Eclettica

At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers—haunted by the horrors of World War II—bands together in a secret programme known as ARCA. A hundred years later, their legacy is our last hope.

On the evening of 21 November 1974, the Provisional Irish Republic of Army carried out a terrorist attack in Birmingham (UK). It was recognised as the bloodiest attack in the Troubles England. This short film tells the “behind the scenes” of this attack, which hides a series of mistakes, delays and frictions within the same terrorist cell responsible for it.

An anxious young man struggles to accept his vulnerabilities whilst on holiday in an upper-class summer residence in Sardinia with his overtly masculine family.

The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?

A woman with an hurted face sits in the half-light of a room. The incoming of a second character brokes the stasis in which she’s trapped.

Lucas and his crew of fellow writers spend their days in a secret forest that stretches along the railway. Lucas, however, is uneasy: something ominous is happening in the woods and he is the only one able to sense it. An unexpected encounter with a mysterious figure leads Lucas to a cathartic moment, suspended between conflict and freedom.

Gabriel and Xavier spend their afternoons playing, wandering the countryside, and exploring abandoned places. All seems peaceful, but a feeling is tormenting Gabriel. Is it love or religion ?

A garage night watchman must face the consequences of his lies when the ghost of his colleague who died because of him shows up to haunt him through the garage's surveillance system.

Grace and her mates get lost whilst skateboarding in a teenaged journey accompanied by the narration of her strange perceptions. Paying homage to sci-fi imagery, skater and streetwear fashion, TAPE001: GRACE, recalls the 90s starting from the title and vintage camcorder shots with which parts of the video were made.

A modern satire targeting the current media obsession with virtue signaling and greenwashing.

A young man wanders around his bomb-wounded city with his dog and his noseless friend Jean-Michel, while trying to keep his everyday life intact.