BFM at the 17th Festival Corti da Sogni – Antonio Ricci

The retrospective dedicated to Latvian animator Vladimir Leschiov, protagonist of the 34th Bergamo Film Meeting, arrives at the Rasi theater in Ravenna, from April 27 to 30, 2016

The 17^th edition of the short film festival Corti da Sogni – Antonio Ricci, organized by Circolo del Cinema Sogni, takes place at the Rasi theatre in Ravenna, from April 27 to 30, 2016.

THE ANIMATED POETRY OF VLADIMIR LESCHIOV

The valuable collaboration with Bergamo Film Meeting continues for the second year in the name of animation cinema, thanks to which Corti da Sogni can offer its audience the works of one of the most important and recognized Latvian representatives of the genre, Vladimir Leschiov (Leščiov), born in 1970 in Daugavpils.

An author who stands out for his strong resistance to computer animation and his great technical mastery. His cinema is a perfect balance between traditional narrative and poetic abstraction. Through his career he experimented with various techniques: from illustration, in “The Letter” (2002) to the coloured pencils that give life to the flickering images of “Bezmiegs” (“Insomnia”, 2004), to the oil painting evoked in “Grandad’s Honey ”(2002) up to the recent“ Lietus dienas ”(“ Rainy Days ”, 2014) in which he used black tea pigments on paper. He has participated and won awards at the most important international festivals, such as Annecy, Ottawa, Berlin, Zagreb and Hiroshima. In 2007 he founded the Lunohod animation studio, based in Riga.