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Piero Bargellini
Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Pierfrancesco Bargellini (Arezzo, 1940-1982), also known as Piero, bought his first movie camera when he was 20 and pointed it at his youthful passions: competition cars and motor…
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Pierfrancesco Bargellini (Arezzo, 1940-1982), also known as Piero, bought his first movie camera when he was 20 and pointed it at his youthful passions: competition cars and motorcycles. A few years later he met Marco Melani, who became his cinema companion and an actor in his films. He started to make a name for himself in the world of amateur filmmakers and won a prize at the festival of Montecatini. One of the members of the jury was Massimo Bagicalupo, a founder of the Cooperativa cinema indipendente, and he invited Bargellini to enter the brand-new world of Italian underground cinema. While working as an agronomist at the Val di Chiana Irrigation Office he continued to make films in his free time, but shortly afterwards, with the notice and support of the magazines “Cinema & Film” and the group “Filmstudio 70,” he left his job and moved to Rome. Here, during the early 1970s he worked occasionally for RAI and carried on his activity as an independent director in the world of underground cinema. During this period he suffered a series of misadventures with the law and ended up fleeing to Turkey with his wife Oriana and their daughter Rebecca in 1975. After returning to Italy he continued experimenting, jotting down his discoveries in a series of notebooks and fruitlessly trying to find financing for various projects for experimental programs for Rai. Bertolucci and Storaro consulted with him during preparation for La Luna (1981) to try to resolve problems with various special effects. But Bargellini progressively lost contact with the world of cinema and shortly thereafter his troubles with the law began. He was found dead, officially because of an overdose, at dawn on July 10, 1982.
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1979
Luna
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1978
Il comizio
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1973
Stricnina
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- 1971
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1971
Oracolo
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- 1970
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1970
Migration
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- 1970
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1970
Zukie
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1970
Gasoline
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1970
Relazione filmata
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1969
Un ottofilm di Pierfrancesco Bargellini
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1969
Nelda
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1969
Abbandonate ogni illusione, preparatevi alla lotta primavera
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1969
Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante
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1969
Fractions of Temporary Periods
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1969
Transfer of Modulation
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- 1969
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1968
Baraccone
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1968
Macrozoom
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1968
Water-Closet aka Waiting for a Defecation
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1968
Morte all'orecchio di Van Gogh
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1968
Saluto
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1968
Tempo-Tempio-Ritratto
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- 1968
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1968
360° di Cinediario
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- 1967
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1966
Dell'Acqua
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- 1966
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1966
La striscia
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- 1965
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1965
L'incompiuta
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1965
The Dream Fair [Frescoes of Naked Women]
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1965
Anno 2000
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1965
Il teschio
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