Alberto Grifi

In Viaggio con Patrizia (2007)

A trip in an automobile described in the style of the phonetic poetry by Patrizia Vicinelli. ...

Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima (2007)

In 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, G ...

Nudi Verso la Follia (2004)

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, ...

About Special Effects (2001)

This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde. ...

Addo' sta Rossellini? (1997)

A 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 ...

Ultimo giorno di scuola (1980)

During his stay in Italy, Harlan accepted a commission from Rai and created a ruthless portrait of society through an archetypal setting. This film, set in a Roman school and filmed inside a classroom during a lesson, is a ruthless portrait of students and ...

A partire dal dolce (1979)

"A partire dal Dolce brings together "portraits-interventions" of a dozen or so thinkers, artists, friends of Gianfranco Baruchello (including extremely rare footage of Jean-François Lyotard), who comment on the concept of the "dolce" (gentle/soft/sweet)" ...

Dinni e la Normalina, ovvero la Videopolizia Psichiatrica contro i sedicenti Gruppi di Follia Militante (1978)

This is a quite a rare example of a political sci-fi filmed without means. An excessive and schizophrenic creature, DINNI E LA NORMALINA allows Grifi's more playful soul to see the light, while not dispersing the dark reflection on the exploitation by medi ...

Michele alla ricerca della felicità (1978)

Michele, a political prisoner, witnesses the violence and fury of guards against a drug addicted prisoner. ...

Frammenti di una vita d'eroina (1977)

A day in the life of poet Patrizia Vicinelli who tries for the umpteenth time to free herself from drug addiction. ...

Lia (1977)

The intervention of a student at the "counter convention" at the Fabbrica della Comunicazione di Brera, against the convention on anti-psychiatry by A. Vermiglione. ...

Il preteso corpo (1977)

Hospital documentary on the testing of a medicine produced by a known pharmaceutical company on people considered psychiatrically calibrated that caused a "vascular storm" with horrible convulsions. Patients were discharged when they could make the fascist ...

Il Festival del Proletariato Giovanile al Parco Lambro (1976)

Between June 26 and 29, 1976, the sixth edition of the Festival of the Juvenile Proletariat took place at Parco Lambro in Milan, an event conceived by the countercultural magazine Re Nudo. The organizers invited Alberto Grifi to film those days filled with ...

Anna (1975)

A 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 i ...

Vigilando reprimere (1972)

A prison escape gone wrong. A man and a woman meet in an apocalyptic scenario, in the midst of an obscurantist wave of repression of consciences. ...

Il grande freddo (1971)

A film about painting and its denial concerning Giordano struggling with the Sleeping Beauty, this is the challenge. Will art, free of museums and academies be able to give back to the child raped and abandoned on the snow, the desire to go on living? Gior ...

Long Live The Orgonauts! (1970)

In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after havi ...

Non soffiare nel narghilè (1970)

The laugh-out-loud adventures of a drug dealer and his customers struggling with a joint, filmed in the hippy commune of Terrasini, near Palermo. ...

Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia (1967)

On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new visual grammar capable of describing "the new geography of boundless perceptions and imaginaries, the emergence of memories from the very distant phylogenetic ...

No stop grammatica (1966)

A happening that lasted 12 hours in the Feltrinelli bookshop in Rome. The soundtrack (background weaning) was put together by the crowd, recomposing, without listening to them, pieces of magnetic film that had been distributed around. There are almost all ...

Liberty (1966)

Pezzi dell'Amleto (1966)

They were projected during the theatrical event. ...

Uncertain Verification (1965)

A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies. ...

I manichini (1965)

Nonotte (1961)

Only the working copy exists. The negative was destroyed by the production. With Beppe Lenti. The title says it all: the production, tired of the fact that during the making of the film we were changing the script at night, denied us the generator to shoot ...

Cyril (una cosa urgente) (1960)

Lost film. "I have absolutely no memory of what happens in the film. ...

Alberto Grifi a Visioni Sconsigliate (2011)

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. ...

Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima (2007)

In 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, G ...

Nudi Verso la Follia (2004)

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, ...

KomaK (2002)

Alberto Grifi, an experimental filmmaker, becomes aware of the experiments conducted by Dr. Kanudo, who, following in the footsteps of T. Leary and A. Huxley, documents the effects of psychotropic substances on the human mind. In collaboration with enginee ...

Giravolte (2001)

About Special Effects (2001)

This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde. ...

Addo' sta Rossellini? (1997)

A 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 ...

Alberto Grifi introduce Anna (1976)

Anna (1975)

A 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 i ...