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...

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)....

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. ...

Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini....

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)....

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....

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

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....

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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...

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....

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....

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16mm short by Massimo Bacigalupo....

It exists only in a fragmented state....

Italian film-maker Tonino De Bernardi meets in rural Liguria an old countrywoman, Agnese, and her chickens....

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....

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 ...

This short film was timed to Midsömmer, a lyrical track in the Atlantic album The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn/Volume 2. The heroine reconciles herself with the breakup of an affair....