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An avant garde short film by the pioneer of experimental italian cinema Gianfranco Baruchello.

The film, dedicated to Paolo Volponi, is glimpsed through the clouds that pass over the city of Urbino. The images, immersed in a partial immobility, reveal the pain of a cultural isolation, through the eyes of a suffocating environment and obsessive reproduction of the past. Through various combinations of bricks and memories the walls of the city ooze disquieting memories oscillating between dream and reality.

The film tells the life of telemarketer Roberto Da Crema who plays himself.

Dino feels inadequate in life and needs to be able to free himself of everything inside him. With the help of psychoanalysis and a priest friend he achieves his goal.

Moses searches for history into palletes.

False images able to creep, to confuse memories.

A few vibrations of a tango dance announce the performance of an uneasy love story.

The first years of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Rome, 1951-1954. His experience as a teacher in a school of a roman suburb, "la borgata", where he founded the characters and situations of his novels: "Ragazzi di vita" and "Una vita violenta". The movie is a mix of fictional documentary, shot in black and white, and the testimonies of Attilio Bertolucci, Vincenzo Cerami, Franco and Sergio Citti, Ennio De Concini and Paolo Volponi.

Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.

Mauro, a young jazz musician living in the Emilia countryside, becomes the victim of a serious accident. At his bedside arrives Lucia, his twin sister, an astronomer based in Rome. Through a telepathic bond with her brother, she senses that it wasn’t an ordinary crash.

An Algerian immigrant's life is thrown into chaos when the wife and children he left behind arrive in Italy. (The title refers to Article 2 of the Italian Constitution, which allows citizens to live according to the dictates of their religion. )

The story is set in Romania, in the years following the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Young Nelu lives in a remote peasant village. The death of his grandfather marks the end of his youth. The day after his grandfather's funeral (a ceremony preceded, a few hours earlier and in the same church, by his sister's wedding), Nelu travels to Bucharest, the Romanian capital that after the fall of Ceaușescu is going through a tumultuous period of economic development, to find work.

A man works in a darkened room on a sculpture of white marble. Whilst he does so, a crowd of people gathers outside. They have come to watch. But what do they expect? A miracle?

From old plates of an anonymous photographer who worked in the 50s, I extracted this impossible film (plates that had contributed to the composition of one of my little books with the title Sconosciuti [Persons Unknown] Frame by frame, plate by plate, with strips of reflected light and strips of tens of faces, I tried to bring them into a single cinematic stream, thinking about a solitary, single face emerging from the darkness.

Rezza presents a series of ironic tributes to various film titles (such as Dances with Wolves, Dancing Alone, etc.), featuring an unlikely critic who periodically calls on different experts to discuss each film. Both the critic and the experts are played by Rezza.

Composed of still images from several photographs of the actress and pop icon Marilyn Monroe that have been manually transferred to film frame by frame, and animated through intermediate gradations within a series of successive, rapid fire montage visual "chapters", Gioli resurrects the vitality, captivating charm, and exuded sensuality of the voluptuous, iconic Hollywood superstar through the sequencing of the manipulated images - modulated object framing, subtle displacement, photographic blow-ups or visual recessions that simulate dimensionality and varying depths of focus - into a bold, risqué, and tantalizing "new" film starring the late actress.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's voice introduces a monologue featuring Carlo, the poet's alter ego, set in a desert space with an almost lunar appearance: an expanse of sand under a starry sky. The man stages a sort of erotic liturgy bordering on self-destructive anxiety: he will offer himself to twenty hustler street boys, before a spectacular sunset, which recalls the strong colors of Sirk or Kazan melodramas, puts an end to the whole affair.

An Italian movie.

Short aired during the Pippo Chennedy Show

A “philantropic”-psychological film with cannibal tropes and a sense of humor.

Actor, poet and playwright Carmelo Bene offers a reading of excerpts from the collection of literary compositions called Canti Orfici by poet Dino Campana.

In order to regain his lost youth, Kumaz the Wizard must marry the Sunshine Princess, daughter of the Sultan of Armenia. The girl refuses his proposal and the wizard takes revenge by turning her into an ugly, bad-tempered child. Misery the donkey and his master, young Ali Baba help the little girl to regain her former beauty and her true position as the Sunshine Princess.

Guitar Legends was a concert held over five nights, from October 15 to October 19, 1991, in Seville, Spain, with the aim of positioning the city as an entertainment destination to draw support for Expo '92 beginning the following April. The event featured 27 top guitarists, including BB King, Brian May, George Benson, Joe Walsh, Keith Richards, Les Paul, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Roger Waters, Albert Collins, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. The vocalists included Rickie Lee Jones, Bob Dylan and Joe Cocker. Five 90-minute shows and a one-hour documentary were broadcast. Forty-five countries showed at least one live show. Later, broadcasters in 105 countries broadcast one or more programmes.

Cinematic flicker: flicker is introduced into the flutter of butterflies shot from small books. My intention was, here as elsewhere, to animate what is inexorably locked up in the fixity of typographic ink in a book. In this attempt, I brought into play the rhythm of some erotic film images, making butterflies and eros pulsate together.

A Donatello Award winning short film about an insane woman who cultivates a lawn with beautiful flowers, only to find that they just add to her pain.

Karminio tells about the time when chameleons, because of their bright red color, were easily spotted and eaten by predators, especially dinosaurs and black birds. To avoid extinction, one of them proposed to change their color by painting themselves green, so as to camouflage themselves.

Film 35 mm – charcoal and pencil on paper. Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

The video film is the first on Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet and writer in which only the author appears and only his voice is heard: the reading of his verses alternates with interventions on poetry and life. There are very few films on Pasolini writer (those on Pasolini director are frequent) and very few readings of his poems, a lack that has been solved with very rare recordings on disk and radio.

Two men and a woman are in the midst of an existential crisis. We meet them through their stories. The woman works in a small ballroom dancing group, while the men are a painter who has been in prison and an unfulfilled filmmaker. The glimmer of hope that emerges at a certain point is the desire to make a short film. But everything is destined to fail.

Guido Manuli reveals to us a secret tape from Disney's off-limits archive: the casting of characters for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".

Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film includes well-chosen fragments from his oeuvre and many unknown interviews with the sharply-quipping master, dug up in the Italian TV archives.

A motorist is driving from Turin to Sicilu and listening to the radio. The real journey that leads from Turin to Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome to Sicily is actually a journey through time (made entirely from italian public television's archive material).

35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

Italo Calvino published in 1972, for Giulio Einaudi, the novel “ Invisible Cities ”, one of the most important passages in literature that makes a combinatorial and semiotic use of the structure to create relationships between the reader and the author. Marco Polo explores 5 cities for each of the 11 categories and this repetition is clearly visible when he builds the summary table of the different combinations. A fundamental book for understanding the depth of Italo Calvino. In 1998 the painter and set designer from Palermo Manfredo Manfredi was freely inspired by the novelby Italo Calvino and a short film made with the rotoscoping and single-panel techniques. The result is a fluid and at the same time meaningful animation in the best Manfredian tradition.