Silenziosa-Mente

Production Company: Fondazione Milano, MITICI Milano Talenti Creativi
Written, Directed and Edited by Alessia Travaglini
Music: Riccardo Cardelli
Sound Design: Francesco Cardelli, Riccardo Cardelli
Color correction: Claudio Tacchi
Animation: Alessia Travaglini, Alberto Canestrari
Coloration: Claudio Tacchi, Riccardo Cardelli, Filippo Tonni, Alberto Canestrari, Massimo Modula
Year: 2011
Distribution & screening enquiries: La Vidéothèque Nomade, la-videotheque-nomade.net/Silenziosa-Mente
 
THERANDA ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL 2013 – Best Film by Foreign Artist
SCRATCH! INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL 2012 – First Prize « 2D, Stop Motion, Mixed Media » category
MITICI MILANO TALENTI CREATIVI 2011 – Project Award
TRANI FILM FESTIVAL 2013 – Jury Award « Clipping » category
ANIFEST ROZAFA 2012 – Special Prize topic « Media »
AMARCORT FILM FESTIVAL 2012 – Honorable Mention « Fulgor » category
MODIX FESTIVAL 2013 – Critics’ Special Mention
VI YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL VIDENIE 2012 – Animation Nominee
 
…and more then 200 official selections around the world !
Imaginaria 2014, Melbourne International Animation Festival 2013, Festival Animator 2013, Femina International Women’s Film Festival 2013, Anim’est 2013, Giraf Animation Festival 2013, San Francisco IndieFest 2013, ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival 2013, Tehran International Short Film Festival 2013, Terra di Cinema 2013, Athens Animfest 2013, Anifest 2013, Visioni Italiane 2013, Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2012, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012, Tabor Film Festival 2012, Animation Block Party 2012, Circuito Off Festival 2012, Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 2012, Concorto Film Festival 2012, Festival Miden 2012, Busho Budapest Short Film Festival 2012, Fantastisk Film Festival 2012, Patras International Film Festival 2012, Animatou 2012, International Film Festival Manhattan 2012, Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao 2012, Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid 2012, Istanbul Animation Festival 2012, Animateka 2012, Primanima 2012…
 
« SILENZIOSA-MENTE wins first prize at SCRTCH! International Animation Film Festival for the high level of quality achieved in both graphic and animation; for the narrative structure that goes beyond the traditional and classic circuits that takes the viewer inside a surreal and dreamlike journey, reminding at times a modern « alice in wonderland », made up of visual metaphors with which the author deals with profound and important issues such as the complex relationship between individual, society, power and mass media, highlighting their ambiguity and contradictions. »
Virginia Mori, Patrick Juan, Richard Squires
 
« A nice and very surreal animation about the individual’s relations and the constant media noise we are all exposed to. »
Lund Fantastisk Film Festival
 
« Revisitation of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Technique, poetry, fiction are skilfully dosed leaving the audience amazed and at the same time worried. »
Amarcort Film Festival
 
« Two shorts (Silenziosa-Mente & O.V.N.I.) being screened during the SFIndie Film Festival have been written and filmed in a manner that captures the wild fluidity and occasionally wacky humor that we find in our dreamscapes. Although each film is quite brief, it showcases a talented filmmaker with an exciting artistic vision which is bound to bear future fruit. Italian animator, Alessia Travaglini, manages to reference complex political challenges in her provocative new short entitled Silenziosa-Mente (Silent Mind). Although much of this film seems to have been done in shades of red, white, and black, it makes astonishing use of the kind of bizarre, nonsensical images which can pepper our dreams. Although Silent Mind is barely five minutes long, it packs quite a wallop. »
George Heymont