Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros Rinoceronte involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici played by Justin Randolph Thompson as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence in black and white video and spoken in Italian the film resembles a televised broadcast in the last days of Muammar Gaddafi This short film sets the stage for Eversons upcoming feature Rhino that will examine the parallel worlds of politics and performance in sixteenth century Italy and twentieth century Hollywood through the personages of de Medici and the actress Gail Fisher Mannix