Two puppets, Iago and Othelo, after being used in the tragedy, are put in a dump. Looking up at the beauty of the clouds, they forget the place they were dumped in.«For a long time I had this idea of making a rather large movie made of sketches, long and short ones but all of them comic ones. It should be simply called 'Che cos'è il cinema?' (What is cinema?) or more modestly 'Smandolinate'. De Laurentiis granted me with the opportunity of making these two comic sketches: the first one 'La Terra vista dalla Luna' and now this one 'Che cosa sono le nuvole?'. What ideology underlies these two comedies? Actually it is not a much comic one (and indeed Italians do not laugh a lot in my comic movies): it is a picaresque ideology which as any other truly vital thing disguises a much deeper ideology, the ideology of death. As a matter of fact this second sketch of mine 'Che cosa sono le nuvole?' ends up with the death of both characters, two puppets, Iago and Othello. An infuriated audience kills them before the