E’ Mezzanotte, Monsieur Cinema

I dreamt of finding myself naked sitting in a café. On the table was a cactus. I was watching it. The cactus also looked at me - and the more it looked at me, the more it was blushing.

A young woman dedicates to a solitary pleasure surrounded by precious cushions. Larvae of flies appear in superimposition moving briskly and multiplying until they conquer the entire frame. Numerous signs, scratches and holes deliberately made on the film follow. On this images a tricolor ribbon is again superimposed, which start to burn together with the worms. "Common people’ succumbs to the massacres of the state and to the terrorist attacks that infect Italy.

The film took place at Villa Pisani (Stra-Venezia), near Venice’s lagoon in Porto Marghera (VE) and in a car cemetery. A beautiful girl covered with a semi-transparent gauze and with a gas mask.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

A reference to the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who died mysteriously on December 15, 1969, while held at the Milan Police Headquarters for an investigation following a bomb explosion.

A film centered on the graphic and pictorial works of the artist Paolo Sardina, whose images have been painted and scratched directly onto the film.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

The film begins with a shot on the countryside near Padua. A young man goes slowly towards the camera carrying a big red flag, referring to the student revolts of 1968. The camera follows the protagonist ..

The camera focuses on the face of a model whose body is being rubbed by a vibrating tool shaped like a spider.

Some scenes in black and white show Venice, Piazza San Marco, people who walk, feed pigeons and paint. The film records the gestures of boys hugging each other, touching each other; then childhood and provocative scenes alternate. Venice is dying.

Outtakes from a lost film made by the director in 1968.

Animations of abstract shapes on « carton coupé » using the technique of stop-motion.

A re-edit of outtakes from the 1973 film "Ritratto Dell'Artista (Da Narcisso).

Experimental short filmed between 1987 and 2002.

Images of everyday life: a walk, the village fair with the carousel and children playing alternate with scenes in which the young couple kisses passionately in a little church, spied by the indiscreet eye of the camera.

Experimental short.