Patrizia Vicinelli

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome.

Puzzle Therapy is the collection of material shot over the course of a year, edited with a technique similar to that of automatic writing. In this set of shreds of real life, memories, dreams, each viewer can find different meanings.

A day in the life of poet Patrizia Vicinelli who tries for the umpteenth time to free herself from drug addiction.

A silent film starring poetess Patrizia Vicinelli, shot in Turin and Morocco between 1968 and 1970. “We set out and traveled far because Patrizia had called us. The film bears witness to what we saw there and what we found upon returning home—the two things ideally united. In addition, it contains my personal inventory of love and visions, as well as the search for love, navigating between reality and unreality along the ideal thread and the obsession of the mind.”

The film shows a woman mysteriously wandering, pistol in hand, through the streets of Lourdes, France. It is a portrait of Patrizia Vicinelli, the great poet active in the avant- garde Gruppo 63, who worked with the leading magazines of the time, close to both the theatre and the experimental cinema of Alberto Grifi and Gianni Castagnoli. —Tate Modern