AUTEUR SHORTS in April is organising a special evening with videomakers Massimo Miride and Claudio Zanotto, who will introduce some of their most interesting short films.

AUTEUR SHORTS, the monthly rendez-vous organised by CNC - National Short Film Centre at the Cinema Massimo, is continuing in April, offering We’re Back!, a selection of shorts by Massimo Miride and Claudio Zanotto this month.

Miride and Zanotto have been amongst the most interesting, impertinent, amusing videomakers between the Eighties and the Nineties in Turin. They are linked by their sharing of experiences – a theatre company, and performing roles in films by Daniele Gaglianone, for instance – and for their Garibaldi-like spirit in self-production. But also for a basic aspect, which may hinder their entrance in avant-garde cinema histories: a refusal to take themselves seriously, not at all a certain thing when making films in open tribute to Andy Warhol like Culo (Bum), the first chapter of the eponymous trilogy (together with Culattone (Bummer) and Il futuro è un buco nero (The future is a black hole)), which cost Claudio Zanotto an argument within the town council on the part of exponents from the established bigotry; or Il doppiatore (The dubber), an extraordinary lunar tale in which Miride reveals himself as the direct heir of Gogol. In Miride and Zanotto’s shorts, there is a universe to discover, throughout a unique evening.

The screening will be introduced by the authors, together with Daniele Gaglianone and Jacopo Chessa (National Short Film Centre). Admission 4.00 euro.