52docs / 20 - A punk cinematic journey

Despite a suspicion that spectator sports are the opium of the people, it’s hard not to get swept up in World Cup fever.

This edition has had it all - impossible dreams, heartbreak, thrilling teamwork. And that’s just from one agonizingly close match.

Our next film excavates a forgotten figure from the past whose absurdity and thirst for power bring to mind FIFA’s Gianni Infantino.

With an authorial approach that is somehow both ever-present and light of touch, director Igor Bezinović conjurs a little known chapter of history - literally - in ways participatory and revelatory.

Most of it all looks like a film that was fantastically fun to make and is correspondingly fun to watch. Even the reviews are fun:

“FIUME O MORTE! is a film on poetry, dynamite, cocaine, machine guns, football, airplanes, furniture flying out of windows, concerts, prisons, sunbathing, thousands of soldiers, millions of bullets, endless speeches, a platypus and the power of political performativity.”

Take a watch of the trailer and you’ll see what I mean.

Rent from Apple or direct from Icarus Films