Forced to Disappear

A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

The almost impassive recording of a common jacket hanging on a balcony slowly slides into the analysis of the mechanisms of perception, where the lines between reality and illusion are revealed somewhat labile.

An allegory on man's inhumanity. Pink dolls are sandwiched into bread rolls in a long sequence then stuffed in a sack and thrown in the sea by two children. A naked, drowned negro is washed ashore and discovered by a naked white child. The soundtrack is of Vietnamese children's songs.

In collaboration with Henry Martin, Agnese Naldoni, Berty Skuber and Rocco Palamara Technique: Fuji tape, black-and-white, sound

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Collective manifesto by the members of C.C.I. It is a collective film, the result of an operation devoid of any aesthetic purpose: to verify the existence of any harmony between a fairly large group (twelve people) of members of the independent Cooperative. Someone, who had the idea, turned 60 meters of Ektachrome according to the moods –or discontent – of the moment and gave them to others to see. The others reacted, each with their own piece. It was then thought to call the film “circular letter”. It was not so simple and so quick: the operation, which started in June of ’68, ended in March of ’69.

From Paolo Brunatto's series "Scheggie Di Utopia".

In one of the three films Gianfranco Baruchello made in 1968 in response to the war in Vietnam, the artist carefully washes hundreds of coins in a bathtub, and then proceeds to cook and serve them at table.

An avant garde short film by the pioneer of experimental italian cinema Gianfranco Baruchello.

Short movie by Gianfranco Baruchello.