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- Ignazio Puglisi, one of the most important puppeteer of the Sicilian tradition arrived in Sortino, a little town near Syracuse after a wandering life. Puglisi narrated to many generation of Sicilian people the stories of french paladins, their loves, betrayals and struggles and he is now considered one of the best representative of the "Opra dei pupi" in Sicily. The documentary film narrates the atmosphere and the remembrances of an age in which there weren't cinema and television and the pupi theatre was the only form of entertainment. Using images, original sound documents, critics and memories of people who knew the pupetteer, the film tells the suggestion of a lost world and the charm of an art that still survive.
- Lucio Piccolo became known on the Italian literary scene when he was 51 and Eugenio Montale casually discovered his "Canti Barocchi" and decided to present them in an important poetry meeting in Sanpellegrino Terme. The musical charm of the poems, full of literary suggestions and lively images immediately conquered the most important writers and critics also because Lucio kept company with his cousin Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, another mysterious character of the aristocratic Sicilian world. The old and eccentric "knight of Calanovella" became suddenly very famous all over the country. Lucio Piccolo never left his house in the countryside near Capo d'Orlando in Sicily; he lived there with the brother Casimiro, photographer and esoteric, and the sister Agata Giovanna, botanist and manager of the family estate. But many journalists and intellectuals went to the villa to know the poet and the world described in his poems. The documentary film is a portrait of Lucio Piccolo trough the remembrances of people the have visited the villa discovering its magic secrets.
- Nino Martoglio was a playwriter, but also a director. The film concerns his forgotten cinematographic production and in particular the peculiar story of the film "Lost in the dark" that was stolen by the German Army in the Italian Cinetheque during the second world war and misteriously never more found. The documentary film tell this story and the possible relationships between the Martoglio's film and the birth of the Italian neorealism. The documentary was mainly shot in the historical part of Catania with super 8 film to provide the early 900 century atmospheres. Animation inserts provide the viewer the plot of the lost film.
- In Sciacca, near Agrigento, in Sicily, there is a mysterious "Enchanting Garden", with thousands of stone heads realized by Filippo Bentivegna. The documentary film tells his story showing the charm of his sculptural creatures and analyzing the origin and the nature of the pathos that generated them. Photographs and old super 8 mm films show the viewer his life; the narrations of people that knew him and the opinions of art critics give us different interpretations of the "character" Bentivegna. Filippo Bentivegna came back in Sciacca from USA and began to sculpt heads and phallic forms in stones, wood and everything he may found in his ground. An ancestral and pathological relationship with the earth, the "motherearth". After his death art experts had included him in the so-called artistic current Art Brut.