canecapovolto

Directing

canecapovolto

Place of birth

Catania, italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

The group canecapovolto was founded in Catania in 1992 and modelled after the philosophical brotherhood. “A movie in an empty theatre for one spectator only. We are ignorant people. We love the state of things. A clear message.”

Known for

Behind the camera

Gay Film poster
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The blind Colonel and the confraternity of naked gymnasts, simple men immersed in nature and the tired eye: notes for a homoerotic atlas.

Gay Film

2002

Sleeping Electricity poster
NR

Still life with electric current, stop-motion animation.

Sleeping Electricity

1992

No artwork available
NR

Testimonies of young women, the jealousy of their boyfriends, the indifference of their fathers, the intransigence of the stereotypes that pass through them. 10 episodes of an experimental web-series on sexism and gender violence, born immediately after the rape in Palermo in July 2023 in an attempt to build a counter-narrative that demystifies the macho and misogynistic mythologies of the media and the collectives, against the backdrop of anthropological considerations on “men who hate women”. Disturbing, percussive and pounding like all the works by canecapovolto, a place in which to penetrate the problem and extract its roots for a greater understanding of things. The series is copyright-free, it can be freely reshared by anyone.

Nor(male) #4 (ep.26-35)

2024

No artwork available
NR

Testimonies of young women, the jealousy of their boyfriends, the indifference of their fathers, the intransigence of the stereotypes that pass through them. 10 episodes of an experimental web-series on sexism and gender violence, born immediately after the rape in Palermo in July 2023 in an attempt to build a counter-narrative that demystifies the macho and misogynistic mythologies of the media and the collectives, against the backdrop of anthropological considerations on “men who hate women”. Disturbing, percussive and pounding like all the works by canecapovolto, a place in which to penetrate the problem and extract its roots for a greater understanding of things. The series is copyright-free, it can be freely reshared by anyone.

Nor(male) #4 (ep.26-35)

2024

Condominio poster
NR

Short movie by canecapovolto.

Condominio

2015

Motion poster
NR

19 collages realized during the making of Abbiamo un problema.

Motion

2013

Nickel poster
NR

Acid on 35mm film countdown and black leader.

Nickel

2000

In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi poster
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7 April 2006 Alberto Grifi, a year before his death, is interviewed for the last time by Roberto Silvestri and canecapovolto. What emerges in the interview is the portrait of an underground filmmaker who was always intrigued by the dual aim of pursuing scientific and artistic research simultaneously, and whose cinema, influenced by Grotowski's method, was made by people whose objective was to understand how life works by interpreting roles that allow them to live experiences which were totally different from their own ones.

In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi

2006

In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi poster
NR

7 April 2006 Alberto Grifi, a year before his death, is interviewed for the last time by Roberto Silvestri and canecapovolto. What emerges in the interview is the portrait of an underground filmmaker who was always intrigued by the dual aim of pursuing scientific and artistic research simultaneously, and whose cinema, influenced by Grotowski's method, was made by people whose objective was to understand how life works by interpreting roles that allow them to live experiences which were totally different from their own ones.

In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi

2006

In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi poster
NR

7 April 2006 Alberto Grifi, a year before his death, is interviewed for the last time by Roberto Silvestri and canecapovolto. What emerges in the interview is the portrait of an underground filmmaker who was always intrigued by the dual aim of pursuing scientific and artistic research simultaneously, and whose cinema, influenced by Grotowski's method, was made by people whose objective was to understand how life works by interpreting roles that allow them to live experiences which were totally different from their own ones.

In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi

2006

AB < KUT (Spectrum #1) poster
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Cold is the main character. Everybody’s cold since it comes out of walls… Images for a sound loop.

AB < KUT (Spectrum #1)

2002

God of Evil poster
NR

The dog can easily be trained by Man. This happens because the dog itself allows it. Man created God because He needed an entity that would eventually order Him to start wars and genocides. A film-essay about the use of animals for religious purposes.

God of Evil

2005

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 27 poster
NR

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 27

2000

Aaron, il guerriero digitale poster
NR

Sergeant Aaron is interviewed in a wood, Aaron is mentally retarded, he was seriously injured during the First and Second Gulf War. Even if his brain has been carefully programmed, childish patriotism and extreme cynicism are harmoniously mixed together

Aaron, il guerriero digitale

2005

Helmut Doppel: Alfa / Rectum poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Helmut Doppel: Alfa / Rectum

2013

Helmut Doppel: Alfa / Rectum poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Helmut Doppel: Alfa / Rectum

2013

Helmut Doppel: Alfa / Rectum poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Helmut Doppel: Alfa / Rectum

2013

Angeli su due ruote (Street Angels with Virus) (Plagium 1) poster
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The first approach to Plagiarism and to the accidents in the course of learning. An audiocassette on venereal diseases together with glamorous sequences from Penthouse produce an “Educational”.

Angeli su due ruote (Street Angels with Virus) (Plagium 1)

1993

La septieme operation (Plagium 13) poster
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Reworking of anonymous medical silent film bought in a flea market. Presumably filmed in France in the seventies.

La septieme operation (Plagium 13)

1998

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 30 poster
NR

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 30

2000

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 29 poster
NR

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 29

2000

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 16 poster
NR

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 16

2000

Tre acuti nella notte poster
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In the pocket conversation-books Italian-German and Italian-English there is something missing; this has happened for years and no one consciously face this ambiguity.

Tre acuti nella notte

2013

Spectrum C > Lock (Spectrum #4) poster
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Konstantin Raudive: «The ticking noise, the perfection of everything that happens. It’s terribly late».

Spectrum C > Lock (Spectrum #4)

2002

Run Hubbard Loop (Plagium 5) poster
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A repeating structure of 4 slightly different sequences from F. Lang’s "Spione" illustrates a text by Ralph Rumney.

Run Hubbard Loop (Plagium 5)

1996

Un popolo. Uno stato poster
NR

Talking about the story of the Gaza genocide with other images and other words is possible. The discovery of some slides in a high school in Catania is the starting point for analyzing the origins of Israel's military occupation of Gaza by resorting to the etymology of the words used to describe what expressions like "terrorist" or "military occupation" mean, while the drawings of Amos, an Israeli child who portrays his imaginary friend Anya under the worried gaze of the babysitter May Golan, point out that most horror stories have deep roots in everyday life. Invention and black humor try to overcome the (denied) reality of an apartheid and a normalized genocide, exposed and simultaneously removed.

Un popolo. Uno stato

2024

Un popolo. Uno stato poster
NR

Talking about the story of the Gaza genocide with other images and other words is possible. The discovery of some slides in a high school in Catania is the starting point for analyzing the origins of Israel's military occupation of Gaza by resorting to the etymology of the words used to describe what expressions like "terrorist" or "military occupation" mean, while the drawings of Amos, an Israeli child who portrays his imaginary friend Anya under the worried gaze of the babysitter May Golan, point out that most horror stories have deep roots in everyday life. Invention and black humor try to overcome the (denied) reality of an apartheid and a normalized genocide, exposed and simultaneously removed.

Un popolo. Uno stato

2024

Un popolo. Uno stato poster
NR

Talking about the story of the Gaza genocide with other images and other words is possible. The discovery of some slides in a high school in Catania is the starting point for analyzing the origins of Israel's military occupation of Gaza by resorting to the etymology of the words used to describe what expressions like "terrorist" or "military occupation" mean, while the drawings of Amos, an Israeli child who portrays his imaginary friend Anya under the worried gaze of the babysitter May Golan, point out that most horror stories have deep roots in everyday life. Invention and black humor try to overcome the (denied) reality of an apartheid and a normalized genocide, exposed and simultaneously removed.

Un popolo. Uno stato

2024

Borghesi col vizietto dell'arte (Plagium 6) poster
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The successful completion of the proletarian revolution will coincide with the abolition of art and all forms of creativity and expression.

Borghesi col vizietto dell'arte (Plagium 6)

1997

Il grande dentista (Antropologia della morte) (Plagium 8) poster
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Adaptation of “La nera signora” by Alfonso M. Di Nola on scenes from “Blutgeil” (or “Zurich Cop Eaters IV”). Experimental essay-movie based on the film Häxan, by B. Christensen.

Il grande dentista (Antropologia della morte) (Plagium 8)

1996

Mal d'Africa (The Rainbow Stories) poster
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Aleister, an occultist, guides a scientific expedition on an island haunted by threatening spirits. He will be punished for his attempts to record the laments and whispers of Satyrs by using an old magnetoscope.

Mal d'Africa (The Rainbow Stories)

1996

Storie di monelli (film surrealista) poster
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Born of a dream: how to popularize Surrealism by practicing it. The script is inspired by an interview to the filmmaker Joel Haertling and by Voodoo background of the German movie “Angelika”.

Storie di monelli (film surrealista)

1995

Endo und Nano poster
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A tale of friendship and heresy inside the stomach of the Society of the Spectacle. An Expressionist Cinema exercise.

Endo und Nano

1993

La fortuna verrà da te (Spectrum #2) poster
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From a true story. «This poem travelled around the world 23 times. Now it’s your turn. This is not a joke…».

La fortuna verrà da te (Spectrum #2)

2002

No artwork available
NR

Re-reading of the namesake anarchic pamphlet of Bob Black, according to the formula labour force-repetition-death. Intellectuals like going to the cinema to watch movies about workers, workers prefer watching successful businessmen more.

The Abolition of Work

2010

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 17 poster
NR

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 17

2000

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 15 poster
NR

Stereo consists of thirty 30-seconds structures filmed in super-8mm, video8 and dv. The 30 drones are all titled, numbered and conceived to work as autonomous organisms as well as part of a whole narrative machine; these boxes contain fiction, stolen-images, still lifes, found footage and documentaries fragments.

Stereo #0 - 30 drones for television - Drone 15

2000

Evil and Pop Culture (Plagium 10) poster
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A fundamentalist documentary dedicated to Alberto Grifi. Take That, Abba and Elvis Presley: in their videoclips we can perceive the sign of the Rising Scorpio which corrupts what is inside and leaves the surface untouched. There is a level of Pain beyond which Pop Music cannot retain consciousness.

Evil and Pop Culture (Plagium 10)

1996

Behind Your Eyelids poster
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Shot on an already exposed film. Stream of photostatic images and colors.

Behind Your Eyelids

1993

Abbiamo un problema. La costruzione del nemico omosessuale poster
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Is homophobia an anthropological fear or a cultural production? Abbiamo un problema – La costruzione del nemico omosessuale (We got a problem – The construction of the homosexual enemy) is not a thesis work, but the result of a street anthropological practice.

Abbiamo un problema. La costruzione del nemico omosessuale

2012