Alfredo Leonardi
Biography
Alfredo Leonardi (Voghera, Italy, 1938) studied literature in Milan, initially becoming involved in theatre and later in cinema. After moving to Rome in the early 1960s, he worked as an assistant director to Ugo Gregoretti. He worked as a director on cultural programs for RAI and made several experimental short !lms for the producer Enzo Nasso, as well as the feature !lm Amore amore (1966). From 1967 to 1970, he self-produced a number of experimental !lms and was a member of the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente. In 1969, he spent time in the United States writing a book on the New American Cinema, entitled Occhio mio dio (Feltrinelli, 1971). In 1971, together with Guido Lombardi and Anna Lajolo, he formed the group Videobase, with which he produced several videos documenting social struggles ignored by the mainstream media up to 1975. In 1996, he settled first in Milan, and finally in Turin.
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after having caused war and death, it has abandoned the now unlivable Earth. The visual experimentation aimed at the liberation of the gaze is intertwined with psychedelic visions on the one hand and with the orgone theory of Reichian memory on the other.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Sé stesso
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Himself
Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A film by Alfredo Leonardi.