Movies: Antonio Rezza

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activ...

The new feature film by Elisabetta Sgarbi, based on the book by Giorgio Scerbanenco....

In a country house a patriarch lords over his community made up of a tired woman and a boy in the midst of an economic-adolescent crisis. The guest of the facility is Dr. Girarda, a chemist extradited from Poland....

A man closes the same doors that Kafka opened....

Parents beat friends two nil....

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Rezza presents a series of ironic tributes to various film titles (such as Dances with Wolves, Dancing Alone, etc.), featuring an unlikely critic who periodically calls on different experts to discuss each film. Both the critic and the experts are pl...

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An electoral campaign is underway in an imaginary country. Two leaders fight over the voters, who cry in exasperation. The first leader is fat and whiny, the second smiling and aloof. A man with a laptop computer and a teenager with a stony face and ...

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich t...

A plastic magma of abstract images, voices and sounds surprise the viewer in a dreamlike and poetic universe, making him the protagonist of his personal trance. Experimental animation on 35mm film....

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During research for a series focused on the greatest scientists of the past, a TV producer, following a hypnosis experiment, finds herself catapulted into the 19th century, participating in the last years of Ludwig Van Beethoven's life....

An iconographically already dead Christ, who assails life and goes astray, performing miracles with only the power of despair. In Antonio Rezza's reinterpretation, Jesus Christ never utters a word and expresses himself only with heartbreaking screams...

Samp is a professional hitman who is hired by a powerful president to kill traditionalists. On a personal level, he has psychological problems he treats with music. After killing his mother, he wanders through Puglia seeking his ideal woman. He encou...

A portrait of the dancehall punk band Extraliscio headed by the volcanic Mirco Mariani and the Casadei legend Marco Ferrara....

We started to make an extra to be included in our first DVD "Democratic Optimism", a collection of short films in black and white we shot between 1990 and 1999....

A short film by Rezza that should make you want to smoke....

A man and a woman make guesses about the future while a child is still unborn...

A charismatic boss shuts himself up in a pokey little niche. His disciples go visit him and hang on his every complaint. The boss realises that the experts are all the same, they reason with their arse and never raise their eyes; despite this he ador...