A trip to China by Maestro Gian Vittorio Baldi, on the occasion of his retrospective in Beijing. He is accompanied by Tatti Sanguineti and Roberto Silvestri.
GIAN VITTORIO BALDI:
Graduated in Public Opinion Sciences, with a thesis on sound in cinematographic work, he made a series in 10 episodes, with the commentary of Silvio Negro, entitled 50 years of Italian history (1958).
Apart from the films he made as a director (which he almost always wrote himself), Baldi produced Trio (1967) by Gianfranco Mingozzi, Diary of a Schizophrenic (1968) by Nelo Risi, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Baltagul (1969) by Mircea Muresan, East Wind (1969) by Jean-Luc Godard, Porcile (1969) and Notes for an African Orestiade (1970) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Conjugal Love (1970) by Dacia Maraini, Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) by Robert Bresson, About Angola (1971) by Stefano De Stefani, One More Emotion (1979) by Francesco Longo and La guérilléra (1982) by Pierre Kast.
Called by Adelio Ferrero, he collaborated for a few years at DAMS in Bologna where he taught "Filmology". In that context he wrote The expressive language of sound and the musical commentary in the cinematographic work (Valgimigli, 1978).
In a series dedicated to him at the Cooperativa Nuovi Quaderni di San Gimignano, he has published Il cinema di Gian Vittorio Baldi: macchina da presa di coscienza (introduction, interviews, comments) and the screenplays of La casa delle vedove (1980), Luciano (1980), Fuoco! (1979), The Night of Flowers (1979), Hard Years (1980) and The Last Day of School Before the Christmas Holidays (1979), each with a note by Pietro M. Toesca. In 1995 he collected 9 short stories in the book Variances (Bologna: Mobydick). And in 2002 the book on his fiction film set in Sarajevo: Nevrijeme-il temporale: il progetto, l'errore, la ricerca (at Hypermedia in Faenza, where Baldi is president of a small film school).
FILMOGRAPHY:
Rimorchiatore Vesuvio (1949, short film)
Mare d'inverno (1952)
Eremiti a Camaldoli (1955, short film)
Automata e macchine (1957, short film)
Fifty years 1898-1948. Episodes of Italian life between chronicle and history (1958, 10-part editing TV documentary)
La notte di San Giovanni (1958, short film)
Il pianto delle zitelle (1958 short film), Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival
Via dei Cessati Spiriti (1959)
Children of the Ancestors (1959, TV movie short film)
Midsummer Eve (1959, short film)
Portrait of Pina (1960, short film)
Luciano - Via dei Cappellari (1960, short film)
The Widows' House (1960), Golden Lion for Best Short Film in Venice
La prova d'amore (1961) (episode of Le Italiane e l'amore, edited by Cesare Zavattini, the other episodes were by Marco Ferreri, Giulio Macchi, Francesco Maselli, Lorenza Mazzetti, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Carlo Musso, Piero Nelli, Giulio Questi, Nelo Risi and Florestano Vancini)
Il Bar di Gigi (1961, short film)
Bridal trousseau (1961, short film)
Luciano, A Burnt Life (1962)
Don Minzoni (1963, TV movie)
The Housewife (1963, TV movie)
La Fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes (1964) (episodic film, which he also produced), comprising:
Fiammetta, by Gian Vittorio Baldi
Geneviève, by Michel Brault
Marie-France et Véronique, by Jean Rouch
Ako, by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Fire! (1968, self-produced)
The Night of Flowers (1971, self-produced)
The Last Day of School Before the Christmas Holidays (1975, self-produced)
Anni duri (1977, TV documentary)
The Third Age (1980)
Mi richordo anchora (1980, documentary on the painter Piero Ghizzardi)
Light Years (1987, TV documentary series in 4 parts)
Gaiters, feluccas and bowler hats
Vigils of arms
The war: everything is fine madam the marquise
Salò: the last resort
ZEN - North Expansion Zone (1988)
Testimonies on the Resistance (1997, testimonies on the partisan Resistance collected for the municipality of Marano sul Panaro)
The Storm - Nevrijeme (1999)
Magomax (2002, short film)
The Sky Above Me (2009, website)