animate!

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animate! synopsis

The big issues addressed in an abstract animation ripe with optically manipulated hand-painted film. Employing the associative logic of dream it creates a dazzling reverie of colour and pattern.

short synopsis

An exploration of visual music and the relationships of the city and the cave; reflecting the actions of memory and thought through the rhythmic interplay of colours, textures and shapes painted directly onto film and manipulated photographically using an optical printer.

Free flowing, organic and visceral. Intricately edited and syncopated by the movement of reflected and refracted light on the film surface. Inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, Georges Bataille and William Burroughs… Organic, urban, abstract Pop/Op-Art.

key credits

director: Riccardo Iacono
music: Fly Face

Riccardo Iacono

artist’s website

Riccardo Iacono

a film by Riccardo Iacono

direction

director: Riccardo Iacono

sound personnel

music: Fly Face

support

thanks: Technicolor; Digital Facilities, Edinburgh; London Filmmakers’ Co-op
special thanks: James Hamilton, David McBride, Nicola Bowery, Max Davis, Sharon Quigley, Phyliss Ironside, Andrew McGregor, Marjut Rimminen, Timo Arnall, Peter Tupy, Stuart Hilton and Dick Arnall
additional financial support: Scottish Film Council
primary funding: Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award