Known For
Directing
Born
May 29, 1938
Died
Apr 22, 2007
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Credits
45 titles
Alberto Grifi
Biography
Alberto Grifi (Rome, 1938–2007), a painter, director, cameraman and photographer, is a fundamental figure of Italian experimental and activist cinema. In the first half of the 1960s he worked on the production of documentaries, and in 1964, together with Gianfranco Baruchello, he made La verifica incerta, followed by many other experimental films. With the cult film Anna 1975 he was one of the first to experiment with the use of videotape in an independent film. In 1976 – together with a group of ‘video hoodlums’ – he produced documentaries rarely screened today on youth protests in Milan, Bologna and Rome. Throughout the 1980s he shot industrial documentaries in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. Grifi has also produced many radio programmes, published his writings on penitentiaries, contributed to various film magazines and held seminars in many squats, and universities, becoming a reference for future militant filmmakers.
Known For
Filmography
Fuori campo di Anna
Self - director
Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975
Self - director
Parco Lambro Juvenile Proletariat Festival (Rushes)
Director
Alberto Grifi a Visioni Sconsigliate
self
In Viaggio con Patrizia
Director
Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
Self
In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi
Viaggio a Cagliari
Director
La spiaggia. Ritratto di Giordano Falzoni
Sé stesso
Nudi Verso la Follia
Grifi racconta Grifi
Sé stesso
KomaK
Giravolte
Grifi
About Special Effects
Mr. Riflesso
Ma chi è questo Grifi
Sé stesso
Addo' sta Rossellini?
Self
Leoncavallo - I Giorni dello Sgombero
Director
Grifi spiegato ai bambini - Il mattatoio su internet
Sé stesso
Paperina si riguarda
Self
La prima volta che Zavattini provò ad usare un videotape
Self
Filming Man Ray
Director
Ultimo giorno di scuola
Director of Photography
A partire dal dolce
Director
Dinni e la Normalina, ovvero la Videopolizia Psichiatrica contro i sedicenti Gruppi di Follia Militante
Editor
Michele alla ricerca della felicità
Writer
Frammenti di una vita d'eroina
Producer
Lia
Producer
Il preteso corpo
Director
Alberto Grifi introduce Anna
Himself
Il Festival del Proletariato Giovanile al Parco Lambro
Director
Anna
Self (uncredited)
Vigilando reprimere
Screenplay
Il grande freddo
Director
Long Live The Orgonauts!
Director
Non soffiare nel narghilè
Director
Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia
Director
No stop grammatica
Director
Liberty
Cinematography
Pezzi dell'Amleto
Director
Uncertain Verification
Editor
I manichini
Cinematography
Nonotte
Director
Cyril (una cosa urgente)
Director
Ritratto di Gianfranco Baruchello
Filming Marcel Duchamp
Director