The Royal Nightmare Alex Budovsky
Sab 12 sett, h. 17.00, Teatro Strehler // Mar 15 sett, h. 20.30, Teatro Strehler // Sab 19 sett, h. 22.30, Parco, Piazza Grande
The Royal Nightmare
Paese/Country: USA
Anno Produzione Film: 2008
Formato/Format: DVD
Durata/Running Time: 4'
Produzione/Production: Alex Budovsky
Produttore/Producer : Alex Budovsky
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Alex Budovsky
Montaggio/Editing: Alex Budovsky
Fotografia/Cinematography: Alex Budovsky
Distribuzione/Distribution: Alex Budovsky
Il guardiano-giullare di un castello ha il compito di proteggere il suo re dagli intrusi chiudendo e aprendo il ponte levatoio. Ma la fatalità ci mette del suo, e i loro ruoli si invertono. Ispirato al "Il principe e il povero" di Mark Twain, da cui mutua la situazione drammatica rovesciandola ironicamente, The Royal Nightmare è l'animazione apparentemente più semplice del festival: un 2d in bianco e nero, che omaggia La linea di Cavandoli ibridandone lo stile con quello degli arcade game anni Ottanta.
The guardian-jester of a castle has to protect his king from intruders, closing and opening the drawbridge, but fate interferes and the roles switch. This short film was inspired by Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, yet it turns the novel's dramatic situation into an ironic story. The royal nightmare is apparently the festival's simplest animation: a 2D, black-and-white film which combines the style of Cavandoli's line with that of the arcade games from the Eighties.
Note di regia / Director's StatementSimplicity goes a long way in this short film, and it doesn't get more simple than this black-and-white royal farce in which a series of mishaps leads to death, dismemberment and aliens.
Alex BudovskyAnno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1975
Paese/Country: Russia
Biografia/Biography:
Born in St-Petersburg, Russia on January 21st, 1975. Moved to New York in 1994 In 2000 graduated from Brooklyn College, (bachelor of Arts) with emphasis on film. In 2002 produced two animated music videos for British musician Stephen Coates also known as (The Real) Tuesday Weld or the Clerkenwell Kid. One of the films, Bathtime in Clerkenwell received recognition and awards in many film festivals around the world, including the Jury Award for the Best Animation at Sundance Online Film Festival 2004 In 2003 produced three animated promos. In 2004 completed 4 minute animated music film based on a song Brazil by Geoff Muldaur and two 75 sec educational music animations for children, commissioned by MaGiC Studios. In 2004-2005 created four commercial ads for an advertising campaign of energetic drink Lucozade in UK. In 2006 competed animated music video based on Jim Avignon's song Jukebox and his original drawings. Jim Avignon is considered the pioneer of a new generation of pop artists. A lauded and much-respected cult figure in Techno subculture in Berlin. In 2007 created 5 one minute educational animations for little kids with company Lilipip which is based in Seattle, also made an animated short "Guitar birds" commissioned by Sesame street and commercial ad for Greenpeace. In September completed a new music video for The Real Tuesday Weld - a 4 minute animation called Last Time in Clerkenwell, which is a second episode of Bathtime in Clerkenwell, made 5 years earlier. This animation received quite a few awards at Film Festivals around the world. In 2008 completed animated short The Royal Nightmare and animated intros for two animation festivals - IFF Krok and festival of Russian animation in Suzdal.
Filmografia/FilmographyTerminally Ambivalent Over You, USA, 2002,cm
Bathtime in Clerkenwell, USA, 2002, cm
Return I will to Old Brazil, USA, 2005, cm
Jukebox, USA, 2006, cm
Last Time in Clerkenwell, USA, 2007, cm
The Royal Nightmare, USA, 2008, cm
