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From Maria Komodore, about indipendent exposure animation edition 2007

from Maria Komodore:

…Startle Pattern, by Eric Patrick, and Giocattoli Futuristi,
by Claudio Castelli, are extraordinarily adventurous in their
representations. Patrick’s short explores the state of spectatorship
today by making its clay protagonist abandon his film-enclosed world
and confront his creator. Giocattolli Futuristi brings to
mind an era when movies were influenced by and responsive to general
art movements, reflecting the work of Futurist Italian artist Fortunato
Depero. With its harsh, flat, and strictly-angled shapes, faint colors,
and naturally induced sounds, Castelli’s short presents a gloomy
industrialized world where people struggle with conscience and
consciousness….