Franco Brocani

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Set in 1997, this short sci-fi film narrates the story of a normal world that slowly degenerates into an amoral and lifeless place.

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“While you are alive, act like a dead man, and everything will be fine. Silence is the mother tongue.”

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A man wearing a mask of King Kong walks through a maze unrolling a ball of thread. Franco Brocani renewes his interest in the dens of perdition providing a free vision of the classic myth of the Minotaur. Shot in an art gallery in Rome and adapted from a story by Jorge L. Borges.

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Experimental short film.

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Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa.

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A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on whispered excerpts from Goffman’s seminal Asylums on total institutions, paired with a poignant citation from Poe. In the spirit of post-'68 thought, closed and segregated spaces take center stage in the social and cultural discourse, and this film embodies that reflection with radical intensity.

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An art documentary portraying Stanley William Hayter – considered the inventor of modern incision – at work in his Paris studio. At the Hayter’s Atelier 17 artists have studied, since the early ’30s, including Brauner, Calder, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Miro, Matta, Picasso, and Chagall.

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Short film by Franco Brocani.

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The documentary describes the work of goldsmiths in Valenza, of cabinet-makers in Canelli, of farmers in the provinces of Alessandria and Asti where such activities are still the backbone of the local econimic structure. It analyzes also the politics of monopoly concentration pursued by the big industrial forces and its effects such as the impoverishment of the countryside, the decline of traditional activities based on craftmanship - a heavy toll on the future of the young.

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The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.

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Experimental short by Franco Brocani, Claudio Capotondi and Luca Maria Patella.

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Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.

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The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship between the local women and Afro-American soldiers.

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