Splinters of Utopia

Alberto Grifi, the protagonist around whom the whole Italian underground movement revolved, confesses himself in front of Paolo Brunatto's cameras. Grifi tells poet Valentino Zeich...

During the underground season Tonino De Bernardi set out to tell “what he saw” and-if possible-save himself and his world by means of his own work. De Bernardi tells the poet Valen...

Muse and Goddess of the Italian underground, she always rejected the opposition between art cinema and popular cinema and helped create the new critical taste that broke the mould...

In a 1974 letter to Massimo Bacigalupo, which later appeared in Black and White magazine, I wrote, “It is dangerous to talk about oneself, because the thing lends itself to a thous...

Piero Bargellini's overwhelming journey into technique and aesthetics.

Scavolini together with Paolo Brunatto and his friend Valentino Zeichen, traces the vicissitudes of his early steps in experimental cinema, the basis of which was the development o...

Paolo Brunatto and Valentino Zeichen meet Alfredo Leonardi, a passionate standard-bearer of Italian underground cinema, who now lives “in retreat” on Lake Como and has now distance...

A journey in the company of two explorers of our time - Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi - who through video and written text went from the more experimental and poetic underground i...

For Gianfranco Baruchello, as for his master Duchamp, the poetic is found first and foremost in subconscious processes, in a liberating and, once said, anti-bourgeois function. Pao...

In his country hermitage in the Veneto region of Italy, amidst films laid out to dry, projectors, old 16mm. cameras and antediluvian moviolas, Paolo Gioli describes his procedures...

For Brunatto and Zeichen, attempting a portrait of Brocani meant inevitably referring to the latter's friendship and creative, human and professional complicity with Mario Schifano...

Now a distinguished scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature (he won the Opera Prima Viareggio Prize with an essay on Pound), Bacigalupo talks about himself and his idea of cinema. With t...