C. Cultura single-channel videos

Single-channel videos. Casa de Cultura

	(En)Terrats - Àlex Lora Cercós In a city... It is no longer possible to find an apartment to rent. Three characters try to find an alternative in which to rest their weary bones. A familiar dystopia, a stressful investigation, an impossible interaction, and also a poetic escape.
	+Amor - Negativo. +Amor is the projection of a passion for audiovisual arts. The expression of a process of personal development and research in the field of live video, which seeks to introduce the viewer into a new cinematographic concept that goes beyond the typical film viewing we are accustomed to.
	A Day In Palestine - Mary Ellen Savis, José-Garcia Lozano, Will Eizlini Scenes from everyday life in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a dream-like feeling reminiscent of home-movies of the 60s. But instead of a day at the beach or in the backyard: a wall, an olive tree, a bulldozer, soldiers harassing grandmothers.
	America Mon Amour - Dale Einarson, Stéphanie Morissette An animation that looks at the history of the American continent, told through a North American native and a South American of mixed descent, and inspired by the French movie “Hiroshima Mon Amour”. As they share stories about their torture and torment and the abuse of authority, we see the effects of colonisation.
	Atlantis - Pieter Geenen This film is a visual exploration of the Three Gorges Reservoir, and the dam that was constructed to control the mighty Yangtze River in China. The project involved the displacement of more than a million people, flooding an area of almost 700 kilometres. "Atlantis" scans the remains of a phantom urban landscape through a nocturnal journey along the river
	Autorretrato vo(yo)eur - Jesús Monteagudo Guerra What’s wrong with watching something we are prohibited from seeing, with the pleasure of being unobserved? And what if what we see is ourselves reflected in that silent gaze? The eye of the camera, which is never neutral, reveals the encounter between two men who are actually one. A violation of one’s privacy in a moment of self-consciousness and the recognition of the self through the alien, the delayed image.
	Babylone - Benjamin Gueguen Hell opens its mouth and swallows the city of Babylon. The last man is standing on the verge of the abyss of the ruins. Facing the mirror, the man looks through time and the spirit. A romantic story is about to end... The end of the world.
	Cómo dibujar animales tristes o... - Pere Ginard & Laura Ginès A project that toys with being a bestiary, but also a ledger, but also a tragic tale. A film made by manipulating super 8 film, CineExin tapes and drawings with no luck and no destination.
	Contra - Vicent Gisbert Soler A reflection on the fragility of contemporary man in his environment. A situation that is generated by the lack of consciousness of man’s relationship to the physical world, to the reality that is percieved by the senses. We forget the space that we occupy and impose ourselves without respecting the consequences this entails on our environment, and ultimately on ourselves.
	Deafland - Mit Borrás A pure videographic expression onto the senses. An invitation to stimulation and reflection. The effort to generate an authentic, heartrrending experience within the viewer. A disturbing tryptich that invites stimulation. No additives.
	Désanimée - Anne Leclerq A woman no long young seats in her dirty and dusty flat. She does nothing, she only thinks.
	El errante - David Yáñez World War III only lasted two hours. Our entire life was reduced to nothing in just two hours. Kilometres and kilometres of nothing.
	El fin de las tinieblas - Raúl Bajo Ibáñez All cities have something in common: their decline and demise. Television and the Internet are accelerating this process by a continuous hypertrophy of real time and the immediacy of the images and their intangible ubiquity is leading a global dislocalisation of space. This virtuality of public space is infinitely imprisoning individuals and isolating them from themselves and others.
	El tránsito - Elías León Siminiani The official (and classified) version of peak hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.
	Frieze Frame - Gustav Sparr A figure is feeding dense graphic material into a machine that investigates the elements that the images are made of. Inspired by a scene from "Bladerunner”, and part of a larger corpus of intertwined artworks, the animation is a compact semantic artifact that circles around themes of cloning, information and communication.
	Le Symptôme: fable dégradée en plusieurs couches - Vuk Stojanovic Florence and Michel are the only ones who know that a huge wave is about to inundate them and sweep away everything in its path. Faced with this fate they have to fight against the symptoms which have inevitably just started to dictate their behaviour and modify their perception of reality.
	Light – Years - Kotaro Tanaka Cinema has represented numerous pasts, presents and even unknown futures. The concept of this work is a kind of unknown future. What are they listening to, talking about and gazing at? Or perhaps they are doing something that can't be explained through language, somewhere several light years away from here.
	Llom - Llogari Antúnez Ruano A documentary on the machinery used in the manufacture of pork products.
	Memoria - Maria Castellanos Vicente The obsession with a hypothetical loss of memory is the narrative thread that runs through this video. Memory loss strips us of our memories and our life experiences, that is, our identity.
	Arturo Fuentes - Planar A shot shows reality does not contain it. Our visual perception extracts all the information based on a flat projection that forms on our retina. Reality is shown by a series of stills that trigger perceptions, but we cannot apprehend, or posses, anything. We are viewers of flat screens and imaginaries with two dimensional material.
	Sleeping over plastic - Alaitz Arenzana & Maria Ibarretxe When it is fully blown up, the person closes the valve that stops the flow to the object, takes the pump away and lays down.
	Somnia_3 - Étienne de Massy Space-time drift: a young woman travels through different space regions and projects herself elsewhere. Dreamlike reaches such as nebulae, stars and unknown constellations make up this imaginary cosmography. Third work of the SOMNIA series, this film may be viewed as a weather probe into imagination.
	Sueña el Río - Beatriz Sánchez A flamenco dancer floats peacefully in the water. We don’t know if her body is inert or, perhaps, she is dreaming and dancing with the inertia of the current. A surrealist and evocative work that transmits and aura of mystery in the environment.
	The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day - Angelica Mesiti Evolving out of multiple visits to Broken Hill in outback Australia, “The Line of Lode and Death of Charlie Day” interlaces scenarios triggered in response to different aspects of the town's history and folklore. Reflecting on the ways in which different layers of knowledge about a place intersect and overlap, the artist uses a structure akin to a ballad to play with the conventions of cinema and folklore.
	The SunFisher - Cecil Hirvi/George Aguilar A virtual world weary avatar seeks for a reason to live.
	Vortice Remixer - Marcelo Fica The daily rituals of the two characters, an airhostess who lives in a pilot apartment and a man who works on the streets, show the classic contradictions of the contemporary world, society and automation. An experiment that reverses the traditional order of visual narrative: the setting as character and the characters as the background.
	Welcome to Paradise - Manuel Poutte & Florence Vandendorpe From a refugee camp to a small American town, the film depicts the destiny of a Somali couple. A portrait of their writing, exile and integration, that questions the sacrifices they accepted in exchange for a "better life".
	ZEITRISS - Quimu Casalprim i Suárez In the living room, a woman sits down next to a man and says nothing. That is the end, and at the same time it marks the beginning of a transformation in the logic of events. Now the storyline, the characters and the emotions will attain new meanings.

VAD 2009

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