El Mostro. The daring story of Gabriele Bortolozzo, Lucio Schiavon, Salvatore Restivo, 15′, Italia 2015
Animation short about the worker Gabriele Bortolozzo’s life and struggles for health and work in Portomarghera (Venice).
Cinema Primavera, friday 29th april 19.00
Title El Mostro. The daring story of Gabriele Bortolozzo
Duration 14′ 50″
Year 2015
Country Italy
Genre Animation
Language Italian
Subtitles English
Director Lucio Schiavon, Salvatore Restivo
Screenwriter Federico Fava
Sound Paki Zennaro
Editing Salvatore Restivo, Giacomo Severi, Matteo Reato, Simone Antonucci
Sound Editing Paki Zennaro
Music Paki Zennaro
Production Elisa Pajer – Studio Liz
Distribution Studio Liz
Festival XVIII Cinemambiente Festival di Torino, Interfilm Festival Berlin, 33e Festival International du Film d’Environnement Paris
Awards Best short animated movie Interfilm Festival di Berlino
Web Site http://studioliz.org/
Synopsis
This is Gabriele Bortolozzo’s story, a contemporary hero who fought against a silent monster-enemy, which is to say the poisons of the industrial plant at Portomarghera, right in front of Venice (ten minutes by car, twenty by bike).
Here we represent Gabriele starting to ask himself those questions that soon became a terrible knowledge, in front of the dead bodies of innocent (and unaware) workers.
The work reminds us of those moments of civil awakening, through the moving lyricism of the animation movie and the strong informative purpose of the reportage.
Director’s Statement
The short movie is totally inspired by the great story of Gabriele Bortolozzo, a kind and determined worker whose wish for justice was able to fight against the industrial system through the years of the economic boom.
The purpose of the animation movie is not to make clear all the references to specific people and places. It must be like a dreamy experience, in which the spectator can recognize not only Venice and its workers, but every single town with an industrial plant by its side.
The dream is wrapped up in blues, where informative purpose makes room for emotional experience, as admiration for identification.
Director’s bio-filmography
Lucio Schiavon was born in Venice in 1976 where he lives and works.
Besides important collaborations with Benetton (the research center Fabrica), the New Yorker Magazine (Vision of hope), El Pais, Reporters Without Borders, Unicef, the Massimo Theater in Palermo and the Biennale of Venice, we mention the illustrations edited by the Nuages house in Milan, gran gatta lui e il Super (2007), El Mostro (2008) and Carnet from Togo (2009). For other editors we remember Io Hubble e il cielo (2008), Il genio del bosco (2009), Gerardo e strane visioni (2009) and Unpublished postcards Venice (2010).
He has exhibited his work in various group exhibitions, for instance in Paris all’Ecoles de Mines, in Naples at the Palace of Arts, at the Museum of the landscape of Torre di Mosto and space Lamech in the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza, besides artists like Hugo Pratt, Jose Munoz, JJ Sempé, Tullio Pericoli, Jaques Loustal and Lorenzo Mattotti.
In 2009 he was chosen to participate in the international catalog of American Illustration No. 29 (New York) for the best works of 2009. At the end of 2010 inaugurates his first solo exhibition “La gemella diversa” at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.
He was selected at the First International Motion Art Award 2012 of New York City with the video “Grukey cards”.