Corti 2008

Stay or Go, Work
Valeria Cozzarini

Genre: Traditional Animation
Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Original language: English
Duration: 4 '

Director: Valeria Cozzarini
Screenplay: Valeria Cozzarini
Photography: Valeria Cozzarini
Music: Roland Unger
Editing: Valeria Cozzarini

A brief synopsis
”Stay or go, work” comes within the project A (irpo) RT Reloaded 2007, as the product of an artist in residence Hirschfeld, a small village of Hunsrück in Germany. The place of residence is a few kilometers from Frankfurt Hahn. Trying to bring out the views of those who live the airport not as a place of arrivals / departures but as part of their daily lives, the video draws a 7 interviews done with people working in various roles covering.
They responded to questions like "what is the angle at the airport where you like to spend your break from work?", "What affects you along the road leading to the airport?" Or questions about personal aspirations and dreams related to their work.
The stories have been translated into short situations, connected by a path that takes place over one day, the awakening of the aircraft, their first movements, the stage of takeoff and flight. Every place, every object, every detail in the video, apparently random and deliberately not declared, referring to concrete experiences of those who worked at the airport, is part of that network of connections that make possible the flight of these huge machines with wings .

Biography of the director
After the Scientific Diploma in 2000, she attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia with Painting address.
During a period of study in Berlin at the Universität der Künste she produced " Con un Filo di Voce", sequence of slides synchronized with a montage of texts and sounds, which investigates the relationship between the size of the transitional metropolitan area as public area and invisible inner world of thoughts in turn fluids of people you meet.
After her first job in which images fall in line with time frames becoming a specific period in 2005 she produced " Maschera da Viaggio", her first animated short film made entirely in stop-motion. Drawing inspiration from the first few pages of “Le opinioni di un clown “ by Heinrich Böll, this video addresses the theme of the continuum and obsessive passage through places lived physical and mental, until a crisis breaks to question definitively a circuit of habits .
In 2006, she produced animation for "Due storie vere", a short film about 20 minutes which tells the true stories of two teenagers followed by Social Services of the city of Pordenone.
As a result of an artist in residence Hirschfeld close to Frankfurt Hahn, she produced the animated short film "Stay or Go, Work" which is based on interviews held with people working inside the airport. Back to the topic of non-place, this time disrupted by an unusual point of view of those who do not live as a place of waiting for departures or returns, but as part of their daily lives.