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Made during the Vietnam War. He proposes a reflection on two ways of killing...

Experimental short by Gianfranco Brebbia.

The manifestation of femininity.

Filmed in 1962 in Milan, on the Idroscalo: a sometimes affectionate gaze, other biting on a varied and popular humanity, distinct and joyful, that of the Italian economic boom.

Alberto Burri at work. The exceptional privilege of being able to see the artist at work, among glues, wooden strips and plastic panels, blowtorch and metal plates. The film version comes from a 35mm copy, a very damaged film especially with regards to sound.

A trip between the most renown mountain localities on the italian northwestern alps.

Mondo film about Italians, presumably.

Ancient bird hunting techniques, still practiced in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, are illustrated.

The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.

Artist Video Collection

A critical view on the history of the Dada movement and its critique of the degradation of social structures.

The impact the monochromatic barriers of the usual organic derivatives of carbon amalgamated unnaturally and seriously artificial of Sunset Pink (as indeed in the '50s garments, glasses, cars, linen curtains, carpets, railway, carriages) etc. We stick our dehydrated phalanges in self-inflicted punishments and perplexingly experience ambiguous (and sensorially pleasant) symptoms of inherited light. The image dissociated from the disease in which we do not believe because we do not know how to believe suggests to us: it is the time for non-critical-non-scientific pre-analysis of neo-profanes emasculated by their own hand, equipped with additional corneas. They are reflected in us: a muffled upheaval-frozen to go beyond the instinctual vomiting barrier.

A Silver Bear winning short animation.

16mm film by Marinella Pirelli.

a film by Emanuele Centazzo

Cine-poetry

Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

The artist is portrayed performing the same action over and over again in one shot. On the background we can see her "Living Sculptures". The only film work by Marisa Merz.

The 13th short of the 'Angelino' series.

The Mella stream floods and the families of Castelmella (Brescia) mobilize to quickly free the houses from water and mud.

An experimental documentary short about Saint Cross's basilica of Lecce, Apulia. In 1968, Carmelo Bene made a deal with Nexus Film to shoot three documentaries. This is the only one that was actually made. He used the deal money to shoot his first feature Nostra Signora dei Turchi. It is still unsure if Bene actually shot the movie or if he just put his name on it to get the money.

"Our nativity scene will be among the blast furnaces this year": on 24 December 1968, Pope Paul VI visited Taranto, to spend Christmas Eve with the steelworkers, in a shed of the steelworks opened in 1961. For the first time, a pontiff celebrated Christmas Mass in a factory.

It is an anti-film, a verbo-filmic corollary to the classic O bottetò, which engages a concept of "de-cultural film" brought to exasperation, determining the provocation of the public through a parodistic technique of the most forbidden amateur cinematographic attitude (the film is part of the "filmosophical manifestos" series).

An experimental film by Gianfranco Brebbia

The camera is fixed. In front of the lens the man rhythmically shakes two lamps, at first angrily, to end motionless. A film about dissociation. Micro-emotional.

Experimental 8mm film

Subject made on 8 mm film in 1969

Subject made on 8 mm film in 1968

Through a rapid and rhythmic montage of materials shot by the author and archive footage, this film made in the winter of 1967-68 is an ideological judgment on the violence of power and consumerism. Images of the powerful of the time involved in the genocide in Vietnam alternate with others of rituals of mass society, traffic and shopping. For those unwilling to be imprisoned and indoctrinated, the escape route is the one indicated in the final sequence, shot with the actors of Gilberto Giuntini and Mario Pachi’s Teatro Prova, in which the performers find a means of resistance in rebellion and in a series of liberating actions.

Starting in 1954 (the year broadcasting began), RAI began broadcasting educational programs, operas, and symphonic and chamber music concerts, spreading knowledge of classical music as an artistic and cultural heritage.

a film by Emanuele Centazzo

Experimental short by Renato Ferraro.

Directly engraved on the emulsion of the film, the film continues Cioni Carpi's research on visual rhythm. The graphic elements chase each other and explode, according to free and apparently random geometric paths.

The original idea was to completely command every movement of the artists and thus deprive them of their vitality. In this way I had the intention of cutting and choosing, shortening thus the times, the static image of a person who takes drugs and commits suicide. The film is based on its dramatic comedy, where the irony appears even more evident due to the environment of vice.

A 1968 film by Emanuele Centazzo.

The film develops around a series of shots of Gino Marotta's sculptures at the Natural-Artificial exhibition at the Galleria dell'Ariete (Milan, 1968). The images are inserted in a tight montage that alternates natural visions with pure ghosts of shapes-light in motion. The rhythms are marked by the music of Cage. Shapes and colors outline volumes like liquid and bright substances, derived from the intense play of transparencies and overlaps. From a manuscript note preserved in the Marinella Pirelli Archive (Varese), the artist reports: Marotta's sculptures were the pretext I was looking for: they are in methacrylate perspex, transparent and polarizing, with those surfaces made of pure luminous variations: but they were precisely a pretext.

In the Second World War, in Emilia, during the retreat, a German soldier placed on sentry duty falls asleep in a tree. The next morning he wakes up abandoned by his fellow soldiers. Instead of returning to his unit, the soldier remains on the tree to observe the spring nature and reflect on some episodes from his past, which have slowly transformed him from man to murderer.

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

Franco Angeli's experimental short film in Big Apple New York with some reminiscences also to Jonas Mekas' Diaries.