Virginia Mori

Virginia Mori was born in 1981. She lives and works in Pesaro and Milan. She graduates in Illustration and Animation at the National Art Institute of Urbino, improving her artistic imaginery and starting the realization of traditional animation shortcuts and Illustrations. The techniques she uses the most in her works are black bic pen on paper and pencil on paper. She takes part to various artistical events in Italy and abroad.

In 2008, wins the “SRG SSR idee suisse” prize at Annecy Call for Project (France), managing to realize the award-winning animation short-cut called “The Play of Silence”, and the prize “Abbaye de Fontevraud”, which allows her to work on her next movie, “Haircut”, in the homonymous cultural centre in October 2011. The film is just finished and it has been selected in competition at Annecy International animated festival 2015.

In 2013, started to collaborate with Withstand Production, she realizes the illustrations for “WaltGrace’s submarine test”, John Mayer’s video directed by Virgilio Villoresi.