Private Project

Jay: the New Adam

Jay is born from a stain of blue paint that drips from the Creator's brush and fertilizes an imagined sensual woman

It grows in the white womb of his painted mother until the disturbances of his primordial instincts mix and transform it into a Human

Jay doesn't know or understand, so he start to discover the world: he bravely overcomes the danger of the wild only to discovered that, today, heroes are ridiculed on the media... the trap of Modernity is revealed

  • Erica De Lisio
    Director
  • Emanuele Olivieri
    Director
  • Fabio Marigliano
    Director
  • Francesco Baiano
    Director
  • Antonio Santorelli
    Director
  • Pasquale Fresegna
    Director
  • Antonio Maestà
    Director
  • Andrea Piretti
    Director
  • Maria Laezza
    Writer
  • Vittoria Piracci
    Writer
  • Martina Luisa Mattaliano
    Writer
  • Marco Rosolino
    Producer
  • Irene Gaeta
    Producer
  • Matteo Ciotola
    Producer
  • Antonio Nicastro
    Key Cast
    "Jay"
  • Fabrizio Bartolini
    DOP
  • Eva Stanzione
    DOP
  • Andrea Bifulco
    Green Screen Expert
  • Carlo Frigenti
    Green Screen Expert
  • Andrea Bifulco
    Camera Operator
  • Vito Antonio Di Pierro
    Camera Operator
  • Alessia Cammarota
    Ass. Camera Operator
  • Raffaele Fanzese
    Ass. Camera Operator
  • Luigi Carillo
    Ass. Camera Operator
  • Maria Grazia Belmonte
    Ass. Camera Operator
  • Maria Maddalena Tafuri
    Make-up artist
  • Federica Pinna
    Art Department
  • Maria Maddalena Tafuri
    Art Department
  • Ornella Luchini
    Art Department
  • Morena Golino
    Art Department
  • Pina Somma
    Animation Department
  • Carmen Peccerello
    Animation Department
  • Maria Rosaria Romano
    Animation Department
  • Morena Golino
    Animation Department
  • Valentina Esposito
    Animation Department
  • Simona Falzaranio
    Animation Department
  • Desiré Iacono
    Animation Department
  • Francesca D'Andrea
    Animation Department
  • Marco Somma
    Animation Department
  • Emanuele Olivieri
    Animation Department
  • Rosa Palmese
    Animation Department
  • Simona Falzarano
    Animation Department
  • Giovanni Scipione
    Editing and VFX
  • Matteo Chiavistelli
    Animation Dep. Editor
  • Lerio Corrado
    Sound Editing
    Assurdo Winner 🌿
  • Valentina Gentile
    Unit still Photographer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Western, Animation, Absurd
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 21, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
  • Assurdo Film Festival 2025 🏆
    Cinisello Balsamo
    Italy
    January 10, 2026
    Best Soundtrack Dec 2025
  • Couch Film Festival Spring 2026
    Toronto
    Canada
    March 27, 2026
    Nom. Best Experimental International 1-5 minutes
Director Biography - Erica De Lisio, Emanuele Olivieri, Fabio Marigliano, Francesco Baiano, Antonio Santorelli, Pasquale Fresegna, Antonio Maestà, Andrea Piretti

Original AR Project: Erica De Lisio, Fabio Marigliano, Pasquale Fresegna, Francesco Baiano, Antonio Santorelli, Antonio Maestà and Andrea Piretti

Short-Film: Pasquale Fresegna

2019: Birth of the project
2020: the AR videos were created
2021: Lost-Media era after Aria deal
2025: the Film is created

It's a project of Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli MA Cinema students, for some directors was the debout film for someone else was the second film

Add Director Biography
Director Statement

A desperate work of search and editing to restore a Lost-Media and give it a new life: I chose 8 different Languages for Chapter titles to track all the evolution of Human Philosophy

1-2 lo Schizzo: the idea / the jizz of life in Italian 🇮🇹 chosed for the Rinascimento
3 die Massen: emotional disturbances / le turbe 🇩🇪 for Freud's sexual theories
4 cum Moloc: to the Moloch in Latin 🇻🇦 for Punic Wars and "Cabiria" easter-egg
5 πάντα ῥεῖ: Panta Rei in Greek 🇬🇷 for the constant evolution of the protagonist
7 le Cinéma: the Cinema in French 🇫🇷 for the inventors of the Seventh Art
8 Television in English 🇺🇸 for the inventors of the main new media
9 Матрица: Matrix in Russian 🇷🇺 for human obliteration

We used 陰陽 阴阳 in Japanese and Chinese in the Glitch scene 🇯🇵🇨🇳 to symbolize
the Jing and Jang theory, the Chaos and the Butterfly effect meanwhile Scene 6 is titled
Napoli Fine Arts Academy for the school that make this project happen

Actually, Russian was used as main Slavic languages since Karel Čapek from Cechia
invented the word "Robot" to describe a futuristic mechanic slave and our JAY understood
he was not created to pursue his Happiness but to to entertain his Creator(s) as a modern Adam