Experimental Films
Experimental movies: new independent films and classics of experimental cinema that seek new languages and new ways of cinematographic art.
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The soul of the belly
Movie
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... -
France, almost a self-portrait
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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 ... -
Lack-Hell
Movie
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... -
Lightning part 2
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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... -
Lightning part 1
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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... -
Apice
Movie
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-... -
Moon zero
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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. -
80 kg
Movie
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... -
Folias para 5
Movie
Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
As a matter of Madness, is to move in circles. And you find yourself still wondering what it is. Declined with good and evil: the madness of love and mad killing spree, act of madness and insane utopia. Madness is the limit beyond the madman. Based on th... -
Before The Time Changes
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Short film, by M. Menegazzo, M. Pernisa, Italy, 2017.
Every year, the last week of October, between Saturday and Sunday, the transition from summer to solar time takes place, the antechamber of the winter season. Before moving the hands back one hour and feeling the approach of darkness, someone ... -
Ballad of Hypochondria
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Short movie, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2016.
A path for music and images suspended between narration and experimentation, technology and tribalism. “Ballad of hypochondria (or Vibrio in love)” primarily focuses on symbolic work on the color scheme, materialize in the form of photographic mas... -
The Dream of Homer
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Documentary, by Emiliano Aiello, Italy, 2018.
What makes those who live without seeing dream? What kind of images and figures populate your imagination and dreams? The Dream of Homer is a documentary on the dreams of Rosa, Domenico, Gabriel, Daniela and Fabio: blind from birth, united by their co... -
The Grin and the Cow
Movie
Experimental, musical film, by Fabio Nicosia, Italy, 2020.
Musical film with a psychological twist. The monsters of childhood imagery transmigrated in the various stages of the individual's existence. The shadows, the ghosts and the fears that we have managed to tame but not eliminate and that ke... -
Sebastiane
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Drama, history, by Derek Jarman, United Kingdom, 1976.
In the third century A.D. Sebastiano is a member of the personal guard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he tries to intervene to prevent one of the Emperor's catamites from being strangled by one of his bodyguards, Sebastian is exiled to a rem... -
Testament of Orpheus
Movie
Drama film, by Jean Cocteu, France, 1960.
In his latest film, the legendary Jean Cocteau is a poet who travels through time in search of enlightenment. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets lost souls that result in his death and resurrection. With an exceptional cast including Pablo Picasso, Jean-...