Fractions Of Temporary Periods (I PARTE 1965-1968 E II PARTE 1969) (Italy, 1965-1968 / 1969, 16mm, 49')

Morte All'orecchio Di Van Gogh (Italy, 1968, 8mm/16mm, 65')

Nelda (Italy, 1969, 16mm/Betacam, 4')

Stricnina (Italy, 1969-1973, 16mm/Betacam, 7')

Trasferimento di Modulazione (Italy, 1969, 16mm, 9')

...Vi Prego Di Accettare Questo Semplice Bouquet Di Parentesi Appena Sbocciate ((())) (Italy, 1966, 8mm/Betacam, 13')

PIERO BARGELLINI

"A total filmmaker, not to mention a disgracefully forgotten one." This is how Marco Melani, his companion in cinema and in life, defined Bargellini in 1982 in the catalog of the first Festival Cinema Giovani. Back then, the Festival in Torino, along with Enzo Ungari in Venice and the newspaper "Il Manifesto," were among the very few to remember the director who had recently passed away.

For the first time ever, all the Tuscan artist's films will be projected, along with 4 never-before-seen shorts from the mid-'60s, and all the filmed material of Erinnerung an die zukunft , his "greatest" film (and not just because of its length), which was never coompleted. This means putting back together an eccentric, brief, paradigmatic parabola of an entire generation, for whom cinema and life dovetailed in the search for a materialistic and existential "elsewhere."

From a "Sunday director," as Bargellini defined amateur filmmakers, to an experimental filmmaker "with a responsible scientific conscience" (the chemistry he picked up during his agrarian studies led him to discover latent images through the photographic development phase in the extraordinary Trasferimento di modulazione, which Ungari in "Cinema & Film" compared to Capricci by Bene), the trajectory of the man from Arezzo, historicized within the fleeting experience of Italian underground cinema, becomes pure cinema of poetry and, through technical discoveries, makes him an "artist of vision" tout court.

In order to recreate a filmography composed primarily of single copies, in 8mm and 16mm, in many cases the films had to be telecined; the Torino Film Festival undertook this project, collaborating concretely with the Cineteca Nazionale and the Filmstudio 80 so that this tribute wouldn't be just a unique event, but the beginning of the constant circulation of the works by Piero Bargellini.