An experimental cinematic ode to sensuality, community, and life-cinema on the Amalfi Coast.
The film opens with the mythological legend of Positano, establishing the Amalfi Coast as a sacred backdrop. The rocky cliffside residence of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont serves as the physical anchor for the narrative. This setting introduces the geographical and historical context before any artistic activity begins.
Pierre Clémenti arrives and begins filming, capturing naked bodies integrated into the Mediterranean landscape. The underground community gathers to share a utopian vision of permanent creation and shared living. Visual impressions and consciousness flows dominate this phase, emphasizing physical and emotional impregnation.
The narrative shifts toward Clémenti's artistic philosophy, challenging established cinematic and social orders. He advocates for a virgin approach to creation, treating every act as if performed for the first time. This phase explores the tension between conventional structures and radical experimentation.
Clémenti prioritizes live sound performances during film projections, collaborating closely with musical friends. The screenings become immersive events where cinema and real-time music merge. The film concludes by cementing its status as an ode to sensuality and a manifesto for life-cinema.
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".
Pierre Clémenti
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