and the almost fixed space of the 'spectacle' is revealed with an Eisensteinian clarity.
Filming took place in the fall of 1962 in various locations in Barbagia, Sardinia, but above all in Oliena, where the entire carasau bread processing cycle was filmed.
A 1968 film by Guido Lombardi.
Lost film: Abandon all illusions, prepare for the fight (co-director Marco Melani, Stefano Beccastrini, 1969, 16mm, 24fts, 40’, col.-bw)
A most original interpretation of an E. A. Poe’s short novel, the film is set in the Belle Époque time and in the golden age of silent films.
Origin and historical profile of present-day Vittorio Veneto (an Italian municipality in the province of Treviso, in the Veneto region), resulting from the merger of two different and rival municipalities: Ceneda and Serravalle.
Actors read and recite passages by Ubaldo Bertoli, Dante Livio Bianco, Piero Calamandrei, Gino de Sanctis, Paul Eluard, Alfonso Gatto, Natalia Ginzburg, Corrado Govoni, Thomas Mann, Ferruccio Parri, Salvatore Quasimodo, Mario Tobino, and Elio Vittorini relating to the partisan resistance, the events that took place before, during, and after April 25, 1945, and the history of the partisan struggles. The title evokes one of the verses from Tobino's poem.
TV film based on the search for the nazi Adolf Eichmann by Simon Wiesenthal.
A mondo documentary directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero.
Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
The body and face of the protagonist are continually and provocatively placed in relation with stereotyped images from gravure, from women's magazines, which return the woman that the system proposes.
A film by Gianfranco Baruchello
The film portrays the political environment between the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '70s in Italy. Images of a wandering young girl are alternated with those of a man's corpse in front of an industrial landscape. The man's corpse is a metaphor of the worker forced to work dehumanizing hours. The girl, on the other hand, is the symbol of innocence. This is Luginbühl's accusation directed at a passive and powerless society. However, hope is represented in the final sequences, where Luginbühl's child, Cecilia, is shown as the embodiment of future generations.
Everything that comes and goes through my head, minus something.
Humorous observations on the Italian Beat world featuring poet Gianni Milano, Majid Andrea Valcarenghi, and other Italian beatnik.
This « comic strip » of alienation takes place within the walls of a bourgeois house, in a valley created by the toxic red-violet waste of a large chemical industry. In the background, popular songs from the '60s.
Experimental short involving various forms of manipulaiton of light sources.
Amateur footage, filming of dubious origin, chromatic alterations and hard-core details in an alienating and curious collage with sinister and gloomy voices reciting poems of the beat generation.
Niki tells us about herself and recounts the story of her first kiss.
The film is the story of the crude destruction, meticulously done by the artist himself, of a frozen turkey produced in America. The meat is placed in a wooden box and buried in a grave in a field. Dedicated to the fundamental concepts of the ‘lay military priesthood’ (terminology typical of the generals): discipline, honour and other sacred duties, the film is part of a trilogy by Baruchello against the Vietnam War. —Tate Modern
A 1968 film by Guido Lombardi.
A TV film by Roberto Rossellini.
A documentary without a narrator on certain episodes of superstition and magical rituals in Rome.
Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
A film by Gianfranco Baruchello
Short documentary by Giovanni Vento.
To me, to go to the window and look outside is like watching a film. Filming is a way to draw out the condition of spectator and alienate it. I made this film very instinctively, naturally. Now I am beginning to learn to watch it. The very idea of something that moves, like a bird in flight… movement. The sensation of an object in space, like the light on a screen… space. The speed of the sun… time… the opposite of an image or perhaps its absence/essence. Some advice: go see a good Hollywood film: a melodramatic, sentimental story. (P. Bargellini)
One young man pitted against three women: Charlotte claims she is a French aristocrat; Carola, a student whose hobby is walking around Milan; Carol, a professed hippy. A fourth woman, Carla, makes an appearance in the film now and again, in the company of the director.
Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
A film by Luca Maria Patella
Chilling documents from recent history and “visions” of great figurative art, from Goya to Munch to Ensor.
Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.