Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
"I have attended so many courses here in prison... What's one more?" says one of the attendees at the audio-visual workshop that was held from February to June in the district prison of Bergamo. The question of the usefulness of training processes in prison is a burning one. Does it really help? And, if so, who does it really help? Lacking any kind of experience in this fiel...
A journey through the refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon with a Palestinian man who is going back to his fragmented and scattered fellow countrymen. A journey to give voice to the ones who have no rights, no documents, no land. A film to tell about the people's will to go back to their land and the possibility of a credible peace process in the Middle East. A reflection abo...
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...
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1972: un gruppo di sette amici diretti a Washington per una manifestazione contro la guerra nel Vietnam viene arrestato e trattenuto per una notte dalla polizia con un pretesto qualsiasi, impedendo così loro di raggiungere la meta. Passati gli anni delle comuni battaglie, il gruppo si riunisce per passare un weekend nel New Hampshire. Durante la ...
