Enrico Ghezzi (Director)

The Last Days of Humanity

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?

Release Date2023-05-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count12

Pornomi

Enrico Ghezzi cuts out porn magazines looking for a fake cataloging criteria, while Sergio Grmek Germani, off screen, reads and comments on a pornographic filmography edited by Marco Giusti (published by Italian magazine Filmcritica), correcting errors and underlining his insufficient pornophilia.

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count1

Winter Song

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

Release Date2015-11-25

Charactersd Baron

Vote Count14

Les champs brûlants

Release Date2010-08-10

Charactersd Himself

Enrico Ghezzi su Ciprì e Maresco

Release Date2016-12-01

Charactersd Sé stesso

Astrolite

There's something wrong with the way things are perceived. A different, unfriendly view is to stand out among individuals as their own maker is spelling the rules from a tv set for them to keep on living or to die. No longer than a blow-up such an illusion will survive...

Charactersd protagonist

Vote Count1

Barbablù, Barbablù

An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and indulges in a sadistic game with them.

Release Date1989-11-17

Charactersd Capo troupe TV

Vote Count1

Blu cobalto

Docu-drama about cancer patients. An elderly farmer, believed to be mad by his family, dispenses wisdom to the other patients; an actress takes advantage of the hospitalization to shed light inside herself; a young doctor lives with schizophrenia his condition as a patient.

Release Date1985-02-01

Charactersd Dottore

Vote Count1

Gelosi e Tranquilli

A man and a woman have a weary relationship with no prospects or plans for the future. All that matters to them is to sustain poetic and philosophical discussions about the meaning of love.

Release Date1988-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Lui

Inde Est. Blackberry painting

Inde Est is the title of the artistic contribution presented by cinema critic and situationist theorist Enrico Ghezzi at the ancient Church of San Ludovico in Venice for the third Internet Pavilion: The Unconnected (2013). Inspired by the Latin phrase fugit hora, hoc quod loquor inde est [time flees, and what I am saying already belongs to it] from Persius’s fifth Satire, Ghezzi’s durational performance consisted in a 8-hour mute speech that evoked the out-of-sync effect typical of his monologues for Fuori Orario [after hours], a radical overnight broadcast on avant-garde cinema airing on the Italian national TV since 1988. Miltos Manetas celebrates this cult figure of Italian television, filming him within the space of the Internet Pavilion. His portrait takes the form of a BlackBerry Painting, a simultaneous act of recording and painting that has accompanied Manetas’s practice since his early use of smartphones.

Release Date2013-01-01

Charactersd Himself

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

Release Date1988-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Him (segment "Gelosi e tranquilli")

Vote Count1

Marco Melani - The Man With The Golden Eye : Scheggia dall'ultima versione

Release Date2026-04-12

Charactersd Self - film critic, TV host

Shards of Cinema and Philosophy

Inspired by the "The wind of cinema" festival which every year deals with issues relating to the relationship between cinema and philosophy, it shows a conversation between the critic Enrico Ghezzi and some directors including Werner Herzog, Amos Gitai, and the philosopher Boris Groys. The theme addressed is the "Catastrophe".

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

L'uomo che amava il cinema

Piero Tortolina has been a point of reference for a whole generation of film lovers. Pioneer of cinema-clubs and great film collector, he has been an invisible protagonist in the history of italian cinema.

Release Date2012-02-09

Charactersd Self

Gli estremi non si toccano

Documentary focused behind the scenes of the making of the play 'io' by Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella

Release Date1997-01-09

Charactersd Self

Parola (su una data)

Release Date2003-01-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Let's Fog! Ricerche, sperimentazioni e relazioni intorno a "Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità"

Release Date2023-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Europa 2005 – 27 octobre

Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris.

Release Date2006-10-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

On ne saurait penser à rien

"Cinema is the first moment in which the world sees itself then we know it is fake, which is a trick [...]. It is a small system, mechanical, banal, simple, corruptible, but it is sufficient to produce a review of the world, we are never interested in doing without living, without loving, we are never interested in making this film for other reasons »

Release Date2019-08-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Il fiume rosso (Etna Lumière, acqua e fuoco)

Footage of Mount Etna erupting, filmed continuously over the years by Rai cameraman Giovanni Tomarchio, superimposed on the original images by the Lumière brothers.

Release Date2000-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Hai-Kubrick

Release Date1999-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Proposition in Four Parts

"D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses, is the prelude to this political film essay. Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitalist greed) and effect (the poverty of the farmer and the urban underclass), and draw from excerpts of their earlier work: Moses und Aaron, Fortini/Cani, and From the Cloud to the Resistance." - MoMA

Release Date1985-12-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3

24 hours/10 seconds (not even a kangaroo)

Experimental documentary shot by Enrico Ghezzi in 2000 about a trip he made by plane.

Release Date2000-02-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Space Machine

Magnificent obsessions exceed and once again dart the maps to every memory and even the most vague map gives way to Laurel & Hardy.

Release Date2019-08-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Here and There to Play

Qui e là a giocare (1980) (Here and there to play) - one of the first "things" created by Ghezzi when he was working at the Rai headquarters in Genoa: a montage dedicated to gaming, from casinos to stadiums to Rai offices.

Release Date1980-08-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Cinecittà Cinecittà

Release Date1985-01-01

Episode Count1

Quiproquo

Release Date2011-09-03

Il vento del cinema

Little Horrors

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.

Release Date1994-05-13

Vote Count1

Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra

A voyage, from the Po river to Sicily, in search of the sense of culture for the italian population

Release Date2010-09-02

Ottimismo democratico

Release Date2009-01-01

Home Sweet Home

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.

Release Date2012-11-26

Marco Melani: The Man with the Golden Eye

"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, extracts from television programs, photographs, readings and interventions by the author, intertwine giving voice to a chorus of precious testimonies.

Release Date2021-12-09

Hotel de l'Univers

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.

Release Date2013-11-25

Sassi nello Stagno

Release Date2016-12-27

Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23

For Filmmaker Film Festival (2023), Fulvio Baglivi and Cristina Piccino asked some filmmakers (R. Beckermann, J. Bressane, D’Anolfi/Parenti, T. De Bernardi, L. Di Costanzo, A. Fasulo, F. Ferraro, M. Frammartino, S. George, ghezzi/Gagliardo, C. Hintermann, G. Maderna, A. Momo, A. Rossetto, M. Santini, C. Simon, S. Savona) to give us their own "lost road," that is, a sequence, scene or piece of editing that did not later find its way into the final version of one of their works. Each fragment has its own accomplished presence, often has a different title from the film it was made for, which is not necessary to have seen in order to find meaning; on the contrary, those who set out thinking they know the world they are walking through will find themselves displaced.

Release Date2023-11-20

Resurrection

The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy’s last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginning of the second part. The places and times change, and so do the people doing the reading. But also, in the middle, real people and voices surface, like Adamo Vergine at his home and Jean François Neplaz in Marseilles. The film searches for the possible faces of Tolstoy’s two protagonists in Oneglia, Procida, and Casalborgone.

Release Date2019-11-27

La balena di Rossellini

La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of 1971, a trip made to conduct an interview-portrait of Salvador Allende, then actually carried out by the director of "Rome, Open City". October 28, 1971: Rossellini, back from Santiago, Chile, reads a newspaper reports of a beached whale on the Pacific coast near a poor village inhabited by fishermen. From this simple news comes a film script for a fable about wealth and poverty. A film whose shooting Rossellini would have been entrusted to the young student Claudio Bondì, just graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography.

Release Date2010-04-26

The Past is My Stick

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.

Release Date2008-09-01