Volo Grigio (Grey Flight)

Directed by Elisabetta Giannullo and Jurij Razza

Volo grigio is a sort of dark fairy tale, taking place in a fantasy-like woods, framed in a plan of which neither the mastermind nor the reasons are known. Insects bite off branches from anthropomorphous trees and bring them to a grotesque monster, whose only food are those strange trees. The fiendish creature, notwithstanding the symbiotic link with the insects, revolts against them and, in a transport of wrath, destroys the wood and the world in which it lives.

DIRECTION Jurij Razza, Elisabetta Giannullo
SCREENPLAY Elisabetta Giannullo
ANIMATION Elisabetta Giannullo, Jurij Razza
PHOTOGRAPHY Jurij Razza
SET DESIGN Elisabetta Giannullo
MUSIC Ludmila (Paola Bianchi & Luca Valisi)
EDITING Marco Perez
SET PHOTOS Simone Barbieri
PRODUCTION Elisabetta Giannullo e Jurij Razza
YEAR 2004
LENGTH 5:29

Artistic statement :

Volo grigio is an animated clip realized by Elisabetta Giannullo and Jurij Razza. It has been presented as thesis for a BA in Scenography, attained by Elisabetta Giannullo at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Brera Academy of Fine Arts), in Milano, Italy.

Volo grigio, an idea of Elisabetta Giannullo, specifically originates from her theoretical and analytical research on french director Michel Gondry’s music videos, especially those Gondry directed for Björk. Following a comprehensive study on these videos focused on their surreal, fantastic and paradoxical dimension, the authors transfer these guidelines in their clip. The concept is the narration of a story through an interpretation of Volo grigio lyrics, trying to express through images the gloomy, visionary mood suggested by the song which actually depicts a non-real world, permeated with an aura of mystery and the existence of an incumbent menace.

TECHNICAL EXPLANATION:

The main characteristic of Volo Grigio consists of its home-production.
The video has been shooting using a miniature made of various materials such as: polystyrene, alluminium wire, papier-mâché, plasticine and finally stop-motion has been used for animation. Because of the small size, it has been necessary to turn to many solutions, each time different, in order to solve shooting problems.
Shootings have been made with a digital camcorder and the video has been entirely produced by Elisabetta Giannullo and Jurij Razza.

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