Movies: Piero Bargellini

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction....

A young man reads Ginsberg in his briefs, and shows off his body....

A woman sits, smokes, and reads in various states of 16mm exposure....

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Amateur footage, filming of dubious origin, chromatic alterations and hard-core details in an alienating and curious collage with sinister and gloomy voices reciting poems of the beat generation....

A home movie by Piero Bargellini....

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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...

Part of Piero Bargellini's Lost Cinema....

The story: the death of a dog, filmed subsequently, a violent death because it is caused in a veterinarian’s clinic; a man in a white coat injects the strychnine… The film: afterwards there’s a moment when the animal’s eye emit violet-blue flashes, t...

Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini....

To me, to go to the window and look outside is like watching a film. Filming is a way to draw out the condition of spectator and alienate it. I made this film very instinctively, naturally. Now I am beginning to learn to watch it. The very idea of so...

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Part of Piero Bargellini's Lost Cinema...

Destroy by the director in 1974....

It exists only in a fragmented state....

Lost film: Filmed report (1968-1970, 8mm, 24fts, sound, 13’, col.)...

Lost film: Abandon all illusions, prepare for the fight (co-director Marco Melani, Stefano Beccastrini, 1969, 16mm, 24fts, 40’, col.-bw)...

Second part of Fractions of Temporary Periods completed in January 1969....

Experimental 8mm film...