Patrizia Vicinelli

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome.

A day in the life of poet Patrizia Vicinelli who tries for the umpteenth time to free herself from drug addiction.

The film shows a woman mysteriously wandering, pistol in hand, through the streets of Lourdes, France. It is a portrait of Patrizia Vicinelli, the great poet active in the avant- garde Gruppo 63, who worked with the leading magazines of the time, close to both the theatre and the experimental cinema of Alberto Grifi and Gianni Castagnoli. —Tate Modern

Puzzle Therapy is the collection of material shot over the course of a year, edited with a technique similar to that of automatic writing. In this set of shreds of real life, memories, dreams, each viewer can find different meanings.

A trip in an automobile described in the style of the phonetic poetry by Patrizia Vicinelli.

On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new visual grammar capable of describing "the new geography of boundless perceptions and imaginaries, the emergence of memories from the very distant phylogenetic past of our animal ancestors, a gift of psychotropic substances."

First of all, the music. The music in Night and Day by Gianni Castaglioni is in the repetitive rhythm of the images, usually very rapid (with some suddenly slowed down, figements, yet with a fiery intensity). And as each shot, (brief like those of Mekas or Brakhage), moves,; as the camera moves to the nervous rhythm of a wrist, the music becomes a sort of Free Jazz — and not only visually, since the soundtrack is composed of piano frenzies à la Elton John. The extreme close-ups that sprinkle this sort of intimate journal and which are among the most admirable - as well as the most rapid - ever made in cinema, don’t float adrift like the film’s music through a hundred flowing veins.

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