Gianfranco Brebbia
1923 - 1974Varese was one of his favorite subjects: he documented the vibrant artistic ferment of the sixties and denounced the building boom that destroyed historic buildings in the city center.
In the second half of the sixties, Brebbia was part of the Cooperative of Independent Cinema in Rome.
This meeting developed and further increased the its spirit of inquiry and freedom of expression, taking it to carry more than 140 experimental films (found in Archive only 45).
In the last years of his life he devoted himself to figurative art, composing with technical cadres in collage technique typical of Pop Art.
He disappeared suddenly in Varese, January 7, 1974, at the age of fifty years, leaving a precious film archives kept by December 2015 at the Historical Archives of the Italian Film Library in Milan.
Extremity n°2
Gianfranco Brebbia
Presented at the 2nd Randez Vous Des Cinemas d'art et Dessai at the Palazzo dei Congressi of the Republic of San Marino, the film shows "Filmic experiments-incandescence, filtering the sun-filming, through the window of a working projector, rotating geometric solids and reflecting colored rays".
Extremity n°2
Fumus Art
Gianfranco Brebbia
Documentary shot on the occasion of the happening "Opere di fumo" (literally "works of smoke") organized by Luciano Giaccari (founder of an important video library in Varese, formerly called Studio 970 2) on March 30, 1969 in Luvinate . Among the artists: Hidetoshi Nagasawa and Christian Tobas. Presence of the wife, Adele, and Gianfranco Brebbia's second daughter, Paola.
Fumus Art
