Alfred Guzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti (born 1942) is a maker of
Education
Alfred Guzzetti was born in
Career
Following a series of films for theatrical productions, Guzzetti's experimental short film, Air, won first prize in its category at the 1972 Chicago Film Festival. Afterwards he embarked on an autobiographical cycle that included the feature-length Family Portrait Sittings (1975)
Selected filmography
- Against the Light (2023) 12 minutes
- Passage (2023) 16 minutes
- Daybook (2022) 24 minutes
- The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer (2020) 15 minutes
- The Gifts of Time (2018) 78 minutes
- Renewal (2015) 5 minutes
- Time Present (2013) 17 minutes
- Time Exposure (2012) 11 minutes
- The Barrios Family Twenty-Five Years Later (2011) 131 minutes
- Still Point (2009) 15 minutes
- Reframing History (2006)
- Night Vision (2005) 2 minutes
- América Central (2004) 7 minutes
- History of the Sea (2004) 15 minutes
- Calcutta Intersection (2003) 10 minutes
- Down from the Mountains (2002) 9 minutes
- The Tower of Industrial Life (2000) 15 minutes
- Khalfan and Zanzibar (1999) 25 minutes
- A Tropical Story (1998) 9 minutes
- Under the Rain (1997) 10 minutes
- What Actually Happened (1996) 9 minutes
- The Stricken Areas (1996) 9 minutes
- Variation (1995) 5 minutes
- The Curve of the World (1994) 8 minutes
- Seed and Earth (1994) 36 minutes
- Rosetta Stone (1993) 10 minutes
- Pictures from a Revolution (1991) 92 minutes
- July (1988) 12 minutes
- Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1985) 58 minutes
- Chronological Order (1985) 4 minutes
- Scenes from Childhood (1980) 78 minutes
- Family Portrait Sittings (1975) 103 minutes
- Evidence (1972) 16 minutes
- Air (1971) 18 minutes
- Notes on the Harvard Strike (1969) 38 minutes
Collaborative projects with composers
- Open Air (2023), approximately 35 minutes
- Among Rivers (2019), approximately 45 minutes
- Time Present (2013) 17 minutes
- Moon Crossings (2011) 16 minutes
- Breaking Earth (2008) 26 minutes
- SONA (2005) 6 minutes
- Sky Piece (1978) 10 minutes
- Exercises en Route (1971) 6 minutes
Bibliography
- Andy Rice, "Documentary and Italian American Identity," in Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities, ed. Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Scott MacDonald, Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary & Avant-Garde Cinema, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Scott MacDonald, American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn, University of California Press, 2013.
- "A Few Things for Themselves," New Literary History, XXXIX (Spring, 2008), 251–258.
- "Let Us Be Reasonable, Let Us Ask for Everything," in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast volume 2, ed. Tanya Leighton (2007).
- Jim Lane,The Autobiographical Documentary in America, University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
- "Notes on Representation and the Nonfiction Film," New Literary History, XXVII (Spring, 1996), 263-270.
- "The Documentary Gets Personal/ Le documentaire à la première personne," catalogue essay for Cinéma du réel, Paris, March, 1993.
- William Rothman, "Alfred Guzzetti's Family Portrait Sittings," in The "I" of the Camera, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Analysis of a Film by Godard. Harvard University Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-674-91500-8
- Translation of "Le film de fiction et son spectateur (Étude métapsychologique)" by Christian Metz as "The Fiction Film and Its Spectator: A Metapsychological Study," New Literary History, VII (1976), 75-105. Reprinted in Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Macmillan Press, Great Britain, 1982.ISBN 0253331056
- "Narrative and the Film Image," New Literary History, VI (1975), 379-392.
- "Christian Metz and the Semiology of the Cinema," Journal of Modern Literature, III (1973), 292-308. Reprinted in Film Theory and Criticism, 2nd and 3rd editions, ed. Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen, Oxford University Press, 1979 and 1985.
- "The Role of Theory in Films and Novels," New Literary History, III (1972), 547-558.
References
- ^ "VES Faculty". Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Family Portrait Sittings". Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Scenes from Childhood". Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Living at Risk: the Story of a Nicaraguan Family". Archived from the original on 17 July 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Pictures from a Revolution". Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Seed and Earth". Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Khalfan and Zanzibar". Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Down from the Mountains". Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 23 June 2011.