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The maker, born in 1977, made this montage film about his endlessly fascinating year of birth. In Italy the streets were full of groups protesting, there were deaths during riots in Rome, Milan and Bologna, while armed movements attacked politicians and journalists. At the same time, there was a creative boom on many fronts, punk broke through and Elvis died.
In a dystopian future where the Earth is on the verge of collapse, a boy, Afel, tells us how human-shaped aliens have invaded the planet.
The author establishes a communication with his cancer-sick mother through text messages. During his stay in the island the author works on an research for a possible documentary, he is impacted by a series of places, displacements and intimate situations that remind him of the path of his own self.
This film is based on documentary material but is not, strictly speaking, a documentary film. Nor is it a work of fiction. The film appears to us rather as a dream, not a night dream, but a dream that took place day after day during the shooting.
_ _ (Due rasi) originates from a double suggestion: the first concerns a teaspoon used by a person dear to me to sweeten the coffee, the second comes from a movement that I repeated frequently as a child on the balcony of my paternal grandparents’ house.
Moncherì is a trans woman with a thousand talents, with the dream of opening her craft shop one day, but the need to earn a living forces her to sell her body in exchange for money. She is very attached to her cat, Vita, with whom she lives a relationship of total symbiosis.
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.
From the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Marc Albrecht and featuring violin soloist Daniel Lozakovich, performs works by Heinrich Marschner, Max Bruch, and Robert Schumann.
This documentary explores the life and intellectual works of Italian long forgotten mythologist Furio Jesi. His extraordinary life-journey as an infant prodigy, a young archaeologist who dropped out of high school at 16 to travel around the Mediterranean, studying the myths of ancient cultures. During the ’60s he was involved in the communist uprisings in Italy while working as a freelance encyclopedist. He accepted a job at the University of Palermo, and he was the last professor appointed without any degree. His short life left a legacy of wonder in all those who met him. The movie explores also some of his outstanding philosophical concepts such as the “mythological machine” or the “wordless ideas”.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
Beatrice Vio has been fencing since she was five; she used to do it standing and now she does it sitting. When she was twelve, she had her four limbs amputated due to complications from meningitis, which didn't stop her pursuing the sport she loves and becoming a world champion at the age of nineteen. With the implacable support of her family, she has defied all limitations and expectations. This short documentary is a window into the extraordinary, that becomes ordinary, of Beatrice's life.
Sara, a pizza delivery girl, falls into a world of wonders, fiction and deadly dangers.
The green and the stone. Straub-Huillet in Buti.
The residential unit designed by Aldo Rossi for the Gallaratese 2 neighborhood in Milan is part of a larger complex designed by Carlo Aymonino and built between the 1960s and 1970s. In A . R . G . wide camera movements take up an area between one of the main prospects of the Rossi intervention and the adjacent garden.
A clumsy young boy finds himself struggling with the botanical experiments of his teacher.
It's the story of Barbara and Marzia. Two women indissolubly linked by a strong feeling. Their desire for a dream holiday will be broken by an unacceptable and horrible destiny.
Francesca is in her bed. The girl she spent the night with is closed to her, sleeping well. Confused, she goes to the kitchen, where she finds Diana, a woman from her past, waiting for her. There are feelings of both embarrassment and shame, until Francesca asks Diana the real reason of her presence.
A stunning and intimate documentary about Barbara, who lays bare her heart, mind and body as she lives her life fully as a disabled woman.
The story is a psycho-drama full of turns of events right from the opening scene and well after the credits. Icaro, a man in his late thirties with a wife and a child he loves and a safe job in a bank, is all of a sudden reminded of his boyhood ambition when Ombra, an eerie creature belonging to his cradle-day memories, reappears in his life. With Ombra back, nothing can ever be the same. Ancient dreams and hidden skeletons plummet the protagonist into spiraling insanity as present and past collide.
T presents details of the houses built in La Martella (near Matera, Italy) by architect Ludovico Quaroni and his collaborators in the 50s. In T the rationalist façades are shown by way of high-contrast abstract glimpses.
Italian independent filmaker Chiara Caterina and Venice based sound artist Nicola Di Croce spent together a long time photographing, filming, writing and recording in a deep exploration of Basilicata region, Southern Italy, “in search of its pieces of bitterness and wonder”. Il mondo di sotto is the result of this audiovisual inquiry that crosses landscapes, territories and elements from the high mountains of Pollino to the underground world of mines in the Val d’Agri area, 100 mt below the surface of the earth. They walked in the rain and sunshine, meeting people, experiencing desolate places and flourishing plateaus, water and ground, finding a sense of landscape animated by the magical, but aiming at exploring coexistences and divergences between modernity and traditions, past and present, artificial and natural, terrestrial and subterranean.
Dario and Maury, two actors refused from any theatre, academy, and cinema have decided to move to the gay Roman nudist beach of Capocotta. Here, they have set their stage, in a place where people come to feel free and unconstrained by the rules of society. Persevering with their philosophy of ‘failure as a new form of victory’ they have become the Principe (the Prince) and the Contessa (the Countess) of the beach. In 20 years, they have gathered their own loyal audience, staging scenes and creating a long repertoire of amateur little movies where they confess the bitter reality of missing the stage, the one “only the so-called ‘gentlemen’ are allowed to deal with.” With irreverent tones of Pop, Dance and Folk music, this film celebrates failure as a parody, making anybody willing to watch, a Prince or a Countess of the non-victories.
The adventures of two policemen who work in the police during the work hours.
Mr. Succhio is a character which lives through some events, encounters problems and tries to find solutions. He and the world around him are involved in multiple stories.
Super8, b&w, 2017
Two Student of the audio video and multimedia course doing imitation of their professors
This video is inspired by city symphony genre, It is a review of this genre in post-modern style, It’s a kind of documentary. The title is a verse by W. Shakespeare's The Tempest, which tells the story of Prospero, the wizard and the real Duke of Milan. The movie ends with a view of the Seven Heavenly Palaces a monumental opera by Anselm Kiefer, a detournement of a tridimensional artwork: the monumental opera become a vision of a future or an hypothetical parallel world.
Silent Edge is a work that questions about the vision itself. The idea of this project comes from a reflection on the concept of “limit”. The space constrained between the horizontal and the vertical, between X and Y.
A young homosexual boy is harassed by other boys. The boy named Mirko is very weak and does not know how to defend himself against the group of homophobes who harass him every day.
A documentary directed by the android filmmaker Mk3, found in an old VHS cassette, tells the rebellion of the robots against human domination
Anna is fed up with the flatness of the city and decides to take a journey back in time. She convinces two of her colleagues to go with her to the place where she used to spend every summer since she was a child: Sibari Lakes. On this occasion, she’ll meet a girl who seems to be hiding something and together they’ll push their own boundaries.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola, part of the O series.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
Two conversations, two cities, the question: is the only revolutionary thought of today, to let the dreamer sleeping? Die Ordnung der Träume is a film that revolves around the (e) motion of human beings, their resistance, their mental activity and the imagination of their worlds. Two people who search for each other, but miss to find, and yet remain in common. Two doubting figures whose conversation is characterized by the different perceptions and the skepticism on the other. In constant presence, a voice sinking into the thoughts of the figures; A traveler, a flaneur, a critical gaze that raises questions itself. An exploration and contemplation of the world; a gaze points at the magician and its deceptions, the faithful and their self-flagellation, the workers who build cities, and children who play young gods.
“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.