Splinters of Utopia

tv show

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12 total episodes

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1 seasons

The Italian underground cinema (this stranger)

First Aired January 01, 2004

Overview

Series of documentaries on italian underground cinema through the portrayal of some of the most representative authors - Alfredo Leonardi, Tonino De Bernardi, Romano Scavolini, Piero Bargellini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi, Paolo Brunatto, Franco Brocani (and Mario Schifano), Paolo Gioli, Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi, Annabella Miscuglio, Massimo Bacigalupo - the cinema of the present confronts this movement so vital and courageous, which still remains an example for the new generations.

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Portrait of Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi

Season 1 - Episode 8 - 1h 45m

Air Date

February 19, 2004

Overview

A journey in the company of two explorers of our time - Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi - who through video and written text went from the more experimental and poetic underground in the 1960s, to the Videobase collective in the 1970s and, in the 1980s, to documenting the life of communities living on mythical islands lost in the oceans, such as Tristan da Cunha or Pitcairn, the island of the Bounty mutineers.