THE MAN WHO MANAGED TO GET PUSSY OFF HIS MIND

Erase, draw and take a picture, at least one thousand and two hundred times. That’s the classic animation process which makes the man who wants to take pussy off from his mind move and provides him a soul. A dream, maybe the real end of the world as we know it, bringing the character and the man back to his pre-lunar, original hermafrodite condition. The moon steals away. A cosmological disruption that sets up the whole humankind all over again, rigenerating and taking it back to a condition of purity and communion with no gender distinction.

A cartoon in ten scenes, ten framings, and one thousand and two hundred drawings that now are only photographs. These frames are what is left from the shooting, showing the traces of the act of drawing and erasing, as witness themselves of the story and its making. They are small drawings on paper, measuring 5×8 centimenters, that we could define as snapshots of all the drawings, which have left themselves a trace that is represented and showed by the real snapshots, the photographs precisely, animated and turned into movie frames. Small pictures for macro shots, a small space that reveals the paper’s sponginess, the very matter of the the drawing realized with a micro-lead pencil, minute but rich with dettails. All these pictures together last two minutes and thirty seconds and constitute a movie about a guy who manages to take it off his mind.

2012, graphite on paper, 1.465 stills, 2’30”, HD.

Directed by
DANIELE GALLIANO
DAVIDE BORSA

Shooting
DAVIDE BORSA

Postproduction
MARCO QUATTROCOLO

INCONTRO CON L’ARTISTA NEGLI SPAZI DELLA VIDEOTECA GAM


The man who managed to get pussy off his mind.

 

GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
24 settembre 2013.

 

2013, 10’23”, SD.

Directed by
CONTEMPORARYART TORINO

CONSTELLATIONS

“When a director like me meets an artist like Daniele, only one thing can happen. The unpredictability of the two intersecting trajectories inevitably leads to a new direction of movement and to a change of perspective. At least, that’s the way it was for me. Adopting hes vision brought countless things to my mind, and on in particular, for I instantly realised that the playing field I was on was actually far, far bigger than I’d thought. You start by thinking that new rules will be needed, and that it’ll be tough going. But when the ball starts rolling, I can tell you that’s when the fun starts.”

Marco Ponti

 

2010, documentary film, 21’21”, SD.

Directed by
MARCO PONTI
DANIELE GALLIANO

Shooting
MARCO PONTI & COLLABORATORS

Painting
DANIELE GALLIANO, 2010, CONSTELLATION, OIL ON CANVAS, CM. 200×300

Music
MARLENE KUNTZ, GIANNI MAROCCOLO, IVANA GATTI

INTERVIEW ON “DENTRO I MIEI VUOTI” VIDEOCLIP BY SUBSONICA

 

2007, interview, 2’40”, SD.

Speeches
MAX CASACCI
SAMUEL UMBERTO ROMANO
DANIELE GALLIANO

Paintings
DANIELE GALLIANO

Music
SUBSONICA

DENTRO I MIEI VUOTI

 

2003, videoclip, 5’29”, SD.

Directed by
UMBERTO COLOMBO

Music
SUBSONICA

Paintings
DANIELE GALLIANO

NON TI PREOCCUPARE PICCOLA ANDRA’ TUTTO BENE

 

1994, 1’34”, SD.

Directed by
ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI, NICOLETTA POLLEDRO, MASSIMO ARVAT

Paintings
DANIELE GALLIANO