The season of contemporary American productions was first featured in 2006 with the aim of showing how independent films made in USA portray their own social and cultural background. Which is also a breeding ground for wars, intolerance and persecutions, magnificence and - more often - miseries which are rarely questioned by mainstream filmmaking, except for some significant cases. The first edition highlighted a tendency for young US filmmakers to create self-referential representations instead of depicting a socio-political situation which seems to be determined by a general public that still supports current US politics.

On the contrary, many 2007 productions, mainly short films and some sophisticated features, describe the persistence of a culture marked by strong and impregnable contrasts, of family frictions and personal afflictions, of arrogant self-confidence, of warlike and violent feelings which are ever-present in the US visual imagination.

This kind of imagination is often pervaded by a deep sense of unease or even revulsion.
That's why we hope that political dissent - with the help of filmmakers as well - will never be defeated.

Analog Days,
Mike Ott, 80', USA, 16mm, 2006
tue 18th, 21.00, Parco - Stranglehold room

Fish Kill Flea,
Brian Cassidy, Aaron Hillis, Jennifer Loeber, 60', USA, DV, 2007
wed 19th, 14.30, Parco - Stranglehold room

Operation Filmmaker,
Nina Davenport, 92', USA, MiniDV, 2007
fri 21th, 22.45, Parco - Stranglehold room

grouped short films
mon 17th, 18.00, Parco - Stranglehold room
thu 20th, 16.00, Parco - Stranglehold room

According To...,
Kevin Jerome Everson, 8', USA, 16mm, 2007
Business Johnson,
Casper Frank, Talia Raine, 7', USA, 16mm, 2006
Cough Drop,
Kristina Lear, 15', USA, HD, 2007
Death, Destruction & The Weather Coming Up Next,
Emery C. Martin, 5', USA, digital photos, 2006
Emergency Needs,
Kevin Jerome Everson, 7', USA, 16mm, 2007
Have You Ever Heard About Vukovar?,
Paolo Borraccetti, 16', USA, 16mm, 2007
Scaredycat.,
Andy Blubaugh, 15', USA, 16mm, 2006
The Flood,
Mark Farinas, 4', USA, MiniDV, 2007
The Free Speech Zone,
kasumi, 14', USA, MiniDV, 2006
The Oates' Valor,
Tim Thaddeus Cahill, 16', USA, 16mm, 2006