Manfredo Manfredi

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino published in 1972, for Giulio Einaudi, the novel “ Invisible Cities ”, one of the most important passages in literature that makes a combinatorial and semiotic use of the structure to create relationships between the reader and the author. Marco Polo explores 5 cities for each of the 11 categories and this repetition is clearly visible when he builds the summary table of the different combinations. A fundamental book for understanding the depth of Italo Calvino. In 1998 the painter and set designer from Palermo Manfredo Manfredi was freely inspired by the novelby Italo Calvino and a short film made with the rotoscoping and single-panel techniques. The result is a fluid and at the same time meaningful animation in the best Manfredian tradition.

Canto XXVI dell’Inferno della Divina Commedia di Dante

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

The Hero of Two Worlds

A little boy meets the old hero Garibaldi who tells him the story of his adventures.

Provino per il VI Canto della Divina Commedia

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

Labyrinth

A man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.

Immagini

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

Clouds

A flower trembles in the wind while high in the sky clouds slowly pass by. The seeds from the dry and withered flower fly toward a new life while below in the dark earth something moves: a small white being advances with difficulty toward the light.

Sotterranea

A visionary trip into a common man's subconscious.

Sotterranea

A visionary trip into a common man's subconscious.

Rotocalco

Animated short about politics.

Rotocalco

Animated short about politics.

K.O.

The ambulance speeds through the night. The doctors try to save a man, his heart is still beating. On a railroad bridge another man is crouched by the tracks: A suicidal former boxer. The story of a double failure.

K.O.

The ambulance speeds through the night. The doctors try to save a man, his heart is still beating. On a railroad bridge another man is crouched by the tracks: A suicidal former boxer. The story of a double failure.

Il muro

A reflection on art during the destruction of a post-atomic society.