Site Specific: Olivo Barbieri

This quartet of short experimental films by Olivo Barbieri presents a startling new perspective on some of the world’s most celebrated cities.

Site Specific: Roma
Italian artist and experimental filmmaker Olivo Barbieri uses a special aerial camera lens to observe Rome and coyly suggest that the Eternal City may be nothing more than a tabletop diorama. (2004)

Site Specific: Las Vegas
Is it a magnificently detailed scale model, or the real thing? Italian artist and experimental filmmaker Olivo Barbieri presents a day- and nighttime aerial look at America’s glittery playground and discovers it’s more than a little artificial. (2005)

Site Specific: Seville
Italian artist and experimental filmmaker Olivo Barbieri flies over Seville for an aerial tour that strongly suggests the dream vision of an obsessive model-maker, right down to colorful tiny toy cars and warships. (2006)

Site Specific: New York
Bringing the sensibility of a model railroad fanatic to the aerial travelogue, Italian artist and experimental filmmaker Olivo Barbieri has produced a new way to see the urban world. Here he trains his special camera on the Big Apple and sees something very tiny indeed. (2007)