Production: F.s.f.c.

Line Production: Il Circolo della confusioneke it stand out.

Director: Eleonora Gambula

Tecnica: Rotoscope digitale

Duration: 5 minuti

Year: 2020

In a small town in Southern Sardinia, known for the presence of an important industrial site; three children on the threshold of adolescence spend their afternoons on a hill from which they admire the view.
The sight of industries, of the sea and of the city in the distance, offers him the opportunity to give vent to their fantasies from which sometimes the shadows of wider problems, climate change, immigration, depopulation and industrial pollution leak out. these are issues they will have to deal with in the years to come.
Facing a small adventure like that of saving an animal in danger, brings up a series of anxieties, questions to which Rachele, the most mature girl of the group, will be able to answer with the help of her wise Aunt. The pre-adolescent phase represents a particularly interesting moment from a narrative point of view since the characters who are in a condition of transition from a childhood to an adolescent state (a period that corresponds in a certain sense to the first real discovery of pain) they bring with them a wealth of themes and feelings belonging both to the world of childhood and to that of adulthood.
In this case it is the very elaboration of the passage to a new phase of life that is important, no less is the context in which the events take place, that is that of an ongoing climate change, the flocks of birds seem disoriented by the change of temperatures, industries do not seem to keep that promise of development that they brought in the twentieth century and there is an ever more pressing need to find a development model that harmonises environmental and land protection needs with economic ones.In this sense, the voice of the elderly, bearers of ancient good practices and a sense of community by now faded but constantly regretted, represents one of the paths to follow in order to arrive at a new environmental and social awareness.
This is therefore the context in which the story takes place, a eight-minute short film, recited in Sardinian language rich in floral elements, painted frame by frame in the digital rotoscope technique.
The choice of the authors was to use the rotoscope, due to its particular characteristic of combining the video language with that of the drawing. This combination is capable of suggesting a oneiric and dreamy vision of reality, delineating and amplifying its atmospheres and sensations.
Complex issues such as sustainability, climate change and quality of life, told and addressed with this approach, will appear more accessible even to a younger audience.
The arts and forms of artistic expression are often the most effective key to interpreting them for suggesting different solutions and interpretations and for sharing them.

Look at the amazing and incredible job that Eleonora and the other colleagues made for this Rotoscope!!