Alberto Grifi
Director · 1938 – 2007 · Rome, Italy
Alberto Grifi (Rome, 1938–2007), a painter, director, cameraman and photographer, is a fundamental figure of Italian experimental and activist cinema. In the first half of the 1960s he worked on the production of documentaries, and in 1964, together with Gianfranco Baruchello, he made La verifica incerta, followed by many other experimental films. With the cult film Anna 1975 he was one of the first to experiment with the use of videotape in an independent film. In 1976 – together with a group of ‘video hoodlums’ – he produced documentaries rarely screened today on youth protests in Milan, Bologna and Rome. Throughout the 1980s he shot industrial documentaries in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. Grifi has also produced many radio programmes, published his writings on penitentiaries, contributed to various film magazines and held seminars in many squats, and universities, becoming a reference for future militant filmmakers.
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Movie6.7DramaDocumentaryA documentary ostensibly about Anna, a young drug addict taken off the streets by one of the filmmakers. Through her they attempt to explore the social issues from their hippie perspective, instead they create a revealing, uncomfortable self-portrait and inadvertently raise questions about documentary film-making.
Anna
1975 · 17 votes
MovieDocumentaryIn the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting between Antonioni and Grifi, a film shot in the concentration camp of Auschwitz with a survivor who recounts those awful moments, a glimpse of Palestine today, Grifi's reflections on the prison.
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The documentary focuses on the impressive event of the Italian youth world organized at Parco Lambro in Milan in 1976. The gathering, four days dedicated to counterculture and pop music, was attended by students, young people, workers, lumpenproletarians, feminists, gays and young people from extra-parliamentary groups. The memories and testimonies of those who organized, sang or simply participated will be a commentary on the splendid images of the time. For the first time, meaning is given to the exclusive and complete material shot by Alberto Grifi and six other operators at Parco Lambro in 1976.
Nudi Verso la Follia
2004 · 1 votes
Movie5.0This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde.
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Giravolte
2001 · 1 votes
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Alberto Grifi host at the exhibition Visioni Sconsigliate (Pescara, 2004) tells Flavio Sciolè the genesis of his masterpiece 'Anna', the staging reversed, the whole back, the transition from film to the video, the discovery of free spaces.
Alberto Grifi a Visioni Sconsigliate
2011 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryA film about Alfonso, who was the protagonist of the third episode of Paisà (the street urchin who steals the American soldier's shoes). A reflection on neorealism, filmed with Michele Schiavino and Maria Paola Fadda, third special Sony video prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
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Movie7.0DocumentaryMa chi è questo Grifi
1998 · 1 votes