Loop

Dull, a bored and lazy boy spends his time in an armchair looking at the world through the screen of his smartphone. Nothing seems interesting until a stimulus comes from the web: happiness in a pill that can finally give color to the grayness of his world. One pill after another, bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger, he gets stuck in a vortex of sparks and artificial colors until he is totally absorbed.
An experience that can continue indefinitely or at least until it is annihilated.

  • Marino Guarnieri
    Director
    Mezzanotte di Segni, Gatta Cenerentola, Loop
  • Marino Guarnieri
    Writer
    Mezzanotte di Segni, Gatta Cenerentola, Loop
  • MAD Entertainment
    Producer
    L'arte della Felicità, Gatta Cenerentola
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Loop
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 14, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival
    Naples
    Italy
    November 3, 2020
    Finalist
  • Neum Animated Film Festival
    Neum
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    June 26, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Sardinia Film Festival
    Sassari
    Italy
    December 7, 2021
    Live Screening
  • Sezze Film Festival
    Sezze
    Italy
    Winner Best Animated Short
Director Biography - Marino Guarnieri

Director, animator, illustrator.
After working as a graphic designer, through all forms of expression and communication in the last 20 years, in the end he discovers his true love: the animation. He conceives, designs and participates in the creation of commercials and music videos, television themes and educational products, documentaries, specials and feature films.
Assistant director, head of 2D, lead animator and editor of the animated feature film The Art of Happiness (L'arte della Felicità), produced by Mad Entertainment and winner of the European Film Awards in 2014 for Best European Animated Feature Film.
He is Professor of Animation at Academy of Fine Arts of Naples and at Scuola Italiana di Comix, for which he directed the commercial Chi sogna disegna and the short film Midnight Signs.
He directed his first animation feature film Gatta Cenerentola, alongside I. Cappiello, A. Rak and D. Sansone produced by Mad Entertainment in collaboration with Rai Cinema and distributed by Videa. The movie has been selected to compete in the Orizzonti category at 74th edition of the Venice International Film Festival and won a lot of prizes around world, like two David di Donatello Award and a Nastro d’Argento.
From 2019 he is the president of ASIFA Italia (Italian Association for Animated Films).
During 2020 he direct the short film Loop founded by the project DR@G-NET for Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

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