Black is the first Italian cross-media project that melts together a short animated film, a music album and a live electronic music performance. The project is a work in progress and will be completed in 2016.
The idea was taken from the homonymous animated short film presented by the production company So What to the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities who allowed the company to financially begin the production and recognized it as a national cultural interest.
The story is set in Rome and tells the story of Matteo, a young producer of electronic music, who during a long blackout can’t resign himself to the idea of no longer being able to play on the computer anymore. Black’s central themes music and energy are inextricably throughout the 15 minutes of the film leading the audience to understand the importance of something that is normally taken for granted.
Its visual style is quite sophisticated showing a research for a precise realism despite the 2D animation technique.The choice of using animation in this story is not just a stylistic choice itself but also a way of narrating a possible story while keeping a deep romantic and philosophical sense.
Black is teeming with music.
Matteo is not just the main character of a cartoon he’s also one of us. A passion for music and a guy like many others. During the character development, it felt natural for us to give him as many human elements as possible. In doing so, it felt natural to give him a human touch with the thing that is more important for him: the music. We took all the sketches we composed for the sound design and for the score tracks and put them together to build complete songs.
The film has been completed and will be sent to all major animation film festivals.
TRAILER
TEAM
Production company So What
Director Sara Taigher
Produced by Sara Taigher
Executive producer Federico Saraceni
Screenplay Lorenzo Bartoli / Chiara Babuin / Daniele Di Biasio
Character design Yassmin Yaghmai / Caterina Ferrante
Storyboard Caterina Ferrante / Yassmin Yaghmai / Ilaria Giacometti
Animation Ilaria Giacometti / Yassmin Yaghmai / Francesco Forti / Alice Buscaldi
Illustrations Valerio Paolucci / Lorenzo Conti
3D art Giuseppe Zizza
Music Inti d’Ayala Valva / Andrea Di Cesare
Assistant sound designer Rosa Della Sala
Assistant producer Antonella Maggio
External relations (France) Emilie Bonnin
Website Viviana Paga
PARTNERS
THANKS TO
Matteo Perilli
Luce Lacquanti
Mariangela Zarriello
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Martina Celleno
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Damiano Mencarelli
Francesca Tagariello
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Vanessa Gauthier
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Julian Robertson
Emil Beddari
Jean-Philippe Turcotte
Yannick Allard
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Anne Curtain
Fabio Mancinelli
Stefano Ferrari
Alexandre Smiechowski
Sean Connors
Nathan Beers
Sergio Carnevale
Tieg Zaharia
Jeremie Claeys
Riccardo Teresi
Quentin Fagan
Dan Smith
Luca Cristell
Alisia Stasi
Sean Morrow
Lucia Borrusa
Laura Bertini
Cristina Vatielli
Dario Sacco
Tommaso Vecchio
Adriano Palombo
Gertrude Lok
Giuseppe Zizza
Adam Eastburn
Annalisa d'Angelo
Nicola Mattina
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Marko
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Cinzia Angelini
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Henrike Rothe
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Jon Wood
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100€ - Raffaella Giuliani
85€ - Marta Catucci
200€ - Monica
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2000€ - Stefano Ferrari
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500€ - Lorenzo Boldi
Federico Saraceni
Marco Jemolo
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Luigia Bersani
Carlo Alberto Bonesi
Alessandra Caldi
James Thomas Wilentz
Nicolo Bussolati
Andrea Zini
100€ - Rasio Castrucci
Francesco Antonini
Viviana Paga
250€ - Enzo
Lidia Ravviso
500€ - Paolo Polesello
Virginia Villari
Inti d'Ayala Valva
Sara
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