The first work team
The period ranging from the invention of video recorders and when they were put on the market, dating from the end of the sixties and the following 20 years, apart from the large number of work teams who were recording on the above ‘open reel’, video tapes, many events occurred (anthropological investigations, ethnographical documentations, avant garde art performances already well known, Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello held interviews in Paris with ‘maitre a penser’ such as David Cooper, Pierre Klossowski, Felix Guattari, Jean Francois Lyitard, Alain Jouffroy and Sarchielli with his ‘Anna’. This film was considered a 4-star ‘cult movie’ in the Mereghetti Cinema Yearbook and a 3-star in the Morandini dictionary as well as in other papers in this field. The film was also shown at the Berlin, Venice and Cannes Festivals 1975/1976..
Anna was the first Italian work entirely filmed in 1972 with a video recorder that was transcribed onto 16 mm. film. This opened up new prospects of working with languages and methods to do with real situations; emphasis was laid on the cost-heavy film producing methods which resulted in much talk on behalf of the critics as well as the young generation film directors during the sixties and seventies