Ginger & Fred ed. 2024
Synopsis
A boy and a girl are competing against each other to see who can capture the best shots of Venice and its surroundings. More than a race, the competition seems like a duel to see who can capture the best images, with pushes, jumps, traps, and sabotage.
At the end of the day, the two protagonists review the footage side by side, only to realize that the individual videos are unusable on their own, while by overlapping them and thus combining their work, the shots turn out great.
The short film begins right in the middle of the duel, with the two protagonists sizing each other up before grabbing their cameras to start filming. Using the split screen technique to enhance the idea of separation, we follow both characters during the action. The split screen simultaneously interacts with the two protagonists, creating barriers or removing support. The entire race is marked by chases through Venice and brief gags leading up to the revealing finale.
The Authors:
The authors are six students from Ca' Foscari: Rebecca Legnaro, Giulia Bortolatto, Yulia Kalachikhina, Alessio Barbazza, Andrea Cracco, and Eugenio Cavallin, who worked under the coordination of Dr. Luca Pili, tutor of the Master in Fine Arts in Filmmaking.
Below are some photos taken during the breaks.
Giulia Bortolatto, a student of Economics at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, has always been passionate about cinema, art, and theater. In order to nurture this passion and contribute to the growth of activities organized in collaboration with the university, since 2021, she has been actively participating in the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival, where she is involved in both logistical management and the creation of the event's opening title sequence.
Rebecca Legnaro is a master's student at the University of Padua. She works as a photographer for events and private clients, collaborates on video productions for the cultural association Lilium SoundArt, and has acted as an extra in the TV series "We Are Who We Are," directed by Luca Guadagnino. Since 2021, she has been part of the video group of the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival.
Yulia Kalachikhina is a student at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, pursuing a Master's degree in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities. (EGArt). She has collaborated on various photo and video productions, and his works have been exhibited in several contemporary art exhibitions. She participated in the artistic residency Le Tracce del Sentiero. (Osacca, IT). He is part of juries at various film festivals (Biennale Cinema, Le Giornate della Luce) and starting in 2024, she will collaborate with the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival.
Alessio Barbazza. Historian by training, filmmaker by passion. Since 2022, he has been collaborating with the video group of the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival. In 2023, he co-directed his first documentary "A Celebration for the City - Venice 1973."
Luca Pili is a videomaker with a background in Oriental studies, who lives and works in Venice. He is one of the coordinators of the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival. He is a tutor for the first-level master's program in Fine Arts in Filmmaking at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and for the summer school "Films in Venice and Filming Venice" at VIU Venice International University.
