Cinzia Clemente

Michele Anacondia is a criminal on the fringes of the Apulian mafia, whose wife pushes him to achieve more. Their only son dies in an ambush and the man kills half of a rival gang. The boss promotes him, and when his enemies set fire to his residence, he takes refuge with Michele and his wife. Michele is not satisfied: he kills the godfather and takes command of the Sacra Corona. But his thirst for blood will plunge him into madness.

A road comedy with three parallel stories: 1.) Two Matera natives who are supposed to be extras who gets lost searching for a film set. 2.) The location manager, a widower harassed by his superior, who meets an American director in Matera to film a documentary about Albino Pierro, a poetic figure who restores a forgotten sense of life. 3.) Director of the film commission, harassed by stronger powers, who ends up taking out all his frustration on the location manager. Looming over everything, somewhere between reality and fiction, is the imminent start of filming on the mega-production James Bond.

A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" but focusing on the disasters caused by oil extractions in their wasteland of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolini film...

The story of Jesus in virtual reality

Sassiwood is a parody of Matera, a small town in Southern Italy, that seems destined only to accommodate biblical movie sets. It is a bitter reflection on the death of poetry and the ignorance of the ruling class.