Rotocalco

A little boy meets the old hero Garibaldi who tells him the story of his adventures.

A man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.

A visionary trip into a common man's subconscious.

A flower trembles in the wind while high in the sky clouds slowly pass by. The seeds from the dry and withered flower fly toward a new life while below in the dark earth something moves: a small white being advances with difficulty toward the light.

A reflection on art during the destruction of a post-atomic society.

A succession of visual emotions in a sort of “filmed rotogravure,” where sequences and segments follow an ironic and dramatic logic that highlights the obsessions, the poverty, and the myths that shook the neoconsumerist society of those years. This approach frames, but at the same time transcends, pure reportage, venturing into a reflection on the meaning of seeing and imagining. The techniques employed range from direct rotoscope to works-in-progress, from citationism to photographic contamination.

The artist returns to his studio, at night. Fantasies, anxieties, and memories overlap and come to life, until dawn, when the world resumes its daily routine.

The ambulance speeds through the night. The doctors try to save a man, his heart is still beating. On a railroad bridge another man is crouched by the tracks: A suicidal former boxer. The story of a double failure.

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi