Anna O and The Case of Displaced Memory

Victor Arroyo / Canada

Marie-Josèphe Angélique was a black slave in Montreal, Canada, 1734, who was hanged and reduced to ashes. She was found guilty of setting fire to and destroying what is now known as Old Montreal. This documentary uses found footage and subtitles as modes of investigation of the politics of postcolonial memory.

Paramedics Collective

John Chaves, Samuel Rojas, Kiran Fernandes & Andrés Moreno / Colombia - Spain - Saudi Arabia

The Paramédicos collective, founded in Bogotá, Colombia; is the result of teamwork and the combination of various disciplines such as engineering, visual arts, design, advertising and audiovisual production. The proposal is inspired by personal experience in the use of cannabis and by research on a method of medicinal consumption. Starting in 2010, an alliance was created between Samuel Rojas, mechanical engineer and Johnny C, plastic artist; to build machines that work as extractors of THC (Active component of marijuana) without producing combustion. The prototypes made by hand with recycled materials arouse the interest of Andrés Moreno, artist and designer; and Kiran Fernández, audiovisual producer. Those who join the group and contribute from their areas of knowledge broaden the meaning of the work, going from the construction of artifacts to the configuration of a video installation with the purpose of disseminating the pieces.

engi

Julian Scordato / Italy

Engi is an audiovisual work based on a sonification of stellar data related to the northern polar constellations. The sound parameters are graphically represented and defined by certain observational data, as well as the physical characteristics of the stars: the duration of the sound is proportional to the distance from Earth, the amplitude is calculated considering the apparent magnitude, while the main frequency changes according to the spectral class. A polytemporal sequencer is used to activate the stars with a combinatorial system that produces virtually perpetual change. Starting from these simple elements for sound generation, this work assumes a certain complexity through the interaction between electronic sounds in a feedback network capable of processing them both diachronically and synchronously, thanks to a series of interconnected processing units. Therefore, the sound elements no longer exist only as intrinsic and independent entities; instead, they are strongly characterized by global processes that transform them as part of the network.

Creation and Organization of Events 1.3

Ricardo Hernandez Forero / Colombia

"Creation and organization of events" consists of a video sequence that presents an absurd assumption between an animation sequence (which intermingles everyday situations of the lives of ordinary people, with images of advertisements made in the city they inhabit) and a narration that does not correspond, the audio (partly supported by specific sounds resulting from the recordings) is accompanied by an alleged voiceover narration, the result of fragments extracted from news broadcast on Mexican television, which, when distorted, pretend to be narrating the story that is being told. through subtitles. The video raises the superimposition of different information channels such as audio, image, flyers that appear throughout the sequence, as well as the life of the character. This overlapping of information channels is proposed with the intention of offering different alternatives in the reading of the life developed by a character affected by the advertising and information to which he is subjected daily, leading him to an absurd development of his daily life.

The Archetype Project

Marko Schiefelbein / Germany

The Archetype Project reimagines a situation from a “Marlboro Maybe” billboard that was part of a campaign that specifically targets young people from the so-called Generation Y and Z. It portrays a protagonist who is unable to enter the stage due to stage fright . The second character, whose role is loosely based on the Marlboro Cowboy, uses the spotlight to take into account the shortcomings of the “Maybe Generation” and their civility. In his continuous, analytical monologue, he manages to express himself by partially using phrases from Marlboro advertisements, as well as phrases from psychoanalytic portraits of the Marlboro Cowboy that were transferred into spoken text. The paper examines how the advertising industry generates consumer desires through the continuous reproduction of inferiority complexes. It shows how these complexes that are programmed in advertisements from the 60s/70s are imprinted on the (self) perception of the following generations (here Generation Y).

Stella 50.4N1.5E

Elsa Bres / France

A sea of dunes. A depopulated spa. Hands that collect and classify a large number of documents. The landscape is an architecture.

The Builder of Choice

Ricardo Hernandez Forero / Colombia

El constructor de elección, presents through a video, an analysis of the Colombian television product, specifically news, as visual-sound communication, focusing on the issue of government elections in different cities of Colombia. In the present video sequence, the image is posed on the border between figuration and abstraction. The video fragments that make up this sequence are part of a news archive broadcast by Colombian television channels. The video proposes a variation and reuse of news material with the intention of offering an alternative in a new way of reading. The intention of the piece The builder of choice starts from the action of approaching something until you see what it is. The piece questions certain limits of the news discourse through the suppression of common sound, and fictionalizing the news scene through the language of silent cinema, which at the time operated in this way due to purely technical impediments, not precisely by choice.

In Between Takes

Alexei Dmitriev / Russia

Ever since I was a little girl my dream was to star in an experimental film.