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A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.

Natale Nazista is an ironic and caustic reflection on an aberrant "nostalgia for dictatorship", or rather on the insidious nature of political and economic power capable of acting pervasively on the collective consciousness to the point of becoming acquiescence and convinced acceptance.

Uncle Pino is a hoarder: he lives among bags and clothes, electronic gadgets of dubious functionality, and Hello Kitties that light up. He navigates meanderings dominated by random objects, each with a story, a trace of a conscious, albeit atypical, path.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

For several years now, Gianni Asdrubali's artistic research has been carrying on a discourse on the concept of emptiness, up to its development in an adimensional frontal surface. Zakkete is an attempt to translate part of his work into a filmic dimension, bearing in mind the gestural nature of Asdrubali's work.

The second instalment of Ignazio Fabio Mazzola's O series.

In 1971, painter Giuseppe Capogrossi, architect Maurizio Sacripanti and sculptor Alfio Castelli won a contest for an ‘artistic fence’ that would enclose the Faculty of Law building in Bari (Italy). Completed in 1972, this piece of public art is now forgotten and degraded. S MMM is a revisitation of the shapes of that fence, a homage to that passionate confrontation of practices that led to that project.

Considerations on the theme of origin, emerging from a few reels of Super 8: interiors of a house and a Sicilian landscape, emptied of its inhabitants by the act of editing.

Texts and colors derived from some of the works of visual artist Francesco Impellizzeri characterize this film, where the structure of the TV intermission combines different colors with a decisive musical component.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.

A girl and her dress meeting the light. Part of the O series.

An artist begins a piece, his movements emerging from the patches of color still not perfectly absorbed by the paper. BB is a video portrait of Pierpaolo Miccolis, a visual artist from Alberobello (in the Bari area).

Portrait of Italian painter Giuliano Sale.

Photographs by my father Giacomo Mazzola and a video depicting Sironi’s painting Mountains: a gesture of remembrance in three chapters.