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Alfredo Leonardi

Directing · Born 1938-09-07 · Voghera, Lombardy, Italy

Biography

(Voghera, 1938), having moved to Rome, in 1962–3 worked as the assistant of the director and intellectual Ugo Gregoretti, and later for the cultural programs of RAI. In 1967 he joined CCI. In 1969, after receiving a study grant from Fondazione Agnelli, he went to the United States, where he gave lectures and conferences, coming into contact with Jonas Mekas and the circles of New American Cinema, and writing the book Occhio, mio dio: Il new american cinema (published in 1971 by Feltrinelli). Starting in the 1970s he began to make anthropological documentaries and activist videos of Videobase with Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi. From 1964 to 1983 he produced segments for various television programs, after which he has devoted his time to teaching.

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