SHOWCASE
SHOWCASE
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Fornasetti Mansion by Virgilio Villoresi
The former home and studio of Piero Fornasetti is a truly magical place. Maintained and enhanced by his Son, Barnaba, the interior is as strange, and surreal as the inside of the Artist’s own mind. Full of unusual and beautiful rooms, the house itself has become its own work of art, and Barnaba will occasionally…
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Otto by Dario Imbrogno & Salvatore Murgia
OTTO is a video created with the intention to talk in a metaphorical and abstract way about the natural circle of events, which often switches the rules of the characters involved. Light and dark play the catalyst to metamorphosis, we are reminded perception isn’t always black and white, but a blend of the two. Even…
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The Ballad of Holland Island House by Lynn Tomlinson
The living textures, subtle colors and soft flowing dreamlike animation of Lynn Tomlinson’s film perfectly express sentiment and attachment to place and the weaving and weathering of memory over time. The transporting sound design sweeps us through the years as well. She composed lyrics of the period-based ballad for the film. Read on to watch…
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Los Aeronautas by León Fernández
Latin America is the birthplace of magical realism and it is certainly alive and well with this transporting dreamscape by León Fernández of the Guadalajara-based powerhouse Outik Animation. Rita Basulto, another member of Outik, won an Ariel for her moving short about a little girl dealing with grief, “Lluvia en los Ojos.” Juan J. Medina,…
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The Invisibles by Alter Eddie
Hardship of spareness is often its own spiritual guidance in both life and art. This truly arresting short by Edgar Alvarez provokes us to reexamine both. Subtle gesture is king in this piece of attention warping filmic bravado. Alvarez masterfully plays with scale, the pace and relation of time, depth of field and visceral perceptions-…