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A seductive nymphet lives between good and evil, it is not known to what extent she is aware of it.

A new film by Giuseppe Carrieri

Between the early 1990s and late 2000s, in what can be considered the golden age of Italian disco, a number of people chose to document a swirling, sleepless nightlife. What emerged is a collection of low-definition videos in which flashing lights, pulsating music and dancing bodies merge to become a mass in constant agitation. Viva la notte starts from this material to explore and expand the sense of loss that characterizes it, taking it to a level of abstraction and opacity where the image dissolves similarly to the world that generated it. Forms are lost in the dark and what remains are the evanescent traces of another place, populated by fleeting ghosts in search of perpetual instability.

A picturesque voyage through the changing seasons on a beach, from its boundless deserts to its colorful summer crowds. No words, just the sound of three unusual beings: the hard life of a beach cabin, the careful eye of a surveillance camera and the tenacity of a reckless old lady.

After a misunderstanding with her girlfriend, a woman contemplates her understanding of love, self-acceptance, and the freedom that comes from facing your fears.

La Moda del Liscio tells a composite story, articulated around major themes (the dance master, the orchestral players, the singer, the club manager, the TV, the epigones of an era) that constitute the epic of ballroom dancing, its anti-heroic dramaturgy, its somewhat vague and kitsch aesthetic. It is a choral story, populated by great figures but above all by orchestras, because ballroom dancing is not a genre for soloists. And there has never been any talk, with regard to ballroom dancing, of 'concerts', but only of 'shows', also choral, each with its own genre dynamics and costumes in which America is always cited. This documentary, through repertoires and interviews, with a focus on the private dimension of those who were the protagonists, wants to reconstruct not a history but a system of memories, an intimate and at the same time public memorial of a country that was happy.

La Paz del Futuro is a film about the personal, political and artistic journey of Janet Pavone, an American muralist who joined the Sandinista revolution Nicaragua of the 1980s. Janet and her fellow muralists are today invited to restore their most monumental work almost 25 years after its completion: the Quiabu mural at the Esteli military base. Showing different historical moments through extensive use of archival materials and new footage, La Paz del futuro paints an "on the road" portrait of what remains of a series of murals and a revolution, and at the same time proposes a reflection on public art, politics and the passage of time: a look to the past from the future.

Enrico is a under-motivated and unfriendly boy who grew up mostly in front of the computer. His sexuality has evolved accordingly, climbing up pornographic sites and erotic images, which he seems to be obsessed with. It's clear that his happiness comes from two different sources: on the one hand Clarissa, his girlfriend, a real and living being who accepts him in his imperfections, and on the other hand pornography, perfect and inexhaustible, but virtual and non-existent.

Set in southern Sardinia, Badabò follows the adventures of a musician forced to look for a new job following the pandemic. Having found a job in home care for the elderly, the woman will have to reach the people assigned to her in the most remote places, discovering a world that lives the contingent situation with serene acceptance. In front of the camera, women and men on the threshold of a hundred years old expose personal memories and emotions, letting themselves be infected by the unpredictable musical drifts of the protagonist. As in an ethnographic film revisited by Jacques Demy, real-life cinema and musical come together, creating an unprecedented experiment that is also social.

Rome, French Embassy - Reconstruction at Palazzo Farnese of a historic concert celebrating the end of the 17th century, featuring Arcangelo Corelli with an ensemble of over 50 musicians in a festively decorated Piazza di Spagna.

Dee, Mariarita, Claudia, Giselle, Elizabeth - all of them have fun to show the world how they do their business.

The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness.

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not knowing where ‘home’ is, and finally letting go of the need of finding one single person, place, or answer that will solve all your problems. It’s also a film about faces, closeness, and intimacy, and how a Super 8 camera allowed her to get closer to the people she was portraying while also keeping a protective distance. This film was part of a project commissioned by the Echo Park Film Center for the 20th anniversary of its location in LA. The project was supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Making Space was shot in 2021, entirely on KODAK TRI-X Reversal Film.

Felicia is a young rider who suffers from asthma. In the few free moments that her hard work allows her, she has to take care of her father who is no longer independent. During a delivery like many others, Felicia is involved in a cynical experiment that highlights the bitter contradiction of an economic system that leaves the vain hope of getting rich as the only possibility.

Experimental documentary on fog.

Born during the first wave of the pandemic, this gem by artist and filmmaker Roberto Fassone takes us on a trip that ranges from classical surrealism to the Simpsons via Yoko Ono and bathing monkeys. Ironic and provocative, Pas seul meditates on our visual nature and plunges the viewer into a hypnotic flow of images that never cease to astonish.

The metropolitan area of Naples is one of the most densely populated on the planet and lies between Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, two of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world. Over a million people live in the so-called red zone, ready to be evacuated at the first sign of an eruption. Perhaps.

The memory of a lake, the decay of the sunset.

A diaristic and material experience shot on a summer afternoon, with the awareness that those who look at us cannot help but interpret us as symbols.

A man hungry for sausages buys a microwave oven that will drag him into the wild.

A film dedicated to Beppe Fenoglio, to the places of his life and works. The story in images of the journey of two boys, in four seasons through a unique space in search of a soul. Dealing with the Fenoglio 'material' leads one to constantly work on a very subtle limit that rises from the particular to the universal.

The process of self-destruction and continuous rebirth, typical of the soul of the tormented artist. The result is a part of ourselves that comes to life. Something as intimate as strange, something powerful and uncontrollable, something that has destroyed and worn you out to the point of killing you... and then, finally allowing you to reborn.

Anaklia, a newly built city overlooking the Black Sea at the border with Abkhazia, a formally independent region since 1999, was supposed to become one of Georgia’s top tourist resorts. Visitors, however, are welcomed by a scenery that strays from the city-resort imagery.

Set against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the fascist dictatorship, a man of means, yet unknown to history, scrutinises the world through his small cine camera. Guiding him and teaching him is a manual; the buds of ideology are detectable beneath the seemingly impartial tone it uses to describe technique. But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface.

Water and light, the key elements of life, mix in a lawless movement, until it is worn out by the machine. In the dust of matter, everything sinks into the void. Only a faint hope, the song of cicadas, the naturalization of men.

A personal journey through Veneto, facing the 6th mass extinction.

Against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the Fascist dictatorship, a man of wealth but unknown to history scrutinises the world with his little film camera. He is guided and instructed in the process by a handbook in which the germs of the ideology are concealed beneath the apparent objectivity of technique. But ineffable signs of resistance still surface in the images.

An old man with a package full of photos and letters sits every day on a bench in Wash. Sq. Park. To all those sitting next to him, he shares the love story he had with his loved wife for over 50 years. In this way, he keeps her alive.

Ragtag is a chronological timeline collage based on a wide corpus of footage taken from the so-called classic era of American cinema which 1950s, après la lettre, French critics labeled film noir. The decoupage- based work covers roughly twenty years, or 310 noir films, spanning from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

A concert by Ultimo.

Young women perform Passacaglia della Vita, an anonymous medieval chant reflecting on the human presumption of possessing a fate different from others in the face of death, while recalling the inevitability shared by every existence. The performance takes place inside a greenhouse designed in 1854 by architect Alphonse Balat as a study model for the Royal Greenhouses of Belgium, commissioned by Leopold II to house exotic plants brought from the Belgian Congo.

A dog meets a special balloon.

After finishing high school, six young people from Rimini are in crisis, in the throes of a thousand doubts about the path to take in life and work: lacerating doubts especially for those of them who would like to work in the artistic field.

It is the first light of dawn when the door of the house opens and Cecilia, in a red dress and false eyelashes, sneaks in. Fotinì has been awake all night waiting for her and is now preparing to face her.

After years, a woman visits her old father in a nursing home to try and make up for lost time, but not everything goes as planned.

Filmed between Argentina and Naples, this colorful documentary looks at the legacy of Diego Maradona by meeting the people whos’ lives he touched in a way or the other.

Instant Scapes is almost an anthropological observation of our daily lives, our social rituals, the environments in which we move, through a series of short 30-second videos portraying people and landscapes.

The lakeside of your childhood, forests you saw in a dream. Places that would dissolve if you touched them. Inspired by the watercolour paintings of J. W. Tristram.

The CYCLE~ project was born from the intent to deal with extreme sound elements, elements such as, sequences of impulses, pure sinusoidal signals or very small fragments of them, hums of various kinds, this set of sounds are represented by a visual component that tends to be the pure representation of the audio you are listening to, almost as if to become a scientific instrument.

A looping memory of a lost love between two queer people, the animation, with its minimalistic art direction uses symbols, transitions and metaphors to explore what it means to live in the closet, and to pursue a love life made of secret encounters and beautiful moments that are bound to end, from the beginning.

A short story by Alessio Martino and Elisa Pontillo.