Hai cercato: Allegoria
Allegoria / 2022
A group of artists’ lives becomes unwittingly entangled as their obsessions and insecurities manifest monsters, demons and death.
Allegoria / 1979
Metamorphoses, rites of passage, Eros and Thanatos, illusion and reality, and film within a film are the key themes and images in perpetual osmosis within this film.
L'allegoria della primavera / 1949
The elegant allegories of Botticelli are our guides as we explore a universe in which mysticism and paganism meet.
Allegoria della prudenza / 2013
A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded." A homage to Paulo Rocha and Kenji Mizoguchi, filming the director's two tombs, one in Tokyo and the other in Quioto.
Allegoria Della Luce E Dell'Ombra / 2009
A journey into light and color through the layering of archetypal memories, belonging to the Sicilian-Greek world of the author (a statue of Proserpina on which shadows, water and mists pass, clocks and still life of skulls as allegories of the fragility of Time, the sudden emergence of chthonic divinities from a world of primordial darkness...), mixed with memories and personal, autobiographical places, relived through the filter of myth.
Allegoria Sacra / 2011
The film follows in part the reality of airport life. As well as experiencing the usual crowds of passengers we witness the location and destruction of an unidentified piece of luggage, a fight between migrants, the emergency services helping a patient. Alongside everyday reality we see a whole range of mystical transformations of this world, from a jungle with exotic tribes to an underwater kingdom, then to a snow field which melts to form the river Styx, flowing to the horizon in to an endless sea in the direction which the passengers will eventually fly, their planes becoming mystical craft...
Moby Dick: An American Allegory / 2023
A look at US society through the prism of Moby Dick, the mythical novel published by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1851.