Beyond Madness

Like the previous works, Beyond Madness has no real plot: everything unfolds through a series of visual scenes, each introduced by Zanuso himself while reading one of his book of aphorisms (in life he is also a writer); preceded by his own phrases or those of famous philosophers, impressive tableaux vivants follow one another, dreamlike glimpses which, as in dreams, proceed by accumulation and without a precise apparent meaning. Zanuso, who at the beginning appears in the role of Diogenes with the lantern while "looking for man", peppers them with psychoanalytic metaphors, but more than the meaning, what matters is the signifier, the visible, which here reaches the zenith of that "sublime and perverse” has always been sought after in his poetics.

Director

Luigi Zanuso

Written by

Lucio Massa, Luigi Zanuso

Produced by

Lucio Massa, Rino Scorbellini

Editor

Frank S. Cappello

Studios

Aborsky Produktion, Black Lava Entertainment

Origin country

Italy

Runtime

1h 1m

Language

it