Material shot between 1961 and 1967 ,including bad takes for Quasi una tangente, is reorganized following the five acts of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Thus Ariel loquitur ("Ariel speaks") has five numbered sections, and a Prospero-like figure of old philosopher appears repeatedly. The wedding...
A tale in two (silent) voices. The forest, the vineyards En Geddi, are there and are not there. The two voices speak on the border between recognition and estrangement, distance and contact. Sometimes, like certain angels in paintings, they turn their eyes away from the representation and look at...
Observations of a space and (last) time, of a landscape and the people who inhabit it. The first chapter of the Flowers of Eringyum cycle, the film portrays the family background where the individual journey begins, the rituals of middle-class life, their representations (also in home movies), and...
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...
A close and affectionate look at an Italian-American family engaged in a wedding party, accompanied by a voice-over of childhood reminiscences in the same location, the industrial region of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), by one of the older participants.
Lingue di luce – M. Bacigalupo racconta il suo cinema
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Massimo Bacigalupo, in his house in Rapallo, talks about his cinema, which passed through the festivals of the FEDIC circles and then in the lively and active Rome at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. Massimo talks about his films and recalls his encounters with Mekas and Markopoulos, the...
Tonino De Bernardi and Massimo Bacigalupo met in the second half of the 60s and since then they have always remained friends, the two of them and their families. Massimo appears in several of Tonino's films and Tonino is in some of Massimo's films, an uninterrupted relationship, theirs, which has...
Un cineasta underground – Un intervento di Mirco Santi
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Mirco Santi, who carries on the Home Movies project/archive with Paolo Simoni, briefly recounts the cinema of Massimo Bacigalupo. Home Movies has restored a number of works by Bacigalupo, a filmmaker who brought amateur cinema to the status of an art form in Italy, and keeps a large part of his...
