Alfredo Leonardi

Porto Marghera, il lavoro contro la vita (1979)

The struggles of the workers at Montedison in Porto Marghera, following an accident that resulted in the deaths of three people. ...

L'isola dell'isola (1977)

A television experiment, filmed with the first portable video recorders, in the Ligurian community of Carloforte, on the island of San Pietro: for two months, the small crew lived in close contact with the people and their daily lives. They created a colle ...

Lottando la vita - Lavoratori italiani a Berlino (1975)

Stories of Italian emigrants in Berlin declined without an ethic of sacrifice and goodism but through a sense of the ferocity necessary to wrest survival from the miserable life that capitalism has offered and continues to impose on us. ...

Omsa Sud. Dopo un anno di lotta (1974)

Omsa Sud workers' struggle to keep the factory occupied. The documentary was partially realized within a project financed by the city of Fermo, which initially included the idea of teaching video shooting techniques as part of a laboratory. Omsa Sud was sh ...

Carcere in Italia (1973)

Prison as the repressed side of an entire society. As such, it flows in the long monologue of an ex-con recorded by the analogue videotape which, still at his dawn, captures it in its integrity. ...

Policlinico in lotta (1973)

The focus of this documentary is the nurses and porters working at the Policlinico universitario Umberto I in Rome, which demand equal treatment within a militan action that follows the steps of the operaist labor struggles in factories. ...

La nostra lotta è l'autoriduzione, la nostra forza è l'organizzazione (1972)

The struggle for housing in Rome, in the area of Magliana. Self-organization is opposed to the mediation of political parties, especially the Communist Party, and emerges as the only way for the emancipation and re-appropriation by the exploited. ...

Quartieri popolari di Roma (1972)

Documentary about life in Italian working class neighborhoods. ...

Il fitto dei padroni non lo paghiamo più (1972)

Documentary on the fight for housing in the 70s in Magliana, a popular neighborhood of Rome. ...

Sotto le stelle, sotto il tendone (1972)

A video made for RAI by Videobase in 1972 ...

E nua ca simu a forza du mundu (1971)

In a construction site near Rome, a Calabrian construction worker dies. The emigrant's hard life is reconstructed through the words of his fellow workers and family, interviewd between Rome and Calabria. One of the first experiments of collective directing ...

La casa è un diritto non un privilegio (1970)

The documentary deals with the struggle s to obtain decent housing in a metropolis such the capital city of Italy in which the right for all to an acceptable dwelling is met with by all kids of serius obstacles-the chaotic increase of urbanization, the bui ...

Cine-Volantini (1970)

On the occasion of the regional elections of 1970, the Italian Communist Party seizes a new model of propaganda and counter-information developed in France during May 68: the cine-tract. ...

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo (1970)

A film by Alfredo Leonardi. ...

Vampiro romano (1970)

RARA (1969)

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in ...

Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante (1969)

Collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I. It is a collective film, the result of an operation devoid of any aesthetic purpose: to verify the existence of any harmony between a fairly large group (twelve people) of members of the independent Cooperative ...

Book of Saints of Eternal Rome (1968)

A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me during my being far away. –A. L. ...

The N Most Beautiful Girls of Navona Square (1968)

The faces of beauty are infinite, if you only want to look at them, and the ones of infancy are the most divine. –A. L. ...

Après la Passion selon Sade (1968)

Pua la forza d'un sorriso (1968)

During the 1968 Pesaro Festival, animated by the intervention of the students, riots occurred caused by fascist provocations and the usual police brutality. Following clashes culminating in the arrest of several Festival participants, there was a general a ...

If the Unconscious Revolts (1967)

In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinematic rendering. I tried to visualize my present aspiration to recover, through the various ways taught by one's experience, the easiness, directness and rip ...

Motion Vision (1967)

Motion Vision was originally screened in alternation with slides as part of the rotating installation Rotor Vision, in Rome in 1967 for the seminal group show at L'Attico entitled Fuoco, Immagine, Acqua, Terra with the participation of Mario Bignardi, Mari ...

Cinegiornale (1967)

A compilation film of war newsreels and documentary material from historic, sociological and industrial films. ...

J. & J. & Co. (1967)

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "The Unconscious Rebels". The shots were re-edited following the rehearsals of Mysteries and Antigone. ...

Amore, amore (1966)

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the filter through which are selected the materials used - people, things, signs - and determines a good portion of the associations though which the sequences ...

Musica in corso (1966)

A film by Alfredo Leonardi ...

Living & Glorious (1965)

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation of the exile theatre group from New York, but rather is concerned with the specific atmospheric factor which is indicated by their name, and which constitut ...

Indulgenza Plenaria (1964)

Leonardi's first documentary Indulgenza Plenaria explicitly exposed, and implicitly criticized, a prevailing culture of oppressive policing and censorship, a widespread state authoritarianism in Italian society in the sixties. ...

Filmstudio, mon amour (2015)

The Stone Age (1970)

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante ...

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 ...

Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo (1970)

A film by Alfredo Leonardi. ...

Political Portraits (1969)

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry's L'Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night). ...