Sirio Luginbühl Movies

Piero Tortolina has been a point of reference for a whole generation of film lovers. Pioneer of cinema-clubs and great film collector, he has been an invisible protagonist in the history of italian cinema.

The film is dedicated to Vittorio and Silvio Loffredo who, in the second half of the 1930s in Paris, using film excerpts found at flea markets, created a memorable collage film

The film took place at Villa Pisani (Stra-Venezia), near Venice’s lagoon in Porto Marghera (VE) and in a car cemetery. A beautiful girl covered with a semi-transparent gauze and with a gas mask.

A particular shot, made with a lens that breaks up the image field into fragments and reproduces the optics of a fly, explores a room where there is a girl with a guitar. The shot, back to normal, shows a container with the fly and a jar of honey. The girl than performs various actions: she plays...

Contrast between different portraits of women, between the public and the intimate.

Outtakes from a lost film made by the director in 1968.

The protagonist is a girl here, like Alice in the Pays des Merveilles, intrigued by the particularity of the story, coming from the garden of PaRDeS, search for research, connaissance, inspiration.

Experimental short.

A film centered on the graphic and pictorial works of the artist Paolo Sardina, whose images have been painted and scratched directly onto the film.

The film is set in an industrial landfill in the Petrochemical area of Porto Marghera (Venice). Here, among the toxic residues, a happening takes place: a boy and a girl without knowing each other before are invited to undress and kiss in front of ‘fake’ journalists, photographers and...

The film aims to show the fall of revolutionary ideals and broken ideologies.

Experimental interpretation of the Narcissus myth.

The director films a woman being tortured.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

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...

Some scenes in black and white show Venice, Piazza San Marco, people who walk, feed pigeons and paint. The film records the gestures of boys hugging each other, touching each other; then childhood and provocative scenes alternate. Venice is dying.

A reference to the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died mysteriously on December 15, 1969, while held at the Milan Police Headquarters for an investigation following a bomb explosion.

A re-edit of outtakes from the 1973 film "Ritratto Dell'Artista (Da Narcisso).

Experimental short by Sirio Luginbühl.

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.