Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. And it is of love that this film speaks above all, a total and solar love in which family and friends are seized in the same poetic field. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti’s intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation.Read More »
Margareth Clémenti
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Pierre Clémenti – Positano (1969)
France1961-1970ExperimentalPierre ClémentiShort FilmThe Films of May '68 -
Pierre Clémenti – Soleil (1988)
1981-1990ExperimentalFrancePierre ClémentiShort FilmPierre Clémenti’s Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
Letterboxd review
★★★½ Watched by Macchiato 16 Apr 2020Quite hypnotic even without subtitles, seems like an ode to acid tripping. One of those works of accidental beauty.Read More »