A Movie About The Revolution: Seize The Time Alessio Galbiati
Branca was one of the few Italian filmmakers able to witness American society from within. With his camera he was quick to catch the social changes taking place in U.S. society during the mid ’60s. As a mark of such quest, the DVD published by Kiwido also contains “What’s happening?”, a live documentary of 1967 about the From June 1st you can find “Seize the Time” in bookshops and online stores. The DVD + book (Federico Carra Editore, 19) contains the text published hereby by courtesy of Kiwido.
Beat Generation and Pop Art, a portrait of America seen through the eyes of artists and intellectuals who were about to revolutionize (forever) the international artistic panorama. Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Fred Mogubgub, Andy Warhol, Marie
Nowadays, “Seize the Time” could be labelled as a docufiction about the Black Panther movement made in 1970 by the Italian filmmaker Antonello Branca. This remarkable work is finally available again to the public after years spent in oblivion. It can be possible thanks to Federico Carra and his Kiwido and the collaboration of ACAB (Associazione Culturale Antonello Branca).
Benois, Robert Rauschenberg, Leon Kraushar, Gregory Corso. This well-chosen combination of two supposedly different works ” a “political” film and a documentary about the world of art”, puts in evidence the curiosity of the Italian filmmaker, a lifetime passion ended in 2002 after more than sixty undiscovered documentaries. [Alessio Galbiati Rapporto Confidenziale Nº 25].
Seize the Time is a movie about and with the Black Panthers. It brings together drama, fiction cinema and documentary cinema. Antonello
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