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TAPUM, THE WEAPONS HISTORY
(13') - 1958

This film runs the weapons’ history in a very hilarious way,  from the club to the atomic bomb.

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Backgrounds Bruno Bozzetto
Music Repertory version
Tapum!
Tapum!
HISTORY OF INVENTIONS
(10') - 1959

It ironically outlines the main breakthroughs made by mankind throughout the centuries.

Production, Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Sergio Chesani
Shooting Roberto Scarpa
Editing Ugo Micheli
Music Pier Emilio Bassi
La storia delle Invenzioni
La storia delle Invenzioni
ALPHA OMEGA
(10') -1961

The protagonist is a sketched out character around which a synthesis of the main daily and ordinary human events take place.

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Music Enzo Jannacci - Paolo Tomelleri
Alpha Omega
Alpha Omega
TWO CASTLES
(4') - 1963


The lords of each castle set on the top of two opposite hills have to cope with each other. The lord of one keeps on provoking the other without figuring out what’s in store for him.

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film
Direction Bruno Bozzetto
Script Bruno Bozzetto - Guido Manuli
Animation Bruno Bozzetto - Guido Manuli
Shooting Luciano Marzetti
Sounds Vittorio Pazzaglia
Music Repertory version
I due Castelli
I due Castelli

A LIFE IN A TIN
(6') - 1967

By restraining the whole cycle of life into just six minutes, the film underlines how our constant commitments often mislead us from the real meaning of life.

Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Guido Manuli
Backgrounds Giovanni Mulazzani
Music Franco Godi
Shooting Luciano Marzetti
Vita in Scatola
Vita in Scatola
EGO
(11') - 1969



The flat life of a person can trigger all repressed and unconscious desires during sleep.


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation and Screenplay Giovanni Mulazzani - Guido Manuli
Art Directory
Giovanni Mulazzani
Shooting Luciano Marzetti
Sound effects Luciano Marzetti - Giovanni Mulazzani
Music Franco Godi
Editing and Sound Giancarlo Rossi
Ego
Ego
MAN AND HIS WORLD
(50") - 1967

The symbolism of relativity wants to show how apparently meaningless things can enclose the entire universe

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Guido Manuli
Backgrounds Giovanni Mulazzani
Music Franco Godi
Shooting Luciano Marzetti
NO IMAGE
NO IMAGE
PICKLES
(12') - 1971

 

A film made up of short chapters which handle concepts like pollution, drugs-addiction, war and so on.

 

Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction, Script and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Editing Giancarlo Rossi
Special collaboration (shooting): Ugo Magni - Modesto Rizzolo
Sottaceti
Sottaceti
OPERA
(11') - 1973

 

 

Lines uttered in freedom are all joined by a common theme of music. From classical to opera, nothing escapes the irreverent and hilarious film’s criticism.

 

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film
Direction Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli
Script Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli
Animation Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli
Shooting Enzo Lucchesi
Editing Giancarlo Rossi
Music Repertory version
Opera

Opera
SELF SERVICE
(14' ) - 1974


Just like we exploit earth by extracting oil, so do mosquitoes behave over the human body by sucking our blood.


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction, Script and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Giancarlo Rossi
Backgrounds Giuseppe Laganà
Music Franco Godi
Self Service
Self Service

THE SWIMMINGPOOL
(6') - 1976

Building a private swimming pool and facing all the little dramas that this can cause.

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film - Televisione Svizzera italiana TSI
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Shooting Ugo Magni
La Piscina
La Piscina

STRIPTEASE
(2') -1977


A very amusing spot created for a German TV programme dedicated to eroticism.

Production Bruno Bozzetto Film / Wagner Hallig Film
Direction Bruno Bozzetto
Script Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli
Animation Giorgio Valentini, Roberto Casale, Edo Cavalli, Massimo Vitetta, Fabio Pacifico
Shooting Enzo Lucchesi - Ugo Magni
Backgrounds Antonio Dall'Osso
Editing Giancarlo Rossi
NO IMAGE
NO IMAGE

BABY STORY
(10') -1978


The miracle of procreation observed from within the woman’s body


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Backgrounds Bruno Bozzetto Antonio Dall'Osso
Music Caramba Publishers
Shooting Enzo Lucchesi - Ugo Magni
Editing Giancarlo Rossi - Ugo Micheli
Baby Story
Baby Story

TENNIS CLUB
(11') -1982


A funny parody of the Tennis game.



Production Bruno Bozzetto Film
Direction, Script and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Giorgio Valentini
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Giancarlo Rossi - Ugo Micheli
Music Franco Godi
Speaker Massimo Boldi
Author of spoken commentary Bruno Bozzetto
Tennis Club
Tennis Club

THE PILL
(12') -1983


It’s the history of the contraceptives told by a scientist through several short interviews.
The pill is discussed and supported as the best contraceptive way when compared to other still-in-use methods which don’t grant much safety.

Production Bruno Bozzetto 2     
Direction Bruno Bozzetto
Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto - Giorgio Valentini
Backgrounds Adriano Gon
Animation Giorgio Valentini
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Giancarlo Rossi - Ugo Micheli
La Pillola
La Pillola

SIGMUND
(2') -1983

Requested for the Los Angeles Olympics back in 1984, this animated short shows the side effects that the television can cause on a very young viewer.

Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Giorgio Valentini
Editing Giancarlo Rossi - Ugo Magni
Sigmund
Sigmund

MOA MOA
(2') -1984

A lonely shipwrecked man thinks out a very clever way to reach the little island close by on which his girlfriend ended up.

Production Bruno Bozzetto 2
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Giorgio Valentini
Editing Giancarlo Rossi - Ugo Micheli
Moa Moa
NO IMAGE

THE BLACK PIRATE
(26') -1985

Pilot episode for a Tv Series


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Backgrounds Bruno Bozzetto - Antonio Dall'Osso
Music Caramba Publishers
Shooting Enzo Lucchesi - Ugo Magni
Editing Giancarlo Rossi - Ugo Micheli
Il Corsaro Nero
Il Corsaro Nero

ELDORADO
(5') -1985

A man, allured by a party taking place in the room next to his, tries all ways possible to go in.

Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Adriano Merigo Backgrounds Flora Sperotto
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Ugo Micheli
Music Fabio Comana
Eldorado
Eldorado

BAEUS
(6') -1987



An insect falls head over heels in love with a woman and he will do everything to cry out his love to her.



Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Oliviero Ruberti
Animation collaborators Flora Sperotto, Maria Rosa Ferè, Silvana Pegan
Backgrounds Giuseppe Laganà Musica Roberto Frattini
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Ugo Micheli
Baeus
Baeus

MISTER TAO
(3') - 1988


The peak of a mountain is generally just a destination and the end of a trip.
For tiny peaceful Mister Tao, on the other hand it simply stands for a temporary stopover before he continues his research which may never come to an end.

Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction, Script and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Bruno Bozzetto
Shooting Ugo Magni
Sound effects Garden Studio
Music Roberto Frattini
Editing Ugo Micheli
Mister Tao
Mister Tao

GRASSHOPPERS
(9') -1990



In the natural course of earth's evolution, five or a thousand years represent just a handful of seconds. What is the role of mankind on this boundless stage?


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Riccardo Denti
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Ugo Micheli
Sound effects Garden Studio
Music Roberto Frattini
Collaboration Flora Sperotto - Mariarosa Ferè - Silvana Pegan - Isabella Noce
Cavallette
Cavallette

BIG BANG
(4') -1990



The consumption civilization regularly churns out a huge amount of wastes. How and where to dispose of them? Here comes a possible solution to the problem with its inevitable aftermath.


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Riccardo Denti
Collaboration Flora Sperotto - Rossana Papagni - Isabella Noce
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Ugo Micheli
Sound effects Garden Studio Musica Roberto Frattini
Big Bang
Big Bang

DANCING
(3') -1991



Optimism and a peaceful view of life can defeat even the biggest adversities. This one is the infallible formula employed by the film’s protagonist to face the most cruel and merciless enemy of mankind.


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Riccardo Denti Background Flora Sperotto - Bruno Bozzetto
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Ugo Micheli
Sound effects Garden Studio
Music Roberto Frattini
Dancing
Dancing

DROP
(3'30") -1993


Man appears to be eternally bound to fix things that sooner or later will somehow get broken again.
What if one day, by this same law, the Universe too began falling apart?


Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Riccardo Denti
Shooting Ugo Magni
Editing Ugo Micheli
Sound effects Garden Studio
Music Roberto Frattini
Drop
Drop

HELP?
(7') - 1995


A cat pricks his toe with a pin. He desperately rushes to the hospital where the doctors, instead of healing his toe, torture him in all ways possible.

Production Bruno Bozzetto
Direction, Script and Screenplay Bruno Bozzetto
Animation Giovanni Ferrari
Layout Walter Cavazzuti
Shooting and colouring
Cartoonia
Backgrounds Michel Fuzellier
Music Roberto Frattini
Help?
Help?

LOOO
(5'45") - 2004

 


A 3D animated short that gracefully mocks the Italian subjection to fully developed American technology.

 


Production and Direction Bruno Bozzetto
Direction and Script
Bruno Bozzetto
Storyboard Alessandro Belli
Concept Design Gregory Panaccione
Character research Alvise Avati
Animation Alvise Avati, Stefano Buonamico, Andrea Bozzetto, Federico Cascinelli
Backgrounds Andrea Bozzetto
Music Roberto Frattini
Compositing Fabio Bozzetto
Setup Diego Viezzoli
Animation direction Alvise Avati
Looo

 

Looo

 

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