Pia Epremian

Infiniti sufficienti (1970)

Straub used to say that this film was the story of a woman. Indeed, it is the tale of a mother with a young daughter who watches and observes other mothers with their children—at the health clinic, on park benches, and finally on a balcony, where one of ...

Dissolvimento (1970)

Dissolvimento shows two women in domestic interiors who perform two different actions, edited one after the other. In the first, the painter Gigliola Carretti is engaged in an action with a series of sexually explicit props, making the activity resemble th ...

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 ...

Le vin de la paresse (1969)

Seated woman. The outstretched finger points back to an act and revives the moment of anguish: it grows and spreads across her face, and there is no possibility of release. ...

Doppio suicidio (1968)

Suicide is twofold because, in man's eternal crisis, the attempt to define existence is already suicide, and regarding it as defined by death is suicide once again. ...

Pistoletto & Sotheby's (1968)

This film represents an encounter with several major icons of the history of western painting, "while attempting"–as the filmmaker says–"to always create a link between art and life, an impertinence with respect to those images that the production of ...

Antonio Delle Nevi (1968)

Antonio and the tree, Antonio and the snow, prayer, meditation, sinking, rebelling, temptation, the dream and the emergence, Antonio and the metamorphosis, the face. ...

Proussade (1967)

Migration (1970)

A series of migrants who at times narrate and impersonate shards of myths, among them the Great Goddess, the Virgin of Bach's Magnificat, the Sulamite of Stockhausen's Song of Solomon ("I am black but comely"), tales by Herodotus, Kafka, Villon (as set to ...

Dissolvimento (1970)

Dissolvimento shows two women in domestic interiors who perform two different actions, edited one after the other. In the first, the painter Gigliola Carretti is engaged in an action with a series of sexually explicit props, making the activity resemble th ...

Dei (1968)

The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of superimpositions. At first, the faces are very theatrical, made-up. It's not clear whether they are men or w ...

Piena di fiume (1968)

Il mostro verde (1967)

Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies. ...