PÖFF 2016: Carte Blanche

Carte Blanche is a selection of short films on the themes of music, colour and synesthesia, composed by the animation historian and writer Giannalberto Bendazzi. In this compilation, you will see and hear many classics from both animation and music history. Among the screened films there will be Norman McLaren's "Pas de deux" and "Satiemania" by Zdenko Gašparović.

LA GAZZA LADRA

Italy 1964, 10’

Dir: Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati

Prod: Emanuele Luzzati

Three kings go hunting with their archers. They are a terrible menace for every bird, but a magpie, endowed with magical means, defeats and ridicules them, closing them eventually in a gigantic birdcage. Music: “La Gazza Ladra” by Gioacchino Rossini.



PAS DE DEUX

Canada 1968, 13’

Dir: Norman McLaren

Prod: Norman McLaren

Two dancers, Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren, perform their ballet. The frames are re-photographed with an optical printer so that their images multiply on the screen.



TUNING THE INSTRUMENTS

Poland 2000, 16’

Dir: Jerzy Kucia

Prod: Jerzy Kucia

Audio-visual illustration of the actual and mental travels of an orchestra player from home to work.



FATHER AND DAUGHTER

Netherlands 2000, 8’

Dir: Michael Dudok de Wit

Prod: Willem Thijssen, Claire Jennings

The lifelong quest of a woman for the father she lost when she was a child.



PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

France 1972, 10’

Dir: Alexandre Alexeieff, Claire Parker

Prod: Roger Leenhardt

Pinscreen illustration of three of the Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky.



SATIEMANIA

Yugoslavia 1976, 15’

Dir: Zdenko Gasparovic

Prod: Zagreb Film

Filmic illustration of various themes by the French composer Erik Satie.