Alberto Grifi, the most important Italian experimental film director, the author of Anna a cult movie - The biological evolution of a tear - Stefania Rossi tells his story in a book.
Apollo11 in collaboration with the The Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi
presents
ten years after the film director has passed away - from Tuesday 2nd to Thursday 4th of May c/o Itis Galilei side entrance of via Bixio, 80/a (corner of via Conte Verde) - Roma
It is now 10 years since Alberto Grifi passed away thus the Cultural Association, bearing his name as he had wished as well as founding it for the purpose of preserving, enhancing, promoting and spreading his works. The Association is now considering the first results by achieving important objectives and in this way honoring the memory of the man, of the artist as well as of a friend.
The cycle of international shows in the restored version of Anna with the contribution of the Cineteca Nazionale and the Cineteca of Bologna
A cycle of shows at the Médiathèque Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève to reflect upon the specificity of the video and its use in the artistic sense, starting from the seventies up to today.
On 4th October 2014, NERO will be pleased to present live performances by some of spaghetti-sound's most prominent contemporary heirs: a new breed of bands - such as Mamuthones, Squadra Omega, Mai Mai Mai and Heroin In Tahiti - that update the lesson of the 60s and 70s masters while contaminating it with the aesthetics of the 2000s. The concert will be opened by a screening of Parco Lambro 1976, a film by avant-garde icon Alberto Grifi which documents the event that symbolically put an end to a decade of Italian creative explosion. The event is organized in collaboration with the Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi.
Anna will be shown at the DMZ Docs Festival at Paju in Korea from September 19 to 24, 2014. The film, has been officially selected and entered in the non-competitive section "Passage"
The original filming of Anna, the film created by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli in 1975, is proposed for the first night showing at the Torino Film Festival in the Galleria Alberto Peola and the Cinema Reposi.
The 33rd edition of the International Cinema Festival at Amiens hosts the projection of the Verifica Incerta by Gianfranco Baruchello and Alberto Grifi.
The last work of Alberto Grifi, the Autoritratto Auschwitz / L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima, will be presented on May 29, 2013 at the MUMOK ini Vienna in the version edited in 2007