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Guzzetti Alfred

Guzzetti Alfred

director, videographer, writer, producer, publisher, teacher

Alfred Guzzetti is an independent maker of documentary and experimental films, including Family Portrait Sittings (1971-75), Scenes from Childhood (1977-80), and Beginning Pieces (1981-86).The feature-length Family Portrait Sittings was included in the Berlin Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, and the Sundance Film Festival.
Beginning Pieces won the Grand Prize for best film overall et the National Short Film and Video Competition of the 1987 USA Film Festival.
A earlier short, Air (1970-71) received first prize in the experimental category at the 1972 Chicago International Film Festival
Guzzetti collabored with Susan Meiselas and Richard Rogers on Living at Risk: The Story of Nicaraguan Family (1984-85) and the feature-length Pictures from a Revolution (1988-91).
The latter was premiered at the New York Film Festival and was shown at the Cinéma du réel, Paris; it received two prizes at the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film and was telecast by the BBC in the United Kingdom, by MDR in Germany, by RAI in Italy and by MICO in Japan.
Guzzetti has received the three fellowships from The Artist Foundation of Massachussets and two production grants from the National endowment for the Arts.
In the first of these, Rosetta Stone, was premiered at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in April,1995; Variation was included in the Dallas Video Festival and Barcelona’s Third Mostra de Video independent; What actually Happened, premiered at the London Festival of Moving Images in March, 1996, was included in Barcelona’s Fourth Mostra de Video Independent.
Under the Rain received its premiere in March, 1998 at the Dallas Video festival and was included both in the New York Video Festival in Germany and Paendemonium in London.
A Tropical Story also premiered at the Dallas Video festival and was included both in the New York and in that Festival’s touring program.
The Tower of Industrial Life premiered in July, 2000 at the New York Video Festival…. In the summer of 1997, Guzzetti was visiting artists in the Department of Fine and performing Arts, University of Dar es Salaam, where he shot and later edited a videotape entitled Khalfan and Zanzibar with Professor Akos Ostör of Wesleyan University and Professor Lina Fruzzetti of Brown, his partners in an earlier project, Seed and Earth (1994), which shared the Prix Planète-Cable at the Quinzième Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Paris.
Khalfan and Zanzibar, the recipient of a Certificate of Merit, Intercom, at the Chicago International Film Festival, was included in the Göttingen Film Festival and in the Margaret Mead film and Video Festival in New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Guzzetti is Professor of Visual Arts at Harvard University and is the author of the book Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Ananlysis of a Film by Godard.

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