Il Piantone

Police officer Antonio is murdered by Eli, a girl of few words; Arm, a boy struggling with the problems of adolescence; and French, a man of faith and a heavy smoker. Commissioner D'Angelo, who finds the body on the banks of the Po River, arrests the three alleged murderers, but lacks any conclusive evidence.

A mother feeds her son to the point of possessing him.

Samp is a professional hitman who is hired by a powerful president to kill traditionalists. On a personal level, he has psychological problems he treats with music. After killing his mother, he wanders through Puglia seeking his ideal woman. He encounters all sorts of people as he goes: nature-lovers, people out to find their roots, and an eccentric musician. Suddenly, Samp falls in love, not once, but serially. With women of little substance. He kills someone else and becomes almost human—and that humanity will put paid to his dreams of power.

Documentary filmed on the occasion of the “2003, Odyssey in Space Zero” operation inside the Spazio Zero Theater in Rome. The document, filmed between 21 October and 30 November 2003, recounts the representation of Fotofinish not as a single and continuous work, but as the evolution over time of the moods and movements of the actors who, replica after replica, have developed an awareness of the space and arrived at the joy of staging.

Giuseppe who is allergic to diminutives, leaves his mother marked by incest. Tamara, a rampant young girl, abandons her father after loving him. During his pilgrimage Giuseppe breaks many a heart but since he loves to masturbate he never gives himself and never lets himself be touched. The young man’s fame reaches the ears of Tamara who, after searching in vain finally meets him on the wane. The two fall in love, get married and are soon bored. The simplistic, theoretical Giuseppe finds his allergic attacks increasing due to syncopated forms. Tamara gets pregnant, her husband repudiates the paternity, she kills him with diminutive blows. The child is born reluctantly; it looks like its father and inherits his allergies…

In a country house a patriarch lords over his community made up of a tired woman and a boy in the midst of an economic-adolescent crisis. The guest of the facility is Dr. Girarda, a chemist extradited from Poland.

A man is preaching, two people are listening, and another pretends he’s freezing to death.

A psychoanalyst helps a patient to achieve his ambitions.

A spiritual operator, don Tek, gives out advice and judgments to his followers, who dream of a dark, cruel man who attacks them with the socio-moral meanings of life. The dream interpreter materializes and is killed by don Tek who, after the murder, falls asleep to forget. But the victim appears in his dreams, leaping from the sky only to die instantly: don Tek has killed dreams.

In the land of the slides, three handicapped plot against people with two legs.

A man is sick and he doesn’t show himself. Three people don’t go to visit him and they show themselves.

A man and a woman make guesses about the future while a child is still unborn

Birth growing and gathering of a family which is not even an average one

The extremities of a middle-class being ramble on, reflecting poetically on the wretchedness of moderation.