Direction - Bruno Bozzetto
Film - 35mm, b/w - Live Action

The film ironically focuses on a Sunday spent skiing, underlining several paradoxical and amusing situations.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST SMOKING
(2') - 1971

A quick short partly live-filmed and partly animated through sketches. Its aim is to discourage smokers.
The film humorously shows through a chain of hilarious situations aiming at different types of people of different age how harmful and dangerous smoke is.

Direction - Bruno Bozzetto
Film - 35mm, colour - Live Action - no dialogue
Script - Bruno Bozzetto, Maurizio Nichetti
Screenplay - Bruno Bozzetto, Maurizio Nichetti
Cast - Silvia Ferluca, Maurizio Nichetti, Marino Camparano
Picture - Modesto Rizzolo
Edition - Giancarlo Rossi

A live action short that humorously deals with the issue of television, an insidious 24-inch drug that sooner or later will manage to sneak into every house. The show is set in a dining room and its protagonists are a man with his wife and son.

THE CABIN
(14')-1973

It doesn’t happen every day to be walking on a beach at dawn and ending up standing before a magic cabin from which the same girl mysteriously keeps on coming out again and again. Yet, at least once in life we all have dealt with a woman showing total indifference. And that’s why some of us have often felt subconsciously forever locked inside a cabin without any way out. “The cabin” is a comedy that entertains us by talking of a man who, in a surrealistic way, does his best to fall into a fatal trap.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
(10')-1979

A man goes back home carrying a cake trimmed with candles to celebrate the birthday of a member of his family but, as he steps in, he realizes that without any reason the house is totally empty. From that moment on the eeriest things start happening…

AUTOMATIC YELLLOW
(20')-1980

Like every other day, a chemist drives to the plant he works in but while parking he hits a small yellow goods lift and damages his own car. His instinctive reaction of rage against the goods lift triggers a chain of mysterious incidents that put the chemist more and more under strain until when he finds himself face to face with this devilish machine which simply wants the man to wash off the footprint he left on its side when he kicked it.

A popular film about cartoon-making told from a personal point of view.

SAM BLACK THE DETECTIVE
(16')-1980

An old lady hires the detective Sam Nero to track down what apparently is a close relative. The detective starts a pressing search through the phone book combing the whole city in vain. Towards the end of the movie the old lady shows up in triumph. The canary she had lost spontaneously came back.

SPORTING
(24')-1982

Inside a sporting club several characters practising different sports interlace. Of course their actions are all studded with very hilarious gags. An unexpected rainstorm makes all characters flee putting an end to their sporting.

MILANO ZERO
(6')-1983

Some of the main problems that plague Milan, and not only that, seen through the eyes of a dog. The situations are viewed in a somewhat humoristic way, however without losing track of the real problem, that is urban decay. The film was made for Italia Nostra.

NEL CENTRO DEL
MIRINO
(15')-1983

Direction - Bruno Bozzetto
Film - 16mm, colour - Live action - no dialogue
Edition - Giancarlo Rossi, Ugo Micheli

It focuses on the evils that afflict Sardinia nowadays, such as property speculation, apportionment, pollution and so on. It does so by following the movements of 4 mysterious guys who “shoot” such evils by a symbolic precision shotgun.

A documentary on the mountains, made for CAI.
A girl spends a short holiday at Livrio ski-resort but a pair of skies fall in love with her and start chasing her everywhere.

THEATRE
(10')-1999

Hilarious gags in which the protagonist , who accidentally ends up in a theatre in place of a strip-tease club, finds himself at a piano concert.