Herself
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic adventures of two sailors through the world's seaports in the manner of a cut-rate silent movie.
Rosaria
Cahiers du cinéma critic Serge Daney asks whether The Kingdom of Naples is "leftist fiction, kitschy melodrama, photo-roman, a decadent chronicle of a city, opera in a minor key, or simply the first realistic narrative film by Schroeter?" It is all of these and more: an epic chronicle of proletarian family life in Naples from 1943 to 1972 that brilliantly captures the wretched poverty, overwrought passions, and political, religious and economic upheavals of Sicily across two generations. Schroeter assimilates neorealist aesthetics and class sympathies with the tempestuous excesses of popular melodrama, borrowing freely from Rossellini, Pasolini, Visconti, Brecht, and Rossini. (Facets)
Sister Maddalena
Созданная Федерико Феллини кинематографическая версия безумной жизни известного итальянского авантюриста XVIII столетия Джакомо Казановы, путешествующего по городам Европы и проповедующего бессмертную любовь. Среди множеств его любовниц — монахиня, горбатая нимфоманка и старая ведьма, которая убеждена в том, что секс с Казановой повлечет за собой ее превращение в мужчину.
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.
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Shot in 1967 but not released until 1975, actor Pierre Clémenti’s acid-infused experimental whirlwind of colour and music featuring a who’s who of the French 60s underground.
La protégée de la femme du van hippie
Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
Aziz's Mother
Толпа насмехалась и издевалась над несчастным башмачником до тех пор, пока какой-то купец, ехавший на коне, не разогнал ее. Он крикнул: «Эй вы, стыдитесь! Чужеземец — наш гость, а вы попираете священные законы гостеприимства…»
Попав в шторм, беглец из тюрьмы случайно оказывается на острове. Остров необитаем. Но однажды он видит на высоких скалах силуэты мужчины и женщины, одетых старомодно и кажущихся приятно проводящими отпуск. Следя за ними, он узнаёт, что молодую женщину зовут Фаустина. Складывается впечатление, что Фаустина видит его, но не подаёт вида. Он убеждён, что должен помочь, поэтому пытается поговорить с ней наедине.
Glauce
В фильме мало места уделено «затертому» сюжету об «аргонавтах», можно сказать упоминается об этом вскользь. Причем аргонавты показаны отнюдь не романтично героически, а скорее напоминают наемников-мародеров. Большая же часть фильма посвящена второй половине жизни Медеи и Ясона: встреча, любовь и расставание. Брошенная, и даже изгнанная Медея не может простить коварства своего бывшего возлюбленного, променявшего ее ради свадьбы с Глоцией, дочерью короля Креона. Она начинает мщение с помощью своих магических чар.
Tortured woman
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ‘68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci. Rediscovered in a basement in 1999, this silent film appears to be one of Clémenti’s most purely beautiful and concentrated works, at times recalling Brakhage and Eisenstein. - MUBI
One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily document the drug-drenched hedonism of that era's dandies. O'Leary worked with an intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting, dense layering of superimposed images and a spontaneous notebook type shooting style. Yet even if much of O'Leary's material was initially 'diaristic,' depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized, sometimes darkly sexual fantasias. - Experimental Film Club
Directed by a friend of Étienne O'Leary, this film missive, whose words are images, was held in very high esteem by Pierre Clémenti.
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.
Roméos et jupettes reflects on fashion and on letters written by women’s magazines readers.
Girl in Swimming Pool
У Шарлот есть муж и есть любовник. Каждому из них она признается в любви и каждому — вроде бы искренне. Но выбрать надо кого-то одного.
