"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:
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 (NA), Italy
Special Mention
2014 - “Bif&Est” – Bari International Film Festival - “Arcipelago/Concorto” – National Short Competition – Bari, Italy - In Competition