ANNA (MATERIALI ESPANSI)

edited by Jacopo Chessa and Annamaria Licciardello

We have brought to life a dream of Alberto Grifi’s: to restore and enable the viewing of the ¼” and ½” video reels on which Anna was recorded (as well as the small amount of 16mm film with which Grifi and Sarchielli had started to shoot). These reels contain the “exposed” material of the film we know, plus unreleased sequences, and the parts that precede or follow the videographed and edited material. The new recording possibilities offered by videotape have rendered each reel a self-standing episode. But the “exposed” material is also the result of a selection process due to the tape’s structure, which permits its immediate viewing and, when needed, re-usage. The non-sequential temporality of the tapes is proof that we are dealing with a second level with respect to the pure registration. An intermediate stage between shooting and editing, which was generated only afterward, through the editing of the videographed footage.
This material also contains something else: the reflections of the authors and the protagonists about the shared experience and the reaction of the public and the critics at the 1975 Venice Film Festival. If Anna is a completed text, materially identified and identifiable through the negative that is its matrix, the video continued recording, in a potentially continuous dimension of the process.

A CURA DI 
Annamaria Licciardello, Jacopo Chessa 
MONTAGGIO 
Giuseppe Giudice 
LABORATORIO 
La Camera Ottica 
RESTAURO A CURA DI 
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale 
IN COLLABORAZIONE CON 
Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi, Galleria Alberto Peola 

REGIA, PRODUZIONE
Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli
SOGGETTO, SCENEGGIATURA
Massimo Sarchielli, Roland Knauss
FOTOGRAFIA Alberto Grifi, Mario Gianni, Raoul Calabrò
INTERPRETI
Anna, Massimo Sarchielli, Vincenzo Mazza, Stefano Cattarossi, Louis Waldon, Pilar Castel, Alberto Grifi, Adriano Aprà, Tatti Sanguineti, Luciano Giaccari, Gianni Menon, Louis Marcorelles