VIRGINIA MORI
Making up an inner world is relatively easy, and if that world is a surreal one, where explanations are not needed, then it’s even easier.
The hard part is describing it with rigour: after all, even imagined societies need laws, and Virginia Mori has a talent for this.
Whether they go into a voluntary exile inside their clothes, or peek through the gap in one of their classmates’ head as if it were a peephole, the pencil- and black ballpen-drawn protagonists of Virginia’s animations (and illustrations) don’t improvise. We may not quite understand what they’re doing, but they know for sure: theirs are rituals, not outbursts.
This results in light nightmares, frameless metaphors, stories where the grotesque does not shy away from moments of grace. They’re Edward Gorey’s characters who’ve been forced to sort out their lives, because death is in the air – in these animations everyone moves within the void of expectation – but for some reason, today’s not reaping day.
July 25th 09.30 p.m. – Livelet
July 29th 09.30 – Riva del Lago
THE SELECTION
Punto a capo 2006| 02′ 46′ | Animation
Il gioco del Silenzio 2008|05’00”| Animation
Amarcort Film Festival 2010 |00 32”|Animation
Rachele 2011 |03′ 49” | Animation
Haircut 2015| 08’09’’ Animation
Walt Grace’s Submarine Test 2013| 05′ 10′ |Animation’ Directed by Virgilio Villoresi
