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Massimo Bacigalupo (Rapallo, Genoa, Italy, 1947). His first works were produced for the local Amateur Film Club. For some years he helped organize the Rapallo International Amateur Film Festival. In 1966 his feature Quasi una tangente was awarded first prize in the Montecatini Film Festival. Bacigalupo, who was nineteen-year-old at the time, remembers that he was sitting in the audience with Lillian Gish and Anita Loos, who happened to be visiting Montecatini (Lillian was a friend of Massimo’s parents). Early on, through his personal acquaintance with poet Ezra Pound, Bacigalupo met film-makers and associates of the New American Cinema, among them Guy Davenport, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Jonas Mekas, and Abbott Meader. In 1970 he prepared an Italian translation of Brakhage’s Metaphors on Vision. He brought to Rapallo in 1964 a selection of American films, among them works by Ron Rice and Maya Deren, which made a lasting impression. In 1966-71 he was a university student in Rome, where he was a founding member of the Italian Film-makers’ Cooperative, and was involved in producing and distributing independent films. In 1968 he shot 200 Feet for March 31, an uncut and silent 8mm film- happening. He went on in 1969-70 to create Eringio, a series of four films running over two hours. The title refers to Dürer’s self-portrait, and this film quartet amounts to a collective self-portrait of the student and art world in Italy at the time. The longest film of the series, Migration, a celebration of the Great Mother and her many incarnations, was premiered at the 1970 London Film Festival. Bacigalupo travelled with a showcase of Italian underground films to Denmark, Sweden, Germany (1970), and later Spain (1974) and England (Tate Gallery, 1983). He enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. in American literature in 1975. Warming Up, a color film shot in Italy and America, was premiered at the Anthology Film Archives, NYC, on Bacigalupo's 26th birthday, April 20, 1973. In 1975 he shot Postcards from America, a dream travelogue, and Into the House, an homage to his American mother’s family. Subsequently Bacigalupo has been chiefly active as a scholar, critic and educator. He is Professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa and has received numerous awards for his work as a translator, chiefly of English and American poetry. He lives in Rapallo.
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31 December 1987
Short film shot in Rapallo, 1987.
12 March 2016
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.
02 December 1970
A conclusion and recapitulation of the Eryngium cycle, Coda deals directly with the theme of self-portraiture.
31 December 1970
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.
02 December 1970
An anthology of short films directed by Massimo Bacigalupo around 1969 and 1970.
01 January 1967
Material shot between 1961 and 1967 ,including bad takes for Quasi una tangente, is reorganized following the five acts of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
19 September 1968
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.
31 December 1968
Experimental film in two parts, the first black and white, the second color.
06 June 1970
It exists only in a fragmented state.
01 January 1969
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).
03 November 1970
Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini.
31 December 2007
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form.
19 May 2025
Bagni di Lucca, June 1988.
19 May 2025
Tonino De Bernardi and Massimo Bacigalupo met in the second half of the 60s and since then they have always remained friends, the two of them and their families.
01 January 1975
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).
25 March 2019
German dancer Angela Kirsten rehearses and dances (from memory) Balanchine's choreography of "Ricercar" by Bach-Webern, in New York 1973 where Massimo Bacigalupo met her before she would become his wife and mother of his two children.
28 November 2010
A close and affectionate look at an Italian-American family engaged in a wedding party, accompanied by a voice-over of childhood reminiscences in the same location, the industrial region of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), by one of the older participants.
01 December 2010
A previously unreleased film that documents the relationship between Bacigalupo and the American poet who introduced him to the underground scene.
21 March 1969
Collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I. It is a collective film, the result of an operation devoid of any aesthetic purpose: to verify the existence of any harmony between a fairly large group (twelve people) of members of the independent Cooperative.
21 March 1969
"Her was shot as my contribution to a collective film of the Italian Film-makers' Cooperative, "Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante", which started out as a Dadaist protest against police brutality.
19 May 2025
Mirco Santi, who carries on the Home Movies project/archive with Paolo Simoni, briefly recounts the cinema of Massimo Bacigalupo.
13 November 1989
Italian film-maker Tonino De Bernardi meets in rural Liguria an old countrywoman, Agnese, and her chickens.
19 May 2025
A short film featuring shot in 1987 at Chiavari.
18 May 2025
Massimo Bacigalupo, in his house in Rapallo, talks about his cinema, which passed through the festivals of the FEDIC circles and then in the lively and active Rome at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
02 December 1970
A series of migrants who at times narrate and impersonate shards of myths, among them the Great Goddess, the Virgin of Bach’s Magnificat, the Sulamite of Stockhausen’s Song of Solomon (“I am black but comely”), tales by Herodotus, Kafka, Villon (as set to music by Ezra Pound).
20 April 1973
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.
19 May 2025
Short film shot in Uscio, Genoa, May 7, 1989.
19 May 2025
Rapallo, Italy, summer 1998.
01 January 1965
Lilan, the heroine, reconciles herself with the breakup of an affair.
01 January 1970
A tale in two (silent) voices. The forest, the vineyards En Geddi, are there and are not there. The two voices speak on the border between recognition and estrangement, distance and contact.
31 December 1969
Observations of a space and (last) time, of a landscape and the people who inhabit it. The first chapter of the Flowers of Eringyum cycle, 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.
26 November 1979
On November 26, 1976, Massimo Bacigalupo was in Catania with his 16mm camera, filming the streets of the city at the foot of Mount Etna and the people lingering and strolling about.
19 May 2025
Short film shot in Forte dei Marmi, August 1989.
09 July 1968
Most of this silent film was shot in Rome within one day, March 31, 1968, and edited in the camera (a 100-feet double8 BW film roll).
19 May 2025
Rapallo, 1990.
10 July 1966
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".
31 December 1968
The film seeks to question how a certain image is perceived. The point of departure is a photograph of a street in Palestine.
19 May 2025
Pontremoli, July 1988.
