ANIMAFEST PRO | ANIMAFEST SCANNER XII | PANEL 3: MOGUĆNOSTI LINIJE

All in Line - PAOLA BRISTOT

PANEL 3 - MOGUĆNOSTI LINIJE
04/06 SRI 11:20-11:50 KIC

My research begins with the concept of the Line and its perception, following the formal principles of Gestalt and the specific characteristics that allow us to communicate through codes that belong to our perceptive abilities. These are the essential foundations through which we express ourselves and form the basis of writing represented in artistic visual languages, and certainly in animated cinema as well. I would first analyze ‘La Linea’ by Osvaldo Cavandoli, which I would like to associate with the work and reflections on the line by Saul Steinberg, to explore what was being sought in those years and how it provided increasing impetus for the development of poetic and evocative representations that the line possesses, being conceptually abstract but absolutely real in its expressive forms. I would then analyze Nedeljko Dragić's film, ‘Dnevnik’ (Zagreb Film, 1974), because it allows me to showcase the varieties of signs and interpretations of linear characters and the expressive potential that is represented.

Paola Bristot (Aviano, 1961) graduated in 1985 in Discipline Arti Musica Spettacolo and in 1991 specialized in History Art in University of Bologna. She is professor from 1995 of History and Languages of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venezia and from 2020 in Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Turin, also. Like president of the Viva Comix association organizes many exhibitions concerning comics, illustration, animation and visual arts. She is the Artistic Director of the Piccolo Festival Animazione since 2007. She curated the anthology “Animazioni“ in 6th voll. (2010-19, Viva Comix, Ottomani with A.Martignoni) where published more 100 short Italian films. Like art director produced the experimental film “Re-cycling” (Arte Video, Viva Comix 2014, and new version 2019). She is curator of the studiovivacomix in Pordenone where lives and works.