Alberto Grifi

Biography

Alberto Grifi (Rome, 1938–2007), a painter, director, cameraman and photographer, is a fundamental figure of Italian experimental and activist cinema. In the first half of the 1960s he worked on the production of documentaries, and in 1964, together with Gianfranco Baruchello, he made La verifica incerta, followed by many other experimental films. With the cult film Anna 1975 he was one of the first to experiment with the use of videotape in an independent film. In 1976 – together with a group of ‘video hoodlums’ – he produced documentaries rarely screened today on youth protests in Milan, Bologna and Rome. Throughout the 1980s he shot industrial documentaries in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. Grifi has also produced many radio programmes, published his writings on penitentiaries, contributed to various film magazines and held seminars in many squats, and universities, becoming a reference for future militant filmmakers.

Directed

1. Uncertain Verification (1965) — Director
2. Anna (1975) — Director
3. Vigilando reprimere (1972) — Director
4. Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia (1967) — Director
5. Il grande freddo (1971) — Director
6. Il Festival del Proletariato Giovanile al Parco Lambro (1976) — Director
7. Long Live The Orgonauts! (1970) — Director
8. About Special Effects (2001) — Director
9. Michele alla ricerca della felicità (1978) — Director
10. Parco Lambro Juvenile Proletariat Festival (Rushes) (2024) — Director
11. Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975 (2025) — Director
12. Fuori campo di Anna (2025) — Director
13. No stop grammatica (1966) — Director
14. Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima (2007) — Director
15. Leoncavallo - I Giorni dello Sgombero (1994) — Director
16. Pezzi dell'Amleto (1966) — Director
17. Cyril (una cosa urgente) (1960) — Director
18. Nonotte (1961) — Director
19. Addo' sta Rossellini? (1997) — Director
20. A partire dal dolce (1979) — Director
21. Non soffiare nel narghilè (1970) — Director
22. In Viaggio con Patrizia (2007) — Director
23. Dinni e la Normalina, ovvero la Videopolizia Psichiatrica contro i sedicenti Gruppi di Follia Militante (1978) — Director
24. Lia (1977) — Director
25. Il preteso corpo (1977) — Director
26. Grifi racconta Grifi (2004) — Director
27. Grifi spiegato ai bambini - Il mattatoio su internet (1994) — Director
28. La spiaggia. Ritratto di Giordano Falzoni (2004) — Director
29. Viaggio a Cagliari (2004) — Director
30. Paperina si riguarda (1993) — Director
31. La prima volta che Zavattini provò ad usare un videotape (1993) — Director
32. Filming Man Ray (1990) — Director
33. Filming Marcel Duchamp — Director

Also appeared in

1. Anna (1975) — Self (uncredited)
2. About Special Effects (2001) — Mr. Riflesso
3. Alberto Grifi a Visioni Sconsigliate (2011) — self
4. Giravolte (2001) — Grifi
5. Nudi Verso la Follia (2004)
6. Ma chi è questo Grifi (1998) — Sé stesso
7. Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975 (2025) — Self - director
8. Fuori campo di Anna (2025) — Self - director
9. Addo' sta Rossellini? (1997) — Self
10. Alberto Grifi introduce Anna (1976) — Himself
11. Ritratto di Gianfranco Baruchello
12. Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima (2007) — Self
13. In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi (2006)
14. KomaK (2002)
15. Grifi racconta Grifi (2004) — Sé stesso
16. Grifi spiegato ai bambini - Il mattatoio su internet (1994) — Sé stesso
17. La spiaggia. Ritratto di Giordano Falzoni (2004) — Sé stesso
18. Paperina si riguarda (1993) — Self
19. La prima volta che Zavattini provò ad usare un videotape (1993) — Self