RISD STUDENT FILM: Road Hogs

In 1972 Rome, three art school seniors, along with their friends and professors on RISD's European Honors Program (EHP) produced a film called Maiali Delle Strade, [pronounced: my-ahh-lee-dell-lay-strah-day] or "Road Hogs". The film, brainchild of then-senior Barry Koch, was a response to a request by the EHP department to design an orientation tool for incoming students to acquaint themselves with the antiquities of Rome (music was not used; it was added later for purely personal enjoyment). Under Koch's conceptual guidance the film expanded into a comical depiction of a gang of petty motorscooter thugs—Capo Maiale-Head Hog; Il Macellaio-The Butcher; Lo Sfregio-The Scar—and in doing so was transformed from a pedestrian primer into a taut, two-wheeled tale of mob loyalty, violence, love gone wrong, and ultimate justice.
Film is fifteen minutes long, and contains period film scratches, lense fuzz, and record crackle.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• RISD FILM: Road Hogs film
• student film
• Maiali Delle Strade
• RISD film
• movie
• RISD Movie
• RISD Student Movie
• Rhode Island School of Design
• Rome Tour
• Rome Motorcycle Tour

[nibsterguy]

This was when I had hair and a hot temper.

–Il Macellaio

[bobdoucet]

Fellini meets Pekinpah meets SCTV! Ah, to have been in Rome back then...

[nibsterguy]

@bobdoucet To still be in Rome...

[shmartist]

Very funny..I lol. Who cut this film? Great editing, camera-work....wish these guys had made more films.

[CoeneArts]

This is awesome!  lol, the scene where they are starting up the bikes and then it turns out to be vespas is like what I was going for in my 1st film! :P Fun stuff!

[binifra]

EHP per sempre!

Francesca '69