Alberto Grifi

Alberto Grifi

Born: May 29, 1938
Died: April 22, 2007
in Rome, Italy
Alberto Grifi (Rome, 1938–2007), a painter, director, cameraman and photographer, is a fundamental figure of Italian experimental and activist cinema. In the first half of the 1960s he worked on the production of documentaries, and in 1964, together with Gianfranco Baruchello, he made La verifica incerta, followed by many other experimental films. With the cult film Anna 1975 he was one of the first to experiment with the use of videotape in an independent film. In 1976 – together with a group of ‘video hoodlums’ – he produced documentaries rarely screened today on youth protests in Milan, Bologna and Rome. Throughout the 1980s he shot industrial documentaries in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. Grifi has also produced many radio programmes, published his writings on penitentiaries, contributed to various film magazines and held seminars in many squats, and universities, becoming a reference for future militant filmmakers.

Movies for Alberto Grifi...

Alberto Grifi a Visioni Sconsigliate
Title: Alberto Grifi a Visioni Sconsigliate
Character: self
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
Title: Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
Character: Self
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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, Grifi's reflections on the prison.
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Giravolte
Title: Giravolte
Character: Grifi
Released: November 17, 2001
Type: Movie
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About Special Effects
Title: About Special Effects
Character: Mr. Riflesso
Released: September 4, 2001
Type: Movie
This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde.
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Addo' sta Rossellini?
Title: Addo' sta Rossellini?
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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 Locarno Film Festival.
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Alberto Grifi introduce Anna
Title: Alberto Grifi introduce Anna
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1976
Type: Movie
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1975
Type: Movie
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 inadvertently raise questions about documentary film-making.
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Ritratto di Gianfranco Baruchello
Title: Ritratto di Gianfranco Baruchello
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia".