Cinico TV vol.1

La serie más vanguardista, anárquica y profanar de la televisión italiana se publica en DVD por primera vez, en una edición a cargo de Cineteca di Bologna. Se presenta en orden cronológico y con subtítulos en inglés. Esta primera entrega recorre episodios de 1989-1992, con bastante material nunca exhibido.

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Ciprì and Maresco's view of Italy in the 1990s, a pivotal decade of cultural transformation, was a perspective "from the depths" (Enrico Ghezzi), a long, fierce and impassive panorama, capable of making people laugh in a new and disturbing way. The series was broadcast on Rai Tre, and was subsequently reshown in fragmentary form in the following years by the Fuori Orario and Blob series. As a programme it was either loved or hated, it had the ability to elicit feelings of repulsion just as it was able to stimulate intellectual debate on: trash culture, the aesthetics of ugly, post-modernism, the post-historic world and the end of humanity. Palermo, Italy: the black and white images, recherché and filled with clouds, deeply contrast the wearied bodies and the squalor of a world inhabited by characters from the pendulum's edge of humanity, from outside the normality of everyday life. The distorted world of the cyclist Francesco Tirone, the flatulist Giuseppe Paviglianiti, the failed singer Giovanni Lo Giudice, the 'human rubbish' Carlo and Pietro Giordano, the aphasic Miranda in his white underwear, the bespectacled Giuseppe Filangeri... In this urban and human debasement, in this wasteland, in this chewed up cacophonous conversation of Sicily, humour was the primary critical act: "Not roars or guffaws of laughter: mute roars, quickly subdued and without echo, the laughter of disaffection. Minimal and hyperbolic humour." (Ghezzi).