The Official Blog of Alessandro Fantini. Memories and prophecies from the vessel of the Flying AFAN.
Showing posts with label scifi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scifi. Show all posts
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Friday, June 7, 2019
AFANzine - Blade Runner
AFANzine - Art as told by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
BLADE RUNNER
Glows of humanity in the night of the future
Written, edited and produced by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
Music inspired by the soundtrack of VANGELIS composed by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
In a 2019 technologically different from that imagined by Ridley Scott and Philip K. Dick, AFAN analyzes that one described by the film that in 1982 was able, in its own way, to prophesy the loss of empathy and the hyperconnected replicants loneliness of the current future. Between video-magazine and documentary, informative program and video-art, in this series conceived and produced for the web, the multimedianic artist AFAN Alessandro Fantini browses the art currents and the artists who have contributed to its aesthetic training over the years, affecting the development of his personal multi-faceted approach to creativity.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
One more for the road
This is the first of my 4 handmade artworks submitted to the Talenthouse "Blade Runner 2049" contest. Ridley Scott and a Warner Bros jury selected the best five artworks inspired by the upcoming sequel directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Harrison Ford reprising his role as Deckard and Ryan Gosling as a rookie Blade Runner.
I think the high secrecy enveloping the plot of the movie has made harder for the partecipants to figure out a relevant visual concept. That's why I've created a more surreal yet plausible image by using the Deckard's jukebox (shown in an early featurette) projecting the holographic faces of the actors around the "mnemonic" globe, hinting at the "musical" enigma of reality and memory. I still don't know if the fact an awful child scribble on Talenthouse got more support than this and the other 3 artworks is an amusing or depressing statement about the perception of art and creativity on line.
Moreover, having just seen the winners of the Talenthouse contest, I've realized that joining this kind of "competitions" has no point at all (beside getting the chance to figure out some new specific movie-based art).
All the art contests with money reward that I've joined over the years were won by friends or relatives of the jury (that's how it generally works in Italy, where you have to make sure to have the right affiliations even before starting to dream about becoming an artist).
Anyway, I'm glad that at least an oil painting has been selected (that one by the talented Nicky Barkla)
My personal reward is that no artist have thought about using the holographic jukebox as a way to "symbolize" and provide a conceptual frame to the traditonal composition of "actors faces" in order to underline the ambiguity between artificial and real. Indeed, despite the technical skills, the winners look like "replicants"of the same poster pattern.
No doubt it has been a very tough job for the jury to select only 5 works from the sheer amount of excellent submissions. Nevertheless the lack of variety in visual ideas makes you think that the rules of the contest should have clarified that they just wanted "alternative posters featuring the actors" (possibly made with vexel art by Philippine designers, that's a more elegant way to call photomanipulation) instead of "artworks inspired by", a word that defines a far more creative and open-minded approach than simply re-assembling photobased faces with glaring neon-like colors.
Well, at least I know that I've spent 8 days on a real rough canvas with real brushes painting with real greasy oil colors watching it with my real eyes.
As Deckard says in the new movie"I know what's real!" (am I a Nexus 7?).
Checked and cleared! Have a better one!
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Reminiscing the floating world: about EDOnism and a giant catfish
Edonism is the tragic story of James Hallway, an English businessman
from the UK who comes to Tokyo looking to fulfill his dreams and lead a
peaceful life with his beautiful wife, Sophie. Instead he finds toil,
torment and alcoholism. Unable to bear his descent into
self-destruction, Sophie leaves, abandoning him to his downward spiral
into the gutter. Day by day, his reality is consumed by hallucinations
and weird perceptions. Once things can’t get any worse, he falls into a coma.
When he awakens from the coma, he begins to learn some terrifying
truths about his condition and his connection to a long-forgotten legend
from ancient Japan. Together with the resourceful Dr Geena Landlord he
attempts a desperate quest of discovery that leads them both to the very
heart of a conspiracy involving a secret government order and the
enigmatic being known as the The Cat Fish. The sci-fi mystery movie "EDOnism" filmed in Tokyo, directed, written, edited by Alessandro Fantini and produced by Lorenzo Fantini in 2010, had its Italian premiere at the first edition of "La Selva Nera" international film festival in Selvazzano Dentro, Padua, founded and directed by film critic Massimo Bezzati and filmmaker-writer Stefano Bovi.
When I faced for the first time the idea to shoot a movie in Tokyo, while I was discussing the hypothesis with then soon-to-be EDonism producer Lorenzo Fantini during his latest stay in Italy in 2009, I immediately thought that the script should have deal with something gigantic, frightening and epic. No other city in the world is able to suggest the feeling of a majestic and intimidating human beehive as much as Tokyo. It seemed that all my obsessions for movies like Blade Runner, Akira and Ghost in the Shell as well as my interest in Shintoism, Ukiyo-e art, and Suehiro Maruo, would have take me sooner or later to nowhere but to the enigmatic land of geisha, samurai, Godzilla and hi-tech marvels. As usual, the way I fleshed out the concept and the story was closer to the process of conceiving a painting or a comic than to a traditional pre-production of a movie.
EDOnism FB page: https://www.facebook.com/edonismmovie/
Producer, art director, co-writer, casting director and location manager: Lorenzo Fantini
Line producer: Miles Elliott
Assistant producer: Lucy King
Post production supervisor: Nate Jensen
Make up artist: Kana Yoshida
Cast: Sacha Mühlebach, Helene Salvini Fujita, Hiro Super, Lucy King, Lorenzo Fantini, Kyle H., Nate Jensen, Tony Evans, Alessandro Fantini, Cyrus Malekani.
Genre: Sci-fi thriller, drama, adventure
Shooting format: HDV
Runtime: 65 min.
Country: Italy, Japan
Language: English
Filming locations: Tokyo
Release date: June 2010
Thursday, February 2, 2017
"New York, a venture" will premiere in...New York (obviously)
The fateful event has arrived.
The next February 25 at the Dobbs Ferry public library, New York, the first edition of "Movies4movies" film festival will premiere my indie movie "New York, a venture" filmed in New Jersey and Manhattan.
More news to come very soon.
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