Egisto Macchi

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, photographer, documentary maker, screenwriter is filmed by Paolo Pisanelli, photographer, director, curator of cultural events.

Érase una vez una historia oscura ambientada en una pequeña comunidad en algún lugar del mundo. Un mundo aparentemente normal que supura silenciosamente con el sadismo de los padres y la ira de los niños diligentes y desesperados.

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.

When his wife Lydia commits suicide, succesful attorney Robert Havinck is freed from his unhappy marriage. Unfortunately, it turns out she took a complete stranger along with her, and a feeling of guilt and curiosity about her motives lead Havinck to team up with his fifteen-year old daughter to explore Lydia's final days.

El amigo de un travesti, muerto en extrañas circunstancias, comienza a sospechar del propio investigador del caso cuando éste le niega rotundamente que se tratase de un asesinato.

In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney) after the death of his wife. The woman pretends to be surprised over his attention but does nothing to discourage his advances. He promises to build her a swimming pool in order to further his fantasies. The story is taken from the novel by Junichiro Tamizaki.

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting

El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) fue para Mussolini, el despótico dictador itliano, una etapa difícil, pues se vio obligado a contemplar impotente la inevitable derrota y el fracaso del imperio que trató de construir. Cuando ya no podía confiar en nadie, sólo su mujer Rachele y su amante Clara Petacci le fueron incondicionalmente fieles e intentaron protegerlo de las intrigas que lo amenazaban.

A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.

Una familia arisócrática siciliana en los años 50 del siglo XX. El conde Villafratti practica el sexo una noche con su hermana nimfómana porque cree que es su esposa.

A reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.

Documentary in which 94 year-old Francesca Bertini recalls her life and career while attending a screening of Assunta Spina.

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

Barcelona entre los años 1917 y 1923. Es la época del pistolerismo, durante la cual el enfrentamiento entre pistoleros anarquistas y sicarios pagados por la patronal arrojó un número escandaloso de muertes. El enfrentamiento entre los trabajadores anarquistas y los propietarios de la fábrica de armas Savolta se agrava cuando la familia Savolta decide acabar con la rebelión contratando asesinos a sueldo y urdiendo intrigas con el fin de ocultar sus ilegales transacciones con Alemania. Adaptación de la novela homónima de Eduardo Mendoza.

During a spaghetti western screening a man is shot dead, the doors are locked and the police is called in to investigate.

París, Francia, 1942, durante la ocupación nazi. Robert Klein, un exitoso marchante de arte que se beneficia de las desgracias de aquellos que son despiadadamente perseguidos, descubre por casualidad que existe otro Robert Klein, aparentemente un hombre judío, alguien con quien podría ser identificado erróneamente, algo peligroso en tiempos tan duros.

París, Francia, 1942, durante la ocupación nazi. Robert Klein, un exitoso marchante de arte que se beneficia de las desgracias de aquellos que son despiadadamente perseguidos, descubre por casualidad que existe otro Robert Klein, aparentemente un hombre judío, alguien con quien podría ser identificado erróneamente, algo peligroso en tiempos tan duros.

Documentary on the river Ganges.

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Dos hermanos incestuosos se trasladan desde Sicilia a Turín. Ella va a trabajar a una fábrica, y él se acoge a la protección de un mafioso. Testigo de un doble asesinato, ha de huir a Francia, y cuando regresa descubre que su hermana trabaja en un night club y es amante del gángster. Le roban su dinero y huyen a Sicilia, pero su final será trágico...

Tras haber tenido que abandonar la Unión Soviética en 1929, Leon Trotsky acaba exiliado en México. Un agente de Stalin, Frank Jacson, es enviado al país centroamericano con la misión de acabar con él.

Performances by artists in 1968 Rome: Cesare Tacchi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Jannis Kounellis, Aldo Mondino and Nanni Cagnone redefine the boundaries of contemporary art by playing with heterogeneous materials, aluminum wheels, fish, kites, paper planes. The group from via Brunetti performs in piazza del Popolo, reviving the city traffic with by now bizarre means of transport, the velocipede and the tractor, on which, with an Indian scalp on his head, Gino De Dominicis whizzes by, immortalized by the camera before the cult of immortality delivered him to the logic of disappearance.

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

In a small town in Lazio every year a procession is held in honor of San Giovanni, to ask forgiveness for the sins committed, recalling an ancient legend.

Un tren es asaltado por la banda de Billy Kane en colaboración de un grupo de forajidos mejicanos. Del asalto sólo se salvará dos pasajeros: un joven, Ricky Shot y Richard Martin, un feriante antiguo maestro de Kane del que éste aprendió todo sobre el manejo del revólver y al que abandonó para dedicarse a la delincuencia. Kane, le perdonará la vida, no sin antes dispararle a las manos. A partir de ese momento, Richard planeará junto a Ricky la venganza.

E.C.H.O., a secret organization with a strange name masterminds a bizarre plot to take over the world by dosing important `nerve centers' with super potent LSD. The only man who can stop them is Rex, a secret agent working for an undisclosed organization.

The Lagno is the canal that crosses Naples, collecting its debris to stop even before reaching the sea. Around its dirty waters, the film outlines a cross-section that is anything but oleographic of the Neapolitan capital, immortalized already in the advanced industrial era and still wearing the signs of war and desperate poverty. After a few spoken notes, the sound commentary is entirely inhabited by a ghostly composition.

Initial panorama of Brindisi, a city with a peasant tradition. The petrochemical, city within a city. Children in poor neighborhoods, workers' voices: the crisis, the layoffs, the need for the recommendations of the Christian Democrats to enter Montecatini. Wealthy men and women binge at the restaurant. Voices of agrarians, forced to leave the earth to make room for the petrochemical. A ballroom. In a puppet theater, a show is staged in which the worker is addressed as "starved". At a course for foremost workers, various compliant testimonies follow one another: Monteshell is a large industry, and no one has any criticisms against it. But another worker, elsewhere, with his face in the shadows, confesses that everyone is afraid to speak, skilled workers get the same pay as simple ones, 400 colleagues have been fired, union activists are "special supervised", and going on strike is a business. 35mm b/w

The industrial city of Brindisi is the setting for this film, the tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright reality of a young worker, in one of Mangini's most emblematic works.

This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological. Starting from an analysis of the feminine role models proposed by the cultural industry, the film finds its protagonists among all kinds of women.

In Montesano, Salento, during the festivities held in August in honour of Saint Donatus, patron saint of epileptics and the mentally ill, the power of collective suggestion causes strange phenomena and rituals to occur. Luigi Di Gianni, master of anthropological documentary, films the worshippers with Dionysian force as they writhe and scream as if in a pagan rite, showing how the content of the Catholic liturgy succumbs to the primitive passion of popular religiosity.

Martine, una condenada a trabajos forzados, llega a la Isla del Diablo, en la Guayana francesa, donde deberá cumplir su pena. Encuentra allí a su hermana, confinada en la isla años atras. Más tarde, ante las duras condiciones de vida a que son sometidas, planearán su fuga en unión de otras reclusas, pero son traicionadas por una compañera y castigadas. La llegada a la isla de un nuevo comandante parece infundirles nuevas esperanzas.

Indagación sobre los orígenes del fascismo y su desarrollo en Italia y en otros países mediante material de archivo. Esta revisión muestra el marco ideológico del fascismo y el rastro que ha dejado en la mentalidad de la gente.

Es 1790 y el comandante naval británico Redway es impulsado por la codicia de dinero y no se detendrá ante nada para obtenerlo. Su segundo al mando, David Robinson, cuestiona su lealtad cuando Redway mata a su padre y toma prisionero a su hermano. Para salvar a su hermano y vengar la muerte de su padre, David debe unir fuerzas con una banda de piratas, liderados por el Capitán Bernard, perseguir y matar a Redway.

The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the Abruzzi and Lazio regions, to make it to the Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore, 10 miles from the capital, by morning. More than an anthropological study of ecstatic devotion – with its genuflecting disciples, and women who scream desperately at the sky – Divino Amore also speaks to Mangini’s interest in disappearing rituals and communities at risk of extinction. When generations of worshippers pour out of the church at the end of the service, formality dissolves into secular leisure, as families perched on horse carts eat plates of spaghetti and men fall asleep on the grass. The velvet-clad austerity of the church’s interior gives way to a series of pastoral tableaux.

On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes them, approaches them, reveals the gestures and glances, wraps them in a sort of visual dance, while the words of the commentary (entrusted to the poetic sensibility of Pier Paolo Pasolini) narrate the stories, desires, dreams, the future.

A unique documentary on the tra­ditional dirge in Griko, an ancient language of Salento.

A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give meaning to time.