Animation of Armor. The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino and Pino Zac

Abstract

Pino Zac, eclectic director and designer, is the author of the eponymous film adaptation of the novel parodic medieval The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino, made by the director with mixed media - actors and cartoons. The intrinsic value of these texts allows a comparative analysis involving at the same time the specific grammar of the medium used and fundamental questions of interpretation, avoiding the risk of reducing the comparison to the measurement of mechanical differences and invariant in the transition from one code to another. Intersemiotic translation system between literary and filmic system places the author in front of choices of a formal nature, ethics and aesthetics ranging from compliance with the genetic code of the source text and the cohesion of its rewriting process, this allows two way in cases best, like this, to penetrate more deeply into the sides in the shade of the original text, through a new version of the same with certain critical value.