This, like Crepacuore, is filled with all the hallmarks of underground film that I'm absolutely smitten with. They are visual dense works with imagery that are thoroughly against the mainstream, expressed through economically humble means. Here, a struggle for liberation takes the form of characters confined to dark rooms, physically tangled up in materials, battling their geography, and unable to reach each other. The use of superimpositions also compliment this theme with geometric shapes and urban designs creating labyrinths over…
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La Bandiera 1970
There's only like three or four major actions that take place across this quarter of an hour of film. The way they're teased out seems very sloppy at first but by the end it makes sense. Sirio Luginbühl makes use of the dimension of time in film to turn small moments into grand, dramatic gestures. Like an endless dance, literally.
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Book of Saints of Eternal Rome 1968
This is likely the closest thing to watching someone else's dream. No surprise it had such of hold on the underground cinema intelligentsia back in the day as it appears to be the Platonic ideal of the "free film". Any cinematic devices holding predetermine psychological attribute are totally absent. In their place are images (of people) just appearing with no context, they run off, return, sit on top of one another, disappear and are forgotten. Only the film-maker knows their sentiment. However, to the viewer it's quite meaningless and boring but maybe in a beautiful way. Eerily peaceful.