Mario Cavalli

WHAT WE DO on Long List for E(rata) Festival, Saint-Petersburg

mario — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:42:48 +0000

The Battle Of The Eyes film WHAT WE DO has been selected for the Long List of the E(rata) MOTION PICTURES International Film Festival of Short Films About Painting, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 15th-31st March, 2012. If you can’t make it to Saint-Petersburg in time, you can of course watch it here.

Shepton Mallet Digital Arts Festival

mario — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:33:15 +0000

As well as showing two films, LIGHT and IT’S ON EVERYTHING in the Inspire Cinema programme, Mario Cavalli also collaborated with Battle Of The Eyes and Cate Ferris for a special live painting / music / video projections performance at No. 50.

BATTLE OF THE EYES : What We Do

mario — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:14:08 +0000

Battle Of The Eyes are Chris Long and Edwin Pouncey
Camera : Tino Tedaldi
Editor : Charlie di Placido
Music : drcarlsonalbion
Voice : Dudley Sutton
Graphics : Paul Plowman
Paint Wrangler : Jill Tipping

Extras : Jason Atomic, Neil Burgess, Angus Carter, Gia Cavalli, Luca Cavalli, Espira, K-Tron, Joe Allen Long, Honey Manko Takatsuna Mukai, Adriana Noble, Bruno Noble, Gabriella Noble

Special thanks to : Mark Boyce and Hugo Rocha of Boyce da Roca
Thanks to Bernard Stollman, Peter Beckmann, Michael Vale and Tomboy Films

Potential (1965) by Sun Ra Courtesy of ESP-Disk’

Produced and Directed by : Mario Cavalli

A Colony Production

Shot entirely on location in Streatham, South London

STREATHAM TEXTURES

A long (30 min), mute, ‘fruit machine’, looping triptych of textures, shot around Streatham in South London, created for projection during the Battle Of The Eyes’ live painting performance.

All of these images were shot on an iPhone 5 and processed variously in Instagram, CameraBag and Photoshop, then assembled and animated in Final Cut Pro X.

This version is intentionally mute. I may get around to adding some sort of ambient music track sometime. Meanwhile, it makes a very nice screensaver.

BATTLE OF THE EYES : Planet of the Jackanapes

mario — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:07:14 +0000

3 min 43 sec
BATTLE OF THE EYES are Edwin Pouncey & Chris Long.
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery,
Private View 11.05.2012

Time lapse movie (ghost version) of the live painting performance given at the BOTE Private View that launched the Norwich Festival.

Video : Mario Cavalli
Shot on an iPhone4

London 2012 : RAINBOW TO THE GAMES

mario — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:23:34 +0000

00:00 - 01:14 INTRO Story so far… (short montage of clips from episodes 1, 2 and 3)
01:15 - 16:43 RAINBOW TO THE GAMES

01:11 Rainbow to the Games

16 min 43 sec CGI animation

Fourth and final episode in the action-packed animated adventures of London 2012 mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville.

Wenlock and Mandeville become trapped inside a container heading for the docks, unable to communicate and bring good fortune to athletes around the world. The twins, helped by their new friend Jahlil, follow the lorry in the depth of the night – only to see the container loaded on to a ship setting sail for Brazil. Will they escape and make it to the London 2012 Games in time…?

Original Story : Michael Morpurgo
Script Editor : Jill Meager
Narrator : Stephen Fry

Production Design : Ashley Potter
Maquetttes : Teddy Hall
Storyboard Artists : Peter Western & Brendan Houghton

Production Design Assistants : Woody Stables, Alex Boys, Jordan Rogers

Sound Design : Adrian Rhodes

Editors : Adam Biskupski & Richard Graham
Assistant Editor : Charlie di Placido

Narration Script : Gillian Corduroy

Music Composed & Arranged by Thomas Hewitt Jones
Performed by The British Film Orchestra & Voces8
Conducted by Barnaby Smith
Recorded by Gary Thomas at Angel Studios
Mastered by Simon Gibson at Abbey Road Studios
Score Produced by Thomas Hewitt Jones & Barnaby Smith

CG Supervisor : Liu Jian
Animation Production Manager : Shi Yan
Animation Workflow Manager : Chen Manman
Animation Director : Liu Haitao
Animation Production Company : Crystal CG International

Produced by Barnaby Spurrier
Directed by Mario Cavalli

Mario and Gia Cavalli by S.F. Said

mario — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:18:32 +0000

Taken at the UNSTABLE show Private View at the Maggs Gallery

Wenlock and Mandeville in RAINBOW TO THE GAMES

mario — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:26 +0000

Mario Cavalli has just completed work on the fourth and final London 2012 mascot animated adventure, RAINBOW TO THE GAMES.

What began two years ago with the (then) one-off mascot ‘launch’ film, OUT OF A RAINBOW, has grown into a series, with this final episode, at just over 15 minutes, much the longest though turned around in record time, with animation produced by Crystal CG in Beijing in just three months. As with the previous three films, RAINBOW TO THE GAMES features a sumptuous full orchestral score by Thomas Hewitt Jones. The film plays in hundreds of Odeon Kids Club screens throughout the UK in May. Watch this space for the full film, coming up very soon.

London 2012 : RAINBOW RESCUE

mario — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:46:59 +0000

5 minutes, CGI animation

London 2012 Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville help restore a school library.

Previous installments OUT OF A RAINBOW and ADVENTURES ON A RAINBOW

Story by Michael Morpurgo
Narrated by Stephen Fry

Production Design : Ashley Potter
Maquetttes : Teddy Hall
Storyboard Artist : Pete Western

Editor : Richard Graham
Sound Design : Adrian Rhodes

CG Supervisor : Liu Jian
Animation Production Manager : Shi Yan
Animation Workflow Manager : Chen Manman
Animation Director : Liu Haitao
Animation Production Company : Crystal CG International

Produced by Barnaby Spurrier
Directed by Mario Cavalli

BATTLE OF THE EYES : Unicorn

mario — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:32:55 +0000

BATTLE OF THE EYES : Unicorn
3 min 26 sec
The creation of ‘Unicorn’, one of a series of ’Predatory Life’ paintings by BOTE collaborators, Chris Long and Edwin Pouncey.

Camera & Editing : Mario Cavalli
Music : Family by Hey Ø Hansen

Shot on an iPhone 4
Edited in FinalCutPro

GMTV with Lorraine

mario — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:34:31 +0000

10 sec TV title sequence for Lorraine Kelly on GMTV

Direction: Mario Cavalli
VFX & AE: Murray John
Agency: Red Bee Media / Ian Wormleighton / Amy Johnson
Production: Colony @ Bermuda Shorts

Treated live action, using GMTV provided clips from previous shows.