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At the foot of Vesuvius, the celebration of Our-Lady-of-the-Hens is still tinged with paganism. While Fonzino prepares a ritual altar, Biagio leads the femminielli, the transgender masters of a cult where dance and song have a cathartic energy.
Customs, traditions, ritual magic and superstition of peoples from Malaysian archipelago which borders two oceans. The movie also lingers on the contamination caused by the corrupting Western society. Nice exotic and harmless 60s mondo movie with some great visuals. Urban clumsiness is also widely documented: slums with pimps, whores, poverty.
experimental documentary
The spectacular gole del Sagittario, an imposing canyon created by millennia of erosion by the Sagittario River, was a renowned destination on the Grand Tour in the 19th century. Travelers passionate about Italy, Richard Craven (1779–1851) and Edward Lear (1812–1888), described these natural sites in their diaries as "fearful and beautiful," an emblem of the romantic sublime. A group of tourists visits these natural wonders, then stops in the village of Scanno, where we witness a wedding procession in traditional dress.
The falls of Piediluco and Marmore, the mountains of water falling from a terrific height into the rivers below. The coneshaped mountains, the delightful valleys, and the various animated scenes combine to make this subject attractive.
Talking about the story of the Gaza genocide with other images and other words is possible. The discovery of some slides in a high school in Catania is the starting point for analyzing the origins of Israel's military occupation of Gaza by resorting to the etymology of the words used to describe what expressions like "terrorist" or "military occupation" mean, while the drawings of Amos, an Israeli child who portrays his imaginary friend Anya under the worried gaze of the babysitter May Golan, point out that most horror stories have deep roots in everyday life. Invention and black humor try to overcome the (denied) reality of an apartheid and a normalized genocide, exposed and simultaneously removed.
In the midst of the harsh Californian desert and on the shores of a toxic lake lies a land that time forgot. This once abandoned town is now home to a small community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways. A British matriarch, a retired bank robber, an evicted artist from LA and an Italian prince open the doors to a magical land, a living theater, perhaps a way to an alternative life.
This documentary explores the SAVEART movement, which began in 2003 with the goal of using art made of recycled materials to address the climate crisis.
Written and directed by the visionary Mirto Storni and meticulously shot by the european steadicam pioneer Riccardo Brunner and Stephane Chiesa. The last two of eight brothers live in Val Malvaglia far from society and technology.
The color of an eternal city, Naples, its people, its sounds and its volcano.
The film is made up of three episodes: In the gulf of La Spezia, The Val D'Aosta and In the Picturesque Lagoon.
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Portorotondo (1964 – 2024), the documentary tells the story of this locality established by two Venetian brothers, Nicolò and Luigino Donà dalle Rose. Enamored with Poltu Ridundu, they transformed a perfectly round body of water into one of the most renowned tourist destinations in the world. Through interviews with illustrious figures such as writer Marcello Fois, Nicola Pietrangeli, Enrico Vanzina, and Carolina Rosi, the documentary explores the social, economic, and cultural revolution that completely transformed Gallura during the years of the economic and tourist boom.
Something from a year that never existed.
Made to celebrate the centenary of the Galleria, the film traces its history from Giuseppe Mengoni's design, with its architectural and lighting wonders (gas flames), to its destruction during the war and its reconstruction in the post-war period. Olmi focuses mainly on the Galleria at the time the film was made, the crowds that inhabit it, the passers-by, the loiterers, the groups of anonymous gesticulating figures, the customers of bars and clubs, the nighttime crowd that appears there at dusk, the garbage collectors, the workers and immigrants looking for work who cross it at dawn.
In this musical documentary, alter egos Jonny Toxic and Jacco Macho set out on a journey across Italy and The Netherlands, exploring masculinity in contrasting cultural settings. Italy's shameless machismo and the frugal Calvinist-influenced Netherlands serve as backdrops for their introspective exploration of masculinity. Rather than relying on academic theories, they focus on personal experiences and the evolving nature of their own masculinity in these distinct cultures.
A propagandistic documentary.
“Impressio in-urbe” goes through the textures of the urban space: the materiality of architectures, corners and prospectives, the drawings of pavings, the squares, the bricks; it’s a detailed decomposition of the city’s “cloak” from which the broken matter emerges, seemingly immovable but in a continuous connection, in the centuries, inhabited by its moltitude.”Impressio” is the print, the mark which all things and every gesture leave of itself, the “identikit” (and vivisection) of the city’s space and time, which gives back to us its view.
Edison documentary on the application of electricity in agriculture.
A summer camp, a judo dojo, a theater workshop in a contemporary art museum. Relations between groups of children and adolescents and their adult guides; teaching methods and educational practices; materials and symbolic rules; relationships between the form of places and behaviors; the reverberation of what is learned in everyone's daily lives. An old super-eight projector, faded images on the wall, a puppet theater. The relationship between pupil and teacher, the transmission of knowledge, the experiences of a past that is only apparently distant in Naples, a city where school has never been the primary source of learning, nor has played a significant role in learning how to live.
Documentary on the making of the 2008 Italian film "Gomorrah".
A documentary about 5 Seconds Of Summer.
The damage to health caused by the abuse of prescription drugs and by industrial interests.
This documentary aims to demonstrate the vitality of the squatted house at 76/78 Via del Pratello in Bologna, and to highlight the stark contrasts, including visual ones, of everyday life.
From an idea by Giuseppe Vespo.
A Italian documentary about fascist Spain.
Splendid period images documenting the wonderful landscape that leads from Bolzano to Cortina d'Ampezzo.
A man walks in a wasteland...again.Welcome to Città Sant'Angelo, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, located in the enchanting region of Abruzzo. In this short film, we will explore the charming streets, picturesque views, and breathtaking panoramas of this magical place. Through a game of hide-and-seek, we will reveal its hidden beauties, showing how this picturesque town responds to a literary critique from a bygone era. Luigi Pirandello, a renowned Italian playwright and writer, wrote the novella "Notte" (Night) after a brief stay as a professor at the Istituto Magistrale Bertrando Spaventa during state exams. In it, he did not describe the Abruzzo village in the best light. This visual journey combines tradition and modernity, art and nature, in an affectionate response to Pirandello's words.
Between the 1960s and 1970s, the first attempts to break the boundaries of a closed, excluding and judgmental society were also experimented in Parma to welcome and restore dignity and possibilities to those who had no say in their own destiny.
An anthology that delves into the activity inherent to audio-visual processing and their video-exhibition history
A documentary around the world looking for young Italians who had left the country. From Paris to London, from Bergen to Wien, from Tenerife to NY, six stories of ordinary separation, one question: what happened to Italy?
A documentary with erotic clips that shows a series of numbers taken from variety shows or made in the studio.
Fango Rosso (red mud), is the toxic waste of the mining extraction. It covers up the hills of Sulcis, land where the astonishing beauty of the landscape collides with a history betrayed promises, progress as a mirage, politic as deceit.
In 1986, Derek Jarman created a therapeutic garden in Dungeness—a space for care, healing, and resilience following his diagnosis.
An apartment on the Tiber riverfront, in the center of Rome. The director lives here, where Stella lived until her death. Stella is the nom de guerre of Alba Meloni, a partisan courier who, at a very young age, joined the Resistance in the capital. After Liberation, she became an official of the Italian Communist Party and spent the last 30 years of her life in the Testaccio neighborhood, where she is still a very popular figure. The director follows in her footsteps, talking to her, collecting her memories, capturing fragments of her daily life and experiences: at home, in the neighborhood, and on the streets of Rome, where the girl once carried weapons in a straw bag and planted nails on the roads to stop German trucks. It is a journey through time and the city, during which Alba/Stella's individual story intertwines with our collective history.
Kenji Mizoguchi in 1925 has already directed more than 30 films, of quite disparate subjects, from contemporary films (gendai geki) to historical films (chambara), to educational films or films drawn from Western literature.
The history of cinema has already defined the prison film as its own genre with its own elements and particular qualities, in fiction as well as in documentary. The interesting thing about this essay, filmed in the maximum security prison of Spoleto, in Perugia, Italy, is that it uses none of those elements and qualities, and so defines itself more for what it is not, than for what it is.
Alberto, Giampiero and Sergio are just three kids when in 1982 they founded the punk-rock band KINA, in the small mountain town of Aosta, Italy. From then to 1997, they became one of the leading groups of the Italian and European independent music scene, carrying on a rigorous musical and existential path, based on the concepts of self-production and self-management, recording a dozen of fundamental records in the history of international hardcore punk. These are years of endless travel across Europe on a shabby van, sharing the alternative life experiences and the battles that animate the anarchist and antagonist movement: the struggle for home and for social spaces; the anti-militarism cause; the refusal of nuclear power; the anti-fascist resistance.
"Solidi" is a documentary that chronicles the life of Kinsang, an eighty-five-year-old woman living in Nepal's remote Arun Valley. Through her eyes, the documentary explores the meaning of "living" in the mountains. An intimate journey that invites reflection on the dignity of rural communities and the value of preserving a connection with the land, defying the dictates of mass tourism and abandonment.