Film UbuWebPiero Bargellini (1940-1982)
Vi prego di accettare questo semplice... (1966)
Fractions Of Temporary Periods (1965-1968 / 1969)
Morte All'orecchio Di Van Gogh (1968)
Nelda (1969)
Stricnina (1969-1973)
Trasferimento di Modulazione (1969)
Piero Bargellini was born in Arezzo in 1940. An agronomist, film lover and amateur filmmaker, he joined the “Cinema Indipendente” Cooperative in 1968 and became one of the most important figures of Italian underground cinema. His films are intensely poetic and reflect artisanal wisdom, based on his scientific knowledge of optics and chemistry. He made films like Morte all'orecchio di Van Gogh, Fractions of Temporary Periods, Trasferimento di modulazione, Gasoline, Stricnina, between 1966 and 1973, in a total identity of art and life. These works tell “the history, in its own way exemplary, of one of the secret protagonists, and of the famous victims, of the revolution of 1968.” Ideally conceived as a dialectic interface between the Italian Competition and Detours, this tribute (curated by Fulvio Baglivi with the help of Adriano Aprà) is also the way we have chosen to remember Marco Melani on the tenth anniversary of his death. Marco, who was a friend and collaborator of Bargellini’s, and who continues to be our inspiration and a "hidden" prompter, organized for the first festival in Torino (1982) a commemoration of his friend, who had recently passed away. His intent was to remove the label of “experimental”: “his cinema was cinema tout court, like that of Rossellini, Hawks, Bertolucci, Schifano, Brakhage and all the other filmmakers he loved.”
""Trasferimento di modulazione" is impressing in its special way. It's a porn movie left in an early stage of developement. The colors and blots you will see are "not actually there", they are the effects of the reaction of the projector's light with the salts on the film. Obviously, a film like this changes and dies away a little at every show. So what you're seeing is a three-dimensional slice (widht-height-time of the movie) of a four-dimensional movie (width-height-time of the movie-time of the consuption).