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The Camorra has ruled the city of Naples for centuries. It has become ingrained in people's lives and is still tolerated by a large part of the population as a natural fact of life. In a kaleidoscopic montage of images and text, the film traces the fatalistic triangle of organized crime, poor education, and deep religiosity in a city that has become synonymous with corruption, unemployment, and poverty in Italy. The essayistic narrative style penetrates the confines of the space and makes the archaic power structure of the city palpable by almost entirely dispensing with interviews and concrete facts.

In contexts of conflict, such as Gaza, one often encounters feelings of fear and hatred, even in children. Interviews with educators, unions, NGO leaders, Palestinian citizens (mothers and fathers), and images of both educational and family life contexts.

The destinies of a young girl and her teacher meet, transforming the portrait of an odd community into a troubled journey to the North Pole.

The character, a feathered young woman, is watching TV at her place in the wood. Because of seeing some trapped birds entangled in nets, she leaves and, after being through a wood that could crush her with its trees, gets where the nets impede the bird's free passage. Finally, she arrives at a skating ring where she wears her roller skates and starts to jump and spin. Someone makes her fallen but she stands up and takes up again her skating: she takes a run-up and makes her last spinning while the birds return to freedom.

A little trip between planets

Audiovisual exploration of an experiential period in the territory of Lessinia, in the month of August. Long and terse days in the mountains can change quickly due to sudden disturbances. Often the conformation of the territory leaves the possibility to trace the path of the clouds even just following their shadows.

The work displays light sources acting in a nocturnal forest; the light shakes the branches and fragments of a sculpture laid on the ground. To achieve it, I began from a static shot, slowly going towards a fragmentation of the image itself through the light’s game. My main interest is on the latency created by the movement of the light, the moments ruled by shadow, when everything is invisible.

Every good story has its hero. And every story doesn't come out from nothing, but from the sparkle of another story.

The stories of nine people whose wars, poverty, unemployment, the Hamas regime and the Israeli siege have failed to take away their smiles and dreams of a better life. An image that frees the Strip from the prejudices and clichés that surround it.

Short movie by Eleonora Manca.

Short movie by Elena Bellantoni.

Short film by Igor Imhoff.

A religious fanatic turns her lifestyle around after being left by her boyfriend for another.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

Detective Conad awakens from a terrible dream, but will soon discover the mysterious artist known as "The Rapture" is much more than a fruit of his imagination!

Detective Conad is investigating suspicious events regarding an Art Gallery and the paintings of the mysterious artist "The Rapture".

The film richly illustrates the history of one of the most famous and lavish Italian pleasure villas, located in the town of Lainate in Lombardy, not far from Milan. Using onsite documentation, costumed reenactments, interviews with prominent curators and historians, architectural models, and computer graphics, Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta portrays centuries of Italian art and architectural history in terms of stylistic expression. The film also explores the social, familial, and political milieux—not least of which is the chronicle of Pirro I Visconti Borromeo, count of Brebbia, the creator of this place of art and delights, a romantic, a patron, and a sophisticated man of culture in Milan during the late sixteenth century. The villa’s wonders are many—its famous Nymphaeum, greenhouses, palaces, sculptures, frescoes, fountains, and water features among them.

The video is the re-actualization of a memory, the reproduction of an image that in turn reproduces the reality of an event stuck in memory: when we bring into focus the memory from that moment on it vanishes, leaving only a sense of melancholia and emptiness of the soul. The video is inspired by unknown people’s personal memories and attempts to put them into focus crystallizing the very moment in which everything burst into flames and the memory vanishes. The technique used is the film combustion. Ach combustion is natural and is a unique and unrepeatable act, because the burned frame, even if similar to others, it is none other than itself and represents the instantaneous shot of an unrepeatable moment.

A documentary on the Val d'Aosta Alpine Rescue Unit. But it is mainly a film about life and choices. We follow, for a year, three ordinary lives, ready each day for something extraordinary, three guardian angels that fly on board a helicopter, simply to offer assistance. Over the noise of the emergency, the film narrates a radical choice, that of Silvia, an emergency intensive care anaesthetist, involving in every instance the thread of life, of waiting, of solitude.

Away in the woods a man lives in complete solitude, but a mystery disturbs his loneliness: each night the darkness surrounding the mountain in front his house is suddenly broken by a tiny light. What will be? A search begins that will lead the old man to meet a child. Who is really this child? Which relationship ties them and what keeps them suspended between life and death?

A boy is tormented by a recurrent and disturbing dream.

Childfree, not childless. That is how Linda, a young filmmaker, sees herself and her future. For her it has been clear since her early teens that she won’t become a mother, but it is first now that she “comes out from the closet”, travels back to Finland and explains this to her friends and family. But why is it still such a tabu, especially for a woman, to not dream of a family with kids?

A short documentary that tells, through everyday life paintings, the CARA Mineo: the largest center for asylum seekers in Europe, stuck between the warm and clay valleys of Sicilian Calatino. Near the camp fence we meet Mohammad, who wants to run away; Aqib and Malik who dream of reaching Milan and joining its LGBTQI scene; Ibrahim, the hypnotic musician waiting for his documents; Dieudonne “le prophète” who harshly denounces the poor condition of the asylum seekers.

At Bologna’s Specola Tower, 1932–1957, an optical technology was invented which would revolutionize astronomy. The tower’s four floors were perforated and a series of hexagonal mirrors was installed at its base, creating a giant telescope of 2×24 meters. A mobile camera was set at right angles to the mirrors and thousands of glass plates where exposed which offered a systematic overview of the city’s zenithal sky. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli—also called multimirror or segmented mirror—an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions. This film is composed of scans and blow-ups of these plates.

“Domani Chissà Forse" is a reflection on time and what survives it in a circumscribed space in which past, present and future seem to merge.