“Filippo and his thousand heads” (2008)
’30

Director: Laura Schimmenti
Director of photography: Cristian Alberini
Sound: Francesco De Marco
Music: Antonio Lo Iacono
Production manager: Chiara Scardamaglia

Guests: Roberto Di Liberti, Gillo Dorfles, Gaspare Falautano, Francesco Lo Bue, Giuseppe Quatriglio, Lucienne Peiry, Gaetano Rizzo Nervo, Franco Svedese, Primo Veneroso.

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.