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The history of cinema has already defined the prison film as its own genre with its own elements and particular qualities, in fiction as well as in documentary. The interesting thing about this essay, filmed in the maximum security prison of Spoleto, in Perugia, Italy, is that it uses none of those elements and qualities, and so defines itself more for what it is not, than for what it is.
Two spirits meet in an alternative reality and discuss about life, death and desire.
Documentary about italian actress Dorian Gray (Maria Luisa Mangini)
What came out of the workshop "Del passeggiar filmando, e poi del maltrattar la povera pellicola - piccolo esercizio in Super8" at the Layers festival, 8 and 9 June 2019, in Dergano, Milan.
A Donatello award nominated documentary.
A video by Emanuele Centazzo
An hallucination after the storm. Shot in 8 mm, of the dark and disappearing roads scratched by lightning. The discovery that a village festivity is also possible in a puddle at night is both, terrible and sublime. Do the images drown and disappear in our memory, or are we drowning while the images observe us from an unreachable time?
Returning to Italy, the narrator tries to find what remains of someone he loved.
The new smartphone-app Animal Kingdom has spread so much throughout society that verbal communication is now barely used. During a lonely night, a guy goes out seeking for a human connection, but in a world where everyone wears a mask it's difficult to separate reality from virtuality.
Cars affect our primary senses on all levels, they define our world and change our contemporary society. Our tastes have changed: drive-in food, that was once at most a monthly family treat has now become an essential daily ritual in our fast-paced, consumer society. We barely notice the smell of exhaust fumes but more and more people are getting sick from atmospheric pollution. Our cities are now designed in function of cars, changing what we see and our perception of the world we live in. The film seeks to question the car myth, something that is deeply rooted in our consumer society. A group of primary school's kids guide the spectators in a journey into our imaginary. Using automotive archives and through the involvement in a dynamic way of scientists, engineers, anthropologist and racing drivers, the film explores how the car has changed not only the cities we live in but also our lives.
Around May ‘44 on Mount Sant’Angelo there is a house that falls asleep and begins to dream.
Short movie by Ra di Martino.
A girl wakes up in a desert hotel. She can't get out. She can't see outside. But she has sufficient supplies of food and water. She'll have to adapt to live in solitude, alone with herself and her obsessions...
A visual poem on the city of Rome.
The movie is divided in 4 sections. The 1st one is about the 70s, when Italian society discovered the "sex, drugs and rock'n roll" culture. Many witnesses are interviewed about their own experiences as drug addicts or sex consumers: mainly the incoming "gay liberation" politics are focused. The 2nd part is about the 80s: HIV comes to Italy from the USA and it becomes a tragic disease. Through the stories told by the witnesses we can get the atmosphere of fear and panic around the first victims, and also the first attempts of the medical researchers to stop the infection. The 3rd part is about the 90s. Now the witnesses speak about the new "life style" of the Hiv-positive people: they don't die anymore, but can live thanks to new medicines, and so the problems are wider and more complex. The 4th part is about the first decade of the new century, when new items come out in this field: the most important items are the non-awareness among younger people and the spreading of "barebacking".
Don Juan sins with his servant and is doomed in this tragicomic opera.
Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors.
Where do we come from? Who do we think we are? Do we have to bring out the best in us if we want to create something extraordinary? The film Ego tries to answer these questions starting from an intuition: what if we were nothing but a breath in a balloon?
In a huge indoor space, networks of services and human activities take place. Streams of people flow in an architectural dimension as aseptic as the relationships of its people, moving on the notes of a recurring and sedating background music.
The work of Sergio Mitrione & Elena Maraniello, titled "The Wedding Ring", is a medium-length film that encompasses several subgenres within the Horror genre. The story explores the turbulent relationship of a family spiraling towards the darkest depths, depicting abuse, violence, and unsettling thoughts. The film is a social outcry that reveals the hidden evil behind smiling masks, showing how the union of love and hatred can divide lives. The aesthetic and technical aspects of the film are carefully crafted and contribute to creating a dark and eerie atmosphere. "The Wedding Ring" has received numerous awards at various international film festivals.
16mm film, colour, no sound, 2’25” colaboration with lamu palm oil factory, production museo marino marini
The extraordinary life of Anna Rita Sidoti, world race walking champion: from Sicily to the top of the world.
Sara, a pizza delivery girl, falls into a world of wonders, fiction and deadly dangers.
It's a drama about two male brothers, living in their rich, noble, family house. The story is being narrated through questions of a girl that the older brother just met. The two boys were connected by a strong brotherhood. They loved each other. This love was pure, but was as strong as forbidden.
Conversations with French director Paul Vecchiali at his home in France in 2010, not far from Saint Tropez, at Villa Mayerling. His entire life and career are covered film by film. The relationship with his parents, the nouvelle vague, his early films, his books and more in a friendly, uncensored way and with much sincerity.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
Considerations on the theme of origin, emerging from a few reels of Super 8: interiors of a house and a Sicilian landscape, emptied of its inhabitants by the act of editing.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
A couple of friends are on a nature hike. What was to be a quiet day of relaxation, soon becomes a nightmare.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
Erto, a small village perched on the side of a valley in the Italian Alps. In the late 1950's the Vajont Dam - at the time the tallest in the world - was built into this steep valley. Just a few years later in 1963, a massive landslide spilled into the dam's artificial lake, causing the dam's reservoir to overflow. The massive wave that followed left nearly 2,000 people dead. The inhabitants of Erto have re-enacted the Passion of the Christ year after year since time immemorial, continuing their tradition even after the tragedy. Once a year on the night of Good Friday, a Christ from Erto is betrayed, condemned and crucified as History marches forward with its constructions and destructions, its victims and survivors, and its Calvaries - both real and imagined.
Starting with a provocative title, two young directors from Tuscany Laura Landi and Giovanna Selis set out to show how the lesbian community in Italy must still fight against homophobic taboos. What emerges, above all, is the widespread attitude which denies and ignores, sometimes excluding, the existence of the "L World", which is doomed to invisibility. It's no accident that one of the girls interviewed in the film declares, "Actually, it's like lesbians do not exist". She thus highlights the existence of a psychological repression in public awareness, in which homosexual women have been shut up. A succession of voices and stories, dealing with GLBT parenting and relationship with their own parents, discrimination and affection. The film includes some brief sketches by Le brugole (The Allen Keys), the female cabaret duo who have performed on the TV comedy show "Zelig Off". A successful example of a low-budget production, financed by crowdfunding.
From the hell of the city, we pass into another dimension: that of the silence of nature. Among caves, waterfalls and woods, the path rises higher and higher, towards the memory and the mountains. The sun sets and night looms. But the dawn of a new day appears on the horizon and the world before us lights up. In the distance, you can hear the echoes of the city, and a boy, at the top of the mountain, listens to the wind, losing himself in the infinite.
Andrea is quarantined in his own home. He contracted a deadly virus after a space journey. His wife Agata and daughter Mia therefore have to wear protective clothing when they visit him in his room. But Mia thinks it’s all just a game. Sober and small drama for three characters, confidently directed and beautifully acted.
A documentary about the only school in Italy where you enter with ordinary metropolitan shoes and go out on high heels. Four teachers for twenty students: men and women, each with their own story and personal motivations, but united by the desire to become fabulous Drag Queens!
Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Stendhal and Hemingway, a Florentine, two Frenchmen and an American: all four of them Milanese. These "giants" intensely occupied Milan for a long time.
Chiara was seven years old when she began filming her family. She was twelve when she decided to stop, the year her older sister, Francesca, fell ill. This is how the image of the "perfect family," constructed through the footage shot by a child, began to crumble, to "disintegrate." Alice, a documentary-style short film, is an attempt to "put the pieces back together" by recovering past memories, in a continuous search between rewind and fast-forward.
Max is a young freelance who reaches the most important scoop of his career: a set of interviews with the Young Turks, an anarchic ring. Max achieve his job with a special camera hidden in his glasses. But he starts recording whatever he sees, risking to lose himself in his obsessions. What Max doesn't foreseen is that it's own life will be the subject of one of the most controversial documentary of the last years.