DER Filmmaker

Alfred Guzzetti

Alfred Guzzetti combines academic and filmmaking careers. He has been working as an independent maker of documentary and experimental films and tapes for more than 35 years. His film Air won first prize in the experimental category at the 1972 Chicago International Film Festival. This and other experimental films of the '70s and '80s led to a more recent series of short videotapes that includes A Tropical Story, The Tower of Industrial Life, History of the Sea, and Calcutta Intersection. Collaborations with anthropologists resulted in Seed and Earth and Khalfan and Zanzibar.

Guzzetti has made not only observational documentaries such as Scenes from Childhood but films that deal with the passage of time. Family Portrait Sittings, Beginning Pieces, and The House on Magnolia Avenue all include material filmed over periods of years. Guzzetti's work has been shown at the Edinburgh, Berlin, and Rotterdam Film Festivals as well as the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Guzzetti is Professor of Visual Arts at Harvard University.

Films available at DER:
Living At Risk (1985)
Seed and Earth (1995)
Khalfan and Zanzibar (2000)
A Family in History: Living at Risk & The Barrios Family 25 Years Later (1985/2011)

Related Links
IMDB profile
Harvard VES Faculty profile