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Riccardo De Simone
Italy

1180 AND MORE

1180 AND MORE investigates the connection between dance and visual art, in which their properties exchange in their relationship with time. Drawing and dance meet to generate a dialogue between staticity, represented by singular images, and movement, created by their succession.
The white background, in which characters and extensions emerge and disappear, reveals fantasy and originality in modifying motion and color according to the different parameters or rhythm, size and shading, resolving in a mutant representation of dance even in the absence of biological bodies.
1180 AND MORE has born from the reproduction of a contemporary dance video screenshots on handmade drawings. Each scene was later divided by independent concepts; drawn and coloured by the dancer himself on paper with just pens and pencils .
The whole project has been realized in 4 months of work, which includes more than 1180 drawings, set at the end in order on Photoshop and later on video editing.
The perseverant and committed work of a dancer in a role of an artisan in a homemade old fashion animation, is one of the winning particularity of a film that has been touring in small and big festivals and contests all around the world.
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