End

End

“End” is an animated video, made on paper with red ink. The images, which flow one after the other, create inhospitable landscapes. These scenarios are the last destinations of a journey performed by small, gaunt and exhausted figures. End does not want to be the vision of a world that is coming to the end of its existence, but rather the rediscovered will of the human being to unite totally with the majestic and impetuous nature.

Director’s Notes:
The short animation titled End was born after seeing entire mountains on fire in my home territory (the province of Messina). This was the input that pushed me to stage the mountain landscape of the hinterland of eastern Sicily, an unexplored and sparsely inhabited place.

Rita Casdia | IT

Rita Casdia, was born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) in 1977. She graduated Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Palermo in the 2000. Afterwards she moved to Milan, where she continued her study at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and achieved a specialization in Art and New Technologies (2006) and Academic second level degree in the teaching of Painting (2009). Casdia’s videos participated in various festivals, including: Les Instants vidéo 36° édition, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, XIII International Image Festival, Manizales, (menzione speciale), 7° Proyector International Videoart Festival, Madrid, 39° Festival du Nouvéau Cinéma, Montréal, CosmiX IV Festival International de Cinéma Expérimental, Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Parigi, Lives on fire, curated by Katie Rehbeck, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, Attaque[e]r le visible – VIDEOAKTION 6#, curated by Lawinia Rate, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin.