Films

Medea
16mm, 32 min. (in Post-production)
The film is an interpretation of Franca Rame’s adaptation of Euripedes tragedy “Medea”.  Medea’s voice is presented as a self analytical monologue. The making of the film is exposed through cinematic devices and is interwoven, as a reflexive journey of juxtapositions, throughout the filmmaker’s documentation of his relationship with his mother during the making of the film.  The film presents the mother as subject, operator and performer due to the nature of the cinematic lens.

Silent Portrait Series
(started in 2009, on going)
A series of films on various artists and filmmakers.  The series focuses an a single moment of the artist’s life photographed in the style of his/her work. These short impressions are approximately 3min.

Walking The Holy Land
16mm/DV, Color/B&W, 20 min. 2008
An Essay film which studies the act of walking through the city of Rome. The act of walking is presented as a personal crusade, an act of social defiance, and a mode of ptrotest and conflict.

Hand made
16mm, Color, 6 min. 2007
All the images of this film were created by hand manipulating existing found footage or painting and scratching on clear and black leader.

Gramsci-Roma
Super 8, B&W, 8 min, 2006
Gramsci-Roma is inspired by the prison letters of Antonio Gramsci and the city of Rome, where he was arrested by the Fascist-dominated Italian state in 1926. The film represents Rome with images that lie in-between quotidian and tourism. These images weave through and collide with the economic and class struggle presented by Gramsci and the coexistence of modern capital consumption with the historical commodity of the ancient city of Rome.

Swan
Super 8, B&W, 5min. 2006
Swan is a re-photographing of a popular US television extreme make over program, “The Swan”. The obscure and abstract super 8 images de-construct the polished TV show. Superimposed is the images of stitches dancing on the screen as an attempt, in vain, to sew the images back to whole as a comment on the invasive nature of the program on the female body.

ZigZag
16mm, color, 6min, 2006
ZigZag is a film that was part of a performance called “Eyes needs Ears” that asked filmmakers to produce a silent film for musicians to use as a score in a live performance. This film was sewn with a sewing machine. Lines of thread form a dancing zigzag stitching pattern which the musician played along with a guitar solo.

Tintura
16mm, Color, 8min. 2003.
This film juxtaposes two cultures from an immigrant’s perspective. Religious traditions become indicative of a stifling but yet passionate culture which form the basis of memories and dreams of the land of origin..

Crack
16mm, color, 8 min, 1998.
The film looks at a person grasping onto individuality in a controlling and authoritarian social structure by focusing on a medical experience. The mechanization of medicine strips the patient of any individuality by reducing language and basic body functions such as breathing to automated procedures. The positive and negative image is used to intertwine a mesh of repetition to evoke the mechanization of the human body

Occhi di Lenzuolo
16mm, color, 25 min. 1998
This film examines the search for sexual and cultural identity revolving around a homecoming. The main character, Piero, returns to his hometown in Sicily after a long absence. The people and culture of the land he once was part of are now alien to him. The film was entirely shot in the province of Palermo, Sicily.

Tematiche
16mm, B&W, 9.5 min. 1995
Tematiche is an interpretation of Italian Philosopher Gian Battista Vico’s theory on the development of language. Vico describes three stages through which the process of language occurs, Sense, Fantasy, and Reason. The film is a visual exploration of these stages, revolving around physical and psychological images of an individual’s daily routine.