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The Gospel According to Ciretta

In the palimpsest of a city like Naples, which holds countless stories in its heart, we stumble upon that of Ciretta, the 27-year-old son of a prostitute and an unknown father, who occasionally sells his body too, but also worships the Madonna and has an almost heavenly voice. The outcast child of a society that often has no room for those who do not fit into molds, Ciretta will find refuge and companionship among the people who gather around an old theater in Naples, now closed due to the pandemic. There he will dream of the possibility of a better life, until the theater is sold to become a hotel. Ciretta will be forced to find a new haven for both himself and his beloved statue of the Madonna, in this tender, melancholy tale of battered people who seem born to be movie heroes, and a city that changes almost before your eyes.

The Gospel According to Ciretta

NR 2024
Better a Fascist than a Faggot

A biographical comedy-drama which through its protagonist Dino Desica brings to life a complex yet very intimate relationship between self and the other. The unfinished structure of the Calatrava Veil in the suburb of Rome is the stage where Dino Desica re-calls his experience of joining a neo-fascist teen gang to escape discrimination for being Neapolitan, not yet aware of his evolving queerness. In the film this landscape reflects the imperialistic failures of both ancient Rome and modern-day Fascism. The building structure is abandoned and unguarded. Dino’s interaction with the skeleton of the building is a marriage of conflict and alliance, a mixture of parody and cynicism.

Better a Fascist than a Faggot

NR 2024
Passi (O quel che si ricorda)

There is only one objective way to see the past, and that is through photos or videos. Yet, when watching an old family movie, we often find that this objective view of past reality clashes dramatically with the representation or narrative that has been created in our memory today. The trend is reversed, but it is the same feeling of confusion or sweet bitterness as when, in the present, you go to a place that had remained confined to memory and rediscover it as unfamiliar. It could be called the "lost in translation effect," referring to all those pieces that, in the translation from one time to another, from memory to vision, no longer fit.

Passi (O quel che si ricorda)

NR 2024
Portrait of Eve

What is a queer body in theological context? What can queer Eva do to free herself from the endless androcentric and patriarchal narratives? These questions can be answered by queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid:” Queer theology is the one who confesses distance from home without even knowing where home is for her, rejecting all representations of herself or her own representations of others that deny the reality of exile as a place to be. A theology that can only participate in the contiguous processes of representation of people in transit, nomadic subjects who follow their own deep desire for different forms of purity and holiness, and find grace especially in the lands inhabited by sexual exile.” Eve thus becomes here an uneven recomposition, embracing her figurative repetitions to the point of vacuity, through ecstasy, so it is not possible to direct oneself to the body without ruptures, discontinuities, inconsistencies, contradictions

Portrait of Eve

NR 2024