Loreta Gasparyan
La Prima Sala
OPENING SEQUENCE
La Prima Sala (2025) is the official opening sequence for the 11th edition of Le Giornate della Luce. Inspired by the origins of moving images, it traces cinema back to the flickering light and shadows of prehistoric caves.The sequence was traditionally animated frame by frame on paper using charcoal.Original soundtrack by Luca Raggi.
ECLISSI
OPENING SEQUENCE
Eclissi (2025) is an opening sequence made for VIDEOBOX, a screendance festival organised by Hangartfest. Inspired by the phenomenon of an eclipse, it combines live-action footage with hand-drawn animation.Choreography by Nicole Mucerscaia.
Original soundtrack by Ruben Gagliardini.
FUOCHI
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Fuochi (2023) is a documentary by Ruben Gagliardini exploring the lost relationship between humans and fire.Loreta Gasparyan worked on the animated sequences, handling the 2D animation and co-animating the stop-motion sections with Valentina Fedelfio. Puppets by Valentina Fedelfio and sets by Valentina Dagrada.
CAMBIO CORRENTE
SHORT FILM
Cambio Corrente (2023) is an animated short film combining stop motion and 2D animation, developed as a graduation project at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan.Written, directed, and animated by Loreta Gasparyan, Valentina Fedelfio, Giulia Colombo, and Ginevra Tarascio.Cinematography by Matteo Maiore, Andrea Camillo Fanelli, and Luca Righi. Original music by Francesco Fabrizio. Sound post-production by Andrea Soldini and Stefano Mucaria.Produced by Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti.
PASSI SCALZI
Some pages from Passi Scalzi (2025), a handmade and hand-stitched illustrated book combining analogue photographs with drawings on tracing paper. The overlapping pages create a dialogue between the landscape and memory.The book was exhibited as part of I Monti delle Cesane: ombre, luci, suoni e odori del bosco in Urbino.
LORETA GASPARYAN
Yerevan, 2001
After graduating in Animation from Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan with her short film Cambio Corrente (2023), she completed her studies in the Advanced Programme in Animation and Comics at the Scuola del Libro in Urbino.She has collaborated on a range of projects, from the live performance Cenacolo Live! (2022) and the fashion film VOODOOKNIT (2023) to the documentary Fuochi (2023), awarded at the Visioni dal Mondo festival.In 2025, she illustrated Passi Scalzi, a handmade book combining analogue photographs and drawings on tracing paper. She also made La Prima Sala, the official title sequence for Le Giornate della Luce film festival, and Eclissi, a title sequence for the screendance festival VIDEOBOX.Between 2024 and 2026, her illustrations were exhibited at the Pesaro Film Festival and in Urbino, Lecce, and Fabriano.