Former M+A and Santii member Michele Ducci has released the short animated movie called “Film for Songs : The Great Book of Nature.”
Film for Songs: The Great Book of Nature is an animated short film by Michele Ducci and Letizia Mandolesi. The film, which contains two songs, “Why Do I Wake Up Every Morning?” and “Why You?”, tells the story of an animated book called “The Great Book of Nature”, which itself purports to tell the story of a printed book by the same name.
“Why Do I Wake Up Every Morning?” is the first part of the film. With references to Méliès’ “The Vanishing Lady”, Bruno’s “On the Infinite Universe and Worlds”, and philosophers Ernst Bloch and Rocco Ronchi, “Why Do I Wake Up Every Morning?” sets the stage for the encounter between a sleep-deprived traveller and the magical book. The song is an infectious Swing beat pop song that features whistling, sweet boy/girl harmonies and Ducci’s softly purring vocals.
“Why You?,” the second song, is a jaunty fairground waltz with a big uplifting chorus, which appears to run counter to the on-screen events, evoking the Brechtian concept of the disengagement effect, in which the audience is encouraged to engage with the story intellectually rather than emotionally.
Set in a police state where music is banned and real thought is suppressed by the introduction of a dumbed down language (‘Bla Bla Bla’), the film introduces a man named Elpino, who buys an animated AI book called ’The great Book of Nature’ and embarks on a Kafkaesque train journey, where an alien creature, Marsia Joy, who represents music, is pursued by a policeman for merely existing. Marsia can cry a flood of tears to put out fires caused by the oppressors and enclose violent pursuers in cocoons, turning them into butterflies.
Credits:
Michele Ducci – vocals and all instruments
Letizia Mandolesi – backing vocals and synths
Music and Lyrics by Michele Ducci
Video by Michele Ducci and Letizia Mandolesi
Recorded at Ondeleone Studio
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