Mario Addis

Mario Addis

History

Mario Addis, born in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, started working in 1984 as an animator in Michel Fuzellier and Giovanni Ferrari’s studio. In 1989, he founded the production studio Gertie together with Franco Serra and started working as a producer and director. He directed several commercials, TV theme songs and video clips (he devised the opening credits of ‘Mostro’ by Roberto Benigni and the first video clip of ‘Voglia Di Gridare’ by Daniele Silvestri, an Italian singer). In 1999, Oreste Del Buono, director of Linus magazine, published his series on the vampire ‘Alef’, which ran for more than a year. As an animator, he works with talented directors, such as Maurizio Nichetti, Dario Fo, Giulio Cingoli, Enzo D’Alò and Roberto Benigni. With his animated works, he takes part in foreign productions, such as ‘The Fever’ by HBO, a film directed by Gabriel Carlo Nero, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Angelina Jolie. He was in charge of the technical direction and supervision of the storyboard and backgrounds, the Lay-Outs and animation, and the colouring and compositing of the 26 episodes of the series ‘Adrian’, by Adriano Celentano, produced by Clan and Mediaset. In 2015, he was awarded an Honorary Degree from the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. His latest works, which he created and directed, were ‘Robin Hood, raccontato da Veronica Pivetti’ (Robin Hood told by Veronica Pivetti), a one-hour TV movie, co-produced by Rai and Progetto Immagine, and ‘Pene e Cruditè’ (Pain and Crudités), a self-produced, three-minute short film.

Profile

Mario Addis

Movies

Pene e Cruditè
Director
This short film is a playful stream of crude human emotions. Fantastical hallucinatory moments of passion, cruelty, loneliness, disconnection and love unfold humorously in a simple and innocent form but with deep, sometimes dark meanings. Hypnotic music accompanies a dance of lines that reinvents itself with each new squiggle of the artist's pencil.
Pene e Cruditè
Creator
This short film is a playful stream of crude human emotions. Fantastical hallucinatory moments of passion, cruelty, loneliness, disconnection and love unfold humorously in a simple and innocent form but with deep, sometimes dark meanings. Hypnotic music accompanies a dance of lines that reinvents itself with each new squiggle of the artist's pencil.
Magic Lessons - The Red Clover
Character Designer
La Citta delle Note
Layout
Momo
Storyboard Artist
Momo is a shy and affectionate girl who has found new friends and a house in the middle of some ruins of an old amphitheater. But suddenly, a day, the "Grey Men" burst in the city in order to rob people's time. Momo try to stop them but doesn't know how.
La materia
Director
Film 35 mm – charcoal and pencil on paper. Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis
La materia
Creator
Film 35 mm – charcoal and pencil on paper. Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis
Heartbeat (Un capitalismo dal volto umano)
Creator
35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis
Heartbeat (Un capitalismo dal volto umano)
Director
35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis
L'eroe dei due mondi
Animation
Giano
Writer
Directed and animated by: Mario Addis 35 mm – traditional animation on paper.
Giano
Director
Directed and animated by: Mario Addis 35 mm – traditional animation on paper.
Fornarina Urban Beauty
Director
10 video-installations in the magnificent scenario of the Carrousel du Louvre. Fornarina organizes the event “The call of dreams”, a mix of art, fashion and music. Art director of event is Marco Bragaglia.
Fornarina Urban Beauty
Creator
10 video-installations in the magnificent scenario of the Carrousel du Louvre. Fornarina organizes the event “The call of dreams”, a mix of art, fashion and music. Art director of event is Marco Bragaglia.
Casse rurali trentine
Director
Runtime 45 sec. – commercial in traditional animation. Created, directed and designed by: Mario Addis. Award “Special Star” to direction and animation at XVII edition MEDIASTARS. Official competition adv section at ANNECY IAFF edition 2012.
Casse rurali trentine
Creator
Runtime 45 sec. – commercial in traditional animation. Created, directed and designed by: Mario Addis. Award “Special Star” to direction and animation at XVII edition MEDIASTARS. Official competition adv section at ANNECY IAFF edition 2012.