Angela Ricci Lucchi

The directors took three years to complete this 96-minute documentary of the works of Italian filmmaker Luca Comerico (1874-1940). The court photographer filmed the landing of Italian marines in Libya in 1911. Animal safaris to the South Pole, India, Russia, and Africa are also shown. The time-consuming task of the directors involved taking still photographs of more than half a million frames from the original film negative. This feature appeared in 1987 at the Chicago and Edinburgh Film Festiva (Dan Pavlides)

This profound and disturbing Italian documentary is entirely comprised of archival film footage from London, Milan, Moscow, Vienna and Budapest of life in WWI prison camps. (Surreal Moviez)

Found footage documentary comprising of WWI Italian and Austrian soldiers on the battlefields of treacherous mountain ranges. (Y! Movies)

This organized compilation of archival footage is nothing less than a horror documentary. The images show destitute Austrian children in 1918, dead Russian children in 1920, the mutilated faces and shattered bodies of veterans of the First World War, Mussolini rising to power.... The filmmakers reverse the chronological order of events in order to bring to life a profoundly disturbing idea: the appalling casualties of today are born of the political monstrosities of tomorrow. (New Yorker)

Milan-based duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi create an astonishing work of militant poetry with this found-footage chronicle of Mussolini's brutal invasion of Ethiopia. (tiff.net)

Images of the Balkans, coming from diverse Yugoslav communities.

Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 1920s, a period of strong anti-colonial outbreak, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi deconstruct the images and analyze the attitude and behavior of Westerners in the East. (Letterboxd)

The film is a work on film materials, an analysis of the physical substance of the cinema, about the fragile and perishable support, which is the film. Imagery yellowed, frames of an old Kodak film reduced to shreds are shown as precious relics. (Mubi)

In 1926 the remains of two ships built by the Emperor Caligula were found at the bottom of Lake Nemi, near Rome. Mussolini had the lake drained and established a museum as a celebration of the imperial origins of Fascism, but the museum and ships were destroyed by fleeing Nazis in 1944. (Moma)