From March 11 to April 3, 2011, the prestigious setting of the Sala alla Porta Sant’Agostino, will host the national preview of the exhibition featuring original drawings, studies, animations and engravings for Regina Pessoa’s film História Tragica com Final Feliz.
The films:
Os Salteadores – The Outlaws – I fuorilegge by Abi Feijó (Portugal 1993, 14’14’’)
Fado Lusitano by Abi Feijó (Portugal 1995, 5’30’’)
Clandestino – Stowaway – Clandestino by Abi Feijó (Portugal/Canada 2000, 7’32’’)
Ciclo Vicioso – Vicious Cycle – Circolo vizioso by Regina Pessoa, Abi Feijó and Pedro Serrazina (Portugal 1996, 23’’)
A Noite – The Night – La notte by Regina Pessoa (Portugal 1999, 6’35’’)
Odisseia nas Imagens – Odissea nelle immagini by Regina Pessoa (Portugal 2001, 35’’)
História Trágica com Final Feliz – Tragic Story With Happy Ending – Storia tragica con finale felice by Regina Pessoa (Portugal)
One of the most representative figures of the new world animation cinema today, Regina Pessoa is the protagonist of the festival’s full retrospective.
Her first film, A Noite (The Night, 1999), won several awards throughout Europe. Created with the technique of engraving and painting on plaster slabs – which requires extremely long production times, even for just a few minutes of film – the film is a work both poetic and meticulous, which portrays the fears, the shadows and the night-time silences of a little girl. Six years later, she completed História Tragica com Final Feliz (Tragic story with a happy ending, 2005) which wins, among others, the prestigious Annecy Cristal for best short film at the 2006 Annecy Awards. Characterized by a sharp style, defined by thick black lines, the film takes us back to the sweet world of a little girl whose heart beats too fast. The protagonist of the project that Regina Pessoa is currently finishing, Kali, or Pequeno Vampiro (Kalì, the little vampire), is a “different” boy, grappling with his demons; Bergamo Film Meeting will offer a preview of a clip from the film.
«An artist of great intensity, and therefore at the service of her creativity and nothing else, certainly not of flattery or haste, Regina Pessoa has so far made a few short films all of which are truly remarkable; a woman of her time, a traveler and a cosmopolitan, she is fluent in several languages, cultures and techniques some of which she has personally innovated and customized to better portray in an intentional Trilogy – three short films: A Noite (1999), História Trágica com Final Feliz ( 2005), Kali o Pequeno Vampiro – , the incommunicability and loneliness of children, inspired by the mystery, the not infrequent dramas, the poetry hidden in every-day anonymous lives”.
Matilde Tortora
Opening hours:
From Tuesday to Friday from 3.30PM to 7.30PM
Saturday and Sunday from 11AM to 7.30PM
Inauguration:
March 11, 2011 at 6.30PM
Sala alla Porta Sant’Agostino (Bergamo)
