A Case of Minor History? Agentività e dissidenze del cinema “indipendente” italiano tra arte, controinformazione, circuiti di fruizione e pratiche del fuori formato (1961-1976)

The focus of this research is the reconstruction of “independent” cinema practices, the latter understood as “indicators” of the changes that took place between 1961 and 1976 in Italy’s visual culture – that is, the processes in which the visible aligned with enunciatory regimes and manifested as “actions”, languages, research, experimentation, political militancy, antagonisms. The aim is to investigate the various approaches to cinema and filmmaking in a (not exclusively Western) context that was internationally oriented towards the paradigm of the “new” (NACG, Nouvelle Vague, Cinema Novo etc.) – which also needs to be investigated – and towards auteur cinema.