Lo Sguardo Italiano

Length: 13 min 39 sec

Production country/date: U.S.A./Italy – Jul 2016

Original format: HD, Color     Aspect ratio: 4:3

Screening format: DCP

Original Title: "Lo Sguardo Italiano"

English Title: " The Italian Gaze"

An Italian artist who emigrated to the United States looks back at his native country through an animated film made with thousands of hand colored oil painted photographs.

Independently produced, and created over eleven years as a visual poem that bridges film-making language and visual arts,

“Lo Sguardo Italiano” portrays the intoxicating natural, historical and artistic beauty of Italy as well as it denounces the profound disillusionment, moral and cultural decay in contemporary Italian life.

L.City

Length: 8 min      Production country/date: U.S.A. – Jan 2002

Original format: 16mm film, b/w     Aspect ratio: 4:3

Screening format: 16mm, Betacam, DVD

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 thousands of photo cutouts, objects, lights and shadows animated frame by frame with the help of a multiplane structure under a 16mm Oxberry camera stand.

"L.City" is now part of a DVD compilation of poetry based pieces published by Rattapallax.

Train

Length: 1 min  12 sec

Production country/date: U.S.A. – May 1999

Original format: 3/4", color     Aspect ratio: 4:3

Screening format: Betacam, DVD

Luminous oil pastels on stilled video images, in frame by frame animation, recapture the film-maker’s impressions,

in this all too brief journey through the Italian countryside.

Older work

Lo Sguardo Italiano

Length: 13 min 39 sec

Production country/date: U.S.A./Italy – Jul 2016

Original format: HD, Color     Aspect ratio: 4:3

Screening format: DCP

Original Title: "Lo Sguardo Italiano"

English Title: " The Italian Gaze"

An Italian artist who emigrated to the United States looks back at his native country through an animated film made with thousands of hand colored oil painted photographs.

Independently produced, and created over eleven years as a visual poem that bridges film-making language and visual arts, “Lo Sguardo Italiano” portrays the intoxicating natural, historical and artistic beauty of Italy as well as it denounces the profound disillusionment, moral and cultural decay in contemporary Italian life.

L.City

Length: 8 min

Production country/date: U.S.A. – Jan 2002

Original format: 16mm film, b/w

Aspect ratio: 4:3

Screening format: 16mm, Betacam, DVD

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 thousands of photo cutouts, objects, lights and shadows animated frame by frame with the help of a multiplane structure under a 16mm Oxberry camera stand. "L.City" is now part of a DVD compilation of poetry based pieces published by Rattapallax.

Train

Length: 1 min  12 sec

Production country/date: U.S.A. – May 1999

Original format: 3/4", color     Aspect ratio: 4:3

Screening format: Betacam, DVD

Luminous oil pastels on stilled video images, in frame by frame animation, recapture the film-maker’s impressions, in this all too brief journey through the Italian countryside.

Older work