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A free form film poem. Moving through inside and outside spaces Luisa Cividin unties a knot made with two curtains. Followed by Roberto Taroni smoking until he starts to turn around his axis, first in front of the window with the now re-tied curtains and then in slow motion seemingly in front of some stairs. A 70s enigma. – Olaf Möller
The betrayal of her husband discovered, Sandra repays him with the same coin, with conferences based on alcohol, drugs and sex
The very short animation by Richard Condie is a lesson in how to make a fool of oneself easily and effectively. Two gentlemen are involved: one who wishes to read his newspaper and another who insists on performing acrobatic feats. Although the outcome is surprising, the message is clear: going to great lengths to impress one's neighbor is futile.
A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation is over, love also ends. In some ways the film is an autobiography of the director.
Produced in Italy in 1974, Anna Baldazzi’s Greta Garbo is a 30-minute color short that embarks on a singular quest: a journey through the streets of New York in search of the legendary screen icon. Far from a traditional documentary, the film serves as a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s own relationship with the city, navigated through a lens of irony and farce. Baldazzi engages in a playful, dialectical game with the concept of stardom; her stated objective is to "destroy the myth" of the diva, yet she achieves a striking paradox. By maintaining the total absence of Greta Garbo for the entire duration of the film, the legend is not erased, but rather powerfully re-established through its own void.
A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on whispered excerpts from Goffman’s seminal Asylums on total institutions, paired with a poignant citation from Poe. In the spirit of post-'68 thought, closed and segregated spaces take center stage in the social and cultural discourse, and this film embodies that reflection with radical intensity.
Contemporary to La città sublime, also edited and photographed by Ceccarelli and Rubini for Corona, it is a continuation of the investigation into Rome in the mid-1970s from a particular point of view.
Experimental interpretation of the Narcissus myth.
To split the visual realm in two: one is permeated with a schizo-imaginific detour, the second vibrates in a collateral contrast. When the split screen goes off, it's hard to tell the difference.
An Italian documentary.
Macro cinematography to enter the unknown.
Mario Mariotti has used more than a thousand photographic images on the crucifixion of the most important works of art. After aligning them in the points (XX) of the hands pierced by nails, he created an animation where each Work is a frame of this film.
A representation of human behavior focused exclusively on our western world, made up of footage selected without any concern for place, time and ideology, that provides logical continuity to daily events with the intent of underlining the general contradictions of reality.
This film was shot a frame at the time using laborious extreme optical close-ups. Anonimatograph: the reanimated image of an unknown amateur at the beginning of the century who becomes middle class as he focuses on friends, movie camera in hand, indoors and outdoors surrounded by war and by his sisters. I have tried to reconstruct an extravagant film diary from which I have painstakingly torn out little pages of frames. These frames were exposed and abandoned on negative on a number of photographic reels, cut together at random in two sixty-meter reels in 35mm and acquired by me for 500 Lire from a flea-market vendor. Many frames were shot vertically, others only partially exposed, sometimes properly developed, sometimes not. I tried to animate these little reels using a flicker technique with light stroboscopic touches; in short, a film that could not be recommended to anyone.
Action by Gina Pane.
On the artist's face, which lies supine on the ground, white larvae swarm undisturbed on the cheek, pushing into the nasal cavities, the labial commissure and that of the eyelids, sometimes ajar, sometimes moistened by tears.
The director films a woman being tortured.
Traumatografo is a film, the principal purpose of which is to comfort those who fear death by the gallows or scaffold. It is divided into three parts: in the first, slaughter by automobile is shown; in the third, by military engagements; in the center section children pantomime syncopated movements from top to bottom. The secret, twilight imaginings of a wreckless character in the horrifying motion of falling or ejection in triplicate from an auto-trauma-mobile, the alternation—through the manipulation—of his original motion, offers us, as a source of comfort, the bicorporeal vision of him as he travels along the parabola of his fall from a residual sequence of a most personal and fatal leap.
Game between the author and a friend. "I make films for the pleasure of capturing fleeting emotions and perceptions."
Paolo Benvenuti's film recounts the fifteen long years of siege inflicted on a group of citizens of Pisa during the war that pitted the cities of Florence and Pisa against each other from 1494 to 1509.
Moving away from the conventions of traditional documentary filmmaking, Gitani presents itself as a vibrant "emotional vision" of Romani life. Rather than a rigid factual account, the film immerses the audience in an atmosphere of pure euphoria and shared joy. Music serves as the essential thread that weaves the entire work together, while the visual narrative mirrors the fluidity of dance—constantly assembling and dissolving to the beat of the performers' movements. It is a rhythmic and sensory experience that prioritizes feeling and atmosphere, capturing the spirit of a culture through the harmony of sound and motion.
An in-depth look at a little-known sport that is technical, athletic, and physically demanding: cross-country skiing.
From Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.
film by Luca Ferro
The film is set in an industrial landfill in the Petrochemical area of Porto Marghera (Venice). Here, among the toxic residues, a happening takes place: a boy and a girl without knowing each other before are invited to undress and kiss in front of ‘fake’ journalists, photographers and operators. The soundtrack is composed by different environmental noises. The director denounces in this way the pollution and the landscape changing, focusing on the vision of two beautiful bodies kissing.
The film was made with successive images of La Pietra’s face realised from 1938 to 1974, all continually compared with his face as was at that moment (1974). Through this sequence we have the sensation that for thirty-six years he has doggedly and slowly tried to reach some “final model” (his face in 1974).
A 14-minute color short set in Naples that deals with religious festivals, local traditions/identity, poverty, and religious feeling. It was screened in December 1976 during the retrospective Kinomata.
The Madonna del Pollino is one of the most archaic festivals in Basilicata. The faithful walk to the church after a strenuous journey. The manifestations of religious faith alternate with particular profane celebratory customs that take place outside and inside the temple.
italian documentary
A documentary about orcas, seals and other animals.
"What I tried to "tell" is Rosa's close and distorted relationship, common to many women who are used to living alone with themselves, with objects that have become animated and unreal and the relationship which is completely silent, but no less clear and explosive of Rosa with her feminine unconscious” (D. Maraini).
Shooting of the artist's works decomposed and reassembled in the frames of the film.
Short documentary by Giorgio Turi.
The film aims to show the fall of revolutionary ideals and broken ideologies.
A flower trembles in the wind while high in the sky clouds slowly pass by. The seeds from the dry and withered flower fly toward a new life while below in the dark earth something moves: a small white being advances with difficulty toward the light.
Expect the unexpected in this unusual short that combines live action and animation.
You pass through the air that compresses you - you see passing white and yellow hatches - and green prairies - red signals - vehicles with half glasses against the sun that hits your eyes - circle and the center a type of tool that gives you the possibility of making noise. And you see behind everything that follows you. Then you stop and see the sea and the flag: ours. A bicycle hanging like a hanged man above the water (it is touched arrhythmically by light waves). Characters: the usual ones but actually framed inside that 120 by 16mm lens. It ends with the return home.
A reflection on art during the destruction of a post-atomic society.
In 1973, director Ermanno Olmi and journalist Corrado Stajano collaborated on this exceptional docu-fiction about the early months of the Resistance, as the final episode of the series “Tragico e glorioso '43” (Tragic and Glorious '43).
Short movie by Sandro Chia.
Short by Christina Kubisch.
Fragments of nude as a suffused homage to femininity.
