domingo, 23 de setembro de 2012
terça-feira, 18 de setembro de 2012
10th MUMIA - OVERTURE - ITALIAN CONTEMPORANY SHORT FILMS with Andrea martigioni
Andrea
Martignoni
Performer,
sound designer, historian in Animation.
He has
created soundtracks for short animated films by Blu, Saul Saguatti, Michele
Bernardi, Pierre Hébert and others. He teaches history of animation in Fine
Arts Palermo, and works closely with several international festivals with
master classes, workshops, lectures on topics related to animation and
soundtrack. He is often invited to international juries and selection
committees throughout the world.
He has
performed with Basmati, Pierre Hébert, Theodore Ushev, Compagnia d’Arte
Drummatica in several international film and music festivals in Europe. Carries
workshops together with Basmati B.C. and Ottomani Cultural Association and his
active in promoting the Italian animated
film internationally. He won the Golden
Reiter for the best soundtrack to the 23 th edition of the International Short
Film Festival FilmFest Dresden and the Asifa Award Italy in 2010. He curated
with Paola Bristot, ANIMAZIONI, a DVD collection about Italian contemporary
animation.
ANIMAZIONI
2
Working on
an Italian short film collection for a second time is even more exciting than
the first. Mainly because a second edition
implies that you have staked your time and energies on this project.
After a year and a half, it seems that the new Italian animated production has
not come to a standstill, so that our task is not yet accomplished. If
anything, we have just started our investigation.
Gianni
Canova recently talked of a 'Nouvelle Vague' in Italian animation. Even without
referring to this brilliant film
movement, there are certainly many attention-grabbing situations
taking place in different places at the same time. In fact, it was
relatively easy to come across new
artists, like Nicola Console, with his debut Dieci Cadute, after several
theatre collaborations, or experienced
Alvise Renzini, and his Ci sono gli Spiriti, experimental in
technique and taste.
A further
evidence of vitality is the ability, displayed by the artists included in the
first collection, of constantly renewing their style and contents. Donato
Sansone presents another tiny gem, Topo Glassato al Cioccolato, pictures
animated in rhythm once again perfectly integrated with Enrico Ascoli excellent
sound work; ' hardy' Saul Saguatti and
Audrey Coianiz, the 'evergreen' Michele Bernardi, and Igor Imhoff , who's
established himself as one of our finest artists, with his new Percorso#
0009-0410.
We are
proud to host, as previously with
Gianluigi Toccafondo's Piccola Russia, a masterwork of Italian animation
in the last ten years: Roberto Catani's La Funambola. This film provides a
vital link with the Urbino's ISA art scene. It's no accident that many artists
are based in this area: the fascinating, and at the same time disturbing, debut
of young Marco Cappellacci, Le Fobie del Guardrail, and the passionate work of
Alessia Travaglini Silenziosa-mente.
Different
technique, although similar passion, in Beatrice Pucci's Imago, a complex
puppet animation with a strong impact, clearly connected to the aesthetic and
techniques of the East European School,
as well as The journey of the Birdboy creation by Chiara Ambrosio, a London-based
multi-faceted artist who has collaborated with many musicians of contemporary
British scene. A touch of inspired insanity
is guaranteed with Aztrokitifk & Mario si danno al Crimine! by Ivan
Manuppelli and Gianluca Lo Presti.
Italian
animation seems to have finally found a fertile ground : a clear demonstration
is the film originated in Turin's CSC, Dalila Rovazzani and Giovanni Munari's
Arithmetique , a bold short film based on Maurice Ravel's musical score of the
opera L’Enfant et le sortilège. Donato
Sansone ,too,graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, as well as
the authors of Giallo a Milano, coproduced by the CSC.
In addition
to this selection, the number of
children and young people involved in the making of animated short films and successfully attending
International festivals is constantly increasing. This is why we think that our Raccolte may still be
relevant in the future.
Program
Chiara Ambrosio - The Journey of the Birdboy - Italy, 2007 - 4: 23
The animation work of
Chiara Ambrosio is an exploration into ideas of memory, loss and illusion
through the use of animation, photography and video installation, deeply rooted
in the surreal, absurdist world of Czech and Eastern European animation and
literature. Chiara works with both live action and animation (using puppets and
found objects), together with light and sound, to create short visual poems or
prayers, often relying on music and sound to engage with the emotional,
irrational and subliminal side of the mind. (http://www.acuriousroom.com)
Sergio Basso, Lorenzo Latrofa - Giallo a Milano - Italy, 2009 - 6:51
Giallo a Milano, a 3 episode animation, is part of a movie of the same name on Milanese
Chinatown. The storyboard was based on pictures collected by Stefano Basso, a
specialist in Chinese art, and Daniele
Cologna’s photographs, a sinologist close to the Chinese community in Milan.
Longxing, the film main character, cooperates with the police and describes his
journey from China to Italy, via Russia. Animation conveys poetic and suggestive
significance to a tragic series of events, with unique stylistic devices
awarded at Annecy in 2010.
Michele Bernardi - Djuma - Italy, 2012 - 3:50
Djuma is a work of some power in its study of the more violent aspects
of the Human psyche. With an almost sumptuous ease and design flair,
something of which is captured in the screenshot, the rampage through the
countryside and cities has a resonance when one considers the riots that
periodically besmirch all our countries. Shades of William Golding with maybe
just a touch of Joseph Conrad - sorry for the English references here - in the
judgement on mankind, for Djuma is a metaphor for human nature, I think, and
its assessment is grim. Particularly if one is brought up by wolves. But
there's such artistry and glamour in the depiction. (Ian Lumsden, http://www.animationblog.org,)
Marco Capellacci - Le Fobie del
Guardrail - Italy 2012 - 5:00
The story deals with the mimesis without filters of one child's mental escapes. The characters, cryptic and absorbed,
lean out over the guardrail, metaphoric representation of the interior universe
of the child. The images reveal his secret, his hidden kingdom of darkness made
of screams and sounds.
Nicola Console - Dieci cadute - Italy, 2012 - 17:57
Loosely based on La caduta, by Martino Lo Cascio, this animated
film develops from a chalk drawing on black plastic sheets, with photographs
interacting with camera shooting. A remarkable combination to approach current affairs topics, and play power politics with famous dictators
and their sad followers. Nicola Console
rearranges his accusation from a rhetorical
and contingent level to universal poetic language.
Igor Imhoff - Percorso#0009-0410 - Italy, 2010 - 4:28
In Percorso Imhoff creates
a fairy-tale ambience, exploring
the crossing paths of concentric worlds, where a thin thread conveys the vision from micro to
macro, thus developing an evocative metaphor, in which different levels of
existence become dependent on one
another. In addition, the “pop/pulp” aesthetic of this video provides an
intriguing up-to-date atmosphere to
Imhoff’ usual timeless setting. The graphic elegance and sophisticated technical
ability take the audience to a
stratified universe where you can easily
get lost. (http://www.artevideoromafestival.org/ Bruno Di
Marino)
Ivan Manuppelli, Gianluca Lo Presti - Aztrokitifk
& Mario Show, si danno al Crimine - Italy, 2008 - 5:00
This is the first episode of an animated series, Aztrokitifk &
Mario Show, based on a comic with
the same name. The protagonists of the series are Aztrokitifk & Mario, a
caramel cat and a voodoo doll, eager to conquer the planet. In each episode a tragicomic sketch create
veritable micro-stories twisting every narrative genre. The Show is a
distorted version of burlesque, of the medicine shows of black America and
vaudeville. The stage is set inside an old, shabby, tacky and
old-fashioned theatre. Aztrokitifk & Mario are a side-effect of the
economic crisis and their Show a decadent will of redemption. www.mammafotogramma.it
Giovanni Munari, Dalila Rovazzani - Arithmétique - Italy, 2010 - 4:00
Arithmétique is Giovanni
Munari e Dalila Rovazzani’s graduation at CSC-Animation Department in Chieri.
An excellent test on a fragment from Maurice Ravel’s opera L'enfant et les
sortileges, ‘A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts’ with a libretto by
Colette (1925). Dalila Rovazzani e Giovanni Munari used to the full potential
the musical and narrative “coup de scène’ , following the rhythm of this
eccentric opera.
Beatrice Pucci - Imago - Italy, 2008 - 5:50
Imago is a complex fascinating work whose title refers to the last
metamorphic state of butterflies and moths. It describes a ritual marking a
life change, and solicits a sacrifice in order to achieve it. The switch in the
first frame shows (indicates) the polarities the main character will have to
pass through, the cruel beauty of a robotic doll caged in her crinoline. With a
conjuring trick, the mutant creature materializes a fish, and mimics its death
throes. She moves her arms as wings and finally swallows it . Then she starts
dancing, and she becomes covered with white fluff a cocoon dress designed by
deconstructionist professionals. The
final frame gets back to the case with five Death's-head Hawk moths
flapping their wings, only the Acherontia Atropos are now six. (Luiza
Samanda Turrini, http://www.braintwisting.com,)
Alvise
Renzini - Ci sono gli spiriti - Italy, 2009 - 6:20
There are spirits is a free
visual interpretation of a Carl Gustav Jung’s dream. The dream starts off with
a quite common archetype: one's own home, the most familiar place for each of
us, as an unexplored entity. Jung finds himself entering a series of
"secret" rooms: the first room is an zoological laboratory where his father carries out several
experiments. The second is a bedroom where his mother attempts to capture
spirits. The third is a big hotel's Hall, prelude of thousands of other rooms,
where an orchestra is playing. The technique with which the piece is realized
consists in drawings on acetate carried out with either watercolours or tempera
colours, or drawings made with cotton filaments, dust, hair, stamped in
stop-motion in a darkroom on photographic paper in black and white. Some parts
are instead realized with drawings in tempera colours on cardboard paper and
candle soot.The obtained photographs were subsequently scanned and sequenced. (Alvise
Renzini, http://www.opificiociclope.com/).
Saul Saguatti, Audrey Coïaniz - Corpus No Body - Italy, 2010 - 6:00
Corpus No Body is a study on
the human machine, exploring different solutions, skills, attitudes or physical
specificity in human framework. Human body depicted in different typologies,
linked to psychic diversity and genetic complexity, ageing, malformations, each
man machine with its own characteristics, performing in motion and moving in
space, as different rhythms and skills. Human microcosm pinpoint its movement skills in space… Corpus No
Body show that it is possible to
overcome this diversity that influences the way we perceive others, altering
the normal motor abilities linked to common sense. (Basmati,
2010, http://www.basmati.it)
Donato Sansone aka Milkyeyes - Topo glassato al cioccolato - Italy, 2011 - 2:40
Topo glassato al cioccolato it's a
dreamlike, dark and surreal vision in wich the elements swirl around, running
after themselves in an endless scene. Topo glassato al cioccolato is a
project for a film, it was developed
spontaneously during the act, when I was working at it. I had a guess, but it
gets evolved by instinct. Then I had the general vision about how it had to
finish. This way of work allows my mind and my feelings to come out without
restraint, playing with different ideas and letting the unconscious out.
Usually, when I expand a project I do it around a single idea born in a
specific moment, but ideas aren’t firm, the thought evolves and it drags me to
new perspectives, without conceiving them before. The research on sounds by
Enrico Ascoli created a powerful and lysergic audio-morphing from a material to another, and designed a deep,
still and dark atmosphere. (Donato Sansone, 2012).
Alessia Travaglini - Silenziosa-Mente - Italy, 2011 - 5:00
Silenziosa-Mente
was built on the rotoscope technique. The female main character
deals with complex relationships and external communications , symbolically
represented by a row of hanging telephones, a free interpretation of the less
technologic visions of Dalì’s soft watches. Animation highlights the central
events of the story: a quarrel between dog headed and cat headed politicians, a
zombie, the mental obnubilation by a word whirl. An amazing performance by a
young artist mostly devoted to video-clips, displaying her original narrative
verve
segunda-feira, 17 de setembro de 2012
10 MUMIA - Special Screening - Cineclube de Avanca - Portugal
Filmógrafo - Rua Prof. Dr. Egas Moniz, nº 159, 3860-078 Avanca,
Portugal
Program:
Conto
do Vento (Tale of the Wind )– Cláudio Jordão e Nelson Martins – 12’- 2010
Salva had the gift of feeling the life of nature traveling through his
body. He lived in the forest across the river with Abia, his mother, and he was
happy, until the day that his life changed. The men and women of the village
made her watch the burning of her mother that had been accused of Witchcraft.
Years later the fear that the villagers had of her mother is the same that move
them against her.
Awards: Prémio Competição AVANCA e Menção Honrosa |
AVANCA’2010, Portugal; Prémio Revelação
| Festival « XVII Caminhos do Cinema Português » Coimbra, Portugal, 2010;
Prémio Melhor Filme de Animação | PORTO7 International Short Film Festival,
Portugal, 2011; Prémio Animação | Prémio Nacional Multimédia, Lisboa, Portugal,
2011; Premio Melhor Animação | Naoussa International Film Festival, Grecia,
2011; Prémio Melhor Curta de terror Portuguesa | MOTEL X, Lisbon - Portugal,
2011; Ibero-American Best Short film | 5th Festival “Visões Periféricas”,
Brasil, 2011; Prémio Melhor Curta | Bragacine International Film Festival,
Portugal, 2011; 2nd Animated Cartoon Award | 12th TOTI
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Maribor), Slovenia, 2011; 2nd
Prize, Short Film Category | III Festival de Cinema Digital de Odemira,
Portugal, 2011; Animation Prize | Tirana International Film Festival, Albania,
2011; CinEuphoria Top Curtas-Metragens (Cinema Português), CinEuphoria
Top 10 (Cinema Português) e CinEuphoria | Cineuphoria Awards 2012 – Portugal; Second
Best Special Effects/Animation’ | 4th UFO International Digital Film Festival
2012 -India."
A
ria, a agua, o homem... (The estuary, the water, the man… )– Manuel Matos Barbosa – 5’- 2010
The black and white draw the three elements, animating ordinary things
in a poetic sense of the image.
Awards: Prémio melhor documentário | Arouca Film
Festival, Portugal, 2010; Premio Categoria Prata | TourFilm Brasil 2011,
Florianópolis- Brasil; Menção Honrosa | PORTO7 International Short Film
Festival, Portugal, 2011; 2º Prémio de animação | Bridge Fest Cooltura – Bósnia
e Herzegovina, 2011; Diploma Especial do Júri |12th TOTI International
Festival, Slovenia, 2011; 1º Prémio de animação | 7th Athens AnimFest – Grécia,
2012;
O
relogio de Tomas - Cláudio Sá – 8’- 2010
Time does not turn back, and way back then are the moments which we do
not appreciate. With the arrival of a magical clock, Tomás is going to have the
privilege “of managing the time”. Or will it teach him how to live?
Awards: Prémio 1º Lugar | Festival de Cinema Independente
ON’CINE, Portugal, 2010; Prémio Toma Lá Curtas | Toma lá Arte, Caldas da
Rainha, Portugal, 2010; Prémio Menção Honrosa | Brevemente Concurso de
Audiovisual e Publicidade, Portugal, 2011; 1º Prémio | VIDEO FESTIVAL IMPERIA,
Italy, 2012.
Mulher
sombra (Shade
Woman )–
Joana Imaginário - 7‘ 39’’ – 2011
SHADE WOMAN is the story of a woman bewitched by the wind -- "from
now on everything will enchant you (...) and you will be a prisoner of the
permanent movement." By walking far, the woman started to disappear and
only her shade was left of.
Bruxas
(Witches )– Francisco Lança – 9’43’’ –
2011
A young man is fascinated by the stories told by an old sailorman at the wharf of Lisbon and decides to board, secretly, a caravel that was on the way to Africa.
Brincarolas–
Graça Gomes – 3’ – 2011
The story development is given by
the discovery of toys, other game rules, discovery of being with other people
and forming a team that they will allow
them to surpass the existing limitations to be able to continue the game and
the trick. With a duration time of three minutes per episode, that is enough to
tell a simple and objective story, which starts from the game and ends in the
game.
A person's emotional and transversal journey between childhood and maturity,
innocence and conscience, harmony and violence.
domingo, 16 de setembro de 2012
10th MUMIA - Special Screening - Doncvoilá - France
Doncvoilà
productions is a production company and a creative studio, managed by Virginie
Giachino (producer) and Joris Clerté (director).
Since 2005, doncvoilà productions has produced
animated films : shorts films, promotional and educational films and
series, broadcast/film design.
Program :
Les
experts de l’archéologie : le tracéologue - Joris Clerté, Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet
and Marc Chevalier - 01’47 - 2010
"In short entertaining animation movies,
archeology experts will have you understand how scientists conjecture reality
from elements that the inexperienced eye would consider meaningless or
undecipherable. The use-wear analyst…
His speciality is understanding the marks from use on prehistoric tools and
then telling stories about them… authentic stories…
Une
petite histoire du festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy - Joris
Clerté - 1’30’’- 2011
A brief history of the world’s greatest
animation film festival !
A brief
history of starlets and the croisette - Joris Clerté - 1’17’’ - 2010
One minute to find out everything about
starlets, BB, Simone, and all the girls in polka-dot bikinis walking up and
down the Croisette hoping for a dream to come true – and a movie role too.
A tort
ou à raison - Joris Clerté & Philippe Massonnet - 02'04 – 2004
Three people talk around a restaurant table.
Award : Prime à la qualité CNC
2004 / Centre national de la cinématographie 2004 Best Music Video / ‘For its
simplicity and delicacy’ Ottawa International Animation Festival / Canada, Prix
Adobe de l’originalité 2005 Festival des Très Courts, 2005 Music Video Silver Prize KAFI Kalamazoo
International Animation Festival / United States, 2005 Special Distinction of
Commissioned Film Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival / South
Korea, 2005 Best Promotional/Commercial Film / ‘For it’s originality of idea
and realisation’ Bradford Animation Festival / United Kingdom, 2006 Jury award
Illes Balears International Short Film Festival, 2006 Jury Award Neuchâteau
Animation Short Film Festival / Belgium"
Ce que
je suis - Joris Clerté - 04'11 - 2006
The meteorological strolling of a young girl
with dark thoughts.
Awards: "Clipaward / Back
up / Weimar, Germany, Best Music Video Award / Animated Film Festival / Neum,
Bosnia, Music Video Award / International Animation Festival / Kalamazoo,
United States.
C’EST
TOUJOURS LA MÊME HISTOIRE - Joris Clerté & Anne Morin - 05' – 2007
Jean-Luc tells us how going to see a special
film with his father made them both change one towards the other.
UNE
PETITE HISTOIRE DE L’IMAGE ANIMÉE - Joris Clerté - 03'37 – 2007
Discover finally the real story of the
animated image ! From Plato's cavern to Harry Potter passing by King Kong,
magical special effects to digital VFX, we explain EVERYTHING...in 3 minutes.
Awards: Diploma for the Best
Film in Category Up to 5 Minutes, Balkanima / Belgrade, Serbia, Special
Mention, Animacor / Cordoba, Spain, Prix Arte ""128 Meg@
d'Art"" / Villeurbanne, France.
Les
grands chevaux - Joris Clerté - 03' – 2009
A young boy riding an imaginary creature
pursues a bandit on horseback to exact mysterious revenge.
Diversité
culturelle - Olivier Martin - 02’35 – 2011
To protect and promote the diversity of
cultural expressions.
Droit
de suite - Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet - 03’ – 2011
"The art market is doing very nicely at
the moment – and yet the artist’s resale right is under threat! But what
exactly is the artist’s resale right? To illustrate what is at stake we will
see that Mr Art Dealer finds sharing hard and the Artist needs continuous
protection to be able to… create art!
Award : Animated Com Awward /
Stuttgart, Allemagne
ECOFAUBOURGS
- Pierre Emmanuel Lyet - 02’07’’ - 2012
Tom decided to move to an
""Ecofaubourg"". He introduces us to a neighbourhood that offers a completely new kind of
lifestyle! Comfortable and environmentally friendly... and right in the centre
of town!'
Semaine
sans pesticides - Joris Clerté, Joyce Colson &
Olivier Martin - 01'15
– 2009
A winged pesticide spray swoops down on a bug
coveting an apple.
PETIT
BATEAU Du fil au t-shirt - Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet - 02’ 10 – 2012
From cotton thread to t-shirt, the different
stages of a t-shirt Petit Bateau.
QU’EST
CE QU’UN TROU NOIR ? - Marc Chevalier - 04’41 – 2009
For anyone who’s ever wanted to know all there
is to know about black holes without ever daring to ask...
UNE
PETITE HISTORIE DES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES – Joris Clerté – 1’24
sábado, 15 de setembro de 2012
10th MUMIA - SPECIAL SCREENING - CAMERA ETC- BELGIUM
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Animated films by children, teenagers
and adults - Authors production
Animation Studio
Camera-etc is a animation workshop based in Liège. Founded in
1979 under the name Caméra Enfants Admis, the association
contributes to the emergence of cinematographic expression in the
French-speaking community of Belgium
Audiovisual
literacy
Through its
training courses, workshops, school projects, evening lessons, professional
training, Camera-etc invites individuals to be more critical of audiovisual
products. The participants, with the help of professionals, create an animated
film from A to Z, thus improving their understanding of how the media work.
The
productions of Camera-etc invite the viewer to think about current issues,
thereby encouraging people to take on their responsibilities as citizens. The
animated films, the documentaries, the exhibitions, the books and the
educational guides serve as awareness-raising tools for diverse themes:
Intercultural dialogue, Health, Environment, Children’s Rights...
Collective creation and arthouse films
Each person
participates in all the stages of creation, from the script writing to the
filming and the soundtrack, not forgetting the backgrounds and the characters.
Camera-etc favours traditional techniques such as drawing, cut-out paper,
modelling clay, puppets, sand, shadowgraphs... The workshop also produces the
works of young authors.
Around
the world
Camera-etc ensures that its
works are known on the international level: participation in international
festivals, television broadcasts, presentation during conferences... The
workshop initiates cooperation and development projects with southern
countries. Youngsters have created their own animated films during workshops in
Vietnam , Bosnia , Serbia ,
Brazil , Italy , Taiwan ,
Burkina Faso
Camera-etc is a non-profit association that is recognized as a
Production Workshop and a Centre of Expression and Creativity by the
French-speaking community of Belgium. The association also has the support of
the Walloon Region, the Province of Liège , the City of Liège
Camera-etc
Rue de Visé 490 - 4020 Liège-Wandre - Belgium
Tel.: 0032 4 253 59 97 / Fax: 0032 4 252 56 31
PROGRAM
La vie de Poxy / Poxy’s Life - Louise-Marie
Colon & Benjamin Vinck – 6’09”
The mom of
Poxy is so poor that she’s forced to confide the little girl to her aunt. The
new life of the small dog is rough: she doesn’t go any more to the school and
her aunt treats her as a slave …
Awards: Caméras aux Jeunes 2011 (Belgium) - Prix du Meilleur Scénario; Festival
Etang d’Arts 2011 (France)- Coup de Cœur du Public; AniFestRozafa 2011
(Albania)- Special Prize; Kid’s Eye Film Festival 2011 (Hungary) - Jury’s Prize
Two children born in different ethnic groups discover habits and customs of the other one and become friends …
Prêmio/ Award: AniFestRozafa 2011 (Albania)
=> Special Prize
Fatimata -
Benjamin Vinck & Moumouni Jupiter Sodré – 5’17”
The parents
of Fatimata announce great news to their daughter: they are going to settle
down in Canada. Fatimata is sad to leave her best friend …
Awards: Young Filmmaker International Festival 2011 (Brazil) - Special Prize, AniFestRozafa
2011 (Albania) - Special Prize.
Lorita
comes back from a long stay in Occident. In the village, the children find her
different and refuse to play with her …
Award:
AniFestRozafa 2011 (Albania) - Special Prize.An old lady is frightened of losing her husband …
Cleo’s Boogie - collectif Camera-etc – 6’21”
Two old friends, living with their cat in a faded apartment, relive the
percussive and furious atmosphere of the Boogie-woogie of their youth. At that
time, they accompanied a sensual singer of whom there is no more than an image
on an old poster … Unless the black cat is her reincarnation?
Award: Prize « Simona Gesmundo » for Animated Short Film 2011 (Italy) - First Prize
By a sunny afternoon. A musician drops his double-bass to undress and bathe in the river. A little farther, a woman removes her dress and dives into the water. An individual seizes discreetly their clothes. The musician and the swimmer meet, naked and shy. Whereas he searches for foliage, she takes the place of the double bass in the case … The story is freely inspired by the novel Romance with Double-Bass by Anton Chekhov
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