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Glasgow's docklands; its workers, transportation and daily life. Filmed by Enrico Cocozza for Educational Films of Scotland.

A grim scientist orders his third robot to destroy the male of two humanoid creations after they unexpectedly fall in love. But his plan backfires when the female robot seduces her creator into drinking from a poisoned cup before making her escape. Robot Three received both the Victor Saville Trophy for Most Outstanding Film and the Alfred Hitchcock Cup for Best Fiction Film at the 1952 Scottish Amateur Film Festival, cementing its place as one of the era's most celebrated Scottish amateur productions.

28 minute long short film by Enrico Cocozza from 1950.

A fictional story of a Dracula-type character who terrorises the Coltness Estate in Wishaw.

A golfer who finds a magical ring dreams that he falls in love with a lady trapped in a ruined house.

A man's experience with a living ghost

A young boy and his dog on holiday with his grandmother.

Based on a Robert Browning poem, the film tells the story of a photographer who falls in love with his model, and then strangles her and hangs himself.

Making of spoof Roman historical film drama, shot in COCOZZA's film studio with scenes shot inside the Connoisseur Cinema in Wishaw. Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1952 Highly Commended. COCOZZA's notes: COCOZZA's answer to MGM's Quo Vadis (and 'a spoof' says Jimmy Craig his associate)

A short abstract film with a theme of narcissism. Note there are two versions of this film preserved at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. The black and white sound version is the one transferred for viewing purposes. There is also a black and white and colour version preserved.

A steamer trip from Wemyss Bay through the Kyles of Bute to Inveraray.

Scenes around West Cross, Wishaw. Enrico Cocozza interviews local people as they go about their daily business and captures the various goings on of the street his flat overlooks.

Incubo (Nightmare) is a haunting, surrealist portrait of alienation set against the industrial landscapes of 1950s Glasgow. Following a lonely café worker drifting through parks, streets and wastelands in the grip of depression and emotional exhaustion, the film blurs the line between reality and dream. Encounters with strangers offer only fleeting moments of connection as his journey moves inexorably toward tragedy, accompanied by meditative Buddhist chants that lend the film an almost hypnotic, existential quality. One of Enrico Cocozza's earliest surviving works, Incubo transforms the city into a bleak psychological landscape where despair and isolation become inescapable.

the story of a young author and a magic trumpet

A girl, perhaps on her birthday, lives out her subconscious passions. A stylish and surreal concoction of dance, theatrics, flirtation and solitude.

A dark, fictional story filmed in Enrico Cocozza's flat about a young flat bound artist, Bruno, who is tormented by his two other selves, which manifest themselves as young boys.