Here’s a beautiful 16-minute animated short to cap off your Friday.
‘The king of the island’ is the second short film directed by Raimondo Della Calce and produced by artFive animation studio. The movie tells the story of Gioannin, a shy and lonely child, left no father because of a mishap occurred at sea years before. Gioannin is a kid, he doesn’t know the meaning of the word death. And if his father left and never returned, then it means that he must have stopped somewhere on an island, and with his extraordinary ability he must now be the king. From the exasperated dream of Gioannin comes the title of the movie, which goes back in time, in the early 1900’s Genoa, Italy, with its port at work, the alleys, the old pier and the famous lantern.
See the movie after the break.
Il re dell’isola (The king of the island) from artFive on Vimeo.
