Piero Bargellini
Pierfrancesco Bargellini (Arezzo, 1940-1982), also known as Piero, bought his first movie camera when he was 20 and pointed it at his youthful passions: competition cars and motorcycles. A few years later he met Marco Melani, who became his cinema companion and an actor in his films. He started to make a name for himself in the world of amateur filmmakers and won a prize at the festival of Montecatini. One of the members of the jury was Massimo Bagicalupo, a founder of the Cooperativa cinema indipendente, and he invited Bargellini to enter the brand-new world of Italian underground cinema. While working as an agronomist at the Val di Chiana Irrigation Office he continued to make films in his free time, but shortly afterwards, with the notice and support of the magazines “Cinema & Film” and the group “Filmstudio 70,” he left his job and moved to Rome. Here, during the early 1970s he worked occasionally for RAI and carried on his activity as an independent director in the world of underground cinema. During this period he suffered a series of misadventures with the law and ended up fleeing to Turkey with his wife Oriana and their daughter Rebecca in 1975. After returning to Italy he continued experimenting, jotting down his discoveries in a series of notebooks and fruitlessly trying to find financing for various projects for experimental programs for Rai. Bertolucci and Storaro consulted with him during preparation for La Luna (1981) to try to resolve problems with various special effects. But Bargellini progressively lost contact with the world of cinema and shortly thereafter his troubles with the law began. He was found dead, officially because of an overdose, at dawn on July 10, 1982.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 2.003 |
Birthday | 1940-01-05 |
Place of Birth | Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy |
Also Known As | Pierfrancesco Bargellini, |
1965
L'incompiuta
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A very young Marco Melani is divided between reading cinema magazines and watching car racing on TV.
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L'incompiuta
1974
Dove incominciano le gambe
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Images of everyday life in the family for Bargellini, his wife Oriana and little Rebecca alternate with others whose meaning is less clear (the crypt...
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Dove incominciano le gambe
1970
Erinnerung An Die Zukunft
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Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini.
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Erinnerung An Die Zukunft
1970
Bacino Casa del lupo o di Tonino Massimo e Piero
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It exists only in a fragmented state.
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Bacino Casa del lupo o di Tonino Massimo e Piero
1970
Migration
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This is the third and most extensive part of the cycle Eryngium. The essential theme is the migrations that have populated our world, starting from an...
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