La Pantalla Pintada-The Painted Screen
International Experimental Cinema and Videoart Festival
Press Release
Next Wednesday, November 11th , 2009, La Pantalla Pintada – The Painted Screen, Experimental Cinema and Video Art Festival is launched. Curated by Macarena Cordiviola, the event will be exhibited at Centro Cultural Carlos Gardel, Olleros 3640, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
La Pantalla Pintada will take place in two days of 2 hs each: November, Wednesday 11th and 18th.
Twenty three films by twenty one national and international artists belonging to different generations: Narcisa Hirsch (Argentina), Claudio Caldini (Argentina), Lynne Sachs (USA), Ángela López Ruiz (Uruguay) among others. These filmmakers represent a wide range of aesthetics and languages in the history of experimental cinema and video art.
The exhibit has five conceptual sections:
1. La Pantalla Pintada / The Painted Screen. Relation cinema-painting.
A ray of light reveals the inside movement of an abstract picture in Claudio Caldini´s film.
Video as a mean for re thinking social issues such as discrimination in Anna-Lisa Marjak´s work.
Sergio Subero opens a window to the past of a family portrayed in the old days. He has stained the film colorfully, interacting with the damages of the celluloid itself, the blury effect and the well printed images.
Ojos en llamas – Eyes on Fire, by Magdalena Jitrik, is a camaraless handmade work: motion painting?
2- Rituales del cuerpo – Rituals of the Body. Relation soul-body. The matter is a medium for spiritual dimention.
The three videos in this section express the African influence over believes and ceremonies in the Río de La Plata.
Vivid red flesh swallowed and silenced by the soul emptiness in Ángela López Ruiz´s short film.
A man in trance. His body is soil, fire, air, the key that takes him to a different universe in Guillermo Zabaleta´s film.
Fetichism and magic, Anabel Vanoni – women/ goddess/animal- makes and receives offers from this non-believer cult.
3-Geografías de una ficción – Geographies of a Fiction. Relation cinema-literature. Intertexts.
Narcisa Hirsh transmits through images the sensations the Aleph provoques.
Drawing an elephant based on the blackbirds´ memory, text-script by Liliana Heer edited by Rubén Guzmán .
Paulo Pécora honours the film noir aesthetics, specially the chiaroscuro.
4-Naturaleza en órbita –Nature in Orbit. Life/death, the biological becoming of the human being.
The Works of Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini, Daniela Muttis, Eduardo Duwe and Maxi Contenti show with a sort of poetic cruelty the coming of the end, the state of inertia, the impossible wait, the inevitable physic decline along time, the body dissected under the magnifying glass of science.
5.-Memoria entremuros – Memory in-between Walls. Exterior/interior, public/private, remembrance/oblivion.
A hand holding pieces of paper: fragments of the Twin Towers explosion. Lynne Sachs makes the images from September 11th more human.
Verónica Cordeiro travels along abandoned places, revives the obscurity of those objects.
The analogy between the human being and the space, the undefined place are the backbone of Veronica Vitullo and Mariana Sosnowski´s film.
Damián Sergio´s documentary on the last days of Bar Británico gives testimony through a lens that goes beyond the human eye.
Ricardo Greene, through million of photos, updates the memory of somebody absent: circuits of emotion.
Programme I Wednesday, November 11th, 19:00 hs
La Pantalla Pintada – The Painted Screen:Claudio Caldini (Arg), Ventana (1975); Anna Lisa Marjak (Arg), Colores (2001); Sergio Subero (Arg), abcetc (2007); Magdalena Jitrik (Arg), Ojos en llamas (1998-2008)
Rituales del cuerpo – Rituals of the Body: Ángela López Ruiz (Uruguay), Laroié Exú (2001); Anabel Vanoni (Arg/Mex), Encrucijada (42005/2006); Guillermo Zabaleta (Uruguay), Elegbe (2008)
Geografías de una ficción – Geographies of a Fiction: Narcisa Hirsh (Arg), Aleph (2005); Daniela Muttis (Arg), Naturalia (2009); Rubén Guzmán/Liliana Heer (Arg), Dibujar un elefante en base al recuerdo de los mirlos (2002); Jessie Young (uru), Gardens for a divorce (2008); Paulo Pécora (Arg), Oscuro (2004)
Programme II Wednesday, November 18th, 19:00 hs
Naturaleza en órbita – Nature in Orbit: Narcisa Hirsh (Arg), Testamento y vida interior (1976); Claudio Caldini (Arg), A través de las ruinas (1982); Daniela Muttis (Arg), Desecho Humano (2005); Eduardo Duwe (Brasil), Madrigal revelado (2004); Maxi Contenti (uru), Popping eyes (2008)
Memoria entremuros – Memory in-between walls: Lynne Sachs (USA), Tornado (2002); Verónica Cordeiro (Brasil/Uruguay), A skin of a particular architecture (2008); Verónica Vitullo y Mariana Sosnowski (Arg), Entreabierto (2006); Damián Sergio (Arg), Cierre mítico del Británico (2009); Ricardo Greene (Chile), La Ausencia (2008); Anna Lisa Marjak (Arg), La nena llora (2000)
CREDITS
Curatory: Macarena Cordiviola
Organized by: Espacio Cultural Carlos Gardel
Sponsor: MasottaTorres arte contemporáneo
Special Participation: Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo de Montevideo
Press: Luciana Zylberberg
LA PANTALLA PINTADA – The Painted Screen
International Experimental Cinema and Videoart Festival
Wednesday 11 and 18, November 2009,19:00hs
Espacio Cultural Carlos Gardel, Olleros 3640, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Admission free
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