This documentary tells the story of a family. Everything revolves around the extraordinary Jewish woman Lisa Ghelfenbein, born in Odessa in 1887, who moved to Italy in the begin of the XX century to study medicine in Turin. She meets the man who will become her husband and moves to Bergamo, where she will raise a numerous family. During the period of the Italian Racial Laws,...
The documentary was shot on the 2nd and 3rd April, 2002, in the refugee camp of Deheishe, in Palestine, while waiting for the occupation of the Israelian tanks. The director is lead in the camp by Ghassan, a 15 years old Palestinian. We follow him when he meets his peers, he shows us the new Israelian establishments, he attends the wake and the funeral of a martyr. In the ca...
Sinfonia Ferrodolce: music and dance merge with the images, which include some taken from the works of the great director Walther Ruttmann. Awesomeness of the ancient chant - mechanic impulses coming from the sound of the Rhythm Division - evocative images - contemporary equilibrium.
The intarsia panels in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore were designed by Lorenzo Lotto and realized by Giovan Francesco Capoferri between 1524 and 1537. The enigmatic depictions can be understood with the help of alchemic metaphors. Starting from the "Magnum Chaos", the initial gaping void, the Man tries to reach the Light of the Truth and the Abso...
Resistencia is entirely based on material found in a private archive composed of roughly two thousand pictures that my great-uncle took between the 30's and the 60's. Through his private memories, I have tried to tell a collective story, the story of the city Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina), born as a colony of Italian immigrants.
Resistenza artigiana è la storia di chi resiste e persiste nel proprio lavoro a dispetto della globalizzazione, delle grandi imprese, e della crisi economica che caratterizza la società attuale. Protagonista del documentario è Carmine Cervone, 37 anni, giovane artigiano del quartiere San Lorenzo, nel centro storico di Napoli. Custode dell’ant...
Angelo e Lucia are the last inhabitants of two ghost villages in Valcamonica. In spite of loneliness and all the demolitions, they resist along with their memories. In the historical centres, the abandoned stone houses are demolished, while, next to the ski slope, terraced houses and modern housing clusters host tourists and locals. The story being told concerns the threshol...
The Camonica valley. While at Cedegolo, a village down the valley, an employee of the electricity supplier society carries out his daily duties, high up in the mountains, at the "Arno" lake dam his work-pals, keepers of the dam, wait to be relieved by the next shift coming in by chopper. The time dictating the narration of the film is a time that flows slowly, beaten by dai...
What is the collective imagination within which a legend should be resting so that it may continue to be told? This film is the result of two months research about the traces left by the intangible cultural heritage in the Camonica valley, a mountain area that have attracted the mankind since prehistoric times. The people involved in the film are the film itself, places of a...
Il ventiduenne Lorenzo ha ottenuto una supplenza annuale in una scuola media di un paesino ai confini del Veneto con il Friuli. Compare nella sua vita Cecilia. Il primo impatto con lei è solo fisico: la ragazza non vuole essere coinvolta dai sentimenti. Con Duilio invece, uno dei suoi alunni, nasce una profonda relazione.
