CIPRÌ & MARESCO PGM 3: CRIMINAL (DIS)ORGANIZATION
In the "Cinico TV" sketches and short films devoted to the Mafia and crime more generally, Ciprì & Maresco radically overturn the conventions of political and anti-Mafia cinema. Cosa Nostra does not appear as a mythical, mysterious, or invincible power, but as an ordinary and grotesque presence, immersed in the marginality of the bodies, landscapes, and characters that inhabit their Palermo. Mafia bosses, affiliates, and rituals are stripped of any aura of (anti-)heroism and returned to a dimension that is at once miserable and surreal, where violence coexists with emptiness, absurdity, and everyday degradation. Through silences, distorted dialogue, and pitch-black humor, Ciprì & Maresco dismantle the mythology surrounding the Mafia and reveal its banality as a form of power and oppression. [THE MAFIA MAKES US FREE] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 1.5 min, video [MAFIAMAN] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 2 min, video [MAFIATOUR] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 1.5 min, video [DEADMAN TALKING] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 1.5 min, video RICHETTO'S FRIENDS / LORO DI PALERMO 1990, 13 min, video PASTA & POTATOES / PASTA E PATATE 1989, 4.5 min, video [THE GODFATHER] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 33 sec, video [CYNICAL NEWS] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 1 min, video THE ENLIGHTENED / ILLUMINATI 1990, 3 min, video [INTERMISSION 2] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 2 min, video DOG SHELTER / CANI 1992, 4.5 min, 35mm-to-digital HOLY MARY / SANTA MARIA 1991, 6 min, video GOOD FRIDAY / VENERDÌ SANTO 1992, 4 min, video EASTER SATURDAY / SABATO SANTO 1992, 2 min, video PROVIDENCE / LA PROVVIDENZA 1990, 2.5 min, video [DEATHBED] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 3.5 min, video [BURIED ALIVE] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 2.5 min, video GATTOPARDO WALTZ / IL GATTOPARVE 1995, 4.5 min, video NEVER / MAI 1989, 3.5 min, video [VINCERÒ] Cinico TV, 1989-96, 3.5 min, video