DYSTOPIA by Marco Bolognesi
Italy, 2021, 15’
George Hellas, after a sad childhood and a tragic incident, becomes a robot. Through voices, memories and photos the film recounts George’s life and his traumas, that brought him to his death and then being reprogrammed inside the body of a robot with a positronic brain, that still contains the memories of his human past.
Marco Bolognesi is a multidisciplinary artist and a sperimental film director. He has won many awards for his photographic and audiovisual works, among those the Artist in Residence Award by the Istituto di Cultura Italiana a Londra, the Canadian Cinematography Award (CaCA, Toronto, Canada, 2020), the award for the best short at the AltFF Alternative Film Festival in Toronto (2020) and the Best sci-fi Award at The Indie Short Film Competition (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A., 2008).
In 2009 he wrote with Carlo Lucarelli Protocollo, a cyberpunk graphic novel, published vy Einaudi. As an artist, in the years, Marco Bolognesi has shown his works all over the world. His photos and installations have been shown at the Festival di Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2012), at Month of Photography (Vienna, 2012), at Biennale Fin del Mundo (Mar del Plata & Valparaíso, 2014), at Kunst Meran (2014), at Biennal Italy-China (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016), at International Biennial of Curitiba (2017), at MACRO (Roma, 2019). His works also belong to important public collections such as Collezione Farnesina and the permanent collection at Museo Oscar Niemeyer.
FILMOGRAPHY
Giustizia e Verità (1996)
Il Partito del Silenzio (1997)
Black Hole (2008)
Propaganda Republic (2008)
Blue Unnatural (2017)
Parallelism (2021)
