Lab 80 film

Portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker. While contemporary cinema manipulates reality by hiding itself, this experiment manifests the opposite in an explicit way. The film critic was asked to travel to the city of Bergamo to participate in a 70-minute film experiment: savoring 2 kg of oysters and drinking 2 bottles of wine, while simultaneously answering 15 general knowledge questions and 15 prompts of a private and personal nature. The outcome is a ruinous game in which the meaning of filming and the fragility of a human being merge into a melancholic testament.

Ferdinando stopped talking to people eight years ago. In the solitude of his Milan apartment, he cooks, practices singing, and does some rather unusual exercises. He is paid to keep company to Genziana, a wealthy, cultured woman who feels the need to connect with a deep soul akin to her own.

A couple in love spends a century together as objects, fashions, movies, and architects come and go in a slow but inexorable descent into the macabre.

A man is packing his lunch. He has decided to visit the Brion Tomb, a monumental funerary complex designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa. After placing the food inside a plastic bag, we find him strolling through the cemetery, observing every detail with meticulous care, while in his silent mind linger the precious words spoken by the architect at a conference in Madrid held in the summer of 1978: “For the Brion Tomb, I could have proposed planting a thousand cypresses.”

A middle-aged man is looking at a series of encyclopedic images depicting the creation of the cosmos, from which humanity is absent, apart from a few of its works and their ruins. Lulled to sleep by a commercial, he sinks into a nightmare of Arctic hunters killing polar bears. Meanwhile, two pieces of contemporary music by the composer Agazzi and a text referring to an episode of suicide (that actually took place during the director’s childhood) invite us to “write once, erase twice."

A documentary film about the independent band UZEDA who brought a disruptive sound from Sicily to almost everywhere.

Bianca is a trans sex worker, whose life and work play out in her Milan flat. The camera follows her into her tiny realm: phone calls with clients, philosophy, sex and cigarettes, sing-songs with friends, conversations with her faraway girlfriend.

Art documentary about the Accademia Carrara gallery, which reopened in 2015 after seven years of extensive restoration.

A year of life across the entire Alpine region, from the spring thaw to the arrival of winter, seen through the eyes, gestures, and reflections of three characters: Virginie, Marcel, and Valentin. Far removed from the stereotype of the “mountain man,” these figures embody a contemporary, resilient, and at times innovative way of living and working in the Alps. For them, a return to a rural lifestyle is both a political and a spiritual choice.

This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pierino, a cinephile and a fascinatingly organized man.

Marco Belelli, known professionally as Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and television personality. He holds six academic degrees and owes his notoriety to his past careers as a magician, chansonnier, and politician. He is also the founder of the Theurgical Order of Elios and the Church of the Living - a cult with more than 20,000 followers where he plays the role of a self-proclaimed God. Although initially disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the film unfolds over a long year of exchanges between the director and the “Divine” through Skype conversations, exploring the manifold topics of his multifaceted existence. Significant figures connected with his earthly life are also involved in this journey of knowledge, contributing precious testimonies and further blurring our understanding of such a complex and layered figure.

A sculptor needs a thick garden. During the day he makes funeral casts to the dead of the village, giving their respective families not the authentic remains but a wax copy covered by a death mask. The corpses, carefully placed in the ground behind the house, make the garden mature, while the colonies of mushrooms fueled by their decomposition generate unexpected visions in those who walk there.

The story of Atalanta's Curva Nord from 1993 to the present day through the eyes of Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti, one of the most charismatic figures among the Bergamaschi ultras. The movie retraces the past thirty years of his life, closely intertwined with the events of the Curva and the ultras world in general, which has been undergoing a frantic and profound evolution.

A collective archive film, made with the contribution of unpublished images from some of the main archives of different territorial origins, between Lazio, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna. A journey through time and space: through small cameras, partisans, soldiers, priests and "ordinary citizens" felt the need to document for future memory - and, in some cases, at their own risk - History "as it happens", but also the long waits and daily life that intersect with the events of the two-year period 1943-45. And then the Liberation: the arrival of the Allies, the joy, the dances and finally it's time to get married.

Franco Piavoli is one of the most important directors among Italian independent panorama. Through the years, He built one unique and authentic cinematographic grammar. Born in 1933, He spent his whole life in Pozzolengo, a small village near Garda’s lake. There, He imagined, wrote and - for the most part - shot his own works. We visited him in his house, with us only two reels in super 8mm, and asked him to tell us about his next movie.

Between 1946 and 1951, "The Sardinian Project" upsets the history of Sardinia: the definitive disappearance of malaria, an endemic disease in many areas of the island. However, the disinfestation of the island represents only the first station of a stratified journey, a path between different eras, registers and points of view: the propaganda images and war-like symbols intersect with the gaze of the film-amateurs.

A family with no identity dreams of appropriating the memories of the other ... but who dreams who?