La Verifica Incerta/ The Uncertain Verification (1965)

[trep]

Alberto Grifi Site

[quote]LA VERIFICA INCERTA !
Alberto Grifi et Gianfranco Baruchello (1968 - vo)

A compilation film about stereotypes drawn from some 500,000 feet of colour footage of Cinemascope movies made in Hollywood between 1953 and 1958. The film was shown in Paris in May 1965 by Marcel Duchamp, who also took part in the film.
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'A hilarious, intercut collage film made up of cliche sequences from Hollywood films.' - S.Dwoskin,FILM IS.
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"A calculated assault upon the supposed logic of the structure of the narrative film. Clips from a dozen or more cinemascope movies, shown still squeezed, follow each other in a perfectly logical but complete anar- chic progression. The filmmakers replace the conventional sequence of shots describing a simple action (opening a window, for example) with an equal number of shots, all technically "correct" and all dealing with the same dramatic/functional situation, but which throw the event into total confusion. The hero changes person mid-shot; camera movement reverses halfway through an action; the lighting jumps from phony blue-filter darkness to over-exposed multi- shadowed "daylight"; and the color range (which throughout the movie manages to reflect every imperfection of mass produced color prints) cuts from all-over brown to washed-out blue-green." David Curtis, Experimental Cinema, 1971 via Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel[/quote]

A major classic in italian underground cinema canon. This is a .mov file.

Alberto Grifi_Gianfranco Baruchello - Verifica Incerta (1964).mov

[Fitzcarraldo]

it seems bloody interesting, thanks Trep! and yet again, there always new surprises!

[Coursodon]

Thanks Trep. You're the one, mate. Incredible stuff!!!!

[trep]

Note well: the one on Grifi's site is just a a 2MB clip, with poststamp resolution.

Let's hope well for this .mov file... it could be incomplete, or unwatchable afaik... fingers crossed...

[vaughan]

thanks Trep. Sounds very interesting.... 8O

[NitteZtalker]

Sound great! Thanks again, Trep.

[trep]

First cap:

[Coursodon]

Great! It seems to be the real thing.

[MalachihcalaM]

Thanks a lot Trep!

[marvin2kk]

i.m back! CLICK!

[trep]

The movie seems to be ~30minutes long, which is right according to some online sources...

[mute]

downloading it, thanks.

[auess]

COOL！CLICKED NO DOUBT。
GREAT SHARE，DEAR TREP。
T*H*A*N*K*S*！

[astrov]

Much better mpg rip:
Alberto Grifi Gianfranco Baruchello - La Verifica incerta - 1965.mpg