Cardboard Soul (Anima cartonata)

Still from the film Anima cartonata (1975, 16 mm, colour, 5 min.), included in the film Sculture antropologiche filmate(Filmed Anthropological Sculptures). The film was screened in January 1976 at Galleria Forma, Genoa; in April 1976 at Galleria Banco, Brescia; and on 5 June 1976 at the Italian National Film Archive (Cineteca Nazionale Italiana), Milan. The image was published in an article by Anna Maria Cattaneo entitled “Antonio Paradiso: corpo faber and corpo ludensand their dialectic with mechanical mediations: photography and cinema”, in Data, no. 12, p. 97. Also published in Portrait of the Sahara (Fondazione Mudima, Milan, 2017) and in a boxed edition produced in only eight copies for Edizioni Mudima, Milan.