Alberto Grifi

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Alberto Grifi Rome 19382007 a painter director cameraman and photographer is a fundamental figure of Italian experimental and activist cinema In the first half of the 1960s he worked on the production of documentaries and in 1964 together with Gianfranco Baruchello he made La verifica incerta followed by many other experimental films With the cult film Anna 1975 he was one of the first to experiment with the use of videotape in an independent film In 1976 together with a group of video hoodlums he produced documentaries rarely screened today on youth protests in Milan Bologna and Rome Throughout the 1980s he shot industrial documentaries in the United States Latin America Africa Australia and Southeast Asia Grifi has also produced many radio programmes published his writings on penitentiaries contributed to various film magazines and held seminars in many squats and universities becoming a reference for future militant filmmakers
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