Ciprì & Maresco's Cinico TV

Italian enfants terribles Ciprì and Maresco, working under the name of Cinico TV, have created a number of remarkable short video pieces, each embracing a distinct subproletarian Sicilian world, outcasts hidden behind Palermo's polished, conformist facade. Filled with "blasphemous, sexually aberrant images and a population of vile mobsters, hideous crones, and obese deviants," as one critic wrote, these short works prefigure and complement the duo's features (Totò Who Lived Twice shows May 5). Those seeing more than an intermittently comic freak show will be moved by the directors' embrace of their nonconformist heroes as their comrades, cocreators of strange, oddly beautiful yet bitterly satirical works distinctly separate from, and incompatible with, the aesthetic rules of the market and the mass media.

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