A jewel of Italian art cinema long considered lost, Echo by Gianfranco Pardi was premiered in 1971 at Studio Marconi. The film’s music, created together with artists Mino Ceretti, Carlo Ruffini and Davide Mosconi, would later become part of the album Uno zingaro di Atlante con un fiore a New York, released by RCA in 1973. As Franco Quadri had already noted at the time, the film’s structure unfolds in three moments that, although contrasting, blend harmoniously into each other, visually as much as musically. The first is exquisitely conceptual and focuses on the constructive values of the architectural measurement of space; the second is characterised by a convulsive explosiveness bordering on pop, and finally, the third brings the gaze back to the order of the natural.
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Country
ItalyYear
1971Length
33'
Category
ExperimentalDirector’s biography
La rigorosa ricerca artistica nell’ambito dell’arte minimalista e concettuale di Gianfranco Pardi (Milano, 1933-2012) ha lasciato sempre trasparire la sua formazione di architetto, integrandola nelle tecniche della pittura, del disegno e della scultura. Oltre alle decine di grandi sculture realizzate per spazi pubblici e privati, numerose mostre monografiche gli sono state dedicate da prestigiose istituzioni, tra le quali La Biennale di Venezia, il Kulturhistorisches Museum di Stralsund e la Fondazione Marconi di Milano.
