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In one of the three films Gianfranco Baruchello made in 1968 in response to the war in Vietnam, the artist carefully washes hundreds of coins in a bathtub, and then proceeds to cook and serve them at table.
Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
Short film by Maurizio Ponzi. Stefano is the younger son in a family who lives in the outskirts of Rome. He's been expelled at school, and is starting to work at a newsstand. A poetic look at the life and responsibilities of a poor kid in late-60s Italy.
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.
Short study of a
Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
The low-grade variety show in Rome, in the old Altieri cinema-theater.
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)
16mm experimental film documenting Mario Ricci's "Illuminazione".
The documentary was made on the occasion of the Seventh International Congress on Large Dams held in Rome in 1961.
The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.
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.
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.
From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.
16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.
Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
Customs, traditions, ritual magic and superstition of peoples from Malaysian archipelago which borders two oceans. The movie also lingers on the contamination caused by the corrupting Western society. Nice exotic and harmless 60s mondo movie with some great visuals. Urban clumsiness is also widely documented: slums with pimps, whores, poverty.
The short documentary recounts a day in the life of the writer, who is forced to travel to the city and then return to his home in Asiago. It shows his mountains, his house, his town, and his bus journey to and from the city.
a film by Emanuele Centazzo
An Italian movie.
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.
A science fiction short inspired by George Orwell's 1984.
After his father's death in prison, a man hopes to start a new life with his pregnant wife.
Experimental camera-less film by Marco Parenti.
Niki tells us about herself and recounts the story of her first kiss.
A boy and a girl on a trip out of town, she is left alone and gets lured by an abandoned house, the danger, a hopeless safety. There lingers an unsettling anxiety between dream and reality. One amongst the first films by Mauro Mingardi, amateur filmmaker from Bologna, yet at ease with horror and dreamlike moods.
Experimental short by Cioni Carpi.
Experimental short by Giorgio Turi and Roberto Capanna.
A portrait, collected and discharged, of a small family-run circus that moves from one nucleus to another in the Bolognese lowlands, with its present nomad and its tragic past.
In the province of Salerno in Campania, a village is attracting more and more pilgrims, sometimes several hundred a day. Arriving by bus, car and even on foot, they pray to Saint Antony to protect them from demons and disasters. They do this through the intermediary of a certain Giuseppina who embodies the dead soul of young Alberto, the grandson of the former seminarian who died accidentally some ten years earlier.
TV film based on the search for the nazi Adolf Eichmann by Simon Wiesenthal.
A mondo documentary directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero.
Filmreflex on the protest of the young anarchists at the Carrara congress and of the international political-literary avant-garde at the 1968 Buchmesse in Frankfurt: in these reflections on anarchy a thread of protesting discourse led by Cohn-Bendit emerges from the discussions and declarations pronounced at the anti-congress and at the Gegenbuchmesse, where meetings were promoted for the foundation of the students and workers league and international counter-publishing, contesting the bureaucratic organization of the congress and the peace prize awarded by the Buchmesse to the imperialist president Senghor: a speech for the anarchy of culture.
Subject made on 8 mm film in 1968
Experimental short about a male and a female figure.
Experimental film about people walking away from and towards the camera.
The film documents the ‘UFO: oggetti volanti’ happening, which took place in 1968 on Monte Olimpino. The event was organised by Bruno Munari and Daniela Palazzoli (then editor of the magazine BIT), who appear in the film. The theme of the event was flying art objects.
Angeli bears witness to the violence of television images, contrasting it with the desire for action in reality.
Experimental short by Giorgio Turi and Roberto Capanna.
Resistere a Roma is a documentary short film by director Giuseppe Ferrara, produced by the Ferranti Group, focusing on the Roman resistance movement during the tragic German occupation of Rome. The documentary focuses its attention above all on the dynamics of the attack in via Rasella, to which the Germans reacted with the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine. It was presented in Venice during the 1966 Documentary Exhibition.
After a failed attempt of holdup, Celestino and its friends end in prison. They return to freedom with an amnesty, and they try to find a job. They find a job in the factory of trumpets of professor Liborio; here Celestino meets Marta and falls in love with her, but Liborio, heard that the father of the girl possesses the world only mine of brass in Latin America, seduces and marry her. He then closes the factory of trumpets and moves abroad in order to take advantage of the mine of his now father-in-law. Celestino,bitter with disillusionment, finds another job in one factory of space rockets. One day, testing a rocket, he's propelled in the sky ending up on a tree. Is he allright? "It's the system: it doesn't work"
This film represents an encounter with several major icons of the history of western painting, "while attempting"–as the filmmaker says–"to always create a link between art and life, an impertinence with respect to those images that the production of works of documentation [books and magazines] brought to the attention of everyone for the first time." Reclaiming art history in a performative, playful way and evoking the tradition of tableau vivant, Pistoletto with his daughters Cristina and Maria Pioppi "act out" in a series of little scenes: Orpheus and Eurydice, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Raphael, Chaim Soutine, James Ensor, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh.
Everything that comes and goes through my head, minus something.
Documentary produced by Corona Cinematografica. A brief overview of Bulgaria.
Short documentary by Giovanni Vento.
Traditions and social criticism in Basilicata, during a period of great imbalance between rich and poor and large-scale emigration.
Humorous observations on the Italian Beat world featuring poet Gianni Milano, Majid Andrea Valcarenghi, and other Italian beatnik.