Projects matching: Marco Zaffino

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Kino is a surreal seductive thriller set in the worlds of all those people, places and objects you might want to meet, if you had the courage to go for it. The Jewel Thief of the 40s Jonni Monte, the last of a cursed Circus Family Zorro De Rizzo, the Dominatrix Miss Kadie Thunder, the infamous jem stone The Saffron Sapphire and Kino the psychotic master of Cinema. He has lived longer than he should, he has killed to create his work and his work is passed on to the next who proves him/herself worthy of the name. Beatrice, a beautiful bored box ticking office clerk, has the courage to confront all these adventures, along with her sweet shy work colleague, Simon. As the story unfolds and the innocence is darkened by Kino's elaborate plans Beatrice is tested to her limits and Simon shows his true colours.

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Jenny Moore is whispered the gift of 'heaven' by a spectre (the mistress of Nietzsche's Zarathustra) and her life is forever changed. After which, she has to hide in the crowds to dampen its effect upon her: a valium effect on her new perspective. The crowds tell her of other women who must be whispered the message.   By the age of 29, Jenny has learnt to cope with the weight of such matters by travelling constantly and relentlessly. Her fragility, directness and humanity touch all those she encounters and unbeknown to Jenny, many lives are changed by her subtle acts of compassion.   To love her you must follow her, and so a network is organised to collaborate in the task of being her guardian. They follow, track and protect Jenny, while sometimes sacrificing their own families and lives as a consequence.

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A young man, Aldo Formazzoni, has been given the task, from an early age to avenge his family feud of 100 years. The feud began in Old Naples, with the murder of a young boy who was beginning to move in gangster circles.   Aldo's great Uncle was on the run from the police, after partaking in a jewellery theft, and was gunned down in cold blood after surrendering. And The Vendetta has begun.   After various attemps by the Formazzoni family to even the balance, it comes down to Aldo to perform this act of honour.   As well as having to kill someone from this family his Uncle asks him to join in the 'family business'.  Aldo declines and so a bloody story begins.   While on the run from his Uncle, Aldo must still hunt for the Innocent descendant, Johnny Trieste, of the policeman. Circumstances dictate that Aldo hijacks a young woman, Megan Reed, and a strange dynamic begins in the car and on the move.   The film moves on various time-lines; from Aldo's childhood, to the action of The Vendetta and its question of honour, and the possible romance that builds within this intense period of time.

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The Veranda is about a young artist, Victor, who tries to find silence in his actions and work. He finds it in dialogues with nature; he becomes obsessed and devotes his life to 'The Gaps', which to him become a mystical separate world that defy comprehension. Diving into this discipline, he loses his wife Josy, his friends and everything else in his life. The actions Victor performs to find these Gaps are seen worldwide; cleaning sections of desert, or walking a mile and watering the parched land, just to see what happens. He places a tree in ice, cleans shadows on the road laid down by trees, polishes rocks at Whitby, and takes 1000m of string across a huge valley to make a Stringbridge - These performances, actions or Happenings are all to find something 'other'. We meet Victor before and after his fifteen year quest. After various meetings with Charlie, who comes from the silent world he strives for, Victor has to decide between the faith of his Gaps and his last links to humanity, his sister Mina and his daughter Jo. Winner - Best Foreign Feature Award, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2002.