"MI CHIAMO FRANCO E MI PIACE IL CIOCCOLATO FONDENTE" (2014)
("MY NAME IS FRANCO AND I LIKE DARK CHOCOLATE")
HD - 1920x1080 - 00:07:00 - Animation short film - Written, directed and animated by Silvia De Gennaro
Voice: Angelo Carotenuto
SYNOPSIS:
2033: tramite i social network, Internet, è diventato il luogo dell’inconscio collettivo.
Le identità si confondono, fino a perdersi in un’informe identità globale.
Il protagonista decide di scollegarsi dalla rete per ritrovare se stesso.
2033: the social networks have made the Internet the place of the collective unconscious.
Confused identities are lost in a shapeless global identity.
The protagonist decides to disconnect from the network to find himself.
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS:
2022 - “Screenings from the Simultan Festival Media Archive” curated by five master students of the Faculty of Arts and Design from Timisoara – “Only What I see without looking in the mirror is me” curated by Marina Paladi - Timisoara, Romania
2020 - “NewMediaFest 2020” - Silvia de Gennaro - Videoartist of the Month – curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne – online, Germany
2020 - “Oblò – Visual Art Festival” - “L’identità che indosso” selection by Francesca Lolli - Casa del Popolo – Asti, Italy
2019 - “L’identità che indosso” Video art review curated by Francesca Lolli- PACTA Salone dei Teatri- Milan, Italy
2019 - “Simultan Festival XIV – There will be a time when it will not be” Corneliu Miklosi Museum – Timisoara, Romania
2019 - “Corti In Miniera” Short Film Festival - Miniera di Rosas, Italy
2019 - “Villacidro Corto Film Festival” Short Film Festival - Villacidro, Italy
2018 - “Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF)” - “Vaft'n'taff” - Screening curated by Video Art Festival Turku (VAFT) – Either Manilla Theatre – Turku, Finland
2018 - “Corti in Tonnara” -Short Film Festival – Social Category – Portoscuso, Italy
2018 - “WOW.19/Bulgaria@The Quarantine Film Festival” - WOW Wake Up! Program curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne - Varna, Bulgaria
2017 - “Cinematica”- Immagini in movimento - IV Ed. “Alter Ego” – Ancona, Italy
2016 - “H2Ö” Music art festival – Turku, Finland
2016 - “Cologne Off 2016 India” – Animate Cologne4 @ 10th Cec – Carnival Of E-Creativity- Shillong, India
2015 - “TBIS – The Best Italian Shorts” – Bolzano, Italy - In Competition
2015 - “Shortini Film Festival” – Augusta, Itay - 1st Prize “New Frontiers”
2015 - “Brooklyn Film Festival” – Experimental – Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A. - In Competition
2015 - “River Film Festival” - Animation – Padoa, Italy - In Competition
2015 - “Experiments in Cinema- International experimental film festival” – Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
2015 - “ECU – European Independent Film Festival” – Paris, France - In Competition
2014 - “XXI Corto Imola Festival” – Imola, Ravenna, Medicina, Casalfiumanese, Fontanelice, Marina di Ravenna, Lido Adriano, Forlì, Venice, Italy – New York, U.S.A. - In Competition
2014 - “Arcipelago2.2°”- International Festival of Short Films and New Images - Rome, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Cinematica Festival 2014” - I Convegno nazionale “Corporeita` e nuovi media” – Ancona, Italy
2014 - “Clorofilla Allo Spazio Alfieri” – Florence, Italy
2014 - “Festambiente Mondi Possibili” – Short Film Festival - Clorofilla – Rome, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Valle D’Itria Film Festival” – Locorotondo, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Great Lakes International Film Festival” – Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. - In Competition
2014 - “Bideodromo” - International Experimental Film and Video Festival – Bilbao e Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2014 - “Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico” – Mexico City, Mexico - In Competition
2014 - “Molise Cinema” – Short Film Festival - Casacalenda, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Clorofilla Film Festival” – Grosseto, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “9th Sardinia Film Festival” - Sassari, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Inventa Un Film” – Short Film Festival - Lenola, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Tolfa Short Film Festival” – Tolfa, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Videoconcorso Francesco Pasinetti” – Short Film Festival - Venice, Italy - In Competition
2014 - “Festa del Cortometraggio” – Short Film Rewiev -Seven Cineplex – Gioia del Colle, Italy
2014 - “XIII International Imagen Festival.”- The Media Art Monographic Show – Manizales, Colombia
In Competition
2014 - “7th A Corto di Donne” - Women Short Film Festival – VII Ed. – Pozzuoli, Italy
Special Mention: "Considerevole lavoro sotto il profilo della tecnica d'animazione e ricco di elementi simbolici di rilievo, il lavoro affronta tematiche di grandissima attualità, con una chiave di lettura piena di spunti di riflessione. Il personaggio protagonista, nel quale ciascuno di noi può facilmente identificarsi, compie alla fine una significativa scelta di affermazione della propria individualità e, di conseguenza, della propria libertà." Simona Lisi, Alda Terracciano, Enrico Tomaselli.
2014 - “Bif&Est” – Bari International Film Festival - “Arcipelago/Concorto” – National Short Competition – Bari, Italy - In Competition