Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 1920s, a period of strong anti-colonial outbreak,...

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Balkan Inventory

Balkan Inventory

Comprised of images shot by amateur photographers and German soldiers in the Balkans from the twenties through the forties, BALKAN INVENTORY was...

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Terremoto

Terremoto

Oh! Man

Oh! Man

After Prisoners of the war and On the Heights all is Peace, this film concludes Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's trilogy on the first...

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Electric Fragments No. 8 - Shooting Party

Electric Fragments No. 8 - Shooting Party

From an undated notebook, circa 1935-1938. A group hunt and film in Camballa, along Nashik’s Gipsies Road. Maharashtra, India.

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Angela’s Diaries. Two Filmmakers. Chapter Two

Angela’s Diaries. Two Filmmakers. Chapter Two

I felt an urgent need to continue with I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo, for me a world of symbols and colors. Our long...

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Cesare Lombroso - Sull'odore del garofano

Cesare Lombroso - Sull'odore del garofano

Ghiro ghiro tondo

Ghiro ghiro tondo

Inspired by their beloved Dolomite area in Northeast Italy, a battle theater in World Wars I and II, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi continue to explore...

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Notes sur nos voyages en Russie 1989-1990

Notes sur nos voyages en Russie 1989-1990

This is a “sublimation“ film of notes, watercolours, travel diaries. In 1989-90, we filmed the last survivors of the Russian avant-garde movements...

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On the Heights All Is Peace

On the Heights All Is Peace

Found footage anti-war film comprising film documents of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian army on the Alpine front, and from first generation...

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Prisoners of War

Prisoners of War

This haunting film comprises of footage shot during WWI from opposite sides of the conflict: Czarist Russia and the Austro-Hungarian empire. The...

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Electric Fragments No. 6 - Diary 1989. Dancing in the dark

Electric Fragments No. 6 - Diary 1989. Dancing in the dark

Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi return to offer, through their work, often supported by original images and films, proof of how...

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Lo specchio di Diana

Lo specchio di Diana

In 1926 the remains of two ships built by the Emperor Caligula were found at the bottom of Lake Nemi, near Rome. Mussolini had the lake drained and...

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Trasparenze

Trasparenze

Decaying nitrate film: cinema as an incendiary explosive bomb of memory.

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Nocturne

Nocturne

A silent, elegiac poem describing the pain and violence of war, made from footage shot at Sarajevo in 1995, Belgrade in 1996, and Zagreb in the...

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Electric Fragments No. 7 - Gypsies Toward Bamyan

Electric Fragments No. 7 - Gypsies Toward Bamyan

1978, Afghanistan before the wars. Kuchis (Roma people) move toward Bamian. The caravan is a living creature.

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Karagoez catalogo 9,5

Karagoez catalogo 9,5

Excerpts from a collection of 9.5mm films dating from 1900 to 1928—including theatrical films, anthropological documentaries, and home movies—that...

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Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary

Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for...

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Cataloghi - Non è altro gli odori che sente

Cataloghi - Non è altro gli odori che sente

Barbaric Land

Barbaric Land

Milan-based duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi create an astonishing work of militant poetry with this found-footage chronicle of...

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