In national preview in Recanati, at the courtyard of Palazzo Venieri, the projection of the videopoetry commissioned by the Municipality of Recanati “L’Infinito” and presented as part of the 15th edition of “La Punta della Lingua” international festival of total poetry taking place in Marche which continues from 5 to 9 August 2020.
The animation is signed by Simone Massi, one of the greatest animation film directors in the world, while the narrator is by Neri Marcorè, the soundtrack by Stefano Sasso, the filming by Julia Gromskaya and the post-production by Lola. Hood. A minute and a half in which stories and presences, people and animals, experiences and instincts intertwine, told by Massi’s moving pencil.
The video poetry “L’Infinito” will be the only Italian opera to represent our country at the 18th International Animation Festival in Hiroshima, scheduled from 20 to 24 August in Japan, one of the most important animation festivals in the world, every biennial: The infinite is one of the 59 works selected out of a total of 2,339 animations sent to the festival. “Poetry, imagination, fantasy: these are the timeless threads that Simone Massi was able to tie to the famous poem” The infinite “by Giacomo Leopardi in his short film, the only Italian opera to have been selected in the main international animation festival – said the ‘Councilor for Cultures of the municipality of Recanati, Rita Soccio – a beautiful way to spread Leopardi’s message as an ethical instrument of strength and passion to unite peoples and nations especially in this difficult moment where the social chain becomes a cure for the ills of this epoch “.
Simone Massi is originally from Pergola (PU), he studied Animation Cinema at the Urbino School of Art. He is an animator, director and illustrator, and already winner of a David di Donatello 2012 for best short film and two Silver Ribbons in 2014 and 2015. He has over 200 awards won in the main national and foreign festivals and is considered one of the greatest international animators. “When I was commissioned to work I was delighted, excited by the idea that the La Punta della Lingua festival and the municipality of Recanati thought of me to give a shape to” Leopardi’s Infinity “- he said. the director and author Simone Massi -. Problems began immediately after, due to the author’s stature and more generally due to the awareness that poetry does not need images. So I tried to detach myself from the text and tell a small story within the story, letting the disturbances and visions flow that the text still evokes today, after two hundred years “. For his works, Massi does not use the computer but does everything by hand “on paper, like a century ago … through the use of pencils, charcoals, chalks, pastels, graphite and ink”. He also developed a technique «made of oil pastels spread on paper and then scratched with drypoint and other engraving tools». The work, commissioned by the Municipality of Recanati, is co-produced by Nie Wiem, a non-profit creative enterprise, organizer of the “Corto Dorico” film festivals and of the poetry “La punta della lingua”, as part of the “Marche of Poetry ».
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