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Bio-Filmography

The Nineties

He has held conferences since 1993 at the Fondazioni Culturali, Centri Sociali, Università: Bologna (Dams), Normale di Pisa (Dipart. Storia delle arti), La Sapienza (Museo laboratorio di arte contemporanea), Terza Università di Roma, Corso superiore di regìa e sceneggiatura a Barbarano Romano per Marco Muller, etc.). The subjects involving the works of Grifi appear in a large number of university degree theses.

"La prima volta che Zavattini provò a usare un videotape" was produced in 1993 as a remembrance of those who attended Zavattini's salon.

"Leoncavallo, i giorni dello sgombero" was filmed in 1994 by the Collettivo Video del Centro Sociale and Paola Pannicelli, distributed by Manifesto libri. Following the radios of the movement, this film appeared as a protest - one of the first demonstrations of an antagonistic self-managed communication over the entire territory of the nation that resulted in a debate and a collective work in many Italian cities dealing with counter-information and liberation of informatic technologies.

A large number of interviews were filmed about Grifi: Interview of Alberto Grifi with Roberto Silvestri (Paola Pannicelli '93), Seminar involving the cinema at the Leoncavallo di Milano and the Murazzi di Torino, Video conversation with Afredo Grifi (Barbadoro Livorno '94), Le Macchine di Grifi (Alessandro Barbadoro and Giulia Cerulli '95), Ma chi è questo Grifi (Cristina Mazza, Emiliano Battista and Giordana Meyer '98), in "Trent'anni di oblìo" (Silvano Agosti '98), Grifi una vita a perdifiato (Chantal Personé 2002), etc.

In 1997 "Addo' sta Rossellini?" a film that was produced on Alifonso, who was the protagonist of the third episode of Paisà (the Neapolitan urchin who stole the American soldier's shoes). A reflection on the Neorealist era, filmed together with Michele Schiavino and Maria Paola Fadda. It was awarded a special Sony video third prize at the Festival di Locarno.