The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

2/15/2026

As father and son heart to hearts go, this is quite a poignant animation that borders on a semi-autobiographic documentary on the lives of the Cannizzaro family. With his father having died in hospital after suffering a stroke, his son still has conversations with his “man on the moon” dad as he tries to unravel the complexities of their lives. Using some quite skilfully coloured active-animating, photographs and some real-time newspaper reportage , we embark on half an hour of mafia-related tales that touch on prohibition, murder, arson and a fair amount of paternal angst as the narrator, his brother and mother struggled through a life dictated by the erratic behaviour of a man whose temperament, and temper, could change as easily as the weather. Of course as the father tells his story, h