The Power

A journey through a century of Ambrosoli family history.

The seminal hip-hop protest group Public Enemy puts their legendary stage-show energy on display on the concert album FIGHT THE POWER: GREATEST HITS LIVE! Recorded at the Metro in Melbourne, Australia in 2004, the live CD sees Chuck D and Flavor Flav tearing through favorites such as "Welcome to the Terrordome," "Bring the Noise," and "911 is a Joke," among other definitive PE statements.

Nine-year old Lannie is unmotivated and struggling at school because of a racist teacher. Reminded of his own intellectual and political challenges, Einstein steps into 1950 to spark a love of learning in Lannie.

The hour record is the original race against time. 1 hour on the clock, ride as far as you can in that time. It's one of cycling's most prestigious achievements and one of it's toughest physical challenges. In 1972, Eddy Merckx, arguably the greatest cyclist of all time set a benchmark of 49.431km, using a bike and technology now considered rudimentary. Merckx's record stood for 12 years. Can Oliver Bridgewood, an amateur cyclist and GCN presenter with access to the aerodynamic technology and modern equipment beat his time? He embarks on a punishing 3 months of training set by some of the world’s most experienced high-performance coaches and prepares for what will be the hardest hour of his life.

As the city starts building the skyscrapers that would make its skyline iconic, 10 million immigrants arrive in New York. The immigrants lived in frequently squalid conditions and worked in the city's most undesirable jobs. In 1911, when 146 female Jewish and Italian immigrants died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city was largely unified in the successful demand for legislation on new factory safety reforms and labor laws.

An abstract tale of a society that exploits everyone and everything. A closed societal system is run by a class of rulers composed of priests, elders, politicians, bankers, and military men. All these people prostitute themselves in order to exercise power with the same ease that they drink their coffee.

An insight into the lecture "How to rule the others" given by Mr. Slobodan Cirkovic 'Roko', a well-known Yugoslav experimentalist on telepathy and hypnosis.

Titled Power, Tretti's sophomore film was a sort of Mel Brooks' History of the World, in which Tretti explored the history of mankind from one precise point of view: how the powerful ruled over the weak. A man confused as the God of Fire in prehistory; Jesus and Muhammad deciding who must eat what and when because of a power no one has seen; Tiberius Gracchus killed by the senate because he was fighting for the people. Tretti had a bullet for everyone. He loved to unmask those who claimed to be on the side of the less fortunate, showing the three powers - military, commercial and agricultural - sitting on three thrones and chatting on how they can suck life out of men and keep power tight in their hands.

An experimental shale-oil essay starring people, industry, and nature.