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11-02-2014 (10 years)
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Verona, Italy
Biography
Sirio Luginbühl, a keen observer of the international avant-garde and an informed witness of his age, is a key figure in the field of experimental cinema and cinéma d’auteur. Over the course of his varied production Luginbühl was able to bring together avant-garde, irony and eroticism. He was an attentive and at times mischievous observer of reality: from politics to sexual liberation, from class struggle to feminism. Luginbühl has translated some of the topical themes characterizing the period between the sixties and seventies into an innovative, modern and controversial language.
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Anna and the Fly
Director
event 1979
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A particular shot, made with a lens that breaks up the image field into fragments and reproduces the optics of a fly, explores a room where there is a girl with a guitar. The shot, back to normal, shows a container with the fly and a jar of honey. The girl than performs various actions: she plays the guitar, collects honey from the jar with a finger, reads a book while the buzzing becomes insistent. In this way, an ambiguous and unusual relationship with the insect arises.
E’ Mezzanotte, Monsieur Cinema
Director
event 1984
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The film is dedicated to Vittorio and Silvio Loffredo who, in the second half of the 1930s in Paris, using film excerpts found at flea markets, created a memorable collage film
Ritratti di Rose
Director
event 1974
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Contrast between different portraits of women, between the public and the intimate.
Italian Portrait
Director
event 1973
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A young woman dedicates to a solitary pleasure surrounded by precious cushions. Larvae of flies appear in superimposition moving briskly and multiplying until they conquer the entire frame. Numerous signs, scratches and holes deliberately made on the film follow. On this images a tricolor ribbon is again superimposed, which start to burn together with the worms. "Common people’ succumbs to the massacres of the state and to the terrorist attacks that infect Italy.
Film Verde
Director
event 1987
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I dreamt of finding myself naked sitting in a café. On the table was a cactus. I was watching it. The cactus also looked at me - and the more it looked at me, the more it was blushing.
Il Sorriso Della Sfinge
Director
event 1971
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1971 / 8mm / color / sound
La Bandiera
Director
event 1970
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The film begins with a shot on the countryside near Padua. A young man goes slowly towards the camera carrying a big red flag, referring to the student revolts of 1968. The camera follows the protagonist ..
The Astral Conjunction
Director
event 1977
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A young woman comes home and discovers that she has her period. She is forced to change her sanitary napkins continuously, while her husband eats eggs in the kitchen. Towels invade the room, then the apartment, then fall into the streets of the city. The chosen places are the headquarters of financial, political, police and religious power. They are centers of oppression.
Azriel, Seguivano Gli Angeli
Director
event 1969
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This « comic strip » of alienation takes place within the walls of a bourgeois house, in a valley created by the toxic red-violet waste of a large chemical industry. In the background, popular songs from the '60s.
Gilette o Juliette
Director
event 1978
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The film aims to show the fall of revolutionary ideals and broken ideologies.
Loving in Marghera (The Kiss)
Director
event 1970
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The film is set in an industrial landfill in the Petrochemical area of Porto Marghera (Venice). Here, among the toxic residues, a happening takes place: a boy and a girl without knowing each other before are invited to undress and kiss in front of ‘fake’ journalists, photographers and operators. The soundtrack is composed by different environmental noises. The director denounces in this way the pollution and the landscape changing, focusing on the vision of two beautiful bodies kissing.
Damned Little Angels
Director
event 2000
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Experimental short by Sirio Luginbühl.
Elena in PaRDeS
Director
event 2010
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The protagonist is a girl here, like Alice in the Pays des Merveilles, intrigued by the particularity of the story, coming from the garden of PaRDeS, search for research, connaissance, inspiration.
Limbo: Travestito
Director
event 1988
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A re-edit of outtakes from the 1973 film "Ritratto Dell'Artista (Da Narcisso).
Sardina Sauvage
Director
event 1989
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A film centered on the graphic and pictorial works of the artist Paolo Sardina, whose images have been painted and scratched directly onto the film.
L'Immaginazione Ribelle. Vicina L'Ora. Frammenti Degli Anni Sessanta
Director
event 1986
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A tribute to experimental cinema of the '60s and '70s.
Arpeggio (In Ricordo Di Giuseppe Pinelli)
Director
event 1971
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A reference to the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died mysteriously on December 15, 1969, while held at the Milan Police Headquarters for an investigation following a bomb explosion.
Passeggiata Veneziana
Director
event 1970
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Some scenes in black and white show Venice, Piazza San Marco, people who walk, feed pigeons and paint. The film records the gestures of boys hugging each other, touching each other; then childhood and provocative scenes alternate. Venice is dying.
Valeria Fotografa (Playtime)
Director
event 1970
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A girl is taking pictures on the notes of "1970" by The Stooges, but it’s only in the end that we’re allowed to see the subject of her photos.
Senza Seguito Senza Seguito
Director
event 1969
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The film portrays the political environment between the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '70s in Italy. Images of a wandering young girl are alternated with those of a man's corpse in front of an industrial landscape. The man's corpse is a metaphor of the worker forced to work dehumanizing hours. The girl, on the other hand, is the symbol of innocence. This is Luginbühl's accusation directed at a passive and powerless society. However, hope is represented in the final sequences, where Luginbühl's child, Cecilia, is shown as the embodiment of future generations.
La Scala
Director
event 1968
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Outtakes from a lost film made by the director in 1968.
Vibratore
Director
event 1968
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The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.
Zona Quarta. Progetto Per Uno Spettacolo.
Director
event 1969
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In an abandoned house, behind a wall, a series of photographs appears, a collage that brings back to the past.
Biostoria 1
Director
event 1968
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Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.
Biostoria 2
Director
event 1968
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Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.
Biostoria 3
Director
event 1968
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Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.
Frammento Rosso (Rossario)
Director
event 1970
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The director films a woman being tortured.
Art-Usi
Director
event 2002
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Experimental short filmed between 1987 and 2002.
Secreti Amori
Director
event 1993
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Experimental short.
Portrait of the Artist (as Narcissus)
Director
event 1973
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Experimental interpretation of the Narcissus myth.
Crepacuore
Director
event 1969
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The film took place at Villa Pisani (Stra-Venezia), near Venice’s lagoon in Porto Marghera (VE) and in a car cemetery. A beautiful girl covered with a semi-transparent gauze and with a gas mask.
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