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Christopher Columbus

The young Christopher, against his father’s will, wants to become a sailor and he succeeds to do his first experiences aboard John’s boat, a good man and a great sailor. One night, during a journey back from the isle of Chios, the ship collides with a rock before the storm sets in. Unfortunately, in order to save the ship and the lives of the crew, John must sacrifice his own life. Columbus sets sail as the chief sailor on a cargo vessel en route from Genoa to Lisbon transporting precious loads of contents. Having passed the Straits of Gibraltar, the fleet then encounters pirates off the coast of Saint Vincent’s Cape. The Genoese crew tries to escape from the pirates, but to no avail; they are soundly defeated, and their ship is sunk. Shipwrecked, Columbus finds himself at the mercy of the waves...

Christopher Columbus

0.0 1991
How the Toys Saved Christmas

When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.

How the Toys Saved Christmas

7.2 1996
Tommy - Lost in the Jungle

Jenny and her baby brother Tommy were born in the Amazon jungle. Their parents, dedicated archeologists, were attacked by tribal warriors. The family was separated, Tommy was carried off by a tribal wise man to be raised among the animals and Jenny was taken to the city by her grandfather. Years later, once she is grown, Jenny returns to the jungle to find her brother. During the adventure she encounters poachers, fierce creatures, a hidden city, ancient treasure, and finally Tommy. Together they struggle to escape the dangers of the wild.

Tommy - Lost in the Jungle

0.0 1999
The Divine Iliad

Created especially for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, "La Divina Iliade" emerges as a unique artistic work that combines visual sensitivity with musicality. The video presents a collection of paintings created by a young 22-year-old Venezuelan artist, whose illustrations capture the essence of the cosmic balance of sexual energies and the search for the "I AM". With the soundtrack by Brunello de Napoli, the work transforms into an immersive experience that invites the viewer to reflect on the invisible forces that shape the universe. The simplicity of the images, combined with the depth of the music, creates a silent dialogue that transcends words, inviting the audience to an introspective and spiritual journey.

The Divine Iliad

0.0 1992
Mu-Lan

Freely inspired by a poem called "Mu-Lan-Ci" narrated during the Soong dynasty (960-1279 AD). Mu-Lan is the legend of a young girl who convinces her old father to send her to war to keep the family honor intact, as there were no adult sons ready to fight at home. In his wanderings Mu-Lan will meet Chang, a nice boy who hides an incredible secret: in fact he is none other than a dragon with a heart of gold. With her help, Mu-Lan will become a brave, wise and respectful heroine in a story that will thrill you!

Mu-Lan

5.2 1998
Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino published in 1972, for Giulio Einaudi, the novel “ Invisible Cities ”, one of the most important passages in literature that makes a combinatorial and semiotic use of the structure to create relationships between the reader and the author. Marco Polo explores 5 cities for each of the 11 categories and this repetition is clearly visible when he builds the summary table of the different combinations. A fundamental book for understanding the depth of Italo Calvino. In 1998 the painter and set designer from Palermo Manfredo Manfredi was freely inspired by the novelby Italo Calvino and a short film made with the rotoscoping and single-panel techniques. The result is a fluid and at the same time meaningful animation in the best Manfredian tradition.

Invisible Cities

0.0 1998
Metamorphic

It is well known that the disposition of the images drawn by Escher are neither for animation nor for pre-animation; actually, quite the opposite. His images appear to be the carrying out of metamorphic dissolves. A bird gives way to the recognition of a house, which turns into fish, which turns into birds, and so on. Not a single flapping of wings takes place; everything is reiterated and fixed, becoming immersed in and re-emerging from a static continuum. All of Escher is an homage to one of the major animating forces of the cinema: the cross-dissolve. Precisely there, I found cinematic attitudes: in the house which turns into fish and in everything that transforms into something else. I gradually managed to figure out various types of non-existent sequences and then finally found myself dissolved, crossing over metamorphically. —P.G.

Metamorphic

6.0 1991