Heartbeat

A group of magic students explore the fact that their school has secrets.

A seagull is caught by the black tide of a sinking petrol ship. She manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. Moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly.

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

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventures of regulars and casual patrons unfold. Searching for a pinball machine or a payphone, they encounter the omnipresent "technician," so called for his passion for soccer and always ready to chat or moderate other people's discussions. Thus, the ordeals of the handyman Bovinelli as he deals with the disasters at Muzzi's house, the diary of a provincial playboy's conquests, the sex life of the fiery prostitute Elvira, the search for a good restaurant during a dazed motorcycle trip with Cocosecco, or a trip to see Bologna play with the lawyer Della Lana become epic tales of tragicomic exploits.

Film 35 mm – charcoal and pencil on paper. Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

Carlo is just a regular guy who keeps a secret world hidden inside his closet. Will his newfound love for shy office colleague Anita, mean the end of the world for the closet mini planet?

Vasco and Viola are two sick children. He suffers from a form of immunodeficiency that forces him to live isolated from the world, even from his mother. While she fights against a tumor. Both have a great desire: to live. One day everything changes for Vasco: doctors are convinced that gene therapy could cure him. This is what happened. Now Vasco can go home to his family. Unfortunately for Viola there is no cure today, but the hope for the future is she can go back to her normal life as a child, thanks to scientific research.

Directed and animated by: Mario Addis 35 mm – traditional animation on paper.

This short film is a playful stream of crude human emotions. Fantastical hallucinatory moments of passion, cruelty, loneliness, disconnection and love unfold humorously in a simple and innocent form but with deep, sometimes dark meanings. Hypnotic music accompanies a dance of lines that reinvents itself with each new squiggle of the artist's pencil.

Where do we come from? Who do we think we are? Do we have to bring out the best in us if we want to create something extraordinary? The film Ego tries to answer these questions starting from an intuition: what if we were nothing but a breath in a balloon?

10 video-installations in the magnificent scenario of the Carrousel du Louvre. Fornarina organizes the event “The call of dreams”, a mix of art, fashion and music. Art director of event is Marco Bragaglia.

Traditional paper animation. Created, directed and designed by Mario Addis. Award “Special Star” to direction and animation at XVII edition MEDIASTARS. Official competition adv section at ANNECY IAFF edition 2012.