Boia, maschere, segreti: l'horror italiano degli anni sessanta

Boia, maschere, segreti: l'horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019)

05 Sep 2019 • Documentary • 1h 15m
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The documentary consists of footage from 12 erotic documentary films from theSixties. A dynamic style of editing, sometimes almost hypnotic is accompanied bycontemporary music created especially for the documentary by the music composerFederico Badaloni.The voice over of the author blends in perfectly with the music and the footage,showing a Sixties pop influence.At the beginning it starts like this:"Roland Barthes claimed that the real effect of stripteasewas desexualizing women, a ritual that triggers theidea of sex and at the same time is its catharsis. A sortof strategy to reveal sex and then deactivate it. Beforebeing a proverbial seduction ritual, it is a form of exorcismof sex in which a body generates an appetite butthen is devitalized".The documentary takes us on a journey delving into the world of strip-tease andnightlife of the Sixties in Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and otherexotic locations that evoke a prohibited universe of desire and nudity in people'simagination.Through the analysis and deconstruction of cultural stereotypes, ethnic discrimination,recurrent characters and visual clichés, the film, with testimonies from theexperts, authors of the time,experts, authors of the time, critics and journalists, traces the distance that separatesus from that cliché vision on feminine body and the way today it reversesdynamics and relationships that in the past seemed ingrained in the representationof sex.The documentary shows testimonies of cinematographic critics and essayists asDomenico Monetti and Antonio Tentori, and the people that took part in producingand directing the films of the time as Mino Loy, with the collaboration ofjournalists as Sabina Ambrogi, expert in relationships between media and representationof women and Luana De Vita, therapist, that tells us about the work shedoes on the use of the body and the seduction game of burlesque with groups ofpsycho-theatre with the testimony of the famous international performer of burlesque,Albadoro Gala.The ending of the film has a touch of unexpected originality of expressive language,which is created by artists Gianluca Abbate and Virginia Eleuteri Serpieriwith computer generated images creating intriguing animations by reworking thestock footage.

Steve Della Casa
Director
Steve Della Casa
Writer
Dario Argento
Starring

Language: Italian
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Country: Italy
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