Whilst he was making his considerable collection of underground movies using amateurs for cast and crew, Enrico himself was a respected academic lecturing at both Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. 

His films have proved to be the most distinctive of their era, and are totally different from anything being produced at the time, which favoured the more traditional Grierson style of Scottish documentary.

Some of this remarkable filmmaker’s work will be seen re-discovered in the documentary Surreally Sozzese produced by Glasgow independent Caledonia Sterne and Wyld with Scottish Screen Archive for the Scottish TV
series Artery. 

Les Wilson who produced and directed the documentary had been unconsciously
aware of Cocozza’s work - long before he ever heard of him. 

"As a director of history programmes, I had often used images from a beautiful little film Glasgow’s Docklands without knowing that its director had a secret life as an experimental filmmaker.  I finally saw some of Enrico’s weirder films at
a screening in a Glasgow alternative rock venue, the 13th Note! 

"It wasn’t just Cocozza’s films that impressed me, but the effect they had on a young, hip and culturally aware audience.  Most of the kids there were less than
half my age - the MTV generation - but they lapped up the movies of an
amateur from the 1950’s. 

"I left that night fascinated by Enrico Cocozza, determined to learn more about the man.  The best way to learn more about something is to make a film about it.  Surreally Scozzese is the result."

Janet McBain, Curator of Scottish Screen Archive, is delighted to have collaborated with Caledonia Sterne and Wyld on their project.

"Cocozza's film collection has been in the Archive since 1981, but until it was scheduled for cataloguing last year its uniqueness and controversial nature has remained hidden.  We are delighted that with this documentary and some of the preservation work
that has now been done on the material we can bring this impressive body of
work back into public view."

As well as Bongo Erotico and Glasgow’s Docklands, some of Cocozzas films in the collection include include Petrol, Chick’s Day, and Porphyria

Cocozza gave his works to the nation because he feared the chip shop above which he lived would one day go up in flames.

Just as his expectation that movie sex could be a winner proved correct, so did his fears about the shop.

He was seriously injured when it burned down in 1997 and died later that year in a nursing home.