Animali

In this filmic comment on Fascist ideology - which uses footage from the recently discovered archives of Luca Comerio - invisible hands push captive animals to fight among themselves.

A journey through the intensive cattle industry.

Two brothers on a road trip through Texas discuss the morality of killing and ponder our place in the natural world.

Through gestures and sounds produced by the performer, movements and verses of 12 animals are reinterpreted.

A children’s short directed by one of the most well-known figures in Cuban animation.

A film about fate, co-existence, vanity, justice, karma and forgiveness, ANIMALICOUS comprises six stories of people and the animals that shot them, fell on them, and generally caused mayhem of one sort or another. Filmed in Kentucky, Missouri, and England, ANIMALICOUS features a bomb-diving duck, a squirrel which thinks it’s landed on Normandy Beach, a hawk that could easily work for a hair growth pharmaceutical company, a parakeet, a turkey, a hungry snake, and one tiny little dog. It’s a funny but wry account of how animals can be a way of defining ourselves. In ANIMALICIOUS Lewis displays a genuine knack for uncovering the comic and quizzical relationships that exist between people and creatures great and small.

Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.

Short film shown as part of THE COLOURS OF SMALL GAUGE CINEMA Strand at Cinema Ritrovato 2024. Edoardo Scotti coloured and toned his films after developing them and duplicated certain parts to create special effects. The colourants he used created a palette comparable to that used in dyeing fabrics - he was also a textile manufacturer.