Alfredo Leonardi Movies

  • 1973
    Policlinico in lotta

    Policlinico in lotta

    Policlinico in lotta

    01973HD

    The focus of this documentary is the nurses and porters working at the Policlinico universitario Umberto I in Rome, which demand equal treatment...

    Policlinico in lotta
  • 1975
    Lottando la vita - Lavoratori italiani a Berlino

    Lottando la vita - Lavoratori italiani a Berlino

    Lottando la vita - Lavoratori italiani a Berlino

    01975HD

    Stories of Italian emigrants in Berlin declined without an ethic of sacrifice and goodism but through a sense of the ferocity necessary to wrest...

    Lottando la vita - Lavoratori italiani a Berlino
  • 1972
    Quartieri popolari di Roma

    Quartieri popolari di Roma

    Quartieri popolari di Roma

    01972HD

    Documentary about life in Italian working class neighborhoods.

    Quartieri popolari di Roma
  • 1968
    Après la Passion selon Sade

    Après la Passion selon Sade

    Après la Passion selon Sade

    01968HD

    Après la Passion selon Sade
  • 1965
    Stoccolma un giorno

    Stoccolma un giorno

    Stoccolma un giorno

    01965HD

    A deep dive into the beating heart of 1960s Stockholm—an era of change and contrasts, where modernity and tradition intertwine in a vibrant...

    Stoccolma un giorno
  • 1968
    Può la forza d'un sorriso

    Può la forza d'un sorriso

    Può la forza d'un sorriso

    01968HD

    During the 1968 Pesaro Festival, animated by the intervention of the students, riots occurred caused by fascist provocations and the usual police...

    Può la forza d'un sorriso
  • 1965
    Living & Glorious

    Living & Glorious

    Living & Glorious

    01965HD

    Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation of the exile theatre group from New York, but...

    Living & Glorious
  • 1967
    Newsreel

    Newsreel

    Newsreel

    01967HD

    A compilation film of war newsreels and documentary material from historic, sociological and industrial films.

    Newsreel
  • 1967
    J. & J. & Co.

    J. & J. & Co.

    J. & J. & Co.

    01967HD

    Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "The Unconscious Rebels". The shots were re-edited...

    J. & J. & Co.
  • 1966
    Noi

    Noi

    Noi

    01966HD

    A collective portrait of 1960s Italy, captured through fleeting glimpses of men and women poised between the intimacy of daily life and the public...

    Noi
  • 1968
    The N Most Beautiful Girls of Navona Square

    The N Most Beautiful Girls of Navona Square

    The N Most Beautiful Girls of Navona Square

    01968HD

    The faces of beauty are infinite, if you only want to look at them, and the ones of infancy are the most divine. –A. L.

    The N Most Beautiful Girls of Navona Square
  • 1970
    Vampiro romano

    Vampiro romano

    Vampiro romano

    01970HD

    With Vampiro romano, Leonardi made his last experimental film before switching to collective videomaking with the group Videobase, which focused on...

    Vampiro romano
  • 1964
    Indulgenza Plenaria

    Indulgenza Plenaria

    Indulgenza Plenaria

    01964HD

    Leonardi's first documentary Indulgenza Plenaria explicitly exposed, and implicitly criticized, a prevailing culture of oppressive policing and...

    Indulgenza Plenaria
  • 1969
    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    01969HD

    Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...

    Political Portraits
  • 1970
    Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

    Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

    Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo

    01970HD

    In 1969, Leonardi traveled to the United States to write a book about the New American Cinema. Using a Super-8 camera, he made a film-diary of this...

    Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
  • 1968
    Exercise in Meditation

    Exercise in Meditation

    Exercise in Meditation

    01968HD

    A piece of reality, a roman square, observed in a way to achieve a more intense self-perception. –A. L.

    Exercise in Meditation
  • 1967
    If the Unconscious Revolts

    If the Unconscious Revolts

    If the Unconscious Revolts

    01967HD

    In this film, as in all my previous ones, there is a direct connection between inner urges and cinematic rendering. I tried to visualize my present...

    If the Unconscious Revolts
  • 1966
    Musica in corso

    Musica in corso

    Musica in corso

    01966HD

    To a large extent, Cage’s scores do not exist. They consist of instructions on how to create the score: a series of transparencies featuring...

    Musica in corso