Asleep
In "Asleep," a poem by Wilfred Owen, published in 1917, he writes about a soldier who was killed while sleeping. It is a poem that introduces a changing view of war – it helps us reflect upon the uselessness of the sacrifice of a human life… where ...
Perception • Homage to Gilles Deleuze
If someone were to ask me how to define the 'left' – I would say there are two aspects: First of all it is a matter of perception … there are too many people dying of hunger It is REALLY a matter of perception, not of something like ‘pure ...
Achad (Unity)
Genres: Documentary Duration: 33 minutes In the 1940s in a small town called Dollarton in British Columbia, just north of Vancouver, an obscure event in literary history occurred when a fascinating relationship developed between two men, Charles ...
You Say You Love
A super 8 film by Elio Gelmini Music by Steven Brown In loving memory of Giorgio Chiappini Writer & Journalist April 19, 1959 / April 5, ...
Anger Me
“Anger Me” is the story of the life, literary and motion-picture accomplishments of Kenneth Anger, a pivotal figure in the history of experimental film. An innovator and a pioneer, he literally blazed his own trail. Considered to be one of the major ...
This Is Chiapas
On January 1, 1994, Chiapas Mexico, a group of indigenous people known as EZLN (The Zapatista Liberation Army), declare war against the Mexican government. An interview with two Mexican poets highlights the struggle of the indigenous peoples who have ...
Domenico Portera & The Abbey Of Thelema
Cefalù, Palermo, Sicilia, 1995. Domenico Portera racconta a proposito di Villa Santa Barbara, chiamata anche Abbazzia di Thélema, che fu residenza di Aleister Crowley dal 1920 al 1923. Cefalù, Palermo, Sicilia, 1995. Domenico Portera talks about ...
O Solitude
In a public park, at the margin of ordinary life, past and present moments of the protagonist meet, they vanish, they appear, they narrate. They are there to witness the hard facts of solitude, while some verses of John Keats sets them in a place without ...
Let’s Talk About Politics
Let’s Talk About Politics is an experimental film that uses dream sequences interspersed with ironic social commentary. Set in an unnamed Latin American Country, Gelmini presents the viewer with images of corrupt officials and military men. An ...
Asesinados
On June 10, 1998 as the world celebrated the opening of the century's last soccer World Cup, Mexican federal army and police troops attacked a number of Zapatista villages in El Bosque, a municipality in the war-torn province of Chiapas. Several people ...
Un Po’ Di Tempo
'Un Po' di Tempo' narrates the story of a man who is ill and thinks he must be dying: what to do in that kind of situation if not the usual things? So, he goes to the barber, and, while there, pays attention to a young boy working as an assistant. The ...
Borders
A visual poem where the author describes by means of laconic passages that which can be described with metaphors. In the representation of death, a distant voice, that of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The cry of battle lives on despite its conflict with reality, ...