Yervant Gianikian

Frente a Guernica (2023)

Painted by Picasso in 1937, Guernica is a universal icon against the war. In 2014, the artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi conceived a new film that tells the history of 20th century upon the painting. In 2023, years after Angela's passing, Y ...

Angela's Diaries. Two Filmmakers. Chapter Two (2019)

I felt an urgent need to continue with I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo, for me a world of symbols and colors. Our long journey together could only be given new meaning again. I set out, with considerable reserve, to make the second p ...

Angela's Diaries. Two Filmmakers. (2018)

Every day of her life, Angela kept a diary, filled with words and drawings, in which she recorded public and private matters, meetings, things she had read, everything. Including the account of two trips to Russia (1989-90). The period of the collapse of t ...

À propos de nos Voyages en Russie (2016)

Russia, its culture and conflicts, the 1920s and 1930s, the avant-garde movements persecuted by the authorities. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi open the precious workshop of their creation to us: old films, photographs from the Tsarist era, the Russian Revolut ...

Où en êtes-vous, Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi? (2015)

In this short film, screened and commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi revisit regions at war or in crisis through archive images of the 20th century. ...

Barbaric Land (2013)

Milan-based duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi create an astonishing work of militant poetry with this found-footage chronicle of Mussolini's brutal invasion of Ethiopia. ...

Electric Fragments No. 7 - Gypsies Toward Bamyan (2013)

1978, Afghanistan before the wars. Kuchis (Roma people) move toward Bamian. The caravan is a living creature. ...

Electric Fragments No. 8 - Shooting Party (2013)

From an undated notebook, circa 1935-1938. A group hunt and film in Camballa, along Nashik's Gipsies Road. Maharashtra, India. ...

Malattia, Notes Moscovites 1, Notes Moscovites 2 (2012)

Notes sur nos voyages en Russie 1989-1990 (2011)

This is a "sublimation" film of notes, watercolours, travel diaries. In 1989-90, we filmed the last survivors of the Russian avant-garde movements of the 1920s and '30s in Leningrad-Saint Petersburg, the city of Osip Emil'evic Mandel'štam – the author o ...

Electric Fragments No. 6 - Diary 1989. Dancing in the dark (2009)

For this sixth film in the series Electric Fragments. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi recover and rework images they shot in 1989, stolen from various Festa dell'Unità celebrations in Emilia and Romagna on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...

Ti rigalero il mio ultimo respiro (2009)

Film perduto (2008)

Ghiro ghiro tondo (2007)

Inspired by their beloved Dolomite area in Northeast Italy, a battle theater in World Wars I and II, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi continue to explore issues of war and peace in their most recent production. The film uses shots of ordinary toys found in the a ...

Electric Fragments No. 5 - Africa (2005)

This archive footage from the 1970s reveals the social upheavals and differences of the people in different Asian and African countries. The amateur shots reflect the social and economic conditions in these countries before their development as tourist are ...

Electric Fragments No. 4 - Asia (2005)

Lumières mystérieuses (2005)

"The film navigates through the actions of the girlfriend of a photographer in Brussels, taking in his bed, his toilet, in his bath... These scenes of everyday life, ironic and disinterested, give a true and tender and carefree style of this Europe of the ...

Oh! Man (2004)

After Prisoners of the war and On the Heights all is Peace, this film concludes Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's trilogy on the first world war. From the emblem of totalitarianism to individual physical suffering, the directors use this represen ...

Electric Fragments No. 2 - Vietnam (2002)

French Vietnam, early '50s. A military colonial movie. The city under military occupation, traveled by foot and bicycle. Small-scale eroticism. ...

Electric Fragments No. 3 - Bodies (2002)

Amateurish voyeurism in a pre-tv era. Glances of female bodies (un)covered by swimsuits on the beach. ...

Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism" (2001)

Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 1920s, a period of strong anti-colonial outbreak, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi deconstruct the images and analyze the attitude and behavior of We ...

Electric Fragments No. 1 - Rom (Uomini) (2001)

Gypsies in Italy, '40s. An 8mm home movie which depicts the emigration of a rom family aboard an horse-pulled wagon. A delicate portrait. ...

Balkan Inventory (2000)

Comprised of images shot by amateur photographers and German soldiers in the Balkans from the twenties through the forties, BALKAN INVENTORY was begun by Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi in response to the tragedy unfolding in the former Yugoslavia. ...

Terremoto (1999)

The couple of filmmakers traveled to Armenia in 1988 to film the upheaval of the USSR in the country. During their trip, an earthquake struck, a fatal echo of the political earthquake. ...

On the Heights All Is Peace (1998)

Found footage anti-war film comprising film documents of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian army on the Alpine front, and from first generation picture material by war-film pioneer Luca Comerio. ...

Trasparenze (1998)

Decaying nitrate film: cinema as an incendiary explosive bomb of memory. ...

Nocturne (1997)

A silent, elegiac poem describing the pain and violence of war, made from footage shot at Sarajevo in 1995, Belgrade in 1996, and Zagreb in the 1980s, and incorporating archival footage from WWI. ...

Io ricordo (1997)

The memoirs of Raphael Gianikian, Yervant's father, who survived the 1915 Armenian genocide in eastern Turkey. ...

Lo specchio di Diana (1996)

In 1926 the remains of two ships built by the Emperor Caligula were found at the bottom of Lake Nemi, near Rome. Mussolini had the lake drained and established a museum as a celebration of the imperial origins of Fascism, but the museum and ships were dest ...

Prisoners of War (1995)

This haunting film comprises of footage shot during WWI from opposite sides of the conflict: Czarist Russia and the Austro-Hungarian empire. The filmmakers tinted the material with sensual colors from sepia to red, blue, and purple and slowed the footage t ...

Criminal Animals (1994)

In this filmic comment on Fascist ideology - which uses footage from the recently discovered archives of Luca Comerio - invisible hands push captive animals to fight among themselves. ...

Aria (1994)

Primarily constructed from scientific films about the atmosphere from the turn of the last century. ...

African Diary (1994)

African Diary uses footage from a filmed personal diary shot in Algeria by an anonymous Frenchman between 1927-1936. Here, they reprise his cinematic jottings as he followed in the footsteps of the 19th century Orientalists like Flaubert. ...

Mario Giacomelli - Contact (1993)

Lettera a un amico (1992)

People, Years, Life (1990)

Using images shot in Russia and Armenia from World War I to the 1930s and retrieved from a Soviet film archive, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi constructed a meditative film about the status of Armenians as a people without a state. Inspired by the diary of Gia ...

From the Pole to the Equator (1987)

The title Dal polo all'equatore was first used by the pioneering documentary maker, Luca Comerio, for a compilation film of 1925; it was used again by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi for their film of 1985. Much of the original has been re-worked ...

Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary (1986)

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian. ...

La lotta eterna (1984)

Das Lied von der Erde - Gustav Mahler (1982)

Karagoez catalogo 9,5 (1981)

Excerpts from a collection of 9.5mm films dating from 1900 to 1928—including theatrical films, anthropological documentaries, and home movies—that reveal much about life during the silent-film era. ...

Essence of Absinthe (1981)

This montage, based on a 1920s pornographic film from the Pathé-Nathan company, uses old prints worn and scratched by generations of projection. ...

Karagöz et les brûleurs d'herbes parfumées (1979)

Catalogo n. 3 - Odore di tiglio attorno alla casa (1979)

Dal 2 novembre al giorno di Pasqua (1976)

Cataloghi - Non è altro gli odori che sente (1976)

Cesare Lombroso - Sull'odore del garofano (1976)

Un prestigiatore/Una miniaturista (1975)

Erat Sora (1975)

Viaggio di la rose (1975)

Essence - Di una personalità limitata al senso dell'odorato (1975)

Frente a Guernica (2023)

Painted by Picasso in 1937, Guernica is a universal icon against the war. In 2014, the artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi conceived a new film that tells the history of 20th century upon the painting. In 2023, years after Angela's passing, Y ...