SuperDesign. Italian Radical Design 1965 - 1975 (2017)

Documentary

62 min    -    Rating: n/A

Emilio Ambasz, Franco Audrito, Dario Bartolini…

SuperDesign is a film about 19 players of the Italian Radical Movement. Through their words and their stories, we retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible. We encountered Emilio Ambasz, Franco Audrito, Dario Bartolini, Lapo Binazzi, Andrea Branzi, Germano Celant, Gilberto Coretti, Pietro Derossi, Piero Gilardi, Ugo La Pietra, Roberta Meloni, Alessandro Mendini, Adolfo Natalini, Gaetano Pesce, Gianni Pettena, Franco Raggi, Charlie Stendig, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Jim Walrod. The mid-1960s represented a revolutionary time when the need for change has spread everywhere in the Western world and has pervaded all the aspects of life. Some beautiful archival historical images recreate the atmosphere of the period. It was a time of 'positive turbulence' also on an artistic level. And even today we can definitely catch a glimpse of this radical virus in our interviewees. The movement took its steps in Italy - in the 1960s crossed by a wave of political violence, bombings and terrorism, but at the same time, an excitingly creative place: because of the energy of its industrialists and the ability and the creati