From the Pole to the Equator
The title Dal polo all'equatore was first used by the pioneering documentary maker, Luca Comerio, for a compilation film of 1925; it was used again...
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Ti rigalero il mio ultimo respiro
Angela’s Diaries. Two Filmmakers.
Every day of her life, Angela kept a diary, filled with words and drawings, in which she recorded public and private matters, meetings, things she...
See moreElectric Fragments No. 2 - Vietnam
French Vietnam, early '50s. A military colonial movie. The city under military occupation, traveled by foot and bicycle. Small-scale eroticism.
See moreElectric Fragments No. 1 - Rom (Uomini)
Gypsies in Italy, '40s. An 8mm home movie which depicts the emigration of a rom family aboard an horse-pulled wagon. A delicate portrait.
See moreOù en êtes-vous, Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi?
In this short film, screened and commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi revisit regions at war or in crisis...
See moreCriminal Animals
In this filmic comment on Fascist ideology - which uses footage from the recently discovered archives of Luca Comerio - invisible hands push...
See moreFrente a Guernica
Painted by Picasso in 1937, Guernica is a universal icon against the war. In 2014, the artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi conceived...
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La lotta eterna
People, Years, Life
Using images shot in Russia and Armenia from World War I to the 1930s and retrieved from a Soviet film archive, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi...
See moreElectric Fragments No. 5 - Africa
This archive footage from the 1970s reveals the social upheavals and differences of the people in different Asian and African countries. The...
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Das Lied von der Erde - Gustav Mahler
Malattia, Notes Moscovites 1, Notes Moscovites 2
À propos de nos Voyages en Russie
Russia, its culture and conflicts, the 1920s and 1930s, the avant-garde movements persecuted by the authorities. Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi open...
See moreElectric Fragments No. 3 - Bodies
Amateurish voyeurism in a pre-tv era. Glances of female bodies (un)covered by swimsuits on the beach.
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Lumières mystérieuses