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.”
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Conceptually, the work is based on recognizing the importance of biodiversity for planet Earth, which should be considered a mandatory action for humans.
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.
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.
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).
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Plants are sensitive to the environment around them, perceiving various factors and environmental changes that escape the detection of our natural senses.
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.
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.
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.
"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.