Antonio Rezza

Bravo Bene! (2025)

Filming on Franco Maresco's film about Carmelo Bene is abruptly halted after yet another on-set accident. Producer Andrea Occhipinti pulls the plug, exasperated by the endless takes and repeated delays. Angered, the director simply disappears. Maresco's fr ...

The Island of Idealists (2025)

The peaceful balance of a family living in seclusion on an island at the mouth of the Po River is shattered by the unexpected arrival of two fugitives on the run after a robbery. The idealistic family, determined to guide the bandits back to the right path ...

MANI MATERIA MEMORIA (2023)

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. ...

Il Cristo In Gola (2022)

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, capa ...

Samp (2021)

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 encounters ...

Extraliscio - Punk da balera (2021)

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

Troppolitani - Valle Occupato (2016)

Is art useful to man? The actors are suited to society. Passers-by are people who want to dream but have now lost confidence, laziness on the one hand, conditioning and deschooling on the other, require you to lower your sights and everyone is content to ...

Troppolitani - Fuori dove? (2009)

Path in progress on the intentions of those who think badly. The discomfort of the mind of those who have no discomfort is greater than that of those who make discomfort their natural expression. "Troppolitani Outside Where?" it is a journey through the f ...

Ottimismo democratico (2009)

I clandestini del cinema italiano (2006)

Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella are two artists that use their bodies like objects. Their works are exaltations of the object compared to the subject. The interpreter is more important than the author. The role of artistic expression is to represent wha ...

Musikanten (2006)

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. ...

Fotofinish 2 (2006)

Documentary filmed on the occasion of the "2003, Odyssey in Space Zero" operation inside the Spazio Zero Theater in Rome. The document, filmed between 21 October and 30 November 2003, recounts the representation of Fotofinish not as a single and continuous ...

Paz! (2002)

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 activism. ...

Delitto Sul Po (2002)

Police officer Antonio is murdered by Eli, a girl of few words; Arm, a boy struggling with the problems of adolescence; and French, a man of faith and a heavy smoker. Commissioner D'Angelo, who finds the body on the banks of the Po River, arrests the three ...

Il Mosè di Michelangelo (1999)

Moses searches for history into palletes. ...

La beata mancata (1997)

Not even the beam is perfect ...

Critico e Critici (1997)

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 played b ...

Fumate (1997)

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

Il sonno degli esclusi (1997)

Short aired during the Pippo Chennedy Show ...

Gli estremi non si toccano (1997)

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

L'handicappato (1997)

In the land of the slides, three handicapped plot against people with two legs. ...

Virus (1997)

Vecchio Clint (1997)

A strange series of cinematic doubts. ...

Escoriandoli (1996)

Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated episodes, this absurd Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In the first segment, a widow attends her husband's funeral ...

Il telefonetto (1995)

A killer hates and punishes people who are using the small phone. ...

Psicosi multipla (1995)

A psychoanalyst helps a patient to achieve his ambitions. ...

Raptus (1995)

Confrontation between a conformist and a nonconformist smoker in the grip of a homicidal frenzy ...

Schizzopatia (1995)

A spiritual operator, don Tek, gives out advice and judgments to his followers, who dream of a dark, cruel man who attacks them with the socio-moral meanings of life. The dream interpreter materializes and is killed by don Tek who, after the murder, falls ...

Fiorenzo (1995)

A man is sick and he doesn't show himself. Three people don't go to visit him and they show themselves. ...

Evolutio (1994)

Birth growing and gathering of a family which is not even an average one ...

Il Piantone (1994)

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 muscul ...

Praeoccupatio (1994)

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

Torpore internazionale (1993)

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. ...

L'orrore di vivere (1993)

In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die ...

Confusus (1993)

Giuseppe who is allergic to diminutives, leaves his mother marked by incest. Tamara, a rampant young girl, abandons her father after loving him. During his pilgrimage Giuseppe breaks many a heart but since he loves to masturbate he never gives himself and ...

Larva (1993)

A man killing himself because he's unpopular. Analisys of the suicide of a man who had never been born or seen. ...

De Civitate Rei (1993)

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 thanks ...

La divina provvidenza (1992)

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 adores the ...

Il vecchio dentro (1992)

A carefree community of elderly people learns, through a young man marginalized by his peers, the concept of old age. ...

Suppietij (1991)

The extremities of a middle-class being ramble on, reflecting poetically on the wretchedness of moderation. ...

Deborah (1991)

Created by Antonio Rezza using an auto-timer and edited in the video camera, it describes selfishness and one-sided relationships. The only person who listens to everyone else's problems ends up sopressing himself before the eyes of his confidantes/ execut ...

Fratello Kraus (1990)

A man is preaching, two people are listening, and another pretends he's freezing to death. ...

Il Cristo In Gola (2022)

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, capa ...

Samp (2021)

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 encounters ...

Troppolitani - Valle Occupato (2016)

Is art useful to man? The actors are suited to society. Passers-by are people who want to dream but have now lost confidence, laziness on the one hand, conditioning and deschooling on the other, require you to lower your sights and everyone is content to ...

Troppolitani - Fuori dove? (2009)

Path in progress on the intentions of those who think badly. The discomfort of the mind of those who have no discomfort is greater than that of those who make discomfort their natural expression. "Troppolitani Outside Where?" it is a journey through the f ...

Ottimismo democratico (2009)

The Past is My Stick (2008)

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. ...

Fotofinish 2 (2006)

Documentary filmed on the occasion of the "2003, Odyssey in Space Zero" operation inside the Spazio Zero Theater in Rome. The document, filmed between 21 October and 30 November 2003, recounts the representation of Fotofinish not as a single and continuous ...

Delitto Sul Po (2002)

Police officer Antonio is murdered by Eli, a girl of few words; Arm, a boy struggling with the problems of adolescence; and French, a man of faith and a heavy smoker. Commissioner D'Angelo, who finds the body on the banks of the Po River, arrests the three ...

Il Mosè di Michelangelo (1999)

Moses searches for history into palletes. ...

La beata mancata (1997)

Not even the beam is perfect ...

Critico e Critici (1997)

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 played b ...

Fumate (1997)

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

Il sonno degli esclusi (1997)

Short aired during the Pippo Chennedy Show ...

L'handicappato (1997)

In the land of the slides, three handicapped plot against people with two legs. ...

Virus (1997)

Vecchio Clint (1997)

A strange series of cinematic doubts. ...

Escoriandoli (1996)

Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated episodes, this absurd Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In the first segment, a widow attends her husband's funeral ...

Il telefonetto (1995)

A killer hates and punishes people who are using the small phone. ...

Psicosi multipla (1995)

A psychoanalyst helps a patient to achieve his ambitions. ...

Raptus (1995)

Confrontation between a conformist and a nonconformist smoker in the grip of a homicidal frenzy ...

Schizzopatia (1995)

A spiritual operator, don Tek, gives out advice and judgments to his followers, who dream of a dark, cruel man who attacks them with the socio-moral meanings of life. The dream interpreter materializes and is killed by don Tek who, after the murder, falls ...

Fiorenzo (1995)

A man is sick and he doesn't show himself. Three people don't go to visit him and they show themselves. ...

Represso (1995)

In a world full of couples a repressed man has to deal with his sexually inactive fainting illness. ...

Evolutio (1994)

Birth growing and gathering of a family which is not even an average one ...

Il Piantone (1994)

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 muscul ...

Praeoccupatio (1994)

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

Torpore internazionale (1993)

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. ...

L'orrore di vivere (1993)

In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die ...

Confusus (1993)

Giuseppe who is allergic to diminutives, leaves his mother marked by incest. Tamara, a rampant young girl, abandons her father after loving him. During his pilgrimage Giuseppe breaks many a heart but since he loves to masturbate he never gives himself and ...

Larva (1993)

A man killing himself because he's unpopular. Analisys of the suicide of a man who had never been born or seen. ...

De Civitate Rei (1993)

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 thanks ...

La divina provvidenza (1992)

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 adores the ...

Il vecchio dentro (1992)

A carefree community of elderly people learns, through a young man marginalized by his peers, the concept of old age. ...

Suppietij (1991)

The extremities of a middle-class being ramble on, reflecting poetically on the wretchedness of moderation. ...

Deborah (1991)

Created by Antonio Rezza using an auto-timer and edited in the video camera, it describes selfishness and one-sided relationships. The only person who listens to everyone else's problems ends up sopressing himself before the eyes of his confidantes/ execut ...

Fratello Kraus (1990)

A man is preaching, two people are listening, and another pretends he's freezing to death. ...