Alexandre Petrov is visiting Animacor´07, being held in the Andalusian city of Cordoba from November 5-10, 2007, to receive the honour this festival is giving him. Petrov’s films mix the most up-to-date techniques with a most romantic artistic tradition, making films which could be considered genuine works of art in motion. The tribute to Petrov is one of the most prominent parallel sections at Animacor ´07, along with the showing of films which have won the Cartoon d’Or, Europe’s most prestigious award in the animation genre. Furthermore, the Seccion Competitiva [competitive section] includes 36 titles from numerous countries and a Jurado Internacional [international jury] made up of prestigious professionals. Alexandre Petrov’s style is what makes him unique, above and beyond the stories he tells. This style has on occasion been classified as “Romantic Realism” for its imaginative way of showing landscapes, as well as human and animal characters. In many cases he uses his own fingers as a technique instead of traditional paint brushes and does his designs with oil paint on glass. Petrov’s best known work, an adaptation of the Hemingway classic “The Old Man and the Sea”, is the story of a friendship between a child and a suffering old fisherman who one fine day decides to go to sea to hunt the big fish that will restore his confidence. This mammoth work, composed of individual still shots taken of the approximately 29,000 oils Petrov painted over the course of ten years, earned him the Academy’s Oscar award. In the retrospective dedicated to Petrov, Animacor´07 is showing the following titles: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992), based on a story by Dostoevsky; The Mermaid (1997), Cow (1989), the Oscar-winning The Old Man and the Sea (1999), and the most recent, My Love (2006).

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