Movies by Ernesto Vaser

Robinet’s White Suit

Robinet’s White Suit

In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (MoMA)

The Golden Wedding

The Golden Wedding

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind and long-suffering slave. Nydia falls in love with Glaucus and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with her-- In fact, a poison which will cause violent insanity.