We invite you to an exhibition of drawings from Simone Massi's films: BLACK WALL during the 32nd edition of the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival. Admission is free.
Simone Massi with his drawings, with his animations, transports us into a world that is his and that is also mysteriously ours, in which he can show us what we otherwise risked losing. Thus, thanks to him, we enter a place of lost memories, of distant wonders, of suspended moments, of sudden revelations, of links with dreamed images. It does not take us by the hand, it does not accompany us: rather it allows us to whisper that perhaps we have lost something, that a shred of memory could recompose a piece within our mosaic of feelings and emotions that we always carry on, that guides our lives.
Luca Raffaelli
WHERE: Academy of Fine Arts - lobby, plac Jana Matejki 13, 31-157 Kraków
WHEN:
- from 14th to 18th October 2025 (Tuesday- Saturday), 12 PM - 8 PM
FREE ADMISSION
During the exhibition we will show drawings from the following films:
The partner of the event is the Italian Cultural Institute in Krakow
He was Born in 1970. He studied Film Animation at the Art School of Urbino. Independent animator, from 20 years he is trying -in a clean way- to make his passion for drawing become a job. Hei is internationally recognized as one of the most important authors of animation cinema. Throughout his career, he has gathered a total of 887 awards, including a David di Donatello, three Silver Ribbons, and a Flaiano Prize.
He was the author of the poster and opening title sequence from the 69th to the 73rd International Film Festival of the Venice Biennale, a festival that honored him in 2012 with a special screening of all his works. In 2023, he made his debut with his first feature film: Invelle. Massi’s cinema is unlike anyone else’s.
His main inspirations are his stories (and his dreams) and the socio-cultural background he expresses. Before animation cinema, his declared inspirations are mainly literary (Pavese, Rigoni-Stern, Dolci, or even the infinite vertigo of Borges), then pictorial (from the early short films of Magritte to, for example, Fattori and Paolo Uccello), and finally from live-action cinema (mainly Tarkovsky, then Fellini, Sokurov, Eisenstein, Angelopoulos, etc.). The deep bond with his roots, his homeland, is reflected in his artistic work, imbued with a strong sense of justice.
Simone narrates his land, his ancestors, the vanished peasant civilization, the memories of the elders who experienced war and Resistance firsthand. These are the forgotten stories of history. The short films that made him famous (but always away from the spotlight, in total solitude and independence): Nuvole e mani, Tengo la posizione, La memoria dei cani, Animo resistente, speak of beauty and memory. They depict the pain of those who have lived in the darkest poverty. They evoke nostalgia for a time when the values of labor, humility, and honesty were the daily bread. In his latest works, such as A Guerra Finita, In quanto a noi, and in the new extraordinary feature film Invelle his poetic style returns, weaving together the lives of the small and humble with the grand dramas of History. Massi’s activism, though filtered through the lens of poetry, persists in the fight against injustices.
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