Alberto Grifi
Alberto Grifi (born May 29, 1938 in Rome ; † April 22, 2007 there ) was an Italian experimental filmmaker.
Life
Grifi began his work in the film industry in 1963 when he made a film with Carmelo Bene and Pepe Lenti about the theater project Cristo '63 , shot with a still and handheld camera . In the following year, Verifica incerta was an attempt at Hollywood cinema committed to Dadaism, which he was responsible for with Gianfranco Baruchello and which impressed the critics and the Parisian art scene. Subsequent projects mixed documentary with staged, travel experiences and theater performances. In 1967, No stop grammatica, a 12-hour happening in the Feltrinelli library, was put on film. Grifi then dealt again with theatrical productions and made a documentary about the Auschwitz extermination camp, in which Monica Vitti was involved.
In the new decade, Grifi had created his most important work in cinematic confrontations with the drug scene: Anna , the first film shot on video in Italy, followed the long hours of a drug addict. For the technical conversion of video to film material, Grifi invented the “vidigraf”. Films illuminating the conditions of psychiatry and prisons followed. Grifi then worked in the United States and France.
Again in the USA, but also in his home country, Grifi was busy during the 1980s with assignments for the Massachusett Institute for Technology and with numerous radio programs that were created for the RAI . In addition, he made industrial films and interviews, which also shaped a large part of his work in the following decade. Longer works were also created; 1994 "Leoncavallo, i giorni dello sgombero" and three years later "Addo 'sta Rossellini?".
In 2001, Grifi cast "A proposito degli effetti speciali", a review of the underground film that he himself had helped to shape, and in the following year, Urla mute, visualized a performance by Alessandra Vanzi.
Filmography (selection)
- 1972: Anna (Anna)
Web links
- Website of the artist
- Alberto Grifi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Contribution to Grifi in cineclandesto.it
- Documentary by Flavio Sciolè
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I Registi, Gremese 2002, p. 220
- ↑ albertogrifi.com ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grifi, Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian experimental filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2007 |
| Place of death | Rome |