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STUDENTS AGE: 19-23
DESCRIPTION: The experimental animated short film “Fragments / Frames from a Quarantine” was born from an idea by
Giacomo Manzotti, made in collaboration with Jacopo Martinoni and Fabio Sirna, involving the students of the 2nd and 3rd year of the animation course.
In this project the workflow and poetics of collaborative work are mixed with the feelings and experiences that the students lived during the quarantine.
Each student was asked to create a drawing that represented quarantine in a personal way: these drawings then became the key frames of the animation that develops smoothly from one drawing to another.
The collective animation session on a shared server lasted 3 hours, in which 28 students worked simultaneously on the same project.
Each student worked first on their own sequence of frames, then on the sequences of others, intervening freely on each frame.
The minimalist animation software Lines (still in development) has been used to make this short film, created by Simon Drouin and inspired by the words of the director and animator of the National Film Board of Canada Norman McLaren:
“My militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple and direct delight, to make with a movie should be the same.” – Norman McLaren, 1948
Lines was therefore born with the idea of being a sketchpad for animators: its minimal interface allows extremely rapid creation of animated sequences.
The most unique feature of the software is that it allows the collaborative creation of animation sequences in real time.
Music and sound design constitute the original soundtrack created by Fabio Sirna: a slightly melancholic and dreamlike mood, where the sounds and the mix are treated in order to recall the different perception of time spent in quarantine.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: NABA – NUOVA ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI – MILANO
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