Carcere in Italia

Some persons bring chickens and fishes as presents to some actors who are playing, while the Warrior tries the mirror's suicide, but fails in seeing the Death. Outside, chewing-gums are distributed away and the Spring passes by, turning into a little girl. –G. L.

Experimental short by Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi.

It is a film about real people who have had and continue to have adversarial relationships with society. These individuals recount dramatic, traumatic personal experiences of flight, emigration, and segregation.

With rapid editing that alternates a wide range of sources through an extensive variety of shooting and editing techniques, A Corpo is a drift through the consumer imagery of the day, in which the body of the single individual corresponds to political struggle, militancy and anti-imperialist engagement against the war in Vietnam. —Tate Modern

The struggle for housing in Rome, in the area of Magliana. Self-organization is opposed to the mediation of political parties, especially the Communist Party, and emerges as the only way for the emancipation and re-appropriation by the exploited.

Video images shot on the ferry with which filmmakers Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi travelled to the island of Tristan da Cuhna, the subject of a documentary shot in 1992 for the Italian public television channel RAI.

Documentary shot for RAI Italian television on Tristan da Cunha, an active volcanic island with rare wildlife and home to British Citizens living in the world's most isolated settlement.

The struggles of the workers at Montedison in Porto Marghera, following an accident that resulted in the deaths of three people.

Omsa Sud workers’ struggle to keep the factory occupied. The documentary was partially realized within a project financed by the city of Fermo, which initially included the idea of teaching video shooting techniques as part of a laboratory. Omsa Sud was shot only in one week, an unusual occurence for the Videobase group, and features as part of their methodology the "video within the video" approach.

The documentary deals with the struggle s to obtain decent housing in a metropolis such the capital city of Italy in which the right for all to an acceptable dwelling is met with by all kids of serius obstacles-the chaotic increase of urbanization, the building speculation, the degradayion of suburbs, the magnitudine of slums with their unfortunatle inhabitants whose living condition have been dramatic for years. Starting from the Roman situation, the documentary faces the general housing problem in the country as whole and therefore the problrm of the struggles which people support - also through new structures such as People's Councils and Commitees - on the entire national territory in oder to attain one the primary goals of a decent society: a home whorty of its name for all its citizens.

In a construction site near Rome, a Calabrian construction worker dies. The emigrant's hard life is reconstructed through the words of his fellow workers and family, interviewd between Rome and Calabria. One of the first experiments of collective directing that will later turn into the group Videobase.

Video short for RAI Italian television, and part of the bigger project of duo Lajolo-Lombardi on insular communities, which became their main cinematic focus with a group of documentaries shot in the '90s after the experience of Videobase with Alfredo Leonardi.

The focus of this documentary is the nurses and porters working at the Policlinico universitario Umberto I in Rome, which demand equal treatment within a militan action that follows the steps of the operaist labor struggles in factories.

Documentary on the fight for housing in the 70s in Magliana, a popular neighborhood of Rome.

A television experiment, filmed with the first portable video recorders, in the Ligurian community of Carloforte, on the island of San Pietro: for two months, the small crew lived in close contact with the people and their daily lives. They created a collective portrait, featuring former ore carriers, seafarers, salt workers, fishermen, tuna fishermen, industrial workers in the Sulcis area, young men and women from the nautical and teaching sectors, and the women, "white widows," wives of sailors, entrusted with raising their children. Three years later, in light of the changes, that first portrait—comprising life, work, feelings, and hopes, past and present—was shown to the islanders in the streets, squares, workplaces, and schools. Reactions and comments were filmed and incorporated into the final edit, which showcases the process and working method. Video is used as a means of recognition, identity, participation, and horizontal dialogue, a pioneering "street television."

Experimental short.