Massimo Bacigalupo

Massimo Bacigalupo

Massimo Bacigalupo (Rapallo, Genoa, Italy, 1947). His first works were produced for the local Amateur Film Club. For some years he helped organize the Rapallo International Amateur Film Festival. In 1966 his feature Quasi una tangente was awarded first prize in the Montecatini Film Festival. Bacigalupo, who was nineteen-year-old at the time, remembers that he was sitting in the audience with Lillian Gish and Anita Loos, who happened to be visiting Montecatini (Lillian was a friend of Massimo’s parents). Early on, through his personal acquaintance with poet Ezra Pound, Bacigalupo met film-makers and associates of the New American Cinema, among them Guy Davenport, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Jonas Mekas, and Abbott Meader. In 1970 he prepared an Italian translation of Brakhage’s Metaphors on Vision. He brought to Rapallo in 1964 a selection of American films, among them works by Ron Rice and Maya Deren, which made a lasting impression. In 1966-71 he was a university student in Rome, where he was a founding member of the Italian Film-makers’ Cooperative, and was involved in producing and distributing independent films. In 1968 he shot 200 Feet for March 31, an uncut and silent 8mm film- happening. He went on in 1969-70 to create Eringio, a series of four films running over two hours. The title refers to Dürer’s self-portrait, and this film quartet amounts to a collective self-portrait of the student and art world in Italy at the time. The longest film of the series, Migration, a celebration of the Great Mother and her many incarnations, was premiered at the 1970 London Film Festival. Bacigalupo travelled with a showcase of Italian underground films to Denmark, Sweden, Germany (1970), and later Spain (1974) and England (Tate Gallery, 1983). He enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. in American literature in 1975. Warming Up, a color film shot in Italy and America, was premiered at the Anthology Film Archives, NYC, on Bacigalupo's 26th birthday, April 20, 1973. In 1975 he shot Postcards from America, a dream travelogue, and Into the House, an homage to his American mother’s family. Subsequently Bacigalupo has been chiefly active as a scholar, critic and educator. He is Professor of American Literature at the University of Genoa and has received numerous awards for his work as a translator, chiefly of English and American poetry. He lives in Rapallo.

  • Title: Massimo Bacigalupo
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  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1947-04-20
  • Place of Birth: Rapallo, Genoa, Italy
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Massimo Bacigalupo Movies

  • 1970
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    Erinnerung An Die Zukunft

    Erinnerung An Die Zukunft

    1 1970 HD

    Unfinished feature film by Piero Bargellini.

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  • 2021
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    Il battello ebbro

    Il battello ebbro

    1 2021 HD

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  • 1970
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    Bacino Casa del lupo o di Tonino Massimo e Piero

    Bacino Casa del lupo o di Tonino Massimo e Piero

    1 1970 HD

    It exists only in a fragmented state.

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  • 2007
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    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    1 2007 HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

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  • 1969
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    Political Portraits

    Political Portraits

    1 1969 HD

    Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme...

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  • 1969
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    The Last Summer

    The Last Summer

    1 1969 HD

    First chapter of the four-part-cycle Eryngium, the film portrays the family background where the individual journey begins, the rituals of...

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  • 1970
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    Coda

    Coda

    1 1970 HD

    A conclusion and recapitulation of the Eryngium cycle, Coda deals directly with the theme of self-portraiture. The first shot alludes to the end of...

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  • 1968
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    Dei

    Dei

    1 1968 HD

    The construction of the film is very simple. Most of the time we see faces in close-up. Three pairs of faces, usually, on three different levels of...

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  • 2016
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    14Reels

    14Reels

    1 2016 HD

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  • 1969
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    Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

    Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

    Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1989
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    Tonino e le galline

    Tonino e le galline

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1968
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    Un dittico ed un intervento

    Un dittico ed un intervento

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1979
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    Frammento Catanese

    Frammento Catanese

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1968
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    200 Feet for March 31st

    200 Feet for March 31st

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1970
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    Fiore d'eringio

    Fiore d'eringio

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2019
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    Ricercar

    Ricercar

    1 2019 HD

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  • 2010
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    Into the House

    Into the House

    1 2010 HD

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  • 1970
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    Coda

    Coda

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    Warming Up

    Warming Up

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1966
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    Almost a Tangent

    Almost a Tangent

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Almost a Tangent

    Almost a Tangent

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    Migration

    Migration

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1968
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    Versus

    Versus

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Last Summer

    The Last Summer

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1970
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    Né bosco (una conversazione)

    Né bosco (una conversazione)

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1965
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    Lilian

    Lilian

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1969
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    Her

    Her

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Ariel loquitur

    Ariel loquitur

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1970
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    Paphos

    Paphos

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1975
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    Postcard from America

    Postcard from America

    1 1975 HD

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  • 2010
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    Con Ezra Pound a Venezia

    Con Ezra Pound a Venezia

    1 2010 HD

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