stop motion short film · 9’
Playing God
2024
Directed by Matteo Burani
Written by Matteo Burani & Gianmarco Valentino
Animated by Arianna Gheller
Director of Photography: Guglielmo Trautvetter
Music by PierDanio Forni
Produced by Arianna Gheller (IT) & Nicolas Schmerkin (FR), an Italy/France co-production between Studio Croma Animation and Autour de Minuit in association with Onira, with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission, the Italian Ministry of Culture, and the CNC Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée.
In a shadowy laboratory crowded with mysterious clay creatures, a tormented Sculptor creates an ambitious new work. Driven by a distorted vision, he soon abandons it as flawed. Rejected and overwhelmed by the other creations, the Sculpture tries to follow its maker but ultimately destroys itself, finding solace among the forsaken works.
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