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Pasolini goes America
Editor - Producer
Documentary film written and directed by Renzo Carbonera
Pier Paolo Pasolini has an almost unknown and underrated link to the US. Starting from a complex and evocative, apparently contradictory relationship since his trip to New York in 1966, we place a fascinating cultural, social and political comparison with either the shining Big Apple than the deep Rust Belt of America. Then and now.
Time Suspended
Editor - Producer
Documentary film directed by Lorenzo Spinelli
Rome, 15 October 2011: during the Indignados protest, 18-year-old Giacomo throws a wodden pole at a police van. The act cost him an 11-year legal nightmare, which ended in 2022 with a six-year prison sentence. Before his arrest, Giacomo asked his brother Lorenzo, a film director, to do one thing: “Tell my story”.
The result is an investigation that delves into the roots of a family linked for a century to dissent and imprisonment. From his great-uncle Altiero Spinelli, one of the founding fathers of European Union, imprisoned in 1927, to his father Italo, arrested in 1971, the prison cell seems a hereditary political legacy. While for his fathers the political struggle stemmed from a structured ideology, Giacomo’s act seems to be the eruption of anger caused by a present without prospects.
Time Suspended compares three generations of ‘dissidents’, analysing the evolution of protest and surveillance in Italy.
The cure
Editor - Co Executive Producer
Arthouse film directed by Giotto Barbieri
Released from prison, Maria is determined to get her son Sebastian back, now twenty years old and addicted to heroin. In a desperate attempt at redemption, she decides to kidnap him and retreat with him to a mountain house in the woods. Isolated from the world, Maria subjects Sebastian to an experimental therapy she has devised, in a desperate search for a cure to his addiction. Amidst the physical and psychological challenges of detoxification, Maria’s quest for redemption and reconciliation reaches breaking point.
Body of crime
Editor - Co Executive Producer
Documentary film directed by Francesco Corsi
Ultimo tango a Parigi is undoubtedly the most controversial film of the past 50 years. A masterpiece of the seventh art, scandalous in its mixture of sexual and lethal impulses, it catalyzes like no other film the dynamics of domination games: the power of censorship and State over artistic creation, the power of the filmmaker over his actors, the power of patriarchy over women. Because of these unique characteristics this work keeps on being at the center of debates. Ultimo Tango has become a symbol of the power of the male gaze in cinema, revealing the transformation of our society and raising questions about the evolution of the cinematic gaze and the cultural landscape of then and now.