Piero Bargellini Trailers
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Pierfrancesco Bargellini (Arezzo, 1940-1982), also known as Piero, bought his first movie camera when he was 20 and pointed it at his youthful passions: competition cars and motorcycles. A few years later he met Marco Melani, who became his cinema companion and an actor in his films. He started to make a name for himself in the world of amateur filmmakers and won a prize at the festival of Montecatini. One of the members of the jury was Massimo Bagicalupo, a founder of the Cooperativa cinema indipendente, and he invited Bargellini to enter the brand-new world of Italian underground cinema. While working as an agronomist at the Val di Chiana Irrigation Office he continued to make films in his free time, but shortly afterwards, with the notice and support of the magazines “Cinema & Film” and the group “Filmstudio 70,” he left his job and moved to Rome. Here, during the early 1970s he worked occasionally for RAI and carried on his activity as an independent director in the world of underground cinema. During this period he suffered a series of misadventures with the law and ended up fleeing to Turkey with his wife Oriana and their daughter Rebecca in 1975. After returning to Italy he continued experimenting, jotting down his discoveries in a series of notebooks and fruitlessly trying to find financing for various projects for experimental programs for Rai. Bertolucci and Storaro consulted with him during preparation for La Luna (1981) to try to resolve problems with various special effects. But Bargellini progressively lost contact with the world of cinema and shortly thereafter his troubles with the law began. He was found dead, officially because of an overdose, at dawn on July 10, 1982.
Most Popular Piero Bargellini Trailers
Total trailers found: 36
29 August 1979
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.
08 August 1968
A young man reads Ginsberg in his briefs, and shows off his body.
23 December 1968
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.
06 August 1969
A woman sits, smokes, and reads in various states of 16mm exposure.
09 January 1970
A home movie by Piero Bargellini.
02 February 1968
Short study of a
01 January 1969
Second part of Fractions of Temporary Periods completed in January 1969.
01 January 1971
Destroy by the director in 1974.
06 June 1966
Part of Piero Bargellini's Lost Cinema
15 July 1965
Short movie by Piero Bargellini.
01 January 1968
Experimental 8mm film
01 January 1970
Lost film: Filmed report (1968-1970, 8mm, 24fts, sound, 13’, col.)
01 January 1974
Images of everyday life in the family for Bargellini, his wife Oriana and little Rebecca alternate with others whose meaning is less clear (the crypt of a vampire, a flower that blooms).
04 July 1966
Film fragment shot by Piero Bargellini to be featured in "Erinnerung An Die Zukunft".
01 January 1968
Lost film: Saluto (January 1968, 8-16mm, 18fts, sound, 3'30", bw)
06 June 1970
It exists only in a fragmented state.
15 July 1965
A very young Marco Melani is divided between reading cinema magazines and watching car racing on TV.
06 June 1969
Lost film: Abandon all illusions, prepare for the fight (co-director Marco Melani, Stefano Beccastrini, 1969, 16mm, 24fts, 40’, col.
03 March 1966
A film by Piero Bargellini.
01 January 1968
First part of Fractions of Temporary Periods filmed from 1965-1968.
10 September 1973
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, then nothing, but only apparently.
03 November 1970
Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini.
02 February 1969
"Trasferimento" takes up the erotic theme of 8mm films and manipulates it using development techniques studied in early 16mm cinema.
01 January 1978
Short film by Paolo Brunatto with Roberto Benigni performing a fake political rally in Capalbio. Shot for the Italian television.
17 March 1969
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.
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.
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).
31 December 1969
Experimental short involving various forms of manipulaiton of light sources.
