Corti in Mostra
Presentazione di Pierpaolo Loffreda
ORGASM – IN 5 ACTS
Beatrice Pucci
Italia 2026, 5'23"
Orgasm – In 5 Acts is a pulsating sequence of matter and desire. Five acts, five techniques, five beats of a body that does not exist, yet vibrates. Forms that stretch, tremble, explode. Every movement is friction, shock, accumulation.
Matter — made of puppets, surfaces, and geometric forms — responds to sound like an abstract organism. There is no narrative, only motion, vibration, and collision in the spacetime of animation: a “perceptual orgasm” generated by the friction between sound and movement.
a programme by Pierpaolo Loffreda
BEST IN SHORTS has now reached its 12th edition at the Pesaro Film Festival. The non-competitive section is dedicated to inventive works made by Italian animation filmmakers over the past few months: “Contemporary Italian Animation,” literally.
We continue to welcome a considerable number of BEST IN SHORTS this year, something which proves there is a very wide, and high-quality, offer.
The selection includes works made by young and very young filmmakers, very capable beginners, who are being trained in animation film at Schools and Fine Arts Academies as well as the latest, qualified productions of some well-known filmmakers – whose award-winning work has already circulated abroad – with whom the Festival has a special connection: Simone Massi, Donato Sansone, Beatrice Pucci, Igor Imhoff: friends of our Festival who already had a dedicated retrospective and meeting.
All the creators selected work like artisans, for many months, even years, in order to express themselves and present films of great imagination and originality, usually at festivals. These works are extremely diverse in terms of language, style, and techniques, which include traditional solutions such as hand drawing and stop motion but also digital systems and a creative use of AI. We believe all of them give the idea of the level of vitality, creativity, innovation, and research that many film-makers in our country are able to express in spite of the lack of means and the scant attention received by the Italian establishment. Creative animation in Italy certainly is a world apart, an almost clandestine activity; young talents scarcely manage to show their works to an audience or even find a niche. Thus, it’s almost like a secret society for the devout. Unlike in Europe, there aren’t clients or distributors in this sector. The filmmakers rely on home-made production and an underground circuit of friends, acquaintances, connoisseurs, and festivals. Like ours.
BEST IN SHORTS – Contemporary Italian Animation was made possible this year thanks to the fundamental partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino as well as those with the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Urbino (with the animation courses conducted by Mara Cerri and Magda Guidi), and the Liceo artistico – Scuola del Libro in Urbino.
BEST IN SHORTS 2026 will screen the following films:
Manifesto del Post-Neorealismo di Ilaria Pezone, 2025, 7’14”
Vol Volare tra le stelle AI di Ilaria Pezone, 2025, 3’14”
Buio di Paola Luciani, 2025, 4’
Arsonist di Antonella Caprera, 2025, 3’31”
Tautoo di Lorenzo Rizza, 2025,1’02”
Paleogene di Lorenzo Rizza, 2026, 5’21”
Journey 11_0b19 di Igor Imhoff, 2025, 4’28”
Anoxium Indigo di Igor Imhoff, 2025, 6’50”
La casa di Donato Sansone, 2026, 1’46”
Tric trac di Donato Sansone, 2025, 3’26”
Il tuffo_L’incubo di Donato Sansone, 2025, 1’40”
Svariate sciocchezze di Donato Sansone, 2026, 0’54”
Orgasm – In 5 Acts di Beatrice Pucci, 2026, 5’23”
Kinder than Man di Adrien Civettini, 2025, 0’58”
Il signor Errore di Camilla Tasin, 2025, 1’52”
Rifugio di Chiara Zakhia, 2025, 1’58”
Una rosa di Simone Massi, 2026, 3’03”
Videobox della Classe IV C della Scuola del Libro di Urbino, 2026, 0’46”
Eclissi di Loreta Gasparyan, 2026, 0’55”
ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE
