Southern emigrants, arrived at the Milan station loaded with suitcases, rush to catch the connections for Germany and Switzerland. Some, lost and tired, abandon themselves in the waiting room waiting for other departures.

Franco Piavoli - Emigranti (1963).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	11 min 14 s
Size: 	390 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/A50A542FB16CEA1/Franco_Piavoli_-_Emigranti_(1963).mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:None

The post Franco Piavoli – Emigranti (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Experimental film director Franco Piavoli’s Al Primo Soffio Di Vento (At the First Breath of Wind) is nearly a wordless, non-narrative account of a summer’s day as appreciated by the residents of an estate in Lombardy, Italy.

The family, despite living in a idyllic mansion, live their lives very much apart from one another. The father (Primo Gaburri) is usually holed up in his study, while his wife aimlessly paces the grounds pining away after a former lover. Of the two daughters, the eldest plays sad tunes on the piano, while the younger explores the woods and struggles to understand her recent inklings of sexual attraction.

The house also provides home to a sickly grandfather, as well as an unknown, mentally unbalanced female relative. Neither the film nor its director suggest any type of concrete interpretation, preferring that the audience filter the film’s meaning through their own personal experiences.

Al primo soffio di vento (2002).mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 25mn
Size:	1.44 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	698x574 ~> 744x574
Aspect ratio:	1.297
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 165 Kbps
Audio
Italian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

Great movie indeed, hope you all enjoy !!

https://nitro.download/view/D114870E1A3B2BF/Al_primo_soffio_di_vento_(2002).mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Franco Piavoli – Al primo soffio di vento AKA At the First Breath of Wind (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The life and work of the poet and sculptor, Umberto Bellintani, seen through his correspondence with the art critic and historian, Alessandro Parronchi. The letters reveal the brotherly trust uniting the two friends, as well as the deep sensitivity that inspired the poet’s lines. Acclaiming the harmony of two artistic sensitivities, the film blends the beauty of poetry in words with that of poetry in images.

705MB | 44 min 51 s | 765×574 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4A0D6432B885A1F/Affettuosa_presenza_(Franco_Piavoli__2004).mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/F57D6D6AA6BA969/Franco_Piavoli_-Affettuosa_presenza_%282004%29_eng_03.srt

Language:Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Franco Piavoli – Affettuosa presenza (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
The film follows the cycle of the seasons upon a rural landscape, from the reawakening of life following the Winter thaw to the blossoming of Spring, the heat of Summer working in the fields and the twilight of Autumn. Man is confronted by nature through the succession of seasons and in the essential moments of his existence: youth, love, food, work, pain.

Extras
A brief interview with Piavoli, complete with custom English subtitles:

1.11GB | 1h 19mn | 704×570 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/4519ED4B9C7FC50/IlPianetaAzzurro.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/6B2A2C6F9C8D9B8/IlPianetaAzzurro.part2.rar

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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The post Franco Piavoli – Il Pianeta Azzurro AKA The Blue Planet [+Extras] (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Description
Poems in 8mm are the early works of Franco Piavoli, digitally restored. Independent short films, captured with a simple Paillard camera, involving no crew and no production. In this collection, one can find Le Stagioni (The Seasons), precursor to Il Pianeta Azzurro (The Blue Planet), Emigranti (Emigrants), a short on immigration in Milan during the Sixties, Domenica Sera (Sunday Evening), and the experimental Evasi (Convicts). These titles, up to this point unavailable to the public in an edition that respects the original state of the film. This also goes for the Piavoli’s first work, Ambulatorio (Surgery), described by the director as mere playing around with the camera. Without music and words, it is nonetheless revealing of an artistic sensibility that would soon show itself in full splendour.

Content
Le Stagioni / The Seasons (1961, 27’)
Domenica Sera / Sunday Evening (1962, 11’)
Emigranti / Emigrants (1963, 11’)
Evasi / Convicts (1964, 12’)

Extras
Ambulatorio / Surgery (1954, 4’)
Intervista / Interview with Franco Piavoli (2012, 12’)

https://nitro.download/view/45BC98EF110C7F8/Poesie_in_8mm.rar

https://fikper.com/1ImYW8Fv8y/Poesie_in_8mm.rar

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

The post Franco Piavoli – Poesie in 8mm AKA Poems in 8mm [+Extras] (1954-1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything. He confronts the most terrible loneliness following a shipwreck in which all the comrades perish.

Extras
A brief interview with Piavoli complete with custom English subtitles:

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/F17EA7D05EBADBD/Nostos_Il_Ritorno.mkv
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/6C36F94532BB065/Nostos_Il_Ritorno.srt
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/5DB9EFC3B384BD2/Intervista.mkv
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/75DA4F1739F653E/Intervista.srt

Language(s):Ancient Greek
Subtitles:English

The post Franco Piavoli – Nostos: Il Ritorno AKA Nostos: The Return [+Extras] (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
An ode to the cycles of life charts the passages of infancy, youth, maturity and old age against the seasons of the year in the bucolic Lombardy village of Castellaro.

Quote:
Set in a small village in Italy, Voices Through Time is a journey through four stages of human life, beginning with a cooing baby and concluding with the elderly. The sweet awkwardness of being a horny teenager was perfectly and poetically displayed, and as a bonus most of the guys sported some sort of mullet or rat-tail. Perhaps the most memorable scene showed five girls sitting atop a concrete structure in the center of a courtyard, several boys circling them on their mopeds like sharks around prey. Although people dominated much of the screen, you never got the impression they were actors. Voices Through Time isn’t about anybody—it’s about everybody, about humans, and their alike-ness. As in all of these films, the people together make up an organism; they are components of something larger.

Quote:
Nearly every natural detail, expansive landscape or rite of passage you see in the film is simultaneously being watched by someone within it, a catalogue of gazes – yearning, joyous, inquisitive, 5impassive – that equally functions as a cartography of the visage over time, mapping out how surfaces swell or slacken and valleys begin to form.
JAMES LATTİMER
December 16, 2015

Voci.nel.tempo.1996.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
Size: 	2.18 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 424 kb/s
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Audio
#1:  	zxx 2.0ch AAC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/02BECD997D89DCD/Voci.nel.tempo.1996.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:Not required

The post Franco Piavoli – Voci nel Tempo AKA Voices Through Time (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.