Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997 (2001)
Synopsis
A documentary exploring the life and work of experimental Scots-Italian filmmaker Enrico Cocozza through excerpts from his films and interviews with those who knew him. Cocozza gained recognition on the amateur film circuit during the 1940s and 1950s, but his work was largely forgotten in later years. In old age, he became deeply anxious that The Golden Fry—the chip shop beneath his flat, in premises that had once housed his family’s café—might catch fire and destroy the films he kept in storage. This fear ultimately led to his collection being deposited in what is now the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive, allowing his remarkable body of work to be preserved and rediscovered. Created with limited resources but extraordinary visual ambition, Cocozza’s films were, in the best sense, “cheaply extravagant.”
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Runtime: 24 minutes
Director: Les Wilson
Top Cast
- Daniela Nardini as Self - (narrator)
- Enrico Cocozza as Self (Archive)
- Tony Delicata as Enrico Cocozza
- Jim Craig as Self
- John Archer as Self
- Janet McBain as Self
- Karen Lang as Self
- George Graham as Self
- George Cuthbertson as Self
- Tom Hinshelwood as Self
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