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Dagon

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Dagon

original title:

Dagon

directed by:

Paolo Gaudio

screenplay:

Paolo Gaudio, from the eponymous tale by H.P. Lovecraft

cinematography:

Andrea Gabriele

animation:

Gianluca Maruotti

editing:

Riccardo Lancialonga

set design:

Gianluca Maruotti

costume design:

Gianluca Maruotti

music:

Lorenzo Tomio

production:

Emma Film

country:

Italy

year:

2024

film run:

6'7"

format:

4K - colour

status:

Ready (25/07/2024)

genre:

animation film

festivals & awards:

  • BIF&ST – Bari International Film& Festival 2025: Sarò breve
  • BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2025: European Short Films Competition
  • Tampere Film Festival 2025: Generation XYZ Competition
  • Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia 2024: Sitges Family
  • Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2024: Selezione ufficiale
  • World Festival of Animated Film Varna 2024
  • Festival Court Métrange – International Strange and Unusual Fantasy Short Film Festival 2024
  • Festival Boca do Inferno 2024
  • Sentiero Film Factory 2024: Miglior colonna sonora
  • FIPILI Horror Festival Livorno 2024: Miglior Cortometraggio Horror
  • ScreamFest Horror Film Fest 2024: Miglior cortometraggio animato
  • Abertoir Horror Festival 2024
  • Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival 2024: Vespertilino award
  • ToHorror Fantastic Film Festival 2024
  • Festival International de Cine Fantastico y de Terror de Navarra 2024
  • IMAGINE Fantastic Film Festival 2024
  • San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Fest 2024
  • 24FRAME Future Film Festival 2024
  • CURTAS Festival do Imaxinario 2024
  • Morbido Fest 2024
  • Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad" 2024
  • TAIS Animation Showcase Toronto 2024
  • Matera Film Festival 2024
  • FERATUM Film Festival 2024
  • ANIMAFEST Gdańsk 2024
  • Abertoir Horror Festival 2024
  • Emisferi CineFest 2024
  • CortDino Film Festival 2024
  • Fantasticon Film Festival 2024: Miglior cortometraggio Giuria giovani
  • Be afraid Horror Fest 2024: Premio speciale della giuria "We want more"
  • Fantafestival 2024
  • Anilogue International Animation Festival 2024
  • Drag me to Fest 2024
  • Roma Creative Contest 2024
  • Heroes International Film Festival 2024
  • CortoDino Film Festival 2024
  • Viterbo Short Film Festival 2024
  • Fabrique du Cinema Awards 2024
  • Festival Città di Spello 2025
  • Nox Film Fest 2025
  • Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival 2025
  • Aurora International Horror Film Festival 2025
  • Romford Horror Festival 2025
  • Nevermore Film Festival 2025
  • BoneBat "Comedy of Horror" Film Fest 2025
  • 2300 plan 9 Festival 2025
  • In the Palace International Film Festival 2025
  • Athens Animafest 2025

In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, DAGON.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Inspired by the story by the cult writer H.P. Lovecraft, DAGON is a claymation animated short film that approaches the supernatural and frightening atmospheres of the American writer, celebrating his genius and reinventing his aesthetics.
The first of the series of stories of the famous Chtulhu Cycle, it inaugurates the sinister and mysterious mythology written by the Solitaire of Providence. The development of the script needed maximum fidelity, except for a small and necessary betrayal; this betrayal allows our adaptation to update Lovecraft's tale by broadening its horizons and allowing us an ambitious contamination of the Genres. Profound terror mixes with German expressionism, the 1950s italian fanta-horror, stop motion animation, up to the 1980s action cinema.
An extravagant journey that unites Fritz Lang and Mario Bava with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Aardman Animation Studios.