Rosario Gallardo

Like the previous works, Beyond Madness has no real plot: everything unfolds through a series of visual scenes, each introduced by Zanuso himself while reading one of his book of aphorisms (in life he is also a writer); preceded by his own phrases or those of famous philosophers, impressive tableaux vivants follow one another, dreamlike glimpses which, as in dreams, proceed by accumulation and without a precise apparent meaning. Zanuso, who at the beginning appears in the role of Diogenes with the lantern while "looking for man", peppers them with psychoanalytic metaphors, but more than the meaning, what matters is the signifier, the visible, which here reaches the zenith of that "sublime and perverse” has always been sought after in his poetics.

Luigi Atomico Zanuso, in the role of the Greek philosopher Diogenes, searches for man in a world of robots and dehumanized people.

An erotic and pornographic nonfiction movie shot in five days aboard a camper. Two couples, one in their twenties and one in their forties, travel to perform a porno-aesthetic performance at a post-porn festival in Rome. They take the opportunity to shoot “a sex film” and, in addition to making a lot of it, they become aware of their erotic bond and how much this goes beyond social stereotypes.