PROCESSO POLITICO 1971-2024
Around an experimental film by Francesco Leonetti and Arnaldo Pomodoro
Domenica 19 aprile, ore 20:30
Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa
Viale Monza 255, Milano – fermata MM1 Precotto
Verrà proiettata al Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa la nuova edizione restaurata del film Processo politico (1971) of Francesco Leonetti e Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Introducono Roberto Brioschi, Andrea Fumagalli (economista, Università degli Studi di Pavia) e Federico Giani (curatore, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro).
In 1971, the collective of the journal “Che fare” — directed by Francesco Leonetti and Arnaldo Pomodoro — produced the film Processo politico, with the aim of analyzing the socio-political context of the 1969–1970 biennium in Italy, denouncing the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, which occurred at the Milan Police Headquarters during an interrogation following the Piazza Fontana bombing, and documenting the defamation trial brought by Commissioner Luigi Calabresi against the weekly newspaper “Lotta Continua,” which had publicly accused him of being responsible for Pinelli’s death.
Combining genres and temporal perspectives, documentary and fiction, the film reflects the cultural and linguistic experimentalism characteristic of “Che fare”, and stands as a significant example of that “militant cinema” which, between the 1960s and 1970s, became an important tool of counter-information.
In 2024, on the occasion of the centenary of Leonetti’s birth, the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation promoted the restoration and digitization of the film. The work on the original reels, carried out by the Home Movies Foundation – National Family Film Archive, now returns to public view a valuable testimony to that intense season of cultural and political engagement.
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When: Domenica 19 aprile 2026, ore 20:30
Where: Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa. Viale Monza 255, Milano – fermata MM1 Precotto
Free entry
