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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.8 - NOVEMBER 2000

The Daily Report: I Castelli Animati, Genzano Di Roma (continued from page 1) Day 2: 5th of October 2000 The morning began with films like Gianni Lucches' Opus and a 28-minute film by Daniela Trastulli titled Osvaldo Cavandoli. Un artigiano dell'umorismo, Cavandoli is well-known in Italy, and in many parts of the world, for his animated films which are created out of single horizon line, usually white on a solid colour field. Minimalist humor. Retrospectives of Koji Morimoto and Julian Nott went off today. Koji directs the extravagant science-fiction series Eternal Family, a non-stop bombardment of images and clips of explosions, futuristic television control rooms and one memorable sequence in which a man with his head on fire enters a bathroom, goes immediately to the shower, gets in and turns on the water. A woman then enters the same bathroom, grunting and groaning. She pulls the shower curtain closed and turns on the hot water. She lifts the toilet lid and a baby is in the toilet, head above the water. She gently removes the baby from the toilet and places him on the bathroom floor. She sits on the toilet and continues to grunt and groan. Koji cuts wide and we see the lady on the toilet, the baby on the floor and the man with the burning head jumping around in a scalding hot shower. Koji also directed Please Get the Chicken Insurance. Julian Nott composes music for Mark Baker and Nick Park movies. The Hill Farm, A Close Shave, The Wrong Trousers and a few other gems. He is a fan of Carter Burwell's musical work for films such as Raising Arizona and Fargo. In competition today among others were: The Periwig-Maker, by Steffen Schaeffler, and Understanding the Law, a film beautifully and madly designed and directed by Diane Obomsawin for the NFB in Canada. And today, Oscar Grillo remembered his name. End

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