Addictions - directed by Giovanni Bucci
Addictions official page: www.giovannibucci.com/addictions.htm
This video is about addictions, mainly to technology, but it’s open to various interpretations.
Years ago the idea behind technology was to give people more free time from work and give us a better life. So nowadays, with the possibility for the majority of people to have access to electronics and hi tech, is it true that we have more spare time and a better quality of life? Or have we become addicted to the technology that surrounds us everyday and it has suck us into it? But humans get addicted really easily to a lot of things in life and this video is also a metaphor about addictions in general, about being manipulated without even realizing it or without reacting.
PROCESS:
This is an audio/visual project where sound and images were developed synchronically from the beginning and where one was guide to the other and vice-versa until final completion.
In order to do this, for director Giovanni Bucci was very important to be involved with writing the track together with sound designer/music producer Marco Morano.
The team came up with the concept and started researching music and visuals that would suit the mood and atmosphere they wanted for the video, experimenting with sound, graphic styles and techniques.
To produce this project many different disciplines and elements were used: green screen, stop motion animation, filming with macro, editing, motion graphics, visual effects, styling, make up, sound design.
CREDITS:
Directed by
Giovanni Bucci
Filmed and Edited by
Giovanni Bucci
Design & Animation
Giovanni Bucci, Paola Rocchetti
Styling & Make Up
Paola Rocchetti
Filmed at Strani Rumori Studio
Audio Design & Music Production by Marco Morano
Written by Giovanni Bucci and Marco Morano
c 2011 Hoxtonlab and Giovanni Bucci Ltd
p 2011 Hoxtonlab and Giovanni Bucci Ltd
Links to artists’s personal website
Giovanni Bucci: www.giovannibucci.com
Paola Rocchetti: www.urdigital.net
Marco Morano: www.hoxtonlab.com
AWARDS / SCREENINGS:
LAMA - Los Angeles Movie Awards - 2011
Los Angeles, US
Category: Music Video
Winner: Award of Excellence and Best Costume Design
Las Vegas Film Festival - 2012
Las Vegas, US
Winner: Golden Ace Award
4th Annual Zero Film Festival - 2011
New York, US
Official Selection
Pause Fest - 2012
Melbourne, Australia
Screening
UK Film Festival - 2012
London, UK
Official Selection
NXNE - North by Northeast Festivals and Conference - 2012
Toronto, Canada
Official Selection
New York International Film Festival in LA - 2011
Sherman Oaks, US
Official Selection
3rd Annual New Media FIlm Festival - 2011
San Francisco Bay Area, US
Official Selection
Shockfest Film Festival of Hollywood - 2011
Los Angeles, US
Official Selection - Opening Nightmare Screening
X FEST Film Festival - 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
Official Selection
Bideodromo - 2011
Bilbao, Spain
Official Selection
Kinofest - 2011
Bucharest, Romania
Official Selection
Prix Ars Electronica - 2012
Linz, Austria
Official Selection
IMF - International Motion Festival - 2012
Nicosia, Cyprus
Official Selection
Visioneca - Festival of Experimental Film - 2012
Freshwater, Isle Of Wight, UK
Official Selection
ECU' - The European Independent Film Festival - 2012
Category: Featured, Music Video
Paris, France
Official Selection
8th Cologne International Videoart Festival - 2012
Cologne, Germany
Official Selection
Carnival of e-Creativity 2013
Sattal, India
Official Selection
Festival Internacional de Videoarte - 2012
Madrid, Spain
Official Selection
Ex Teresa Arte Actual -Museum of experimenta Art -2012
Mexico City, Mexico
Screening
FIVA II - Festival Internacional de Video Arte - 2012
Buenos Aires, Brazil
Official Selection
