30 Giugno 2016 11:22

Supporting Matteo & Friends, let’s find all colours and sounds of “Black”!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarataigherblackcrew/black-animated-short-film

Black is a love story , but it is above all the story of our habits, of what can happen if the things we take for granted every day do vanish. That’s why a blackout may lead us to question what we do and who we are. It is only then that we feel we have to reinvent ourselves, to rediscover the simplest things in life, as love.

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Black is a love story also for those who have been working on to this project for three years, believing in the strength of animated storytelling and in the passion of working together.

About this project: Since our film is based in Italy and we have a lot of Black Fans there, we’re adding both English and Italian versions of our message.

Black is a love story , but it is above all the story of our habits, of what can happen if the things we take for granted every day do vanish. That’s why a blackout may lead us to question what we do and who we are. It is only then that we feel we have to reinvent ourselves, to rediscover the simplest things in life, as love. Black is a love story also for those who have been working on to this project for three years, believing in the strength of animated storytelling and in the passion of working together.

Please support us to make it happen!!

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Matteo is usually trapped in his daily routine and is a prisoner of his own habits. He will finally be able to discover a whole new world thanks to this sudden event. Matteo is kind of a shy guy and he rarely leaves his flat. He’s pretty much an «idiot savant» to his music and while the blackout lasts for days, he struggles to overcome the “trauma” of not being able to make his own music. While Rome quickly adapts to the new situation, Matteo somehow manages to overcome his loneliness thanks to his neighbor Greta, a writer who makes him rediscover the pleasure of simple things and shows him a different way of expressing himself.

Matteo is not just the main character of an animation, he’s also one of us. He has a passion for music and is a guy like many others. During the character design, it felt natural for us to consider him a real human being, almost a friend. So we had the idea of releasing a music album along with the short film: all the sketches Inti composed for the soundtrack of the film will be put together to build complete songs and a whole album that is going to be a mashup of dance and electro floating between electronics and violins. His sound is warm and intense and sometimes even sounds like dance music. Matteo becomes more and more “alive” and, with no effort, we have in our hands a virtual producer ready to play in clubs.

Matteo performs his music live on a hybrid set with laptops and cdjs but he’s not a clubber, he just loves to make music! His cartoon projection performs on stage by remote from a real DJ and a VJ behind the scenes and with the help of a camera placed on the dance floor,  thereby creating a full audio-video experience in the club, a «Gorillaz style» performing cartoon.

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Designed by Sara Taigher, the script was developed by Lorenzo Bartoli, a famous Italian novelist and cartoonist, who unfortunately passed last October. As a consequence, the film will be dedicated to him. The draft of the script was later completed by Chiara Babuin and Daniele Di Biasio.

Using animation in this story is not just a stylistic choice but also a way of narrating a story while keeping its deep romantic and philosophical meaning. This media allows you to see the world through someone else’s eyes because, potentially, through drawings we can really re-create anything. Moreover in Italy 2D animation is a dying art, and we wanted to take up the challenge and be one of the few studios who still experiments with this art form. We really love Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop and Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir, which have been among our main sources of inspiration for Black.

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All info o Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarataigherblackcrew/black-animated-short-film