Digital (and) Cinema 2024


  • Date
    23 March, 2024

    György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Science


    Márton Orosz, Hungary/Canada

    The history of media art, unfolding in the mid-20th century, is brought to life on the cinema screen through the animated life of the painter, photographer, designer, writer, and polymath György Kepes, a shapeshifter of modernism and the man who coined the phrase "visual culture.”

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Intertwined


    Alejandra García Morales - Colombia

    Between the lines of affection and pain, a generational dispute about what it means to be a woman is traced. A daughter faces the challenge of listening to her mother and grandmother in order to blur the forms that cement her identity.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Luthier


    Carlos Gonzáles Penagos - Colombia

    A lone luthier manages to create a magical connection between nature and the musical instruments he builds.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Tetrahedron (fire element)


    Yamid Botina - Colombia

    When the Galeras Volcano erupts, a dancer wrapped in an aura of fire dances on the edge of the crater, finding in his movements, guided by the powerful voice of the explosion, the truths of life beyond body and matter.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Pilgrimage


    José Alejandro López Pérez - Profesor Universidad Nacional de Colombia - sede de la Paz - Colombia

    It is a poetic video, a mosaic of frames, made up of nine spaces, similar and open. In each frame there are images of two women (the two protagonists) moving through a room. The images, though not exact, have similarities to each other.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    The party's over


    Jean-Michel Rolland - France

    “The Party’s Over” features a video from a night of dancing. The absence of any artistic will in the development of this film makes it a perfect base material for an aesthetic détournement.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Habitographies(three)


    Mónica Bravo (Professor Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali) / Miguel Bohorquez (Professor Universidad del Valle) - Colombia

    Habitographies(three) is the second in a series of four short experimental cartoon films. It explores a city through the daily behavior of its citizens.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    "Gaia: Uni(co)verse"


    Silvia De Gennaro - Italy

    Why look for artificial worlds when we already live in a world full of wonders?

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    When the plain meets the piedmont


    Jonas Radziunas - Colombia

    On the edge of the eastern mountain range of Colombia, where relief and plain meet, a group of young people spend their days contemplating the organic existence of the planet. Meanwhile, a man flees, his humanity fading away. The fluidity of the water brings their bodies together and runs through them.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Lineage


    Ana María Ferro - Colombia

    My grandmother Pastora Tovar carries the secret of a dead daughter, her memory buried in years of oblivion. Facing those silences is an encounter with pain. To flee, to hide, to say nothing in the midst of a war, makes her a survivor.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Dark gold


    Edna Sierra and Wilson Arango - Colombia

    Chasing gold, chasing a portrait, chasing communication, chasing a portrait of an isolated region dedicated to gold mining.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Tres orillas (Three Shores)


    Damien Cattinari - France

    Three Shores is the portrait of an imaginary river. Crossing it, from east to west, or turning south, from red to green, from weeds to the city, to its industrial zone: the film attempts to map the functioning and organization of our society along the time of flowing water.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    The 70th Week


    João Pedro Oliveira - United States

    The Book of Daniel is probably one of the most mysterious books of the Bible. The description of events and prophecies include murders, betrayals, orgies and tortures. But it also has several very interesting and enigmatic prophecies that can be interpreted in many ways to be related to current times.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Images and things


    Ignacio Masllorens - Argentina

    The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most important sacred image of the most visited Catholic shrine in the world. Lisa Gherardini's portrait, better known as La Gioconda, is the most famous painting on the planet, exhibited in the most visited art museum in the world.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Newly Built Dream


    Chanmin Kim - Germany

    For him, dreams are somewhere in between: sleep and wakefulness, dream and reality, virtual and real. Or perhaps they are flight, light, time, scenery and role-playing.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Bushwalking


    Amalia Foka - Greece

    Bushwalking is a video showcasing the unique landscape of the Gardens of Stone National Park in New South Wales, Australia. The video was generated using a StyleGAN2 model trained on photos taken by Yuri Bolotin, an explorer, bushwalker, and environmentalist.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Between the volcano and the slope


    Natalia Castañeda Arbeláez - Colombia-Spain

    The film is an immersion in the landscape, a conversation with the mountain where the perspective is inverted to experience the vertigo of the summit, roll down the slope and escape into details of a territory sensitive to change.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Aquiferous dream


    Yilena Lucith García Guerra y José Alejandro López Pérez - Profesor Universidad Nacional de Colombia - sede de la Paz - Colombia

    In this work, a dreamlike network linked by water is created. In the video there are three different spaces linked by water portals. The same woman is found in each space in a different way: in one space she is a Palenquera (Afro-descendant), in another, a gypsy, and in the third, a Wayuú indigenous woman.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Enlighten-me or eliminate-me


    Raquel Páez Guzmán - Colombia-Spain

    Light, you who know everything, you unite us. "enlighten-me or eliminate-me" is an encounter and misencounter with the light, from the femininity there is a search and game between the interior and exterior with her as a guide. The paths are revealed, cross and become between monologues and dialogues that flow in a ritual-oracle.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Oscillating; the topsoil


    Catalina González - Chile

    The memory of the desert accumulates in an unequal territory, like the remains of geoglyphs traced on the slopes of the hills, the ancestral caravans that crossed the desert in other times, human and non-human routes of exchange between the coast and the Andean world.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Fabulating with the wind


    Sebastián Marín Castaño - Colombia

    This audiovisual piece is part of the archival record of the performance "Fabulando con el viento" (Fabulating with the wind). It is a discussion about a special space in the city of Armenia: La Florida Bridge, where suicide attempts and cases are recurrent.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Water bodies


    Roberto Niño Betancourt - Colombia-Argentina

    A non-anthropocentric exploration of the multiple scales of life in the river ecosystem of Tigre in Argentina, where the Paraná and La Plata rivers meet.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Colombia war


    Yuliana Restrepo, Alejandra Uribe, Sara Álvarez - Colombia

    "Colombia War" is a machinima that takes the viewer into the Colombian armed conflict through the retro aesthetics of NES video games. Created from images captured from video games in action, the work weaves an independent narrative, detached from the original plots of the games.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Occupation


    Elena Knox - Japan-Australia

    Can a being be reduced to its functional identity? Forced to fill out a border transit form to enter a given country, a female-like humanoid robot wonders what she will do. What are her ambitions, possibilities, probabilities, dreams?

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Android dream


    Isabel Pérez del Pulgar - France

    There are problematic contemporary debates about the meaning of free will. The ability to make decisions and carry them out with a certain degree of control. The real existence of this control to decide with autonomy and individuality is questioned, since this capacity depends on learning and socialization.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Hole


    Laura Cabrera - Sira Cabrera - Spain

    It tries to express, in an allegory, the desire to change to a new era to dilute the boundaries between the human and its natural environment, thus destroying the anthropocentric hierarchy before Nature. Seeking, along with Artificial Intelligence, a Plant Intelligence and an Animal Intelligence.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Alterations


    Laura Cabrera - Sira Cabrera - Spain

    Life in the city makes us insensitive, absurd and alienated from Nature. We are hyper-exploiting humans, all living beings and natural resources, to the point of producing a rupture that leads to our own extinction.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    AQUA PARK


    IIOANA and Naoto Hieda - Romania - Japan - Estonia

    As a collaboration with Pițipunk singer and artist IIOANA, an alternative demo music video is created by Naoto Hieda using Hydra, a live code-able video synth and coding environment that runs directly in the browser.

  • Date
    26 April, 2024

    Atlas


    Guadalupe Gaona and Ignacio Masllorens - Argentina

    In 1899, the German neurobiologist Christofredo Jakob arrived in our country to conduct his research at the Hospital de las Alienadas. More than a century later, in a semi-abandoned ward of the (now) Moyano Hospital, the vestiges of that experience appear in the form of photographs of the inmates who lived in the hospital.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Big Bang


    Juan Felipe Acevedo Vergara - Colombia

    Creation, the moment in which a doubt arises, leads nature, thought, to seek new ways of growth, paths of understanding and comprehension. Moment in which particles jump levels and collide creating new compounds, new ideas.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Audioreactive Chiroptera


    Danny Zurc & Santiago Franco - Colombia

    Conceptually, the work is based on recognizing the importance of biodiversity for planet Earth, which should be considered a mandatory action for humans.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    CLOSE CIRCUIT


    TRIPOT (Marius Packbier & Aïlien Reyns) - Belgium

    Close Circuit aims to explore the cyclical nature of the 'Oddly Satisfying' and ASMR sensory genres in relation to contemporary internet audiences searching for embodied experiences of pleasure and comfort.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Coalescence


    João Pedro Oliveira - United States

    Coalescence is the process of joining or merging elements to form a mass or whole.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Comfortable and Alive


    Elena Knox - Japan-Australia

    Comfortable and Alive is a hypnotic induction ritual delivered by an android robot. The robot guides the viewer to imaginatively experience bodily phenomena that are currently beyond the scope of robotic experience.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Glacier body


    Natalia Castañeda Arbelaez - Colombia-Spain

    Glacier body is an audiovisual essay that presents different approaches to three mountain glaciers: the Conejeras (Colombia), Aneto (Spain) and the Mer de Glace (France).

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    From EM


    Carolina Carrizo - Argentina

    (2021) explores the relationship and forms of articulation between the body and technology. It is based on an exploration carried out together with the Uruguayan artist Juanita Fernández, which consisted in the sound and visual recording of different movements inherent to the execution of percussion instruments.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Gear


    Isabel Perez del Pulgar - France

    The machine is a system of systems. And the system is an ordered module of elements. All these form a body, a machinery that works to the extent that there is integration and coordination between all the ordered systems that make it up.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Erosion and Stoicism


    Jaime Cid Lara - Chile

    From the impressive mountain heights of the Andes, a mysterious encounter takes place. A moment of contemplation and discovery, facing the vastness of the landscape and the unknown.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Spores, binding artistic drifts


    Andrea Jert Bustos and Katya Noriega Arancibia - Chile

    Decompositions, ferments, assemblages, opacities, translocations, digestions and plastic materials. Images that are amassed together with questions and reflections on artistic practices, which we call Fungal methodologies.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Fence Dance


    Jean-Michel Rolland - France

    "Fence Dance" recaps the fencing encounter between Cannone and Siklosi at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Incidence


    Juan Felipe Vanegas Salazar - Colombia

    This work seeks to transmit different states and situations that we experience through sounds and images that behave organically through a rhythmic montage that tries to take the audience through a sensory journey, trying to captivate and submerge other senses, which are outside the audiovisual experience, through synesthesia.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Interconections


    Jhan Francisco Quijano - Colombia

    It is an audiovisual piece of research-creation that explores the language between human beings and living beings. The proposal allows the interweaving of natural linguistics through the plasticity of image-texture and natural sound.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Introversions


    Andrea González - Chile

    Project carried out during the period of confinement, composed of audiovisual pieces that work in chapters, as a response to the observation of the global panorama.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Jelvex


    Daniel Rodríguez Gaitán  - Colombia

    Jelvex is an artificial intelligence device controlled by Camila. However, advances in technology and changes in human rights

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    The wool route


    Daniel Felipe Jiménez Rojas - Colombia

    The wool route is a social cartography designed with rural and urban artisans in the municipality of Nobsa, known for its large production of traditional wool fabrics.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Sacred Madness


    Shivay La Multiple - France

    To witness the birth of a meta-being and then follow its wanderings through worlds.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    me_inside.cpp


    Sigifredo Escobar Gómez - Colombia

    Who am I? If I were to penetrate this skin that serves as my mask, what would I find? Numbers and colors? Algorithms and chaos?

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    My own image


    Sara Piñeros Cortés - Colombia

    mein eigenes bild is an attempt to find myself in organic forms other than my body.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Hidden


    Sebastian Wiedemann - Colombia-Perú

    The celestial bodies enunciate something in the midst of their mystery. The moon turns red, the planet weeps, the fall is deeper than we could imagine.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Sobre ser algo (On being something)


    Elina Zazulia - Russia-Colombia

    How would one describe the moment of emergence? How can this be felt? A moment of absolute flexibility and at the same time a pronounced form in its formlessness? A integral state in which both organic and inorganic components are intertwined?

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    out_breaks


    Fran Orallo - Spain-Scotland

    The title "outbreaks" comes from the mental illness "schizophrenic outbreaks". This disease is characterized, among other things, by auditory and visual hallucinations, but there are countless other "little" symptoms, such as confusion and duplicity in understanding one's own identity.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Grooves


    César Cárdenas G - Ecuador

    The Grandmothers of the Hidden Route unearth their past through magical memories and revive stories of traditions that have been lost in time, from ancestral recipes to the cure for bad air.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Symbiotic Future


    María Castellanos & Alberto Valverde - Sweden

    Plants are sensitive to the environment around them, perceiving various factors and environmental changes that escape the detection of our natural senses.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    The Beauty of Becoming


    Sara Piñeros Cortés - Colombia

    The Beauty of Becoming is a documentary essay that follows, inhabits and embodies the way of looking of four artist women , as they become fictional characters throughout the film.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Empty


    Gloria Juliana Londoño Orozco - Colombia

    A man wakes up in the morning and while taking a shower someone enters and searches his house. When he gets out of the bathroom he notices that something is missing, desperate, he starts looking everywhere but can't find it.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Wasting, Sinking, Dazzling, Floating


    Chanmin Kim - Germany

    I am now located in the time and space between dreams and reality. Perhaps I fell asleep or almost fell asleep at some point. But still I blink and stare at something or am stared at by something.

  • Date
    27 April, 2024

    Political animals


    Ferrán Vergara - Chile

    "Political Animals" is a cinematic exploration that navigates between images of the past and present, merging Karl Marx's "Fragment on Machines" with the contemporary reality of an artificial intelligence.

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