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Thugs With No Legend

Gianluigi Toccafondo | France | 2013 | 15 min

Dva ubozí a hloupí gangsteři vymáhají peníze od chudého farmáře a jeho ženy na venkově poblíž Rimini. Ale farmáři už mají dost hraní obětí, rozhodnou se tedy pro pomstu a vymyslí ďábelský plán, který bandity dostne do vězení. V nejnovějším autorově snímku je posíleno vyprávění, množství hrané akce a větší prostor získává i humor.

Thugs With No Legend

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Quasi niente

Ursula Ferrara | Italy | 1997 | 3 min

Ursula Ferrari’s painted film is a typical representative of pictorial animation. Her film full of rich colours shows constantly changing but ordinary and pleasant moments from the life of a family. Individual scenes are indeed reminiscent of moving canvases by great masters. Occasional “pauses” in the movement always usher in new scenes.

Quasi niente

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

The Tightrope Walker

Roberto Catani | Italy, France | 2002 | 6 min

The images of a life as seen through the eyes of a woman who, motionless in front of the sea, feels the need for some relief. People and things are freely floating through space and transforming. There are no laws of physics here. If we submerge into wondrous drawings on a black background, we can even start feeling a bit dizzy together with the tight rope walker.

The Tightrope Walker

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

The Tail

Gianluigi Toccafondo | Italy | 1989 | 2 min

The foundations of the Italian animation movement which indulges in pictorial perfection and light and sure transformations were laid by the leading persona of the “neo-pictorialists” Gianluigi Toccafondo in his very first film. It shows captivating surreal transformations starring characters from silent slapsticks who experience even goofier adventures.

The Tail

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

About Killing the Pig

Simone Massi | Italy | 2011 | 7 min

This film captures a fraction of one January day’s events from the perspective of a pig about to be slaughtered. People arriving, the blue sky above them and flying birds – this is the moment stuck in the pig’s eyes. The film is about the everyday poetry in which every death has its own meaning and every life is treated with respect and humbleness.

About Killing the Pig

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

La Quiete: Sulla differenza fra un sorriso e una risata

Blu | Italy | 2007 | 1 min

In one of the first animations of the Italian street artist who conceals his true identity under the name Blu, we can trace many of his favourite motifs which he kept on using in different variants later in his career. This black and white music video includes the motif of a ball (here it is a Ping-Pong ball) rolling and moving through space and also layered tanks and cars.

La Quiete: Sulla differenza fra un sorriso e una risata

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

The Play of Silence

Virginia Mori | Italy | 2009 | 5 min

Virgina Mori žije a pracuje v Pesaru a v Miláně. Studovala animaci a design na Státním uměleckém institutu v Urbinu. Během studií si vypěstovala a zdokonalila svou osobitou uměleckou představivost. Její oblíbené nástroje zahrnují tužku, inkoust a propisku na papíře. V roce 2008 získala na festivalu v Annecy cenu pro nejlepší připravovaný projekt. Díky ní mohla natočit svůj první krátký film.

The Play of Silence

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

The Azure Soul

Julia Gromskaya | Italy | 2009 | 4 min

The Azure Soul

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Invacca, uomo cane, uomo patata, la mia scimmia segreta

Stefano Ricci | Italy, Belgium, Germany | 2008 | 3 min

Like Ricci’s entire filmography, these four short sequences are characterised by their distinctive and captivating artistic style. We watch bizarre scenes starring peculiar protagonists with human and animal features. The author deliberately doesn’t conceal the production process, which he considers equally important to its result. That means that we can see for instance the numbers of individual phases.

Invacca, uomo cane, uomo patata, la mia scimmia segreta

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Celebration

Roberto Catani | Italy | 1998 | 3 min

A journey by train brings back all sorts of memories like images from a feast full of dancing. These may be reminiscences of a past life. True to its name, the film is a dynamic ride of extraordinarily animated pastels in Catani’s style. The festive atmosphere is complemented by the film’s score.

Celebration

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

The Match

Ursula Ferrara | Italy | 2002 | 4 min

A brilliantly portrayed atmosphere of a football match with all the details typical for a big match: screaming fans, goals… But soon, hidden worlds of some spectators start to appear. The author portrays them in a very original way and shows what’s happening under the people’s clothes – under a barrier protecting them from the others.

The Match

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Comma in the Drawer

Marco Capellacci | Italy | 2016 | 7 min

This dreamy black and white film by Marco Capellacci is built on symbolic images and recurring motifs which include movements through mysterious openings in various spaces and also film equipment and the production process. Slowly treated images gradually reveal strange sexual secrets which are, however, left unexplained.

Comma in the Drawer

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Pinocchio

Gianluigi Toccafondo | Italy | 1999 | 6 min

Unlike most adaptations, this one shows the darker sides of the popular story. The film uses sequences from Buster Keaton slapsticks. Even though the author follows certain motifs from the original story, he focuses on feeling rather than narration. That makes his film a series of escapes combined with nightmarish scenes.

Pinocchio

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Winter and Lizard

Julia Gromskaya | Italy | 2013 | 4 min

Acrylics, gouache, watercolours on paper, are the basis of the animation by Julia Gromskaya Winter and Lizard. A singsong that rattles off with the musicality already transpiring from the title, a story of a memory of a girl a winter away.

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema

Fiery Red

Simone Massi | Italy | 2011 | 10 min

In this film, Simone Massi, a great personality of contemporary Italian animation, was influenced by the literature and life of Jack London. That naturally shaped the visual style of the film, which is very realistic and simple compared to Massi’s other films. But it is a perfect fit for the story of a man and his dog lost somewhere in the snow.

Fiery Red

Th 04/05/2017
22.00-23.18
free seats: 56
Puppet Theatre

Su 07/05/2017
14.30-15.48
free seats: 89
Světozor Cinema