Barbaric Land

Each period has its fascism. With their “analytical camera,” as they define it, the directors dive in the neatly forgotten Italian colonial past in Ethiopia and proceed in a double reading – that of the images themselves and the way in which they were consumed: images of military exercises, a woman with her breasts bare, the reflection of Mussolini in Africa. The result is vital film about Europe that has committed suicide with two world wars and terrifying dictatorships, and now finds itself before new trials.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Editing: Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
Music: Giovanna Marini, Keith Ullrich
Production: Les Films D’ici
Producers: Sylvie Brenet, Serge Lalou
Co-production: ARTE France, La Lucarne
Narration: Giovanna Marini, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Format: Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2013
Duration: 65
Contact: Les Films d’ici celine.paini@lesfilmsdici.fr

Yervant Gianikian

Filmography

(with Angela Ricci Lucchi)
1976 Cesare Lombroso: Scent of Carnation (short) 
1981 Essence of Absinthe (short) 
1981 Karagoez: Catalogue 9.5 
1982 Song of the Earth: Gustave Mahler (short) 
1986 Dal polo all’equatore | From the Pole to the Equator 
1990 Uomini, anni, vita | Men, Years, Life 
1991 Italian Archives No. 1 (short), 
         Italian Archives No. 2 (short) 
1993 Giacomelli: Contacts (short) 
1994 Criminal Animals (short), 
         Aria (short) 
1994 African Diary (short) 
1995 Prigionieri della guerra | Prisoners of War 
1996 Diana’s Looking Glass (short) 
1997 Nocturne (short) 
1998 Transparencies (short)
1998 Su tutte le vette e pace | On the Heights All Is Peace 
2000 Visions of the Desert (short) 
2000 Inventario balcanico 
2001 Images d’Orient: tourisme vandale | Images of the Orient: Vandal Tourism
2002 Frammenti Elettrici N.1, Gypsy Men 
         Frammenti Elettrici N.2, Viet Nam 
         Frammenti Elettrici N.3, Bodies (short) 
2004 Oh! Uomo 
2005 Mysterious Lights (short) 
2005 Frammenti Elettrici N. 4, 5, Asia-Africa 
2007 Ghiro ghiro tondo 
2009 Frammenti Elettrici N.6, Dancing in the Dark 
2013 Paese barbaro | Barbaric Land

Angela Ricci Lucchi

Filmography

(with Yervant Gianikian)
1976 Cesare Lombroso: Scent of Carnation (short) 
1981 Essence of Absinthe (short) 
1981 Karagoez: Catalogue 9.5 
1982 Song of the Earth: Gustave Mahler (short) 
1986 Dal polo all’equatore | From the Pole to the Equator 
1990 Uomini, anni, vita | Men, Years, Life 
1991 Italian Archives No. 1 (short), 
         Italian Archives No. 2 (short) 
1993 Giacomelli: Contacts (short) 
1994 Criminal Animals (short), 
         Aria (short) 
1994 African Diary (short) 
1995 Prigionieri della guerra | Prisoners of War 
1996 Diana’s Looking Glass (short) 
1997 Nocturne (short) 
1998 Transparencies (short)
1998 Su tutte le vette e pace | On the Heights All Is Peace 
2000 Visions of the Desert (short) 
2000 Inventario balcanico 
2001 Images d’Orient: tourisme vandale | Images of the Orient: Vandal Tourism
2002 Frammenti Elettrici N.1, Gypsy Men 
         Frammenti Elettrici N.2, Viet Nam 
         Frammenti Elettrici N.3, Bodies (short) 
2004 Oh! Uomo 
2005 Mysterious Lights (short?) 
2005 Frammenti Elettrici N. 4, 5, Asia-Africa 
2007 Ghiro ghiro tondo 
2009 Frammenti Elettrici N.6, Dancing in the Dark 
2013 Paese barbaro | Barbaric Land