"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.
Direction
Clémenti's intimate, narcissistic, utterly hypnotic self-portrait.
Cinematography
Grainy 16mm that makes decay look impossibly gorgeous.
Editing
Associative, fragmented, time-collapsing structure.
Director
Pierre Clémenti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clémenti spent time in Italian prison on drug charges during this period; the footage of incarceration in later films is real.
Part of a wave of 'personal cinema' where European actors turned cameras on themselves, predating vlogging by decades.
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