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BLUE UNNATURAL

2017 | 13 minutes | Italy


Pervasive blue light and pelting rain. Spaceships whizz across the sky while enormous guardian robots patrol the ground with their powerful light beams. An immense cyberpunk, crossbred city opens up before us: Sendai City. Huge posters showing breathtaking half-naked and armed women dominate the facades of the buildings in celebration of the victory against the “rebels” and the restored peace.

Sendai City wants you.

The city wants and owns you. Every citizen is implanted with a cybernetic passport that tracks both movements and actions: security in exchange for control. The Big Brain, deus ex machina of the city-world, observes everything from behind his monitors. A threat is looming: the rebels are regrouping but the new special corps created by the Great Brain is almost ready: the C.O.D.E.X. Blue are coming. Science fiction and postmodernism meet in Blue Unnatural, a short movie that tells us the story of a world where personal freedom is nullified and persecuted, where state propaganda feeds on the oxymoron of armed peace and where workers – deprived of their identity thanks to masks that are all identical – toil on an assembly line to build robots with female features that will destroy anyone who dares opposing the laws of Sendai.


FESTIVAL International Preview: Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, 2017

FESTIVAL National Preview: Cartoon film festival , 2017

MUSEUMS International Preview: IV Italy-China Biennal, Metamorphosis Plastic Factory Cultural Park, Beijing, 2017

MUSEUMS National Preview: The film of the day, MACRO Asilo, 12 June 2019


Awards

Award Winner – Official Selection – Milano Blackout, 2021, ITALIA

Official Selection – Top Indie Film Awards , 2021

AltFF Alternative Film Festival, 2020, CANADA

Award Winner – Canadian Cinematography Awards (CaCA), 2020, CANADA

Award Winner – ARFF Berlin International Awards, 2020, GERMANIA

Finalist – FLICKFAIR, 2020, ON DEMAND

Finalist – Austin After Dark Film Festival, 2020, USA

Semi – Finalist – Couch Film Festival, 2020, ON DEMAND

Semi – Finalist – Vienna Science Film Festival, 2020, AUSTRIA

Semi – Finalist – ROS Film Festival, 2020, SPAGNA

Official Selection – Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension, 2020

Official Selection – Blu-Hill Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection – Paris Short Film Festival, 2020, FRANCIA

Official Selection – MP Film Award, 2020

Official Selection – CUZCO underground cinema festival, 2020

Official Selection – The Film Contest, 2020

Official Selection – San Francisco Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, 2020, USA

Official Selection – 20th Kansas International Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection – International Arts Film Festival, 2020, UK

Official Selection – Festival TAKE UNICO, 2020, Brasile

Official Selection – Best of Latin America Short Film Festival, 2020, ARGENTINA

Official Selection – First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, 2020

Official Selection – The Lift-Off Sessions, 2020

Official Selection – The Film Collective, 2020, ON DEMAND

Official Selection – Bucharest Film Awards, 2020, UNGHERIA

Official Selection – NICE International Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection – Future film festival, 2017, ITALIA

Official Selection – Ibrida festival delle arti intermediali, 2017, ITALIA

Category: Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres: Experimental, Sci-fi, Art, Animation

Language: English, France, Italian, Spanish

Format: Digital

Target: Adults


Director Marco Bolognesi

Writer Marco Bolognesi, Valentina Ferretti

Producer Marco Bolognesi, Valentina Ferretti, Cerere Minigutti, Bomar Studio

With support of:

Azienda speciale PALAEXPO, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, SETUP Contemporary Art Fair, KUNST MERAN in Haus der Sparkasse MERANO ARTE edificio cassa di risparmio, ABC

Pervasive blue light and pelting rain. Spaceships whizz across the sky while enormous guardian robots patrol the ground with their powerful light beams. An immense cyberpunk, crossbred city opens up before us: Sendai City. Huge posters showing breathtaking half-naked and armed women dominate the facades of the buildings in celebration of the victory against the “rebels” and the restored peace.

Sendai City wants you.

The city wants and owns you. Every citizen is implanted with a cybernetic passport that tracks both movements and actions: security in exchange for control. The Big Brain, deus ex machina of the city-world, observes everything from behind his monitors. A threat is looming: the rebels are regrouping but the new special corps created by the Great Brain is almost ready: the C.O.D.E.X. Blue are coming. Science fiction and postmodernism meet in Blue Unnatural, a short movie that tells us the story of a world where personal freedom is nullified and persecuted, where state propaganda feeds on the oxymoron of armed peace and where workers – deprived of their identity thanks to masks that are all identical – toil on an assembly line to build robots with female features that will destroy anyone who dares opposing the laws of Sendai.


FESTIVAL International Preview: Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, 2017

FESTIVAL National Preview: Cartoon film festival , 2017

MUSEUMS International Preview: IV Italy-China Biennal, Metamorphosis Plastic Factory Cultural Park, Beijing, 2017

MUSEUMS National Preview: The film of the day, MACRO Asilo, 12 June 2019


Awards

Award Winner – Official Selection – Milano Blackout, 2021, ITALIA

Official Selection – Top Indie Film Awards , 2021

AltFF Alternative Film Festival, 2020, CANADA

Award Winner – Canadian Cinematography Awards (CaCA), 2020, CANADA

Award Winner – ARFF Berlin International Awards, 2020, GERMANIA

Finalist – FLICKFAIR, 2020, ON DEMAND

Finalist – Austin After Dark Film Festival, 2020, USA

Semi – Finalist – Couch Film Festival, 2020, ON DEMAND

Semi – Finalist – Vienna Science Film Festival, 2020, AUSTRIA

Semi – Finalist – ROS Film Festival, 2020, SPAGNA

Official Selection – Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension, 2020

Official Selection – Blu-Hill Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection – Paris Short Film Festival, 2020, FRANCIA

Official Selection – MP Film Award, 2020

Official Selection – CUZCO underground cinema festival, 2020

Official Selection – The Film Contest, 2020

Official Selection – San Francisco Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, 2020, USA

Official Selection – 20th Kansas International Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection – International Arts Film Festival, 2020, UK

Official Selection – Festival TAKE UNICO, 2020, Brasile

Official Selection – Best of Latin America Short Film Festival, 2020, ARGENTINA

Official Selection – First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, 2020

Official Selection – The Lift-Off Sessions, 2020

Official Selection – The Film Collective, 2020, ON DEMAND

Official Selection – Bucharest Film Awards, 2020, UNGHERIA

Official Selection – NICE International Film Festival, 2020

Official Selection – Future film festival, 2017, ITALIA

Official Selection – Ibrida festival delle arti intermediali, 2017, ITALIA

Category: Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres: Experimental, Sci-fi, Art, Animation

Language: English, France, Italian, Spanish

Format: Digital

Target: Adults


Director Marco Bolognesi

Writer Marco Bolognesi, Valentina Ferretti

Producer Marco Bolognesi, Valentina Ferretti, Cerere Minigutti, Bomar Studio

With support of:

Azienda speciale PALAEXPO, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, SETUP Contemporary Art Fair, KUNST MERAN in Haus der Sparkasse MERANO ARTE edificio cassa di risparmio, ABC