The demolition of an old factory in the outskirts of Bergamo brings back to light the story of a workers' victory. In 1974, in the middle of an economic crisis, Lastex Yarn fired half of its workers. The factory is occupied and after months of protest, the workers show that the crisis is only a pretext to close and move the production lines to Malaysia, where the man pow...
"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
The City of Silence is the psychiatric hospital of Treviso. Old abandoned structures, scraped walls, walled up windows. A nurse tells about the methods used in the past and the dramatic reactions of the patients. Some written patients' testimonies found in the hospital contribute to portrait the atmosphere of this place, where thousands of patients have lived.
Flor da Baixa is an old pension with empty windows or an echo, a cross reference to an image, dreamt or seen by somebody else. Flor da Baixa is a woman who has been waiting and waited forever... is a border line, where everything has to be defined and can change.
The relationship between Livorno and Piero Ciampi, a forgotten and disregarded artist, poet and songwriter who was always angry because anarchist and communist. The "Livorness" of the artist is told by the ones who have memory of his peculiar disenchanted irony which is perfectly summed up in one of his sentence: "I am the greatest, because I can get up to 300...
During the fight for the Liberation, the city of Piacenza counted 860 deaths and went through brutal massacres, but thanks to the Resistance, it obtained freedom. For this reason, in 1996, the city has been honored with the Golden Medal for Military Merit in the Resistance. The documentary follows the stages of the Liberation process through the voice of the ones who fought ...
It happens, sometimes, that a place finds you, even when you are not even looking for it, and you find out that you can't live without it. This is what must have happened to Elisa, the day when she was found by Sadurano. She got lost and she was wandering around following the road which, from Castrocaro Terme, climbs up the hills like a serpent, almost crawling.
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.
In the 50s' and the 60s', Cecucine has offered the dream of images to the public gathered in squares and courtyards. At the age of 84, Cecucine is still playing with cinema, mixing it up with real life.
A day with Ciro, a man from Centocelle (Rome) who has had a stand at the market for forty years and Priscilla, an Irish painter and aspiring musician with a passion for roses.
