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Parents beat friends two nil.

Italian horror short from 1992.

Confrontation between a conformist and a nonconformist smoker in the grip of a homicidal frenzy

This documentary film by Pierluca Rossi recounts a journey to the southern Algerian Sahara, near Amguid, a small Tuareg village renowned for its unusual nearby crater. In the Tefedest massif, with its mythical summit, Garet el Djenoun, on the slopes of a vast sand dune rising to over 400 meters, one can practice an unusual sport: sandboarding, a new technique to try. Surprising speeds can be reached, and participants can familiarize themselves with the equipment of this new sport, perhaps paving the way for new practices.

A film about a boy, Piero, who discovers he is HIV-positive. The starting point is the meeting of two men among the thousand problems of the HIV-positive nature of one of the two; that of arrival the birth of a love that becomes solid day after day and that finds its balance between the rules, the needs and the times of the illness, challenging the conventions and establishing, under the eyes of all, a new and necessary way of living the relationship as a couple.

A documentary in four chapters on the life of Brett Shapiro, Jew, writer, homosexual. Each chapter alternates Shapiro's life with interventions by artists, intellectuals and psychologists on four different themes: identity, the origin of writing, normality, non-traditional families.

Doron Maizel is not an ordinary soldier, but a respected and esteemed colonel and doctor, who has been having a love affair over the past seven years with a handsome young man, Adir Steiner. In this way, he challenges the rules and conventions and risks compromising his own chances at a career. The army understands and tolerates a strange and contradictory relationship like this, where the being of one part of the couple the soldier walks the line between duty and passion every day. The relationship goes on until disease enters the scene.

Stiffelio is considered "early Verdi" to musiclogists who classify things, but, in reality, it is a final transition between the maestro's earlier (but most enjoyable) works, and the mature craftsmanship of Rigoletto. Preceded by Luisa Miller (q.v.), there is more dramatic intensity and story line than in the earlier works. The plot centers around Stiffelio, a minister, who discovers that his wife, Mina, has been unfaithful.

A documentary on the world of motor racing fans.

Mottinelli, nature painter, fantastic resource of unchangeable wealth. His exhibition in Brescia.

The Futurist dream of architecture in motion here becomes reality: the Casa Girasole-its name describing its project-follows the light of the sun, for it is so constructed that it is capable of completely turning on its own axis. Fictional characters, joined by the old mechanical operator of the house and the daughter of the engineer, create a connection with this work of architecture and its history (Swiss Films).

"Duchamp is certainly as complex as Joyce and to do something about him, I tried to dedicate to him this small film poem, using only a few images of images of his work, taken always from books and catalogues (that are made of typographic ink). For example, blackening in the spokes of a wheel, allowing regular slits, transforming it in this way into a true external shutter, that came to substitute for the missing one of my movie camera. A bicycle wheel that becomes cinema and vice versa. For example, his black window that is transformed into a number of tv screens, etc. With Duchamp I think I could make a film for every one of his works because intelligence, irony and alchemy are all proper to the cinema."

Italian SOV horror movie.

Giuseppe who is allergic to diminutives, leaves his mother marked by incest. Tamara, a rampant young girl, abandons her father after loving him. During his pilgrimage Giuseppe breaks many a heart but since he loves to masturbate he never gives himself and never lets himself be touched. The young man’s fame reaches the ears of Tamara who, after searching in vain finally meets him on the wane. The two fall in love, get married and are soon bored. The simplistic, theoretical Giuseppe finds his allergic attacks increasing due to syncopated forms. Tamara gets pregnant, her husband repudiates the paternity, she kills him with diminutive blows. The child is born reluctantly; it looks like its father and inherits his allergies…

A poetical adventure of urban perception. Rome as an informal moving picture, nightmare and dream of the city signs. Music brings bach this canvas to modernism of communication means and industrial structures flooding urban space within conscience. Conscience and thrill of the city like a passage shattered in pieces. Melancholia of the struggle between life and dead labour: Rome

Forty kilometers from Verona, at the southernmost tip of the Alps, lies the hamlet of Giazza. Here live the last representatives of a Germanic language and culture originating in the 13th century: the so-called Cimbri. Industrialization and modern means of traffic and communication have almost eradicated this community. These people have thus become a symbol of all that has been lost for good.

Found-footage experimental short in which old softcore film images are presented through video.

A Donatello Award nominated short drama.

A Donatello award winning short drama about the young Carlotta who stops off on her way to be married to see her ageing grandfather whom she hasn't seen for many years.

A journey through the intensive cattle industry.

"Mnemo.Diario" is a touching and intimate work that Studio Azzurro loves very much. It testifies to an important moment in the history of the group, namely the approach to the spaces of the Fabbrica del Vapore and the discreet and profound closeness of a friend like Giuseppe Baresi.

During a train journey, a man remembers the images of a festival…. or of a life.

A collective imaginary disease. A short movie on the concrete “reality” of hallucinations. Based on an experimentation of a collage of autonomous short scripts.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems by Giacomo Leopardi (La Ginestra, Il Canto Notturno, Le Ricordanze, A Silvia, L'Infinito ...), but also some passages from the Moral Operettas, as well as the unfinished Project for a hymn at Ahrimane, follow one another with deep and moving simplicity, with a quiet immediacy that causes the void of every other voice: therefore the listenere is ensnared in the pauses, bewitched by the unexpected descents of silence. The voice assumes a dark and ancestral tone in which the words seem to find their original nuances.

A man killing himself because he’s unpopular. Analisys of the suicide of a man who had never been born or seen.

For some time, in the mind of Rebecca, there is no peace. She feels haunted by something she can not identify that possesses a mysterious force over her, mentally and physically. An incredible journey between eroticism and esotericism that will bring her to the edge of madness...

Birth growing and gathering of a family which is not even an average one

It is a work on dematerialization, it is not easy to work to destroy, to reduce vigorous bodies to flows of energy and light. A dance where all life becomes alive and the veil of common perception goes towards a happy drift while the secret energies of bodies, their most intimate molecular nature, materialize on the screens.

Early animated short from Fabrizio Spurio.

Rome, December 12th - 15th 1990.

A videopoem by Arcangelo Mazzoleni.

The chromatic research based mainly on primary colors yearns for the incandescence of red, for strong tonal contrasts, with the gaze turned to an anti-naturalistic, subjective, internalized color, which looks to the Fauves, Munch and German Expressionists but also to Boccioni and Picasso for the metamorphosis of the human figure (here the female body) and his struggle against Euclidean geometry; to the Suprematists and Constructivists, cited in the geometric forms: sharp spiers of piercing light, flashes of lightning, triangles like blades that cut the screen and chase the evanescent bodies in the dark.

Cima goes back to dealing with mankind and nature… The twenty-three minute long video balances in the two times the Odolo people’s united, laborious humanity, home and breeding ground for survival instincts but also for love of work and things. (Alberto Pesce)

The video is inspired by Teicologia, by Antonio Pizzuto, one of the most important and significant authors of contemporary Italian literature. The video re-proposes Palermo through "a study of the walls" in a dimension that is not dictated by the reasoned discourse of hard news, but by a "signal beyond" fluctuating in matter that is neither reinterpreted nor brought back into the light. "My aim was to make the work of this great Sicilian literary man more well-known by means of a work made from languages that are contemporary for us and for him. Further, I aim to continue the perceptive work on Palermo that was started with Palermo, In sospensione, In sospensione (su Palermo), and La cena informale (Salvo Cuccia).