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A feature-length documentary about the new challenges that workers in one of the world’s oldest professions have to face in order to continue existing.

16mm film, colour, no sound, 2’25” colaboration with lamu palm oil factory, production museo marino marini

16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'47" Produced by Brodbeck Foundation, Catania, Italy

Italian progressive rock / jazz group Picchio dal Pozzo live, recorded at "La Claque" club Genova (Italy) 15 January 2011. Released on DVD in 2013.

Excitement is brewing in a social co-op for a group of disabled people as they debate the destination for their next trip. Tiziano, however, does not want to hear about democratic votes: he wants to go to Cinecittà World, a movie-themed amusement park, to visit the old west. What will he invent when he discovers that the attraction differs from how he imagined it?

The city of Rome described only through images, from alternative points of view. We will not find postcard landscapes, but a tribute to Berlin: Symphony of a City (Walter Ruttmann, 1927), in which light is the protagonist, together with music, in representing this immense body-metropolis.

"Canzone di Sabbia" is a short autobiographical 3d animated film with music by Lagash (Marlene Kuntz).

The green and the stone. Straub-Huillet in Buti.

A photographer visits the Georgian Caucasus with a team of experts to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers.

A mixed media 2D animation illustrating the beautiful letter from Stefano Gabbana to Domenico Dolce.

Short film by Daniele Zanelli released as part of the '4 Nightmares' anthology.

Short film by Federica Zotti.

A company of inmates of the Sollicciano prison acts, under the direction of Elisa Taddei, in this play who tries to reflect about bodies and their perception.

An insider's look at the Belarusian regime through the eyes of its most creative citizens. The struggle for freedom of expression in Europe's last dictatorship.

A man, wearing a female dress, has just moved into his new home. Beyond his humorous plot, 'the move' in this case also wants to represent another symbolic 'transfer': the restitution of dignity denied by the male world to the female, throughout the human history.

Palermo is one of the most famous cities in the world and boasts an extraordinary artistic and cultural heritage. Palermo's story has already been told, its wonders revealed, its lacerating contradictions uncovered - always with the undercurrent of the Mafia. But now there is a new story to tell: the tale of the city's rebirth.the documentary takes us on a journey through the streets, palaces and faces of Palermo, the stars of the city's way of life, in its year as the "Italian Capital of Culture", providing an insight into how this city transformed from an open-air museum and memory trigger into a veritable laboratory of social and cultural ideas.

Taking magic-realism as its core, the music video flows between the way of living of the first inhabitants of these South-American lands, ending with celebration in a climax of trumpet playing elephants and fireworks.

Short animated film by Magda Guidi.

An audiovisual journey at the discovery of their own family roots, between clash and superimposition, in a twine of imaginary and real witness.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

The residential unit designed by Aldo Rossi for the Gallaratese 2 neighborhood in Milan is part of a larger complex designed by Carlo Aymonino and built between the 1960s and 1970s. In A . R . G . wide camera movements take up an area between one of the main prospects of the Rossi intervention and the adjacent garden.

Commissioned by Italian independent publishing house Pietre Vive as a companion piece to the book Inventario dei Sogni (An inventory of dreams) by Antonio Lillo.

In China, in the foothills of the Himalayas, a non-violent egalitarian society has for millennia offered proof that a harmonious and peaceful life is still possible. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations the Mosuo were recognized as a “model society”.

Debora is a young writer, we see her signing a contract with a publishing house. After the joy for the achieved goal, the phase of rationalization takes over, inevitable, giving rise to a growing disenchantment.

The film retraces the origins, history, habits and traditions of the Roma people but also tells the direct experience of some of the people who belong to it.

A documentary about Giorgione.

A clumsy young boy finds himself struggling with the botanical experiments of his teacher.

Uninhibited conversations with Tony Patrioli, the first Italian photographer of male nudes in the 60s, historic photographer for the monthly magazine Babilonia that published his books and photoshoots both in Europe and in the USA. Before Mapplethorpe and after Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Patrioli lived a professional relationship of complicity with his models, partially similar to the one Pasolini had with his hustlers (ragazzi di vita). This part shot in colours alternates speeches by the photographer and the art critic Luigi Mazzoleni, by the gay culture historian and ex editor of Babilonia Giovanni Dall'Orto, and by Tony's favourite model, Bruno. A mix of tragi-comical adventures, dramas and reflections on religion, euthanasia, the fact of being gay in the 50s-60s-70s and the American censorship made by George Bush. All this in presence of Tony's best friend: a mixed-breed dog called Tony Bau.

Ambrosia trades the fluorescent lights of his family’s tobacco shop in Naples for the spotlights of "La Boum" - Milan's premiere drag revue.

Giulio, bold and impulsive, is a street boy who does not lower his head in front of anyone. Genny, his cousin, is shy and introverted. Forced by circumstances to meet, against the backdrop of a bare and gray Neapolitan suburb, the two face a journey through sexuality, growth, and the gray areas of adolescence...

An experimental movie on the incommunicability of the image. A series of primitive visions that once staged lose their meaning.

The film explores Morocco's forgotten indigenous culture and the legacy of the Imdiazen: Amazigh poets who traveled from village to village, using poetry and Timnadin storytelling to spread news about resistance against colonialism and the Sultan. Today, the inhabitants of the village of Imider continue this tradition.

A young woman walks out of a building. Enter and go down a staircase. There is a knock on the door, a man is waiting for him sitting at the desk of a small and badly lit office. He offers her a coffee. Start asking questions. The woman will discover a bitter truth.

A young married couple, Arianna and Milo, are delighted by the birth of their first child. But, of course, six months later everything is different: for the young woman, daily life in their apartment in the suburbs of Torino has become a grueling routine focused exclusively on the child. The economic crisis and postpartum depression deeply affect the woman's life as she desperately tries to find herself again. Debut director Giorgio Cugno built his visually impressive project upon authentic details and claustrophobic atmosphere.

March 25, 2017, Monza. The park has a stage ten times larger than the rock stars in San Siro. Hundreds of volunteers, civil protection, stalls. And then the people, a lot. All gathered waiting for Pope Francis. The relentless music, spread by the speakers, gives the impression of being in front of a déjà vu: the long wait for a concert, among the fans waiting for the arrival of the last pop star.