1991-2000

A puppet equipped with suction cups slides along different surfaces.

Story:Ugo Nespolo
Screenplay:Ugo Nespolo
Photography:Bruno Dreossi
Music:Stefan Grapelli, George SheringRead More »

This three hour long French documentary chronicles the life and personality of famed French poet, actor and intellectual Antonin Artaud who passed away in 1948 when he was only 50-years old. His last two years were characterized by his insanity, and terrible pain. Though a famed actor and poet, Artaud is best remembered for his musings upon the true significance and power of words. The documentary includes archival footage, readings of his poems, examples of his art, and interviews with close friends.Read More »

“Together with his collaborator, (prominent Australian playwright) Stephen Sewell, Ian Pringle has wisely chosen to avoid the restrictive confines of a birth-to-death biography. They have instead fashioned an involving interior drama, focusing on the final four years of Isabelle Eberhardt’s turbulent existence. This is the period when Isabelle (Mathilda May) returns to North Africa, ostensibly to track down a missing right-wing eccentric, the Marquis de Moyes. Eberhardt operates as a kind of free-roving desert correspondent, outraging authorities both with her published accounts exposing the corruption of the French militia, and also with her rebellious behaviour as an independent, self-styled woman in an exclusively male domain.Read More »

Summary: Martyr Sun Zhongshan was captured by the Japanese and his comrades were all killed. Only Hua managed to survive and escaped, Hua was desperate to rescue Sun and he wrote to inform five legendary men in Canton for help. Soon after the delivery of the letters, Hua was taken by the Japanese. Luckily, the five men received the letters and came to Shanghai. They turned out to be: Killer Alan, a womanizer who thought himself to be charming and handsome; Indiana Chong, a whip expert; Witty Sung Shiyou, an extremely clever and whimsical mastermind; Flash Jian, an amazing person with an unusual memory; Superman Qiang, an exceptional man with fortune-telling power. And they are the renowned “Five Tigers of Canton”.Read More »

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Three stories, three portraits of Neapolitan women, three social environments (bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, proletariat).
Each story takes the name of the protagonist.
1) “Aurora”: a bourgeois woman, enriched by marriage, is abandoned by her husband; a former boyfriend comes back, but only to take her belongings.
2) “Carmela”: young man discovers, together, his homosexuality and the true identity of his mother, a father since always transvestite.
3) “Libera”: a newsdealer with an adulterous husband secretly films his carnal congresses and sells them in pornocassette.Read More »

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After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible.Read More »

While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka’s constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions.Read More »

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All seems lost. And then, in an old, lonely and icy park two shadowy figures meet: those of Deus and a Messenger from God. The Messenger gives the crook (the temporary state of poor João de Deus) a suitcase stuffed with money. His mission accomplished, the Messenger leaves. João counts the bank notes. The silent waters of a nearby lake are disturbed when a heavy object plunges in. João goes to see what is happening. A young girl (Joana) is drowning. João throws himself into the water and carries the unconscious Joana off to a convent (Capucines?). How Responsible! João de Deus returns to the park to recover the case and its precious contents: happily, nothing has been touched…Read More »

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The level of disinterest in personal affairs has become so cynical in Bucharest, that people cheer even an inept army and police manhunt. Meanwhile, Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.Read More »