Country: France
Year: 2011
Duration: 10'
A man and a women meet on the landing of a condominium: they look at each other for a moment, perhaps recognizing each other, then he walks downstairs and she goes into a room. But that encounter has opened up the dimension of memory for both of them: as the man passes into the darkness of the stairwell he thinks back on a moment that took place in his life long ago; the woman, who is a child once again, takes uncertain steps in her playroom populated with objects that seem to want to say something to her. When a rip in the wallpaper lets her unmask reality, the two of them manage to see each other and conserve the memory of an encounter that was only imaginary. “The atmosphere is like a thin layer that’s easy to shatter. On the verge of cracking. Glass. And, it’s not an elsewhere. It’s a between. Amid. It’s the transparency of sheets of paper on a luminous table. We would like to embellish this atmosphere. ‘Embellish,’ weave, embroider. With voices, snagged memories. That is, the sonorous atmospheres of two worlds that are clashing on that wall. The dots of the Braille alphabet. Dots, notes. Sounds from the carillon, the creaking in the room.”
Biography
film director
Magda Guidi
Magda Guidi (Pesaro, Italy, 1979) graduated from the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Urbino, where she later specialized in animated film. She has made various animated shorts, including Sì, però..., which received a prize at Pesaro in the section L’attimo fuggente, and Ecco, è ora. In 2009, she made an animated medium-length film for the theatrical production L’ultima volta che vidi mio padre, directed by Chiara Guidi.
FILMOGRAFIA
Magda Guidi:
Sì, però… (cm, anim., 2000), Nuova identità (cm, anim., 2003), Ecco, è ora (cm, anim., 2004), L’ultima volta che vidi mio padre (mm, anim., 2009).
Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri:
Via Curiel 8 (cm, anim., 2011).
Mara Cerri
Mara Cerri (Pesaro, Italy, 1978), after specializing in animated film at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Urbino, began working as an illustrator for children’s books, collaborating with Italian publishing companies, including Orecchio Acerbo, Fabbri and Fatatrac, and with foreign publishers like Grimm Press and Milan. She has also participated in important events dealing with contemporary art, such as the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the Venice Biennale in 2011.
FILMOGRAFIA
Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri:
Via Curiel 8 (cm, anim., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, animatori, coproduttori/directors, animators, coproducers
Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Mara Cerri
montaggio/film editing
Boubkar Benzabat, Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi
musica/music
Mara Cassiani, Stefano Sasso
suono/sound
Stefano Sasso
produttori/producers
Ron Dyens, Jonathan Hazan, Alexandre Charlet
produzione/production
Sacrebleu Productions, Les Films du Cygne
TFF
prizes
