Short film, by Garance Staehli, Germany, 2023.
If you pull a pendulum out one way, it will swing back just that far the other way. Where is the fine line of powerful yet delicate balance?

Director Biography - Garance Staehli
Garance is a dance artist originally from Switzerland and currently bas...

Experimental short film, by Maya Deren, United States, 1943.
Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the masterpieces of surrealistic cinema and American avant-garde and has become an iconic work in the world of experimental cinema. The film is characterized by a non-linear and dreamlike narrative that...

Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

Documentary, by Benjamin Christensen, Sweden, 1922.
Desecration of tombs, torture, demon-possessed nuns and witches' sabbath: Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages is an incredibly original and unconventional film that has become legendary over time. Between documentary and dramatic fiction, the fil...

Experimental, by Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa, Italy, 2019.
The doors of perception is the personal attempt to evoke a metaphysics of images and light, arbitrarily recalling the dividing structure interposed between the presbyterial area and that reserved for the faithful in the Orthodox...

Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...

Documentary, by Fabio Giovinazzo, Italy, 2018.
"L'anima nel ventre" is an art film about Claudio Pozzani, a rustling entity of poetic vivacity that sings while narrating. The cinematic work shakes imaginative formulas in which happiness and melancholy coexist, the scenic actions meet with daily p...

Documentary, by Ilaria Pezone, 2017, Italy.
Avid cinephile, filmmaker, film essayist, teacher. Who is really Francesco Ballo? Maybe it's all these things together, and more: an Inter fan, a wine expert, a careful jazz lover ... A truly independent filmmaker out of any commercial logic, Francesco ...

Short movie, thriller, by Fabio Giovinazzo, Italy, 2018.
"12 cm heels" is a medium-lenght thriller movie directed by Fabio Giovinazzo where a savage murder catered increasingly to the vogue for the fanciful and the bizarre.

LANGUAGE: italian
SUBTITLES: english

Drama, by Stefano Odoardi, Italy, 2014.
An Angel, inspired by R.M.Rilke's Duino Elegies, wanders through the ruins of a contemporary Hell, in a silent and abandoned city, in which a group of the damned (20 inhabitants of L'Aquila) are imprisoned. Each of them will share their thoughts and despair...

Documentary, directed by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
This fresco is a cinema of zig-zags, akin to the branching of lightning bolts. It unfolds its subject across different countries of the world and over the span of several centuries, concurrently presented in both documentary and legendary f...

Documentary, by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
A film divided into two parts, a legend intertwining with a documentary across four seasons. This portrait unfolds like a cinematic kaleidoscope, zigzagging like the branching of lightning bolts. The narrative is set in different countries around th...

Short film, by Flavio Sciolè, Italy, 2017.
Experimental video that reworks an ancestral game.

Short film, by Flavio Sciolè, Italy.
An experimental antifilm by Flavio Sciolè. A requiem for a rose. A man lost in a delirium.

Short film, by Flavio Sciolè, Italy.
An experimental antifilm by Flavio Sciolè. A Christ surronded by autumn vertigo.

Short film, by Flavio Sciolè, Italy, 2016.
An optical vocal and visual distortion.

Short film, by Flavio Sciolè, Italy.
An optical vertigo with references to the seventies.

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
There is no way to escape the portrayal, basically life itself is a sham.

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
It has been several years since 1980, when an earthquake devasted Irpinia, South Italy. Although a massive reconstruction, some places, here and there, like dead memories or museums in the open air, can still remind everybody of such a tragedy. The long-...

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
What do they share, apart from 'B', Beckett, Buster Keaton, Bene and Bergman? They all lead a wide-eyed actress to perceive their own view. The way they shift from physical to metaphysical appearance.

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
Despite its multiculturalist nature, America is paradoxically the first country in the world of the modern era to highlight the distance between itself and the rest of the world and to manage its problems in an openly conflicting manner.

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
In an old abandoned house a girl finds in a trunk a pair of red shoes that make her fantasy fly... her are dreams of a Star.

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
An experimental short film on the nature of the gaze. “I would like a Story of Gaze…” (Roland Barthes)

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
A dead man = 80 kg of meat, 4 buckets of water, 1 bag salt. Loosely based on “fatzer-fragment”, “Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer” by Bertolt Brecht, it’s a reflection on narcissism and the value of individual strength when applied in opposite direc...