Victor Faccinto's website: www.www.wfu.edu/~faccinto/
Victor Faccinto's email: faccinto@wfu.edu
Where Did It All Come From? Where Is It All Going?,
The Secrete of Life, Filet of Soul and Shameless
Psycho/Drama cut-out animation.
Award: First Erotic Film Festival, SF, 1970
1970, 16mm, 7m, color/si, $20
Award: Yale Film Festival, 1972
1971, 16mm, color/so, 15m, $45
Award: Bijou Film Festival, Chicago, 1974
1972, 16mm, color/so, 16m, $45
Cut-out puppet animation. Not recommended for gentle sensibilities. Plagued by his redundant existence, Video Vic follows his instincts into an outer space environment, where he is faced with the cruel realities of his linear life.
"Victor Faccinto's last cut-out film SHAMELESS exhibits a tension within the form. As real penises penetrate paper vaginas, and cut-out men investigate life-sized female parts, the film implies a potential synthesis of metaphoric and real action; the film also suggests the exhaustion of purely cut-out imagery by manipulation of materials, only now it is the film itself which is scratched, painted or cut." - Ian Birnie, Art Gallery of Ontario
1974, 16mm, color/so, 14m, $40
Animated drawing in desert sand, Lake Pyramid, Nevada.
1973, 16mm, b&w/so, 2m, $20
Five individual sections set side by side with contrasting associations. Makes use of rephotography animation, motorized mattes and direct frame-by-frame interaction with the source footage.
"The 'sour' part - police footage documenting the corpse of an accident victim - is made ironically palatable by the addition of masks that block out the most gruesome part of the frame, while pieces of 'sweet' bits of old home movies are 'enriched' by handcoloring and looping. These two contrasting flavors alternate with each other towards an ambiguous and elusive effect; the amusing material grows funnier, the gruesome scenes more meditative." - Ron Epple, Filmmakers Newsletter, 1977
Award: Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1977
1976, 16mm, color/si, 12m, $35
"In BOOK OF DEAD, no human image can hide from the secrets the animator chooses to reveal. Figures walking on a beach grow satanic horns and tails; tiny pitchforks and snakes pierce the bodies of others. Murder, disfigurement and enactment of the basest lust are the actions most frequently depicted. Through drawings on the frame, the human beings in the initially innocent photographic images have been made to do the bidding of their own creator and suffer his many torments." - Barbara Scharres, TRICK-FILM/CHICAGO, 1980 Catalogue
1978, 16mm, color/si, 15m, $45