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A terrible misunderstanding between a mouse and a frog provokes an escalation of reprisals and revenge that will culminate in the war between the people of Mice and the people of Frogs who both live on the edge of a field. But a real threat to this small world at war comes from somewhere else. Inspired by Batrachomyomachia (Battle of Frogs and Mice) a comic epic attributed to Homer.
Galgenlieder are, as Morgenstern himself says in a comment, the imaginary songs of a group of hung people, dangling from the gallows hill, a strategic place that allows them to see the truths that normally a distracted and "living" viewer wouldn't.
The drawings hide and reveal secrets of a sexual past in equal measure. Short film by Marco Capellacci
A geometric evolution from a little point to a circle and then to a point again.
Italo Calvino published in 1972, for Giulio Einaudi, the novel “ Invisible Cities ”, one of the most important passages in literature that makes a combinatorial and semiotic use of the structure to create relationships between the reader and the author. Marco Polo explores 5 cities for each of the 11 categories and this repetition is clearly visible when he builds the summary table of the different combinations. A fundamental book for understanding the depth of Italo Calvino. In 1998 the painter and set designer from Palermo Manfredo Manfredi was freely inspired by the novelby Italo Calvino and a short film made with the rotoscoping and single-panel techniques. The result is a fluid and at the same time meaningful animation in the best Manfredian tradition.
A reflection on art during the destruction of a post-atomic society.
Direct-to-video animation transposition of Jules Verne's novel
Stop motion animation by Ericailcane
The love story between Giovanni Boccaccio, the son of a Florentine merchant who would become the most important poet of his era, and Fiammetta, the illegitimate daughter of the King of Naples Robert of Anjou. Boccaccio and Fiammetta fall madly in love on Easter Day in the church of San Lorenzo Maggiore. But fate does not seem to help the two young people's love. Princess Giovanna, in order to avoid getting married to Andrea of Hungary, devises a plan to poison him, placing the blame precisely on Fiammetta, who had meanwhile been hired at court as a servant. Boccaccio, with luck and daring, manages to prevent Fiammetta from being blamed. Princess Giovanna will marry the prince of Hungary, and Fiammetta, finally recognized as King Robert's daughter by her natural mother, will be able to crown her dream of love with Boccaccio.
A dog is abandoned by its owner.
An ode to the early days of animation, in which the animators interact with their animations.
This is a video collage created using mash-up and split-screen techniques. It is linked to the idea of dance that allows the body to change shape and content in a grunge and punk surrealistic manner.
Experimental animation by Igor Imhoff
Artist Video Collection
An anthology that delves into the activity inherent to audio-visual processing and their video-exhibition history
Genius Loci is a short film on its own, but also a prelude to Anatomy Lessons. It takes place in northern Italy shortly before the end of the cholera epidemic of 1865 - 1867. In a state of restlessness and fatalism given by isolation and by the epidemic, a mysterious scholar wonders where the true seat of the soul is.
A working day of an "anyone" futurist man. The story, grotesque and ironic, takes her visual inspiration from Depero's futurist artworks.
A glimpse into the lives of three characters who move through the city like animals in a zoo, gradually reconnecting with their primordial instincts. Until they erupt in a final confrontation with real animals, breaking free.
Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi
Serata Paperino is a special-movie produced in 1988 by Walt Disney Television Italy, directed and written by Aurelio Castelfranchi, Antonella Condò and Cecilia Valmarana. It was broadcasted for the first time on Rai 1 on 1988, Easter day, and was regularly re-proposed until 1996.
Where do we come from? Who do we think we are? Do we have to bring out the best in us if we want to create something extraordinary? The film Ego tries to answer these questions starting from an intuition: what if we were nothing but a breath in a balloon?
The tooth-mouse moves quietly in the darkness of people’s homes. The nature of his works compels him to hide from humans. But all this secrecy unleashes in him an existential thought: “how can something exist if no one ever sees it?”
Although Marinetti wrote the Manifesto of Futurist Cinema, Velocità is seen by some as the only futuristic film in its own right. Beside a dense intertextual network and a mechanic dance of the screen titles and objects dancing to stop-motion beats, the movie features a unique showcase of air painting on film and a few swinging frames from the streets of Turin.
Short animated film by Magda Guidi.
"The Immortality of the crab" is an experimental animated short film shot on super 8 film, made with in-camera editing and no post production. In this movie, the synaesthetic research between sound and image is accomplished by connecting the animations, made on 1125 cardboard frames, with an original soundtrack produced using only sounds sampled by handling pieces of cardboard. The title refers to the time spent between the birth of the embryonal idea and the production of the short. "The Immortality of the crab" is a south american expression, almost no longer used, which indicates the act of daydreaming. This film symbolizes the director's release from the spectre of procrastination, a condition he sistematically faced when daydreaming about possible ways to give shape to his idea.
Short animated film by Roberto Catani.
Animated short about politics.
Renato, an eccentric Renaissance inventor, dares the impossible: capturing a lightning bolt in a jar! Fuelled by ambition and defying the skepticism of his peers, he races against time in a thrilling journey, where each storm offers an extraordinary glimpse into the mysteries of nature and the power of love.
Does a creaking rocking chair make you feel uneasy or totally relaxed? In this crafty parable by animator Luca Dipierro it’s probably the former. His is a world of informed buffoonery, resourceful infantility and playfulness – the only adversary here is death, and you don’t want to trifle with that. The film’s uncomfortably seductive soundtrack is the work of the Father Murphy duo.
Every day legions of people risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea to reach the southern coasts of Europe, the new Promised Land. But the sea, that once parted to allow Moses' passage, now closes with indifference over the stories and lives of countless victims.
Expect the unexpected in this unusual short that combines live action and animation.
The life of a pig revisited in terms of legend.
A photographer's violent confrontation with one of his involuntary subjects, a famous politician, is brilliantly related in a computer-animated homage to film noir and tabloid journalism.
Painterly technique and colour, the film is the result of improvisation with software. grain cloud atmosphere explores the perception of time through the eye and through the ear.
The idle moments in the kitchen become an opportunity to reflect on oneself, on who one is, and on that elusive sense of lack that separates us from happiness. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, with what shall it be salted? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”
A man, trapped in a white sheet, struggles on a bed as if drowning in a nightmare. In front of a similar sheet, in an empty movie theater, a mother breastfeeds her baby, immersed in deep silence. A silent film tells the story of a cow, marked with the number “432,” who wanders on a beach desperately searching for her missing calf. When the cow finds the dead calf, marked by the number “433,” the film dies with it: the sheet on which the film is projected falls onto the stage, enveloping the entire room in an even deeper silence. The number “433” evokes John Cage's famous silence, but here silence takes on a tragic meaning, representing the stillness of death. The same fate befalls the man on the bed, the embodiment of life within the film, whose movements cease simultaneously at the end of the film.
A man in a long door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place inside his mind. It's time for him to come to terms with a past that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.
A travel through imagination, finding a place called home.
Altea, a young director, has lost her parents, both drug addicts. Many are their friends who died because of heroin but some remain, historical memory of a dissolved generation. These include Lindiota, named after it because it moved to Lindos on the island of Rhodes. There, Altea joins him to collect useful material for the film he is writing with the idea of reworking mourning through artistic creation.
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A stop-motion animated short film born from the need to represent life within the earth, in a square meter of soil live more than a thousand species of invertebrates that guarantee the decomposition of plant organisms.
Short surreal stop motion animation by Niba and Matteo Giacchella