Sirio Luginbühl

Piero Tortolina has been a point of reference for a whole generation of film lovers. Pioneer of cinema-clubs and great film collector, he has been an invisible protagonist in the history of italian cinema.

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.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.

Experimental short by Sirio Luginbühl.

Outtakes from a lost film made by the director in 1968.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

Experimental interpretation of the Narcissus myth.

A re-edit of outtakes from the 1973 film "Ritratto Dell'Artista (Da Narcisso).

1971 / 8mm / color / sound

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 ..

Experimental short filmed between 1987 and 2002.

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.

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.

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.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

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

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.

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.

Experimental short.