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2017 Carmen Isasi Martínez – Un hogar para las sombras

ESPAÑA
3:34

Sinopsis: Las paredes del hogar son las testigos de las pasiones humanas que las habitaron y que son recordadas hoy por éstas como sombras de los espectros que las encarnaron.

Bio:Nací y crecí en Bilbao. Allí cursé Bellas Artes, obteniendo la licenciatura en la especialidad de pintura. Trabajé algunos años en mi estudio de Bilbao, realizando mis primeras exposiciones individuales y colectivas. En 1990 me trasladé a Madrid para cursar el Máster en Estética y Teoría de las Artes en la UAM y participé en los Talleres de Arte Actual del Círculo de Bellas Artes, con Nancy Spero y Chema Cobo, siendo seleccionada para formar parte de la Exposición Propuesta 92, que se presentó en el Círculo de BBAA de Madrid y en Arte et Amicitiae, de Amsterdam. Desde principios de los noventa he realizado numerosas exposiciones individuales, instalaciones y performances. Mi lenguaje artístico, que trabaja principalmente con el dibujo, el collage, la pintura, el grabado y la fotografía, ha incorporado en los últimos años el del videoarte. Por otro lado, soy miembro fundadora de la asociación cultural Tres en Suma, con sede en Madrid y creada en 2008. Desde ésta gestionamos exposiciones y eventos culturales, editando asimismo una revista de edición limitada que contiene obra original de artistas y textos inéditos de escritoras/es y poetas.

2017 Charles-André Coderre -Granular Film – Beirut

CANADA
6:11

Sinopsis: Reminiscence of a trip in Beirut. The sea. the palm trees, the buildings melt when my eyelids began to close. My memories now have a separate life of their own.

Bio: Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. He completed a Masters on contemporary experimental cinema at Université de Montréal and is a regular contributor to the film magazine 24 images . Dedicated to working with analog techniques, he is a member of the Montreal collective of experimental cinema Double Negative. He also is in the audiovisual project Jerusalem In My Heart (Constellation Records) alongside with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. Charles-André just completed his first feature film, Desert Cry (Déserts), co-directed with Yann-Manuel Hernandez

2017 Colby Richardson – Convolve

CANADA
3:20

Sinopsis:  A frantic and hypnotic journey through the pages of Greg Bright’s Fontana Mazes. Utilizing single frame animation, prisms, warped mirrors, and water to further distort the already convoluted path of the labyrinth. Shot with in-camera edits on Super 8, the score is generated by a video feed of the film which is directly translated into an audio signal.

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Bio: Colby Richardson is a visual artist, focusing within the realms of analog video and graphic design. His designs are a collaboration with the uncredited commercial artists of vintage print media. Collaging, layering, and abstracting pieces of graphics, patterns, textures, shapes, iconography and typefaces from late twentieth century books and magazines; Colby transforms these pieces into strange and vivid imagery heavily influenced by the aesthetics of science fiction and the occult.

2017 Cristobal Catalan – No Man’s Land

UK
3:34

Sinopsis:  Made entirely of still images and hand scribed digital animation, ‘No Man’s Land’ is a surreal journey into the dynamics of deterritorialisation, dispossession and transmigration as a form of pilgrimage. Using the geography of the male and female body, I wanted to explore the interpolation of voyeurism, symbolism and monastic imagery. A ghostly figure walks endless landscapes. I am interested in exploring imaginings that evoke queries about spatiality, privacy/exposure, ownership and the freedom of human movement…endless until ’home’ is defined.

Bio: Cristobal’s visual works have been screened and exhibited in academic, art and commercial contexts, including MOMA Moscow, BBC UK, MTV, Canal+ and requested at Sky Arts Channel. Other works have also been officially selected for numerous international film festivals, including London Soho Rushes, the International Film Festival of Cinematic Art and the London Spanish Film Festival.

2017 Darlene Joanna Young – In the Dark

PHILIPPINES
06:10

Sinopsis: In the Dark is a look at the unexplored side of the Sleep Paralysis phenomenon. It features the journey of one’s dream, entering deep into the sleep paralysis state, and further encounters the nightmare that comes with the strange condition, called “Spiritual Attack”. A woman wakes up in a false awakening, and discovers that she’s under sleep paralysis. Physically, her body is sleeping, but mentally her mind is awake, and spiritually, her soul is defenselessly lingering in the dark. She then encounters different spirits/entities: there are some trying to reach out, some attempting to scare, some playing tricks, and there’s someone who intends to harm her.

Bio: Darlene Joanna Young graduated from De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Digital Filmmaking as a School of Design and Arts scholar. Currently, she works in the independent film industry in the Philippines as a freelance filmmaker.