Length: 8 min Production country: U.S.A. Production date: Jan 2002 Original format: 16mm film, b/w. Aspect ratio: 4:3. Screening format: 16mm and SD video. Original Title: "L.City".
A man remembers his lost love through suggestions and atmospheres of a city...
Like lines of a poem, images, music and sounds reflect an interior state of mind, with the disrupted, non-linear structure that remembering can have.
"L.City" is made with hundreds of photo cutouts, objects, lights and shadows animated frame by frame with the help of a custom built multiplane under a 16mm Oxberry camera stand, multiple film exposure, mats, and several experimental film techniques combined with stop-motion animation.
"L.City" opened the inaugural screening of a 30 years of CalArts retrospective at the MoMa in NewYork in 2006, and it was screened at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, France, at the Lincoln Center in New York, at the Annecy International Animation Festival, at the Hong Kong International Film Festival among the others, as well as at hundreds of international festivals around the world.
"L.City" is now part of a DVD compilation of poetry based pieces published by Rattapallax.
Like lines of a poem, images, music and sounds reflect an interior state of mind, with the disrupted, non-linear structure that remembering can have.
"L.City" is made with hundreds of photo cutouts, objects, lights and shadows animated frame by frame with the help of a custom built multiplane under a 16mm Oxberry camera stand, multiple film exposure, mats, and several experimental film techniques combined with stop-motion animation.
"L.City" opened the inaugural screening of a 30 years of CalArts retrospective at the MoMa in NewYork in 2006, and it was screened at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, France, at the Lincoln Center in New York, at the Annecy International Animation Festival, at the Hong Kong International Film Festival among the others, as well as at hundreds of international festivals around the world.
"L.City" is now part of a DVD compilation of poetry based pieces published by Rattapallax.
Honors and Awards
2012 First Prize, James River Shorts, Richmond, VA
2007 “Sadho Seven” Award at the Sadho Poetry Film Festival, Dehli, India
2004 Prize “Panorama Italiano” at Sonar Film Festival, Lastra a Signa (FI), Italy
2004 Jury Award for Best Italian Short at Immaginale, German - Italian Short Film Festival, Roma, Italy
2004 “Shortvillage” Award for Best Italian Short at UrbanIsland, International Short Film Competition, Roma, Italy
2004 Prize “La Tarantola” for Best Animation Film at Short Film Festival Pergola (PU), Italy
2004 First Prize at Inventa un Film - International Film Festival, Lenola (LT), Italy
2004 Kodak Prize for Best Cinematography at Siena International Short Film Festival, Siena, Italy
2002 Prize “Artecolica” at Venice Circuito OFF, Venezia, Italy
2002 Jury Award at the NYExpo, New York, NY
2007 “Sadho Seven” Award at the Sadho Poetry Film Festival, Dehli, India
2004 Prize “Panorama Italiano” at Sonar Film Festival, Lastra a Signa (FI), Italy
2004 Jury Award for Best Italian Short at Immaginale, German - Italian Short Film Festival, Roma, Italy
2004 “Shortvillage” Award for Best Italian Short at UrbanIsland, International Short Film Competition, Roma, Italy
2004 Prize “La Tarantola” for Best Animation Film at Short Film Festival Pergola (PU), Italy
2004 First Prize at Inventa un Film - International Film Festival, Lenola (LT), Italy
2004 Kodak Prize for Best Cinematography at Siena International Short Film Festival, Siena, Italy
2002 Prize “Artecolica” at Venice Circuito OFF, Venezia, Italy
2002 Jury Award at the NYExpo, New York, NY
Exhibitions
2024 Animation as Art – A Multi-sensory Experience, The School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2024 Animation as Art – A Multi-sensory Experience, The School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Images from the film and original materials (paper photo copies and cutouts) exhibited at the Museum of Texas Tech University.
