Known and unknown Nicola Piovesan

Nicola Piovesan is born in Venice Lido on the 1st of April, 1979. In 1999 he moves to Bologna, where he graduates at DAMS Cinema with honours in 2004. He begins shooting short films in the autumn of 2001 and has since been screened in various festivals winning some forty awards in about seventy international festivals. From 2008 to 2011 he teaches filmmaking in a higher education institute of Como and moves to Milan in 2009. In the autumn of 2011 he moves to Helsinki, Finland, and in the spring of 2013 to Tallinn, Estonia, where he lives up to date working as a freelancer in the field of video and multimedia for clients from all over the world.

He is connected to HÕFF with a fact that all three of his films have been screened at HÕFF in different years and by that they have received great attention from the audience. Nicola knows, what HÕFF loves and values – these are crazy ideas, retro enthusiasm and of course fantasy. Since all Nicolas’ films are filled with this similar enthusiasm as is HÕFF, we will bring back all three of his films thru our online cinema and for you, dear audience, it’s for free.

Films

Deus In Machina
Italy Estonia
2014
20 min

Cast: Daniele Ferretti, Vincenzo Muià, Orfeo Orlando, Venantino Venantini
Prod: Paolo Baronci
Scr: Marco Castelli, Edoardo Colombo, Nicola Piovesan
DoP: Luca Cottinelli, Nicola Piovesan

The story is about four weird guys travelling in space with an old Soviet car, trying to interview God.

Attack of the Cyber Octopuses
Estonia
2017
19 min

Cast: Edoardo Lomazzi, Triinu Paomets, George Benjix, Steve Vanoni, Kristjan Oden
Prod: Nicola Piovesan
Scr: Nicola Piovesan, Enrico Barone, Peter Chestnut, Aleksander Vassiljev
DoP: Rui Dias

Neo-Berlin, 2079. A dark city held by mega corporations where the only way to enjoy life is by connecting into cyberspace. Here a team of detectives are investigating a new menace: an army of cyber octopuses that are terrorizing the government.

Robot Will Protect You
Estonia
2018
11 min

Cast: Lizzie Freeman, Richard Epcar
Prod: Nicola Piovesan
Scr: Matt Willis-Jones
Animation: Eleftherios Kokkinakis, Andriy Muzychenko, Preetham Tej
Music: Yann Latour

2062: Cyberspace offers total emotional satisfaction online. To maintain the population, the government encourages people to procreate by offering the incentive of a free robot to help with the children. One rainy night nine year old Tina and her guardian robot, SAM-53, set off on a quest that asks: if cyberspace has made romantic love obsolete, do we still need love in the real world?