This research traces a genealogy of independent experimental cinema, from the United States to Italy, examining how the cooperative model became, between the late 1960s and early 1970s, a concrete response to the crisis of the institutional film system. It focuses first on the New American Cinema and the Filmmakers' Cooperative, a model that redefined the production and distribution possibilities of underground cinema. The second strand explores the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente in Rome, established in 1967 as both a filmmakers' collective and a shared space that combined artistic experimentation with resistance to censorship. The third axis examines the scene in Padua and the figure of Sirio Luginbühl, a filmmaker and cultural organizer who reworked the cooperative legacy into a practice rooted in local territory, Padua specifically, weaving together visual research and the organization of alternative cultural networks, while building around himself a constellation of distinctive individuals. Through these three threads, the thesis aims to show how independent experimental cinema functioned not only as aesthetic innovation, but as the building of communities and distribution models capable of generating a cultural ecosystem parallel to the dominant one, an ongoing challenge fought from the ground up.
La ricerca cerca di ricostruire una tratto della storia del cinema sperimentale indipendente, dagli Stati Uniti all’Italia, analizzando come la forma cooperativa diventi, tra la fine degli anni Sessanta e i primi Settanta, una risposta diretta alla crisi del sistema cinematografico istituzionale. L’attenzione si pone in primo luogo sul New American Cinema e la Filmmakers’ Cooperative, modello che definisce le possibilità produttive e distributive del cinema underground, che influenzerà le pratiche a seguire. Il secondo approfondisce la Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente di Roma, nata nel 1967 come gruppo di filmmaker e spazio collettivo capace di coniugare sperimentazione artistica e opposizione alle logiche censorie. Il terzo asse concentra lo sguardo sulla scena padovana e sulla figura di Sirio Luginbühl, filmmaker e promotore culturale che rielabora l’eredità cooperativa in una pratica radicata nel territorio, Padova, intrecciando il suo percorso tra ricerca visiva e organizzazione di reti culturali alternative, costruendo attorno a sé una costellazione di personalità singolari. Attraverso questi tre snodi, la tesi intende mostrare come il cinema sperimentale indipendente si configuri non solo come innovazione estetica, ma come costruzione di comunità e di modelli di distribuzione capaci di generare un ecosistema culturale parallelo a quello dominante, una sfida continua combattuta dal basso.
La Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente e la scena padovana: il caso di Sirio Luginbühl
SHIKATA, KENTA
2024/2025
Abstract
This research traces a genealogy of independent experimental cinema, from the United States to Italy, examining how the cooperative model became, between the late 1960s and early 1970s, a concrete response to the crisis of the institutional film system. It focuses first on the New American Cinema and the Filmmakers' Cooperative, a model that redefined the production and distribution possibilities of underground cinema. The second strand explores the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente in Rome, established in 1967 as both a filmmakers' collective and a shared space that combined artistic experimentation with resistance to censorship. The third axis examines the scene in Padua and the figure of Sirio Luginbühl, a filmmaker and cultural organizer who reworked the cooperative legacy into a practice rooted in local territory, Padua specifically, weaving together visual research and the organization of alternative cultural networks, while building around himself a constellation of distinctive individuals. Through these three threads, the thesis aims to show how independent experimental cinema functioned not only as aesthetic innovation, but as the building of communities and distribution models capable of generating a cultural ecosystem parallel to the dominant one, an ongoing challenge fought from the ground up.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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