The State of Exhaustion in the Work of Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco: An Exploration via the World, Bodies, and Gesture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay explores the television and cinematographic work of Sicilian filmmakers Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco from a posthumanist perspective with a view to examine the state of exhaustion as the main common denominator within the settings, bodies and gestures of their films. As Rosi Braidotti points out, the state of exhaustion becomes a generative precondition to learn to think differently, and to put an affirmative ethics into practice (Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge 18–19). Reviewing the work of the two Palermitani in a posthumanist key allows us to examine their cynical and dejected world from a new, positive and edifying perspective. Segments of Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco’s television program Cinico TV (1989–96) will be analysed, as well as their film Lo zio di Brooklyn (The Uncle from Brooklyn; 1995). My aim is to vindicate the work of two radical but still little-known filmmakers, who are essential to understanding the power of film and television in combating the homogeneity and aesthetic and narrative indoctrination of the media.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".