Born on the 29^th of March 1938 in a lab where his father created special truke and movie cameras, Alberto Grifi is considered one of the very first authors of what was called the 'Italian Experimental Cinema'. He was a painter, film director, cameraman, sound engineer, actor, photographer for advertising aeroplanes, inventor of video cinematographic equipments such as the 'vidigraph' which he used in 1972 to transcribe Anna onto film, the first film recorded on video in Italy, co-directed with Massimo Sarchielli and becoming a cult movie in the post-sixty-eight alternative culture. It was then presented at the Berlin Festival and the Venice Film Festival in 1975 and in Cannes in 1976. Anna may be considered as the latest experience of the Underground Cinema. There are 11 hours of Filming, then reduced to 3hours and 40 minutes where a sixteen-year old hippy both pregnant and drugged is filmed roaming around in Piazza Navona. The video was then transferred onto film through the use of a device invented by Grifi himself. It was then presented at the Berlin Festival and the Venice Film Festival in 1975 and in Cannes in 1976.

Verifica incerta (1964) by Gianfranco Baruchello and Alberto Grifi was considered by many as the manifesto of the Italian Underground Cinema. The centre of the film comprised a series of images by Marcel Duchamp, filmed in 1963. The rest of the film covered an overall length of 30minutes where the two film directors attempted to destroy with amusing irony, the Hollywood type of cinematographic language. They dissected about one hundred and twenty thousand meters of American film of the Fifties and Sixties that were destined to be destroyed reconstructing joined stories.