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Planting the Seeds, growing the future. Technology pervades every aspect of our lives: the way we move... the way we work... the way we meet and communicate… how we make love and what we eat... Crops all over the world are grown using increasingly technological methods. It is now possible to grow plants at night and in hostile environments, increasing yields and saving water. Most of these methods are based on... Hydroponics. Since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World, technology has allowed man to grow great amounts of food. Abundance of food allows man to explore new frontiers... In January 2016 the first flower has blossomed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Yet, in pursuing his quest, man also generates huge amounts of increasingly technological waste... Space Waste is already an issue of cosmic concern...

A girl will receive bad news from her boyfriend.

“I'm Still Alive” tells the story of a man forced to live under police escort for the last 15 years. Narrated in first person by it own voice, This is Roberto Saviano’s story, an investigative journalist, writer, screenwriter whom, through his works, succeeded in shifting the global perception of organised crime. The movie spotlighting 15 years of the author’s real life, starting from his debut bestseller first issue and develops forward and backward mixing flashbacks from his childhood and imaginary events he couldn’t help dreaming of.

Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the sound of a bell alters the logic of the system.

Stop motion animation by Beatrice Pucci

Created for the municipality of Pergola, the film offers insight into the city's identity and historical context. It covers events across much of the country, juxtaposing land and war. We also hear the voices of Simone Massi's children. The author dedicates this work "to his children and to these children."

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

“He doesn’t stop resisting; he stands in the snow, in the silence, stubbornly keeping the position”.

A young pastry chef struggles to save the family shop in post-war Rome, as Hanukkah approaches.

A mixed media 2D animation illustrating the beautiful letter from Stefano Gabbana to Domenico Dolce.

After a computer crash, a girl struggles with the loss of her long-time virtual pet, Bubba.

A short animation by Blu

A short film that reinterprets the silent film masterpiece "Cabiria" from 1914, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and enriched with literary captions by Gabriele D'Annunzio, thanks to the integration of digital technologies such as virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence, and the powerful 3D graphics engine Unreal Engine.

Karminio tells about the time when chameleons, because of their bright red color, were easily spotted and eaten by predators, especially dinosaurs and black birds. To avoid extinction, one of them proposed to change their color by painting themselves green, so as to camouflage themselves.

Short stop motion animation by Michela Donini and Katya Rinaldi

Freely inspired by a poem called "Mu-Lan-Ci" narrated during the Soong dynasty (960-1279 AD). Mu-Lan is the legend of a young girl who convinces her old father to send her to war to keep the family honor intact, as there were no adult sons ready to fight at home. In his wanderings Mu-Lan will meet Chang, a nice boy who hides an incredible secret: in fact he is none other than a dragon with a heart of gold. With her help, Mu-Lan will become a brave, wise and respectful heroine in a story that will thrill you!

Short animation representing how death is processed in a small sardinian village.

The heroic Gormiti have been fighting for millennia against the evil Lord Voidus and his fearsome Darkans, to preserve the peace and balance of nature on the Island of Gorm. Aided by the heroic Guardians, their adventures are packed with energy, action and fun!

The intellectual soul of man extends from the earth and ascends, in order to comprehend the body of the world, the wondrous substance of the sky.

In the middle of the forest, a bingo game takes place in a medieval baptistery between a priest, country folk and some strange creatures.

Rome, summer. One night, unexpectedly, a total blackout leaves the city without electricity. People feel paralyzed, their world is dipped in darkness. Matteo is a young electronic music producer big fan of Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk. He’s composing the songs of his new album. In a single moment, he loses all his work on his computer. Crushed by the lack of electricity and ensnared on his habits, Matteo finds an entirely different dimension of himself and everything around him thanks to the encounter with Greta, his neighbor from next door, who’s writing a novel inspired by this emergency.

Razzullo is a scrivener hired by the Emperor Augusto to take a census of all the Empire citizens, who is keeping on looking for stratagems which allow him to satisfy his hunger. On his way he runs into Sarchiapone, his looney countryman, barber and violin scraper, on the run because he has cheated a gangster. They handle together many vicissitudes in order to earn some money to buy something to eat. In the meanwhile, Mary and Joseph are travelling looking for a place in which waiting for Baby Jesus' birth, pursued by Plutone, Lord of underworld, and the four little devils in his service.

In order to regain his lost youth, Kumaz the Wizard must marry the Sunshine Princess, daughter of the Sultan of Armenia. The girl refuses his proposal and the wizard takes revenge by turning her into an ugly, bad-tempered child. Misery the donkey and his master, young Ali Baba help the little girl to regain her former beauty and her true position as the Sunshine Princess.

The black, the white and a small red spot that suddenly rise up.

Un chihuahua nervoso di nome Picasso viene infastidito. Meglio lasciarlo stare. A nervous chihuahua named Picasso gets annoyed. Better not to bother him.

Abstract animation inspired by The Simpsons.

"#iorestoacasa" is a virtual artefact that visualises data relative to the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of a particle system. The most relevant data about the virus outbreak is mapped to variables that modify the shape and colour of the system. "#iorestoacasa" was conceived and developed during the ‘lockdown’that was introduced in Italy to combat the virus outbreak. At the beginning of hisconfinement, Spagnuolowatched the news to hear updates on the virus situation. However,like many others, hewas soonso overwhelmed by all the numbers, that they stopped making sense. That’s when hehad the idea to take the same data that made himfeel so uneasy and represent it in a more soothing way. The title of this work, which translates to ‘stay home’, is a tribute to the communal effort that permitted a haltto the spread of the virus and relieved pressure on the healthcare system.

Short super-8 found footage film by Danilo Torre.

Dedicated to Pasolini's death and his commemoration in the years following his passing.

Made with objective images, captured in their 'found' reflections. Precise interventions of small rational animations.

A blackbird takes care of all forgotten things. One 17′ long story in just one drawing. An animated film where the animation is imagined. An experimental film for all audiences.

This extremely short film is dedicated to chronophotography, which—as is well known—is the prelude to cinema. As with one of my earlier films dedicated to Muybridge (The Naked Killer, 1982), this one was excavated from books and catalogues, that is, from typographic ink. I tried, in a certain sense, to reanimate the inanimable as does the photographer Duane Michals, having only, sometimes, three or four frames. I found older stroboscopic technology as well as more contemporary flicker effects to be very helpful here and there. I attempted to realize the cinematic identification of Skladanowksy with Avedon; contaminations, precisely, between creators of films and creators of photography, contemporary or not. It is surprising to see Michals, a contemporary photographer, bearing such a strong cinematographic resemblance to Londe, the proto-filmmaker. I hope, at least, to have told the story of their direct commingling, as if by a single secret author.

The Final Evolution series had a television broadcast as an animated feature film in December 2008 on Italia1. However, this version cut several scenes for reasons of time.

Alfio Antico, a Sicilian musician, lives deeply attached to his land, to its traditions and to its painful and cruel rituals. The images of the earth, the wind and of dreams blend with a repetitive and tantric music that echoes the voice of the Sicilian street vendors.

Visceral animation and shapeshifting movements are powerfully weaponized in this ode to the work and artistic lense of legendary photographer Cindy Sherman.

Something strange happens in the family pool when his parents aren't home. A thick rope, a kind of veiny snake, emerges from the drain and grabs him by the rear.

Gemma and Marcello are about to get married. They have been waiting for this moment for so long. The ceremony is about to begin and they are overwhelmed by emotions, their fears and expectations. Like every couple, they support and imagine their future together, they promise eternal love. But they are not like all the other couples about to get married: Gemma and Marcello are two sugar figurines on top of a wedding cake.

Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.

A man hungry for sausages buys a microwave oven that will drag him into the wild.

Every expectant mother dreams of a bright future for the child she is carrying. As in anticipation, a shooting star falls from a night sky, tracing the dreams of mothers and fathers alike.

A meaningful journey into the Italian cultural heritage throughout musical quotes from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, lithographies by Giovan Battista Piranesi and lines by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Dreamland will bring the audience to some of the most beautiful Italian UNESCO sites: Villa d’Este and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the historic centre of Rome with the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant’Angelo and much more. Passing through the depths of the Tiber, it will arrive also in the most peripheral areas of the city to find out still so much beauty and so many stories about the contemporaneity in a visual and musical journey so evocative as to reveal the Italian cultural identity.

The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness.

In a video game that simulates factory exploitation, a girl tries to save the employees

Stop motion animation by the street artist Ericailcane.

A short animated film combining artist illustrations with footage of real actors in the theater, treated in post-production with a watercolor effect, which tells the true story of Polish nurse Irena Sendler, who saved almost 3,000 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.