Mario Schifano

The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.

Experimental short by Mario Schifano.

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.

A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me during my being far away. –A. L.

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.

16mm short by Mario Schifano.

Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.

Unlike Reflex, Schifano's center of interest in this very short film is Gattinoni's models and not the photographer.

A 1964 short film by Mario Schifano.

A 1967 short film by Mario Schifano.

A 1967 short film by Mario Schifano.

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.

Experimental short featuring fashion photographer Bob RIchardson at work in his studio.

Experimental short featuring fashion photographer Bob RIchardson at work in his studio.

Short about the vietnam war.

Short about the vietnam war.

A man drifts around Rome's tourism spots.

A man drifts around Rome's tourism spots.

Experimental film based on promotional material of vodka brand Absolut.

Experimental film based on promotional material of vodka brand Absolut.

A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

William Berger and his wife Carol are the protagonists of this silent film, in which bodies come to the fore and the gaze becomes obsessive.

Experimental short by Mario Schifano.

A spot for Absolut Vodka shot on video by Mario Schifano and Roberto Lucca Taroni.

A spot for Absolut Vodka shot on video by Mario Schifano.

In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and Introspection, only a poet could create. It is, in fact, the story of a poet searching himself through his love for a girl, and of the girl searching for her father. Obsequious to the iron rules of the avant-garde, the film has neither a beginning nor an ending it is a series of moods, it is a search which is at the same time spiritual and concrete, it is a moment in the life of two people. (Donatella Manganotti)

a short filmed on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend"

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.

Anna Carini, Mario Schifano’s partner at the time, is the protagonist of the film. The young woman is observed, followed, questioned in close-up, in both indoor and outdoor settings, by the camera that partially strays into the scene and then briefly makes room for the author himself. —Tate Modern