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Little yellow spots of retinal degeneration, the defeaning 50htz beat and the cult of the god Mithra: an history of the Black Sun murderers beyond Mythology and Science.

An artist, among the best 7000 working in Rome, is a pretext to evoke the tragedy of Contemporary Art: «Art, as Religion, comes from unsatisfied desires».

The first approach to Plagiarism and to the accidents in the course of learning. An audiocassette on venereal diseases together with glamorous sequences from Penthouse produce an “Educational”.

The Fantoni, on the precious ligneous sculptures of two generations of Lombard artists between the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

A regurgitation of years of television suffered and re-proposed in the dreamlike and contracted form of a video computer that was the first to be able to emit a digestible return signal from a television. The first response on the same rhythms and themes as television. Primordial consumer technology as a creative basis for a video work on the border between painting and animation. United with the video hiss of AMIGA pixels, with the overflow of its other color frequencies, the hold of the PAL, on the border of VHS. A narrative construction that tells in a non-linear way. Since 1995 a prelude to contemporary visuals.

A cigarette smoker is dominated by his smoking habit.

Two friends decide to make a short film, so they begin to write the screenplay. Will the characters in the film be able to survive the diabolical directives of their creators?

This abstract animation is made up by a series of synthetic sequences, obtained with the use of moving masks that reveal the textures beneath. A custom software was written in order to obtain the masks’ shapes and control them, and to allow the editing of the sequences.

Ilaria is an eighteen years old student while Frida is an eighty years old partisan, they meet eachother for some videointerviews that will have an unexpected transformative power on both of them.

How four women (one from Italy, one from Zaire, one from the Philippines and one from Morocco) started a multiethnic restaurant.

Direct-to-video animation transposition of Jules Verne's novel

Project by Marcello Mazzella and Claudio Prati.

Four unsuspecting teenagers go to a dilapidated house to smoke a joint, unaware of the secret hidden in that place. Inside a room, they find an old suitcase dating back to World War II containing a vial with a mysterious liquid codenamed “Axia.” One of the four accidentally spills the contents on himself, unleashing the hell of the living dead...

Short film by Usula Ferrara.

This documentary aims to demonstrate the vitality of the squatted house at 76/78 Via del Pratello in Bologna, and to highlight the stark contrasts, including visual ones, of everyday life.

A video by Mario Sasso

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

Nero Inferno is a significant documentary which explores the 90s Milan trainbombing scene. It successfully captures some of the raw emotions of northern Italy’s underground bombing universe, collecting rare footage, photos and interviews which include writers like Bread, Rae, MastroK, Spice, Dumbo. Great sound bites from these guys, who wanted to raise their voices upon the grey murmur of the big ciy. The film shows also some action, showcasing the street bombing missions in the subway of Milan. It’s an essential video for those who were there and who was not and anyone who don’t want to forget the historical memory of a movement.

The Boaro, a solitary farmer from Raboia (magic land of Boaria), is in love with savoy cabbage, but when someone steals it from him, he transforms into a bloodthirsty psychopath!

Moving secondary-school Anthology: 11 poems (completed with their random found-introductions) interact with 11 documentary and fiction films sequences. Made with the support of the Institute for Animal Obedience of Naples.

A rudimentary Inferno makes possibile the encounter between some dead men:Karl Kraus, Elvis Presley, William S. Burroughs and the two protagonists of the movie Un Mostro e ½. A mystical community where each has renounced the use of reason.

A fundamentalist documentary dedicated to Alberto Grifi. Take That, Abba and Elvis Presley: in their videoclips we can perceive the sign of the Rising Scorpio which corrupts what is inside and leaves the surface untouched. There is a level of Pain beyond which Pop Music cannot retain consciousness.

A repeating structure of 4 slightly different sequences from F. Lang’s "Spione" illustrates a text by Ralph Rumney.

Still life with electric current, stop-motion animation.

A “noble” story, an experienced “virile”, homage, without simulations, to the courage of being oneself, to the vitality, the human richness of people. Cima weaves a clear and refined narrative fabric… An appropriate and composite language, dry and sober, devoted to the non hagiographic observation of the people and of their life. The choice of the shot, the solutions of the editing respond to criteria of pursued effectiveness, which represent a vision of the concepts considered important by this people: the relationship between man and nature, the relationship between fellow men, concentrating their attention on their history and on their past. (Achille Frezzato)

Filmed in Russia. The artistic itinerary and life of Giacomo Quarenghi, born in 1744 in Capiatone of Rota Imagna (Bergamo), a fistful of houses linked to the outside world by a narrow mule track. He was summoned to Russia, to the court of the Tsars, by Catherine II, a great admirer of Quarenghi. In St. Petersburg between the end of the 1700s and the start of the 1800s, a great number of palaces designed by him are built. He is a lonely man, despite the fevour of one of the most scintillating courts in Europe which surrounds him.

The figure of the learned scholar in 18th Century Bergamo.

Female portrait, at 88 years old.

Several girls and a boy improvise a luncheon on the grass. The camera glides along the bodies and the arrangements of fruit and other objects on the immaculate white cloth. A diffused eroticism takes over the image in the incandescent light of Ligurian summer. – Christian Lebrat

It’s Nino himself that reads his texts, devoting himself, body and voice, to the camera, in his house in the historic centre of Palermo. The virtuality of the electronic image underlines, solves and dissolves Nino’s figure, it goes in and out, shows what we can’t see and hides the perceptible, lets the word tell the story, easily and heart rending.

A serial killer strikes again three years after the last murder. The psychiatrist working on the case, Amanda, receives strange telephone calls and falls back into the nightmare from which she has not year manage to free herself from. What mystery does her past hide?

Super8, color, 1998

A couple of gay artists both masters of talking parrots depart from Rome for an international competition for the most beautiful and playful specimen of Cacatoa Alba. Fabio's parrot is called Teto, Ottavio's is called Isis. The competition takes place on the island of Tenerife at the Loro Parque, the largest zoo of parrots and other exotic animals in the world. On the ship Fabio (who is a creator of special effects for the cinema) makes a dream where a group of inseparable sing two of his favorite songs: one by Lucio Dalla, the other by the vocal group of Take Six. The same night Ottavio, who is a director, dreams of doing a photo shoot at Naomi Campbell who wanders among the cages of Loro Parque in a wonderful dress by Roberto Capucci.

An improvisation for contrabass and videocamera.

I produced the piece «Onko» in 1997. I cut super 8 film loops into measured lengths. I projected these, randomly trapping frames in the gate on each cycle. The startled expression of the passenger and the incremental increase of degradation hint at the subsidence of memories over time. What we see and project clearly in our mind today, will degrade and collapse. Memory, like film, degrading with each review, accumilating detritus, emotional dust and scratches, confusing and blurring the credibility of personal experience.

Animation by Ursula Ferrara.

The second volume on the latest developments and evolutions of Cyberpunk. The central theme is nomadism in cyberspace, in technology and in the new era.

Inert, projected bodies react to the passage of those who trample them: they move, exclaim, and little by little a choir comes to life.

A painter finds a shell on a desert island. Out of curiosity, she picks it up and listens to its sound; she can then hear the voice of a girl telling her short and distressing story and that of her village, which once was on that beach.