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From the series L’immaginario scientifico

Piero is 26 years old, works in a butcher shop, lives with his mother and sister, and has been engaged to Tiziana for years. Something is wrong in his life, his mother senses it, and their relationship is strained. One day, however, Piero meets Mirco, and his ideas begin to clarify. Helped by Mirco, Piero recognizes his homosexuality and the right to live it openly. The reactions of his mother, sister, and girlfriend vary, but none is condemning.

Shot in the span of a few hours at a party held in Milan in 1979, the film takes the form of a reflection on a fragment of a lost youth reality in search of new references. Young people who, emerging from years of intense political activism and profound social and cultural changes (the 70s), are about to enter a new decade (the 80s) lived under the banner of rampantism and hedonism. A document attentive to individual behavior, to original ideas, to communicative intentions that go beyond parched languages. Facce di festa is built by assembling material collected with different cinematographic techniques: hidden camera, behavioral interviews, descriptive images. In the film, there is an attempt to create a delicate but tenacious interference between the author's narration and the viewer's perception. The camera becomes a vehicle for forcing the cinematographic narration by seeking a new space in the presence of the spectator.

The computer revolution will wipe out old jobs and create new professions.

Theo Eshetu uses the manipulation of television language as a means for artistic expression. His work unites a formal research on the grammar of video with themes taken from anthropology so as to create personal statement on the nature of video as a form of expression.

Three women leave for a beach holiday. The joy, the carefreeness of days on the beach, lunches on the terrace, lazy afternoons punctuate this "holiday film" which slowly reveals and builds the sensual and playful intimacy of the relationship that binds the protagonists/directors.

A theater actress escapes to Rome after the Russian invasion.

Giovanni who lives with his mother and is engaged to Tiziana, hides his homosexuality out of shame and fear, but on the point of getting married, something happens to him that will lead him to refuse to live it again in a clandestine and guilty way, and so, after a somewhat troubled personal analysis, he recovers a certain existential courage and decides to live it "in the light of the sun".

An Italian documentary.

Fifteen Mandalas, built through a natural connection between the operator and the computer using simple standard presets, are in fact tested around the hierarchies of perception, a sort of a backward journey towards the origin of thought, following the rhythm of thought within its place. natural: man.

Modern adaptation of the poem Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri.

Modern nocturnal melodrama by Andrea Zingoni.

During a lunch Donato D’Ambrosio, a former militant, talks about his memories, his delusions and his hopes.

Recording by Rai Milan of Adelchi staged by Carmelo Bene at the Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1984, with the Rai orchestra and choir for the bicentenary of Alessandro Manzoni's birth. Broadcast only once on Rai 2 on September 9, 1985.

Lou Reed's historic concert at Florence's Cascine Park on June 14, 1980, recorded for RAI by Cesare Perloni.

A short Venice-set musical

The river from the Garda Lake to the Po. The Burgo papermill, the power station, the mill, the town fete. The marsh reed gatherer, the old fisherwoman, who doing the washing down at the river, recalls her secret love affairs on the boat.

The film Les temps des Assassins is not only an extraordinary work, but it is also an extraordinary exegesis of Rimbaud's clairvoyance. It begins with the seer: the reflection of a fight in the glass of her glasses, while the wind moves her hair, how the clouds move, how the duelists move, perhaps the murderers. But "I is another," Rimbaud wrote. To be, to know how to be a witness, the visionary must begin a journey to discover the depth of this "other" which is the self. Meet houses, antennas, clouds along the road that winds fast through the car windows, while the sun beats on the glass, refracts on the glasses, making the visionary's gaze invisible. And then there are the mysterious intermittences: the galleries, "the connections, the passages, the representations", which, according to Novalis, are the landscape of the unknown self. And here fragments emerge that are no longer composed in a landscape: a gun, a face, a head, a body, a mouth wide open in the silent scream, and colors.

"It is only an alternation of energy that operates here" is the visible inscription on a man's grave where another man can be seen lying on his back. The man, professor of Physics, is explaining the theory of relativity "One of the most important concepts used in the description of natural phenomena is that of energy ..." In physics, this is always associated with some process or some type of activity: " it can change shape, but nothing is lost… ". During the explanation, he traces, outside of chronological conventions, in an alternation of situations and thoughts, even paradoxical ones, part of that path lived with his man, abruptly interrupted by death.

Experimental film from visual artist Cioni Carpi, shot in 16mm in b/w. One Way Walk concerns “the global effort of man … to exercise a condition, the meaning of which escapes him completely.”

9 seconds and 1/2 trying to heckle the well-known movie and sex.

Adriano Abbado’s first digital work, derived from the videotape Viaggio, Voyager is composed of a series of static images that dissolve one each other in various ways. The music was created with analog electronic instruments. Voyager is a narration with images from primitive cultures to sidereal spaces.

Catabasi is intimately interrelated with Anabasi, constituting the second phase of the search for the self. Etymologically, "catabasis" means the descent, the return (as opposed to "anabasis": the ascent). In this film, the Woman tries to return to herself, to the depths of physiological life, to rediscover her lost identity in her own body through dance. Dazzling images spring from his liberating dance, culminating in a rite of anthropological origin (some African peoples still living at an ethnological level practice a similar dance, based on jumps upwards). In the body, the Woman finds unsuspected energies buried, releasing a vitalism that contemporary capitalist society tends to exorcise as its insidious enemy.

Short film produced at a children's animation workshop.

"Man is projected towards the stars, the landing on Mars is near, the fifth generation computer is almost ready, the intelligent one... yet, and yet today one can still die because of homosexual prejudice". “We kill ourselves because the moral condemnation of the people would have made our life impossible”, wrote two homosexual boys before committing suicide. "Prejudice killed them," wrote the newspapers. All this happened on the threshold of 2000, in a southern country, due to the disinformation of the people and the moral condemnations of the church.

An animation by the students of Laboratorio Lanterna Magica.

In love with a mortal, the demon Aguares has lost his speech and speaks by emitting colors. When her beloved is nearing her end, Aguares sets out in vain search for the cellular regenerator capable of granting her immortality.

The damage to health caused by the abuse of prescription drugs and by industrial interests.

for Teresa Di Sio's song

It is a strictly non-documentary work, a reinterpretation of Massimo Liviadotti's iconography born from a transversal reading of his works. An anti-exhibition on magnetic tape free from any celebratory emphasis. More than a videocatalogue, the other world is a work of visual anthropology that uses Liviadotti's paintings as pieces of an electronic inlay while shifting the terms of the static nature of painting into the dynamism of videos.