Directing
Director and screenwriter.
A man alone in the middle of a long blackout. Civilization stops.
An old, avid reader of poetry gets stalked by a masked killer in his own home.
A short film by Giulio Questi.
Giulio Questi gets a visit from the ghosts of the Fascists he killed as a partisan during Italy’s ‘43-’45 civil war. Meanwhile, a spaceship ready to take them away to an eternal black hole awaits all of them.
An old man receives a letter from Mr. Nada de Nada y Nada and later a visit that will face him with an startling situation.
The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.
A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he won the Golden Lion with Family Diary, and 1982, the year of his death, he directed only four features. The documentary features interviews with close collaborators (celebrated screenwriters Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco) and some of his actors (Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale).
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Short movie by Giulio Questi about "men of the Po" who have abandoned their families and decided to leave their homes to live as a sort of homeless man in a hermitage on the banks of the river, content with what the waves bring them.