Anna Carini

Anna’s Textures

Super8 film-portrait of Anna Carini.

Puzzle Therapy

Puzzle Therapy is the collection of material shot over the course of a year, edited with a technique similar to that of automatic writing. In this set of shreds of real life, memories, dreams, each viewer can find different meanings.

Tatu Bola

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.

Anna (Anna Carini Naturale)

Anna Carini, Mario Schifano’s partner at the time, is the protagonist of the film. The young woman is observed, followed, questioned in close-up, in both indoor and outdoor settings, by the camera that partially strays into the scene and then briefly makes room for the author himself. —Tate Modern

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.

By Now My Return to Knossos Is Certain

The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.

Film

Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.

Anna Carini in agosto vista dalle farfalle

A 1967 short film by Mario Schifano.