Homage to Andrè Breton

Short film by Luigi Zanuso.

Second film of the Great Power trilogy

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.

Third film of the Great Power trilogy

First film of the Great Power trilogy

Through a series of dreamlike, sculptural, and surreal images, united by the depth of their essence, and replacing words with music, I have sought to express the mysterious force that is the mother of all things: Love.