Italian filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi have over the past 25 years proven themselves to be masters of the assemblage of found footage film, returning over and over again to images from the first decades of the 20th century, with a special attention to images of war and colonialism. Since their visit to the HFA five years ago, the duo has released a major new work: Pays barbare (“Barbaric country”), a montage of images from Mussolini’s brutal occupation of...
