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Dreamland

Gianluigi Toccafondo
Italy 2021 / 14’42” / v.o. sott. en

A meaningful journey into the Italian cultural heritage throughout musical quotes from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, lithographies by Giovan Battista Piranesi and lines by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Dreamland will bring the audience to some of the most beautiful Italian UNESCO sites: Villa d’Este and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the historic centre of Rome with the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant’Angelo and much more. Passing through the depths of the Tiber, it will arrive also in the most peripheral areas of the city to find out still so much beauty and so many stories about the contemporaneity in a visual and musical journey so evocative as to reveal the Italian cultural identity.

Director: Gianluigi Toccafondo
Music: Pasquale Catalano
Distribution: Voxfarm srl

Gianluigi Toccafondo

Was born in San Marino in 1965, he studied at the Art Institute of Urbino, he lives in Bologna. Since 1989 he has made short animated films La coda, La pista (1991); with ARTE France: Le Criminel (1993) Pinocchio (1999) Essere morti o essere vivi è la stessa cosa (2000) La piccola Russia (2004) Briganti senza leggenda (2012); advertising: Woman finding love for Levi’s (Foote, Cone & Belding / S.F. Acme Filmworks Los Angeles 1993) Sambuca Molinari (Ata Tonic Milano 1995) United arrows (Sun Ad Tokio 1998); TV Title Sequences: Tunnel (Rai3 1994), Carosello, Stracult (Rai2 1997-2000); La biennale di Venezia with Marco Giusti and Asia Argento for the 56th Venice International Film Festival (1999); animated logos: Scott free, Fandango; he was assistant director to Matteo Garrone for the film Gomorra (Fandango 2008); he creates the animated title sequences for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (Universal Pictures Imagine Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, 2010); he draws theanimations for Bellini’s La Sonnambula, directed by Barberio Corsetti (Teatro Petruzzelli Bari 2013). Since 2014 he has been the author of the posters for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, he designs sets, videos and costumes for Figaro! (2016) Don Giovanni (2017) and Rigoletto OperaCamion, directed by Fabio Cherstich; in 2014 his first video clip Federation Tunisienne de football for C’mon tigre. Among the illustrated books: Il richiamo della foresta by Jack London (Mondadori) Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero by Emilio Salgari (Corraini 2006) La favola del pesce cambiato di Emma Dante (L’arboreto 2007) Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Logos e Little More) Los girasoles ciegos by Alberto Méndez (Edelvives 2017) Tango del ritorno by Julio Cortàzar (Gallucci 2020). His animated short films have been awarded at the festivals of Lucca, Annecy, Ottawa, Tallin, Ljubljana.