Sirio Luginbühl

The film took place at Villa Pisani (Stra-Venezia), near Venice’s lagoon in Porto Marghera (VE) and in a car cemetery. A beautiful girl covered with a semi-transparent gauze and with a gas mask.

I dreamt of finding myself naked sitting in a café. On the table was a cactus. I was watching it. The cactus also looked at me - and the more it looked at me, the more it was blushing.

The film begins with a shot on the countryside near Padua. A young man goes slowly towards the camera carrying a big red flag, referring to the student revolts of 1968. The camera follows the protagonist ..

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

A young woman dedicates to a solitary pleasure surrounded by precious cushions. Larvae of flies appear in superimposition moving briskly and multiplying until they conquer the entire frame. Numerous signs, scratches and holes deliberately made on the film follow. On this images a tricolor ribbon is again superimposed, which start to burn together with the worms. "Common people’ succumbs to the massacres of the state and to the terrorist attacks that infect Italy.

A film centered on the graphic and pictorial works of the artist Paolo Sardina, whose images have been painted and scratched directly onto the film.

Experimental short filmed between 1987 and 2002.

The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.

A re-edit of outtakes from the 1973 film "Ritratto Dell'Artista (Da Narcisso).

Outtakes from a lost film made by the director in 1968.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

Experimental short.

The film is set in an industrial landfill in the Petrochemical area of Porto Marghera (Venice). Here, among the toxic residues, a happening takes place: a boy and a girl without knowing each other before are invited to undress and kiss in front of ‘fake’ journalists, photographers and operators. The soundtrack is composed by different environmental noises. The director denounces in this way the pollution and the landscape changing, focusing on the vision of two beautiful bodies kissing.

Some scenes in black and white show Venice, Piazza San Marco, people who walk, feed pigeons and paint. The film records the gestures of boys hugging each other, touching each other; then childhood and provocative scenes alternate. Venice is dying.

The film is dedicated to Vittorio and Silvio Loffredo who, in the second half of the 1930s in Paris, using film excerpts found at flea markets, created a memorable collage film

Images of everyday life: a walk, the village fair with the carousel and children playing alternate with scenes in which the young couple kisses passionately in a little church, spied by the indiscreet eye of the camera.

The film is a denunciation of Western capitalist society, which exploits the poorest regions in the world's Orient. The film opens with a closeup on a newspaper article that reads, « What Italian industry offers Asia. Modern manufacturing, sophisticated technology and willingness to do business with the East ». The following sequence is set on a beach, where musicians play Arabic music, and a dancer moves sensually. At a certain point the director, Luginbühl, interrupts the scene, even slapping the dancer's face. This is clearly an allegory of how Western capitalism exploits and enslaves the East.

Experimental short by Sirio Luginbühl.

This « comic strip » of alienation takes place within the walls of a bourgeois house, in a valley created by the toxic red-violet waste of a large chemical industry. In the background, popular songs from the '60s.

1971 / 8mm / color / sound

A particular shot, made with a lens that breaks up the image field into fragments and reproduces the optics of a fly, explores a room where there is a girl with a guitar. The shot, back to normal, shows a container with the fly and a jar of honey. The girl than performs various actions: she plays the guitar, collects honey from the jar with a finger, reads a book while the buzzing becomes insistent. In this way, an ambiguous and unusual relationship with the insect arises.

Contrast between different portraits of women, between the public and the intimate.

The protagonist is a girl here, like Alice in the Pays des Merveilles, intrigued by the particularity of the story, coming from the garden of PaRDeS, search for research, connaissance, inspiration.