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A bride leaves her father’s home to reach her love.

An anthology that delves into the activity inherent to audio-visual processing and their video-exhibition history

One of the last TV performances by Carmelo Bene, from Publio Papinio Stazio and Henrich Von Kleist, mixing the myth of the amazon Pentesilea with the invulnerability of the greek hero Achilles. Bene performs alone in a stage filled with mannequins, acting in playback.

Adaptation of “La nera signora” by Alfonso M. Di Nola on scenes from “Blutgeil” (or “Zurich Cop Eaters IV”). Experimental essay-movie based on the film Häxan, by B. Christensen.

The successful completion of the proletarian revolution will coincide with the abolition of art and all forms of creativity and expression.

A short film by Bill Morrison

Motionless under his opponent’s blows, a boxer makes his execution public

Short stop motion clay animation by Fusako Yusaki

Video journal cut-up made by the DAMS Occupato collective and soundtracked by the Laboratorio di Musica e Immagine. Its object is the reflection on the First Gulf War and its representation, focusing in particular on the information overload that occurred in the early stages of the conflict.

A video by Bianco-Valente

A film by Marico Valente

This" theory of the eye "is clarified even more in From body to cosmos of 1994. The film begins with a flight of fast clouds in the sky, with their elusive shapes, which capture and make the smoke of Etna cloud, like if heaven and earth were caught in a single, unstoppable flight. But here it is Mazzoleni's own eye, which emerges several times, that disrupts the visible. Inside and outside are mixed: bodies, totemic and vegetable masks. Reality decomposes, reveals its hidden colors, those that are hidden in the heart of things at the time of creation, according to a myth of Lurian Kabbalah. Clouds, a meadow blown by the wind, the moving shadow of a room: everything escapes again, elusive. But the eye of the machine, but the eye behind the machine, also catches a naked and unarmed eye that appears among things: the seer is also what he sees. I is another. I is also a thing among things.

Video short for RAI Italian television, and part of the bigger project of duo Lajolo-Lombardi on insular communities, which became their main cinematic focus with a group of documentaries shot in the '90s after the experience of Videobase with Alfredo Leonardi.

Their son had disappeared on the front two years ago. When he finally calls them at home, they want to forget the suffering of the past. It is an allegory about the human need for past, present, and future.

Tecnomaya in Infotown (New Dangers replace Fear) merges four years of research, which began in 1987 with techno videos for the Tenax discotheque in Florence, continued with the 1988 installation Run Go at the Murnik Gallery in Milan, and culminated with the 1989 Electronic Mandalas. The stratification of messages gives rise to Tecnomaya: the illusion multiplied by technology; hallucinatory emission and irradiation materialize into layered, infinite, indecipherable information, where false and real blend in epidemic immaterial irradiation.

Short by the collective Carloni & Franceschetti.

Painted animation featuring scenes from a bordello.

Recorded live in April 1997 at Theatre St. Gilles on La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, Luther Allison Live in Paradise captures the legendary guitarist in the final months ofa career that spanned five decades.

Giò Stajano's secret to face life was and is that of never having taken himself too seriously. Already the fact of being born homosexual in a village in the deep south, in the middle of the Fascist period, and moreover in the Storace house, choosing as a mother an unsuspecting daughter of the "very virile" right arm of the Duce, and then peeing in his arms of the latter, at the tender age of one year, speaks volumes. Then in the 1950s, a young man of high hopes, he arrives in Rome and with his nonconformist lifestyle and his book Roma capitolina on "excellent" homosexuality in Rome, immediately kidnapped, becomes a "character" and is called by Fellini to interpret himself same in the film La dolce vita. Then suddenly in '81, after having been an assault journalist, having continued to write books and interpret films, tired of this role, he flies to Casablanca, and becomes Maria Gioacchina, thus confirming his innate tendency to provocation and mockery, towards life and himself.

“It is a difficult task to achieve an existential balance, and sometimes it is not necessarily possible. Sometimes, in the complex construction of our personality, the strongest component ends up prevailing, the one capable of silencing all the others. But this often leads us to suffering, to a continuous mutation of ourselves ". Andrea and Nora, two longtime friends, are working together on the drafting of a screenplay, the two characters "from the film" collide with the "real" characters.

Recorded live at Michelangelo Studios (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano) for television show "Acoustica" on VideoMusic TV Channel; June 3, 1994.

he electronic material of video generates similarity between the drops and individuals in the incessant flow of liquid and the migrations of the population. The altered image submerged along the channels of information no longer reflects the consciousness of identity.

Shot on an already exposed film. Stream of photostatic images and colors.

Created especially for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, "La Divina Iliade" emerges as a unique artistic work that combines visual sensitivity with musicality. The video presents a collection of paintings created by a young 22-year-old Venezuelan artist, whose illustrations capture the essence of the cosmic balance of sexual energies and the search for the "I AM". With the soundtrack by Brunello de Napoli, the work transforms into an immersive experience that invites the viewer to reflect on the invisible forces that shape the universe. The simplicity of the images, combined with the depth of the music, creates a silent dialogue that transcends words, inviting the audience to an introspective and spiritual journey.

Documentary telling the history of Cinecittà, and how it contributed to Italian cinema development.

"I can't believe that I have to start every day from a state so feverish, full of intentions, even before doing anything." Fragments of a performer's body and movements that comes from an interior state of feeling: indistinct state of langor before standing up, before dancing, before going on stage... The need of a condition in which you are just thinking, with an empty mind. Needing space, needing silence, needing to calm down (going back to sleep, damn!).

A film by Carlo Schiano

The film is a recitation of assonance and contradictions through stones that hold an overhanging secret.

Two guys sitting in an anteroom, waiting for the dentist to come.

Since the dawn of time, fire has fascinated the spirit of man. And it is with pyrotechnic art and fireworks that man's ancient relationship with fire is celebrated. The firework has a cathartic function, it removes the specter of war through the ritualized use of its most striking components: the din, the danger, the distant lights in the night. It also appears that pyrotechnics are closely linked to exorcism from the danger of volcanic eruptions: the firework free from the presence of evil spirits, which popular belief evokes in volcanic areas. Il Fuoco di Napoli traces the story of a man, Giuseppe Scudo, and his passion, the fireworks. His art and his life are one for him. This Neapolitan blaster challenges danger with clarity and intelligence. His work is a delicate alchemy of ancient knowledge, imagination and courage.

A tale about two cloistered nuns whose love begins to flower into a delicate romance.

The life of a pig revisited in terms of legend.

Origin And Deposition arise from a fragment from the musical work The Cenci, an adaptation of the text by Antonin Artaud by the composer Giorgio Battistelli created in collaboration with Studio Azzurro, presented at the Almeida Theater in London in 1997.

Tutti Fratelli. L'Utopia di Henry Dunant, is dedicated to the figure and untiring activity of the Geneva philanthropist who sacrificed his family fortunes to the idea of the Red Cross [fallen to poverty, he lived off a modest income which only just allowed him survival]. Cima, in telling the story of the founder of the Red Cross, resorts to original documents, photographs, and images shot in the places where Dunant lived (from Geneva to Solferino and San Martino, from Marseille to Zurich, to Provence, to Tunisia). There comes to light an enthralling story which “tells”, thanks to a “clear and shared exploration of his existential itinerary”, the greatness of a man who was wrongly banished in the shade. (Achille Frezzato)

Bortolo Belotti (1877-1944) Bergamascan historian author of “The History of Bergamo and of Bergamascans” a work conceived with an innovative scientific spirit. Illuminated liberal, he refuses to succumb to the new conformism imposed by the Fascist regime: “I believe in ideas, in the moral values of a life lived austerely working and repugnant of vulgarity, of all vulgarity…” He was a victim of forced residence and far from his “green valley of Zogno”, died in exile in Lugano.

Not even the beam is perfect

For twenty years I lived in the same apartment in Paris. The “landscape” that I was looking at through the window became my home, my living space. It was also a kind of calendar, a watch: the passage of time, the passing of the seasons. When I left, I made this film to physically keep with me images, details, lights, colors, textures whose sight and existence were essential to me. I filmed static shots by inserting blacks of varying duration between them. I superimposed different shots six times on the same film, changing their duration and that of the blacks. Each layer therefore has its own rhythm determined in advance. In the end, the series of images fit together like segments of memory.

Leaving one's territory to begin a journey beyond chaos, beyond visible presences, towards a new psychedelic culture. An experiment. Bodies crushed, stretched, destroyed, decomposed and recomposed in a lysergic vision. The closest thing to videoart ever produced by GMM and therefore not too loved by the group.

Short animated film by Roberto Catani.