GTA Contest finalist project by Martina Lorusso, a student at NABA.
The long days at school, the waits that never seem to end, the family dinners that repeat the same: that ordinariness that we often lament, in someone else’s eyes can turn into something extraordinary.
Mia is a cheerful and creative child whose everyday life has been disrupted by events. In her bathtub she finds an imaginative refuge: she loves playing with soap bubbles and can even shape them. But out of the water, an empty and decadent reality awaits her, where even the ceiling has caved in.
That’s when his light touch becomes magic: large bubbles in the shape of Mama and Papa are born from his hands. They do not burst, but come alive. They give her what she wants more than anything else: a family. They allow her to experience an ordinary morning made up of small, precious gestures: waking up in the big bed, fights, breakfast, a backpack created with soap for school.
But, walking through the debris of the destroyed neighborhood, Mia stumbles and her bubbles go back to being just bubbles. In tears, she is rescued by a young woman. It is in that outstretched hand that she decides to place her hope of building a real normalcy.
❝The Bubblemaker ❞ is a 2D animated short film that, with disarming delicacy, reminds us that each of our ordinary days is a gift.
A project that invites us to look with new eyes at what we often take for granted.
The project will be on display at the MAXXI Museum in Rome from December 5 to 8 (free admission).
