The violence of revealed religion from the unconscious of the writing. Texts by Derek Jarman, Bertrand Russell, Sun Tzu.
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The spectacle of life in 7 pieces of theater-film. The scenes are based on the dramatic moment of "Handbook of Italo-English Conversation" Professor EW Fulk. Shot in Super 8.
Ladyfilmine is an instant movie about the first roman edition of Ladyfest: a ten-year-old international no profit festival for independent music, politics and arts with a queer feminist focus. Four days in four different countercultural spaces, told by four ladies' voices: those ladies who have decided to take back a place to express themselves, in a country where they see it becoming tighter and tighter every day. Part black and white super8 film, part color digital video, Ladyfilmine shows Ladyfest Roma through different moods, alternating some home movie moments, which evoke past feminist seasons, with partecipant observations of the contemporary social and musical documentary.
Demetrio Stratos was born in Egypt to Greek parents. He first came to Italy in the 1960s where he becomes the singer of I Ribelli, which had been the band of Adriano Celentano. In the 1970s he co-founded Area, one of the most provocative and innovative experimental pop groups. Area brought musical exploration directly to the streets and protest gatherings. The band combined rock, jazz, contemporary western music, ethnical themes and electronic sounds. Beginning with Area's experimental repertoire, and running parallel to this, Stratos engaged in a study of the voice as a pure musical and sound-producing instrument. His discography includes several voice-only records, while he worked with artists such as John Cage, as he was able to express a very wide range of tonality, and was able to emit even three different-pitched sounds simultaneously. He gets studied by physicians and phoniatrists. The paths followed by his voice lead us to discover the creativeness of Italian and European political and artistical movements of the 70s, whose heritage is often at the fundaments of today's society.
Cane CapoVolto is a group founded in 1992 in Catania, as a kind of "brotherhood" of three, plus a number of collaborators. Plagium is a project (The Adventures of an autonomous brain wave) based on logical combinations of recycled images, texts and sounds. We can not forget the repressive function of "art" in a society that desperately calls for creativity and abstraction to survive.
UntitledAn evocation of the tragedy of contemporary art. Art, like religion, arises from unsatisfied desire.
“Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution are the greatest threat since the time of the Soviet Union and communism”. Doctrine for Asymmetric War Against Venezuela, U.S. Army, 2006 This is the starting point for a journey across the country which gave rise to the “red wave” in Latin America. Does Venezuela represent the dream of a new socialist society or is it just another distortion of populism and dictatorship? A trip with President Chavez over the largest oil reserve in the world, situated beneath the Orinoco river, becomes the occasion in which to enter into the lives of Venezuelans, nine years after the beginning of the Bolivarian revolution. The government missions to fight illiteracy and hunger, the creation of a public health care system and the development of an economy based on cooperative work are some of the achievements which characterize the Chavez era. On the other hand are the country's 60 violent deaths a week and its collapsing hospitals, the closure of the most popular television channel, the old European immigrants in flight, the opposition black list and the ubiquitous government propaganda. Venezuela en route to socialism: is this still possible in our post-ideological times?