Direction: Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis The directors took three years to complete this 96-minute documentary of the works of Italian filmmaker Luca Comerico (1874-1940). The court photographer filmed the landing of Italian marines in Libya in 1911. Animal safaris to the South Pole, India, Russia,...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis The film consists of material shot during the 1914- 1918 World War, collected into the archives of the great Empires involved in the clash, and mainly the Tsarist and Austro-Hungarian ones. The work consists of the contrast between the military...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis This analytically organized compilation of archival footage is nothing less than a horror documentary. The images, which show destitute Austrian children in 1918, dead Russian children in 1920, the mutilated faces and shattered bodies of veterans of the First World...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis Film on Italian colonialism in Ethiopia using archival footage.

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis Primarily constructed from scientific films about the atmosphere from the turn of the last century.

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis In this filmic comment on Fascist ideology – which uses footage from the recently discovered archives of Luca Comerio – invisible hands push captive animals to fight among themselves.

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis Frammenti elettrici n. 4 - Asia consists of archive footage from the 1970s, revealing the social upheavals and differences of the people in different countries of Asia and Africa. The amateur shots reflect the social and economic conditions in these...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Cast Giovanna Marini

Synopsis 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, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi deconstruct the images and analyze the attitude and...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis French Vietnam, early ’50s. A military colonial movie. The city under military occupation, traveled by foot and bicycle. Small-scale eroticism.

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis 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 1980s, and incorporating archival footage from WWI. – MoMA

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

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

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis This is a “sublimation“ film of notes, watercolours, travel diaries. In 1989-90, we filmed the last survivors of the Russian avant-garde movements of the 1920s and ’30s in Leningrad-Saint Petersburg, the city of Osip Emil’evic Mandel’štam – the author of...

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis Amateurish voyeurism in a pre-tv era. Glances of female bodies (un)covered by swimsuits on the beach.

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Direction Yervant Gianikian · Angela Ricci Lucchi

Synopsis 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 constructed a meditative film about the status of Armenians as a people without a state....