Piero Bargellini
Pierfrancesco Bargellini (Arezzo, 1940-1982), also known as Piero, bought his first movie camera when he was 20 and pointed it at his youthful passions: competition cars and motorcycles. A few years later he met Marco Melani, who became his cinema companion and an actor in his films. He started to make a name for himself in the world of amateur filmmakers and won a prize at the festival of Montecatini. One of the members of the jury was Massimo Bagicalupo, a founder of the Cooperativa cinema indipendente, and he invited Bargellini to enter the brand-new world of Italian underground cinema. While working as an agronomist at the Val di Chiana Irrigation Office he continued to make films in his free time, but shortly afterwards, with the notice and support of the magazines “Cinema & Film” and the group “Filmstudio 70,” he left his job and moved to Rome. Here, during the early 1970s he worked occasionally for RAI and carried on his activity as an independent director in the world of underground cinema. During this period he suffered a series of misadventures with the law and ended up fleeing to Turkey with his wife Oriana and their daughter Rebecca in 1975. After returning to Italy he continued experimenting, jotting down his discoveries in a series of notebooks and fruitlessly trying to find financing for various projects for experimental programs for Rai. Bertolucci and Storaro consulted with him during preparation for La Luna (1981) to try to resolve problems with various special effects. But Bargellini progressively lost contact with the world of cinema and shortly thereafter his troubles with the law began. He was found dead, officially because of an overdose, at dawn on July 10, 1982.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
January 5, 1940Deathday
July 10, 1982Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
38Place of birth
Arezzo, Tuscany, ItalyAlso known as
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Cast credits
Crew credits
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Stricnina
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Fractions of Temporary Periods
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Morte all'orecchio di Van Gogh
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Vi prego di accettare questo semplice bouquet di parentesi appena sbocciate
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Nelda
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Transfer of Modulation
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Un ottofilm di Pierfrancesco Bargellini
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L'incompiuta
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Dove incominciano le gambe
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Anno 2000
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Gasoline
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Questo film è dedicato a David Riesman e si intitolerà «Capolavoro»
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Water-Closet aka Waiting for a Defecation
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Zukie
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Due silenzi e un'armonica
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Baraccone
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Macrozoom
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Erinnerung An Die Zukunft
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Luna
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La striscia
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Dell'Acqua
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