A young boy must choose between the Benedictine Community and the industrialized modern world. Images of both race through his mind set to the score of Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms.” Most shots are quick cuts, the film has some heavy scratches and soft focus.
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion.
Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.
A jewel thief crosses paths with a woman carrying a briefcase that the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese all want desperately, so he goes on the run with her figuring that what's inside the case has to be way more valuable than anything he could steal on his own.
"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes for, its lack of message.
In the fall of 1967, intermedia artists Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck collaborated with Bengt Modin, video engineer of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in Stockholm, to produce an experimental program called Monument.