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About the film:

• Stop-Motion technique, approximately 4000 photos.

• Written and Directed by Theo Putzu
• Photography Theo Putzu
• Editing Theo Putzu
• Sound Design Martin Ortega Granella
• Soundtrack Miguel Marin miguel-marin.com

Awards

• Special Mention at VISIONARIA 2010 - Piombino - Italy
• Special Jury Prize at BOLZANO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - Bolzano - Italy
• Special Jury Prize at Festival CinemaZERO 2010 - Trento - Italy
• Nomination for "BEST EDITING" at GRAND OFF 2010 - Warsaw - Poland
• Best Short Film at CORTO CORTO MON AMOUR 2010 - Cinisi - Italy
• Best Short Film at CORTI CIRCUITI 2010 - Calderara di Reno - Italy
• Special Jury Prize at MIGLIO D'ORO FILM FESTIVAL 2010 - Portici - Italy
• Best Short Film at FESTIVAL CORTO XX 2010 - Roma - Italy
• Best International Short Film at FESTIVAL PONTINO DEL CORTOMETRAGGIO 2011 - Latina - Italy
• Nomination for "BEST DRAMA SHORTFILM" at Festival STOKE YOUR FIRE 2011- Stoke-on-Trent - UK
• Special Mention at Festival VISIONI ITALIANE 2011 - Bologna, Italy
• Best Editing at FESTIVAL A CORTO DI IDEE 2011 - Ravello, Italy.
• Best Short Film at FESTIVAL SCHERMI IRREGOLARI 2011 - Bagno a Ripoli, Italy
• Best Actor at SOLOFRA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Solofra, Italy
• Audience Awards at DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - San Francisco, USA
• Best Short Film at PARMA VIDEO FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Parma, Italy
• Special Jury Prize at CESATE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Cesate, Italy
• Best Experimental Short Film at FILM VIDEO MONTECATINI 2011 - Montecatini, Italy
• Second Prize at FESTIVAL INVENTA UN FILM 2011 - Lenola, Italy
• Best cinematography at FESTIVAL INVENTA UN FILM 2011 - Lenola, Italy
• Best Editing at FESTIVAL INVENTA UN FILM 2011 - Lenola, Italy
• Special Mention at SCREENGRAB NEW MEDIA ARTS AWARD 2011 - Townsville, Australia.
• Jury prize at TRANI FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Trani, Italy.
• Special Mention at SCIACCA FILM FEST 2011 - Sciacca, Italy.
• Best ShortFilm/New Technologies at UNDERGROUND CISTERNA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Cisterna, Italy.
• Best Cinematography at UNDERGROUND CISTERNA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Cisterna, Italy.
• Best Screenplay at UNDERGROUND CISTERNA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Cisterna, Italy.
• Best Short film at WORDLESS FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy.
• Best Foreign Short Film at CORTOLOVERE 2011 - Lovere, Italy.
• Best experimental Short Film at I'VE SEEN FILMS 2011 - Milan, Italy.
• Best Short Film at NOVARA FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Novara, Italy.
• Best Short Film at MESTRE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Mestre, Italy.
• Third prize at FESTIVAL CORTODINO 2011 - Torre Annunziata, Italy.
• Best Cinematography at SEMANA DE CINE EXPERIMENTAL DE MADRID 2011 - Madrid, Spain.
• Best experimental Short Film at TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Tirana, Albania.
• Online award "experimental" at TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - Tirana, Albania.
• Best Short Film at CORTIAMO 2011 - Alcamo, Italy.
• Best Film/Public Choice at FLUXUS FILM FESTIVAL 2011 - São Paulo/Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Annotation

Story

An old thin, not healthy looking man is looking at old letters and pictures of a woman. This could be a woman he loved. On one of the pictures she sits in the living room. He holds the picture in a position so that the real room and the room on the picture is kind of the same. The woman on the Picture starts moving and getting up the table walking through the door. He decides to follow her and go's outside too, with the picture still in his hand.

Suddenly he stops walking and looks at the picture and then to the space around him. Again he holds the picture in such a way that the surroundings fit almost perfectly. The women smiles at him and walks away again. He follows her again expecting to see her in real around the corner. After a bit of walking he sits down to rest looking restlessly around him. He starts walking again, while looking around him in search. He finds a spot again and holding the picture again in the way the two worlds overlap. She again stands up and walks away and he follows her again with determination but looking confused.

He walks again a longer stroll now. He stops to look at his picture and holds it again like before and she again walks away. He follows her again and walks to a bench and sit on it while looking at the picture and sees an image of the women on the beach. He gets up and walks away, knowing where to go. He ended up on the beach where he walks toward the sea and putting the picture in the sand in the right position. You see the women walking towards the sea and sits down. He gets up, leaving the picture in the sand and steps over the picture. From that moment you see him in the picture too, walking towards the women he loves. And sits next to her.

Together again.

Sound

The sound is really direct and obvious; Ticking of a clock, and sounds of the things he does (walking, breathing, sitting, the wind etc.) And there is a very soft piano melody on the background.

When the picture is hold against the real world the sound changes, gets more noisy. You hear people talking in the background and when she walks you hear footsteps.

Technique

Everything is in stop-motion which gives something surreal and unreal to the motion. Every movement you notice, because they are rigid very rigid.

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What do I like about this work and why

What I like about this animation is the overlap of the different worlds and how it reveres to memories. She is younger than him, which makes you think that she died a while ago and left him alone. He is in pain and starts living in the past. Following the ghost of the past.