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The sixth Sun // 360º Screen

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360º Expanded Cinema Performance A film-composition for planetariums and/or 360º Full Dome screen.   “THE SIXTH SUN is an immersive film experience made live which explores man’s cosmovision, nature and need to make sense of the world to understand how it was created and thereby control it… and destroy it,”

The eyes empty and the pupils burning of rage and desire

      “…the idea is to reduce to the minimum the elements that form the cinematograph device. To work with less elements but having a deep control over it. The limitation of using only 2 meters of processed film stock that becomes totally black is highly stimulating. I’m forced myself to control each frame Read More

 

Without image. Without sound.

Without description.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“…the idea is to reduce to the minimum the elements that form the cinematograph device. To work with less elements but having a deep control over it. The limitation of using only 2 meters of processed film stock that becomes totally black is highly stimulating. I’m forced myself to control each frame with all –only- the elements of the projection ,light, shutterand focus…”

                                     Interview with myself

“…then the passionate emulsion turns hot and the excitement is at fever pitch”

                Conversation with the projector

 

 

 

 

 

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Writings about the piece:

Vie et i mort dune image par Ouennassa Khiari

 

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/rotterdam-2019-cinema-without-a-camera Daniel Kasman on Mubi

 

Ela Bittencourt on Frieze Magazine

https://frieze.com/article/magic-lanterns-afrofuturism-48th-international-film-festival- rotterdam?fbclid=IwAR1L_MkjqBZyxgGvfzZqhAWvrF7EGEBSqRX_CkLAW-S5xGxA8k9B_PuykwM

 

Dan Sullivan on Filmmcoment

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/rotterdam-2019-dispatch/?fbclid=IwAR36g-gnXpp-4_zzKNkPcSab7bC6LS8KdjUfeCwAc63cdPx1yfKKQWA1H_k

25 CINES/seg

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35mm-Dcp // 1.1:85 // 39 min // Color // Dolby 5.1 // 2017     Durante el rodaje de un documental sobre cines abandonados , un conflicto de intereses entre el director y la productora hacen que la película no se ruede. Esto no impedirá que el cine se demolido… Tampoco que se haga un Read More

Even silence is cause of storm

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  Even Silence is cause of storm is a film performance by Luis Macías & Adriana Vila Guevara. A display of analog projection devices with 35mm slides, 16mm film (made with hand processing, photochemical experiments, and optical printing frame by frame) combined with sound created by Alfredo Costa Monteiro, from field recordings and electro-acoustic devices Read More

MATERIA ORGANICA

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  Materia Orgánica es un proyecto de investigación sobre la materia y el tiempo. A través de un estudio sobre la composición fotoquímica del soporte cinematográfico -la película – y la reacción de esta a las cualidades de la luz, la naturaleza y el paso del tiempo.  

Spectral Landscape

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A Landscape. Without color and movement. Only a Landscape.         “At that beautiful moment between reality and dreaming, an incorporeal animal emerges from the darkness and light. Dark, violent and self-assured, it shares its fears of nature’s despair. But don’t be afraid—it’s an animal just like you. Did you see it? Wake Read More

Graphic Film Score

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMERS and INSTRUMENTS OF LIGHT and SOUND       PERFORMER / INTERPRETER FILM SCORE DESIGN FOR 4 PERFORMERS and/or 4 INSTRUMENTS OF LIGHT and/or SOUND IN CASE TO BE PERFORMED BY 4 INTERPRETERS, THE NUMBER OF INSTRUMENTS IS FREE. EACH PERFORMER COULD USE 1,2,3 OR ∞ INSTRUMENTS EACH PERFORMER WILL READ AND Read More

THE KISS

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 35mm //  1.1:33 // B/W // 9:00 min / Dolby Soundround 5.1   Based on the film THE KISS (T. Edison 1896) in its original 35mm format, this video-film project is based on a structural re-shooting and re-recording of the original film in all the existing formats: analog, electronic and digital,  in an evolutive form. Read More