Balkan InventoryItaly
2000, 62min.
Dir./Edit. Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Comp. D.Gasparyan, K.Ullrich.
This film represents, combines and juxtaposes frames shot during 1920-40 by amateurs: travellers, Nazi soldiers and others in Balkans. People from The Danube of central Slav, Magyar, Latin, Jewish and Muslim... Danube with its burned bridges... | Gianikian, Yervant & Ricci Lucchi, Angela Yervant Gianikian (born 1942, Venice)
Angela Ricci Lucchi (born 1942, Lugo di Romagna)
Yervant Gianikian (born to Armenian parents) studied architecture in Venice; Angela Ricci-Lucchi studied painting in Austria with Oskar Kokoschka. Setting in Milan, they have devoted their activities to the cinema since the mid-seventies, first with their performance screening of scened films, then with their artisanal re-working of the old films of their collection which they tinted, toned and re-edited - as they did, for example, in From the Pole to the Equator (Dal polo all'equatore) with footage shot by pioneer Luca Comerio. Working like archeologists with filmstock, ideologies and culture, they have developed a cinema which is not only narrative and poetry but also critique and analysis of the recycled footage.
Filmography
Wladimir Propp: Smell of the Wolf (1975), Klinger and Glow (1975), Alice Smells the Rose (1976), From November 2 till Easter Week. Cesare Lombroso (1977), Profumo (1979–1980), Essence of Absinthe; Fragments (1981), Karagoz (1983), Back to Khodorchour (1985), From Pole to Equator (1990), People, Years, Lives (1990), Aria (1994), African Diary (1994), Nocturn (1997), Peace Above Everything (1999), Images.of the Orient: a Vandalistic Journey (2001).
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