No, I don’t want to dance! – A film by Andrea Vinciguerra
These are dark times. The growing amount of political, social and environmental issues fill the agendas of millions of concerned people around the world.
You may think that in our modern and thorough times, every potential hazard has been identified. You would be wrong. There is a critical issue that, as yet, nobody has taken into consideration: how dangerous dance can be.
We’re living in a world where dance is everywhere and, believe it or not, your kids will one day be asked to dance. Blindly following other people’s “movements” may lead to catastrophic consequences.
This short film aims to raise awareness of how deadly dangerous dance can be.
So hopefully, one day, when someone asks you, you will be able to reply: “No, I don’t want to dance!”
Credits
Written and directed by: Andrea Vinciguerra
Producer: Georgie Beattie, Andrea Vinciguerra
Executive Producer: Sandrine Servent,Andrea Vinciguerra
Associate Producer: Kimberley Le Blanc
Animator: Tim Allen, Will Hodge
Puppet Maker: Adeena Grubb
Model Maker: Kat Simpson
Costume Maker: Isabelle Riley
Set Builder: Phil Shaw
Dop: Jamie Kennerley, Thomas Wootton, Will Hodge
Model Maker Assistant: Meg Dupont, Julia Lopez Martinez
Props Maker Assistant: Nada Moussa
VFX: Alberto Falcone, Mark Miko
Extra VFX: Ferenc Miko
Sound Design: Father
Music Composer: Pietro Ventimiglia
Grade: Joseph Bicknell at Company3 (NYC)
Storyboard: Victoria Budgett
Animatic Sound: Francesco Corsello
Equipment: Mark Swaffield
Special Thanks to: Paola Lizza, Claudio Giambrusso, Poitr Tomasikiewicz, Christian Schofield – Panalux, Gary Welch, Bloc Space
Crowdfunding campaign thanks for the contribution to: Laure-Helene Prevost, Marcello Vinciguerra, Pavel Kingurov, Kat Wood, Jacopo Genovese, Jesus Loniego
Release date: 2019
Country: UK
Duration: 3 min
Production notes
We all know the only motivation behind making the film was to raise social awareness about the catastrophic consequences of dancing. That’s a terrible curse in our society.
It’s hard to be controversial when you feature really cute and fluffy characters.
Also, well, I just wanted to do something cool that allowed me to do more work as director, that’s important too. I guess at first the intent was to shake the audience with a controversial and edgy piece of work but it’s hard to be controversial when you feature really cute and fluffy characters. So I reckon I hoped people would appreciate the contrast between these aspects.
I loved the process of designing the characters.
It took a month between researching and drawing, I basically threw in the mix everything I found funny or interesting somehow.
I’ve got some recurrent scenarios that I keep on coming back to with my work. Usually, I tend to play with pop culture elements, especially from the American ’60s,’ 70s and ‘80s. But in this one, I also tried to imagine a more contemporary and personal setting. For instance, my father owns a leisure center in Palermo (Italy) so I sketched the swimming pool exactly from a perspective really familiar to me.
My favorite scenario is definitely the tacky-calamari-techno-Diner. Also because it features the chubby punk, one of my favorite characters.
Biography
Andrea Vinciguerra is an Italian writer-director and creative based in London, working in animation, advertising and film.
Punk musician and visuals maker since young age, Andrea has developed a great passion for creating fictional work, sometimes fun, sometimes a bit edgy, most of the time heavily stylized.
Swinging between live action and animation, Andrea’s work is characterized by playful energy and bold, colourful aesthetics peppered with humorous (and often dark) twists that come from recognisable motifs in fresh situations.