Bargellini’s cinema is a radical and absolutely singular experience in which the utopian instance of infinite broadening and freeing of the self touches on remarkably profound and visionary forms. Bargellini uses cinema to bear witness to an experience of mystical exaltation and radical experimentation, and also as a carrier that multiplies the possibilities of sight, discovering the absolute potential of the eye. For Bargellini, the experience of eros and of drugs is a passageway for transfiguration of what is visible and for extreme intensification of the mind. Bargellini’s exactitude consists in his ability to combine, from a radically innovative point of view, crossing over the frontiers of consciousness with exaltation of the experimental potential of the movie camera and of cinema itself.
Paolo Bertetto