# animate! › Films › SKZCP by Riccardo Iacono › synopses

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/skzcp/synopses

Discovery terms: 1990s animation, direct animation, painted-on-film animation, optical printing, memory, perception, colour, abstract animation, visual music, filmmaker, artist

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Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed.

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**SKZCP** a film by Riccardo Iacono

1997, 3 min 10 sec

### animate! synopsis

The big issues addressed in an abstract animation ripe with optically manipulated hand-painted film. Employing the associative logic of dream it creates a dazzling reverie of colour and pattern.

### short synopsis

An exploration of visual music and the relationships of the city and the cave; reflecting the actions of memory and thought through the rhythmic interplay of colours, textures and shapes painted directly onto film and manipulated photographically using an optical printer.

Free flowing, organic and visceral. Intricately edited and syncopated by the movement of reflected and refracted light on the film surface. Inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, Georges Bataille and William Burroughs… Organic, urban, abstract Pop/Op-Art.

**SKZCP** film, stills and other materials © Riccardo Iacono 1997