Cantico dei viaggiatori (animated videoclip)
Official videoclip of the track Cantico dei viaggiatori (The Travellers’ Hymn), single of the album “Qualche grammo di gravità” (A Few Grams of Gravity) > GO TO PROJECT
Details
Client: La Metralli, music band
Media: videoclip, web
Work: storyboard, direction, illustrations
Official 2014 New York Independent Film Festival Selection
Credits
Direction and drawings – Sara Garagnani
Motion Graphics, animation and editing – Riccardo Mari
Shooting and editing video insert – Marcella Menozzi
(2014 – All rights reserved)
La Metralli is:
Meike Clarelli, Matteo Colombini, Davide Fasulo, Serena Fasulo, Cesare Martinelli, Marcella Menozzi
Synopsis
The track “The travellers’ Hymn” is part of the album called “A Few Grams of Gravity”.
It has been dedicated by the music band La Metralli to all those who look for a few grams of their gravity, no worry about the wind blowing and how it can sometimes hurt to find each own weight. The force of gravity we are talking about deals with the ability to fall into things with their specific singular, subjective weight when everything around becomes light, too light, flimsy.
The elements that run through this track -which is the manifesto of the entire album- are the wind and the coordinates of time, a time which is not logical and consequential: it is circular. It reminds of a day spent from dawn to dusk, through noon, as if it was a book flowing from beginning to its end, as if it was a whole life.
The animated video tries to further expand and “explode” the contents of the track in a visionary yet emotional way: importance is given to the lyrics, characterized in a search of images on the edge of their logical sense, to open up more fronts analog and irrational. The use of words in the context of the sentence is sometimes deliberately forced, pushed to the limit, so that to rebuild a sense that belongs more to a vision or a state of mind than to a concept. The result is a surreal and dreamlike sequence which grows together with the music. There is in an attempt to push forward the epic yet intimate nature of the track -and of its intentions- to a reality which actually enters the video.
The graphic sign is essential and the drawings are simple, as long as the movements (motion graphics) are minimalistic and soft. They all play like visionary fragments which starts from the music and the lyrics and leave in order to find their own life, and then they gravitate and then again they fall in a senseless, colored empty space in an open attempt to really find its own gravity.
