Italian Independent Animation / Re-Cycling Project — duas conferências por Paola Bristot nas Belas-Artes (Organização Arte Multimédia)
11 E 12 MARÇO > 10H00 I SALA 3.07
PÚBLICO ALVO: ESTUDANTES UNIVERSITÁRIOS, PROFISSIONAIS E INTERESSADOS NA ÁREA DE ANIMAÇÃO
Número máximo de participantes: 30
Os interessados deverão enviar um e-mail para comunicacao@fba.ul.pt com nome completo, contacto de e-mail e de telemóvel, habilitações.
Italian Independent Animation
11 de Março // 10h00 // Sala 3.07
The Italian animation panorama still offers a spectrum which is very fragmented, but nonetheless significant, and this is no small matter considering the organization difficulties and, above all, the lack of attention on the part of the national film production industry.
The orientation towards a European and transnational circulation of artistic movements is confirmed by the productions, co-productions and collaborations involving also other countries. The circulation of animation films is, after all, naturally open to an international perspective and the possibility to build bridges through common productions and collaborations with the other European countries and is, in this sense, auspicious.
In the case, for example, of the author Mauro Carraro, he trained in Italy and France, the production of his films Hasta Santiago, Aubade are the result of specific contracts with Nadasdy Film in Switzerland, while Via Curiel 8 (8, Curiel Street) by Mara Cerri and Magda Guidi was co-produced by the two authors with Sacrebleu and Les Films de l’Arlequin in France.
In the channel of art a fertile ground has always been created, which has given rise to the most original achievements in the search for expression, and here we are seeing some perfect examples, like the film by Ursula Ferrara, Come persone (Like People), or Percorso, by Igor Imhoff, or The Journey of the Birdboy, by Chiara Ambrosio, or Soil is Alive, by Beatrice Pucci…
As well as the films which in some way recall a language strongly linked to abstract art, in the presentation of the indipendent italian animated shortfilms there are also animations with a very obvious narrative structure. We are referring to La testa tra le nuvole (Head in the Clouds), a poetic film by Roberto Catani, whose works, measured out over time without any urgency in their production, bring us splendid illustrations in coloured pencil, which tell through motion, little but important stories. Also the films by Simone Massi and Gianluca Toccafondo, as well.
Re-Cycling Projecto
12 de Março // 10h00 // Sala 3.07
‘Re-cycling Project’ involves 10 animation artists, coming from different european countries. Each of them will make 1 minute of animation on film, drawing directly on it, with their own style.
The direct drawing on film has a long story.
It was one of the earliest techniques of sperimental abstract cinema in the 20s and 30s, with works by Oskad Fischinger, Hans Richter, Walt Ruttmann. Norman McLaren continued to experiment, creating a peculiar series of films which later became a milestone for everyone wanting to work with this technique. And the concept of the film just started from the anniversary of birth of Norman Mclaren!
Ten among the most interesting european animation authors will continue this “tradition” in a collective opus: RE-CYCLING: Špela Čadež (Slovenia), Rastko Ćirić (Serbia), Vessela Dantcheva (Bulgaria), Magda Guidi (Italy), Joni Männistö (Finland), Regina Pessoa (Portugal), Ülo Pikkov (Estonia), Marina Rosset (Switzerland), Gábor Ulrich (Hungary), Petra Zlonoga (Croatia).
The idea blossomed from a fertile ground of artistic research, conducted in different fields: comics, illustration, visual arts; and it is based on an experimental and creative modality with a distinctive situationist mark. The ten artists will participate in a game, and will have to follow some ground rules, regarding technique, subject, length, and predetermined deadlines.
The elected technique is the direct drawing on film, although the authors are not specialists of this procedure. So the proposal puts them in the position to be equal, and provides a good chance to challenge themselves.
The subject is connected to the item each artist will have to choose. The ten objects will be collected and then exchanged, so every author will receive something chosen by someone else, and will not know by whom and why. This creates a fil rouge between the participants: even if they will be working autonomously, they will be linked and connected. This element is been the glue that ties the work together, giving an imaginative continuity between the 1’ animation each author produced.
The result is very interesting for a original style expressed and with some surprising elements determined by the compared with the drawings directly on the film.