Movies: Massimo Bacigalupo

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns...

First chapter of the four-part-cycle Eryngium, the film portrays the family background where the individual journey begins, the rituals of middle-class life, their representations (also in home movies), and what they may conceal....

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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)....

Shot between Italy and New York City, Warming Up is the journal of a season of creativity. The film-maker and his characters improvise scenes and sequences, and wonder how to make up a story as they go along. The recurring theme is how to make the wo...

16mm collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I....

A close and affectionate look at an Italian-American family engaged in a wedding party, accompanied by a soundtrack of childhood reminiscences by one of the older participants....

This is the third and most extensive part of the cycle Eryngium. The essential theme is the migrations that have populated our world, starting from ancient India and descending into Greece and Western Europe.The film’s conceit is that this movement i...

A conclusion and recapitulation of the Eryngium cycle, Coda deals directly with the theme of self-portraiture. The first shot alludes to the end of Erichvon Stroheim's Foolish Wives, where the corpse of the hero-director is dispatched in a man-hole. ...

German dancer Angela Kirsten rehearses and dances (from memory) Balanchine's choreography of "Ricercar" by Bach-Webern, New York 1973. A short reflection on time, memory, beauty, art, and the film medium....

Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini....

A sketch of materials (and texts) that were to be used in Nor Wood and Migration, this short film has the freshness of an improvisation....

"Her was shot as my contributionto a collective film of the Italian Film-makers' Cooperative, Tutto,tutto nello stesso istante, whichstarted out as a Dadaist protestagainst police brutality. I used a "Newsweek" cutting about the Chicago Convention ri...

A day in the life of a young student, Paul, who commits suicide with his girl friend. We follow him in theschoolroom, where he fantasizes about space travel while the instructor goes over the dates of WW2 and his companions read "Playboy". He walks i...

According to the film-maker, this film, Part Two of the Eryngium series, provides the cycle’s dialogues...

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 me...

Material shot between 1961 and 1967 ,including bad takes for Quasi una tangente, is reorganized following the five acts of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Thus Ariel loquitur ("Ariel speaks") has five numbered sections, and a Prospero-like figure of old ...

The film seeks to question how a certain image is perceived. The point of departure is a photograph of a street in Palestine. Later the camera moves to show that the photo includes (in a rear mirror) the image of the photographer with a camera. Final...

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a more remote country, and the inspiration is avowedly Japanese (Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North)....

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city....