#  Alfred Guzzetti 

Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts

Emeritus

Osgood Hooker Research Professor of Visual Arts

 

 

 



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Guzzetti’s films include the feature-length *Family Portrait Sittings* (1975), the first in an autobiographical cycle that continued with *Scenes from Childhood* (1980) and *Time Exposure* (2012). Guzzetti collaborated with anthropologists Ákos Östör and Lina Fruzzetti on the documentaries *Seed and Earth* (1994) and *Khalfan and Zanzibar* (2000) and with Susan Meiselas and Richard Rogers on both *Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family* (1985) and the feature-length *Pictures from a Revolution* (1991). In 2011 he and Meiselas completed a collection of twenty short films entitled “The Barrios Family Twenty-Five Years Later,” updating the story of the Barrios family told in *Living at Risk*. Guzzetti has also worked in more experimental modes, creating the short films *Air* (1971) and *Evidence* (1972) as well as a number of videos, including *The Tower of Industrial Life* (2000), *Calcutta Intersection* (2003), *History of the Sea* (2004), *Still Point* (2009), and *Passage* (2018). In collaboration with composers Earl Kim, Ivan Tcherepnin, and Kurt Stallmann he has made visual elements for concert pieces and films, including Stallmann’s SONA (2005) and *Moon Crossings* (2011), a work for chamber orchestra and electronics. He and Stallmann created the multi-channel, multi-screen installation *Breaking Earth* (2008) as well as the video *Time Present* (2013). His recent projects include a *The Gifts of Time* (2018), a feature-length documentary on friends he has known for a very long time, and *Among Rivers* (2019), a piece created in collaboration with Stallmann for 28 loudspeakers, 7 video projectors, and 4 performers. Guzzetti is the author of the book *Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Analysis of a Film by Godard* (1981).

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Image: still from *Among Rivers*, in collaboration with Kurt Stallmann.  
  
Profile photo above by Michael Onnifrey for Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Curricular Area
    
     [Film/Video and Animation](/area-specialization/filmvideo-and-animation)
- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)