SEPTEMBER 1st & 2nd 2007 La Casa Encendida [Obra Social Caja Madrid]
Ronda Valencia, 2
28012 Madrid · Spain http://www.lacasaencendida.es
:: A U D I O V I S U A L
OFFICIAL COMPETITION SECTION
We have received 94 works from over 20 countries. The following are the selected 52 films that have competed for jury and audience awards during our first edition.
An intense voyage through over 80 years of cinema history, including first incursions in abstract animation, pioneer experimentations with computer generated images in the 60’s and contemporary pieces created using the ultimate software and technology.
SOLU · Supercinexcene Mia Makela & Raúl Santos
Saturday September 1st
22:00 hs.
FOTON Antonin de Bemels y Hans de Man a.k.a ANTZ
Saturday, September 1st
23:00 hs.
JOSÉ ANTONIO MILLÁN
[Madrid·España 1954]
Linguist interested in signs (about which he published ¡No! and ¡Contra!, Gustavo Gili) and in etymology (El candidato melancólico. De dónde vienen las palabras, cómo viajan, por qué cambian, y qué historias cuentan, RBA). Regarding punctuation he wrote Perdón imposible. Guía para una puntuación más rica y consciente (RBA) and an introduction for children: Me como esa coma. ¡Glups! Parece que la puntuación es importante... (Serres) His website verses about this and many other things: http://jamillan.com
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[La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2 septiembre 2007]
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:: C O N F E R E N C E S
Either line or dot Agustín García Calvo
His conference confronts the definition of a straight line by two dots with the creation of a dot by two straight lines, and fathom thereof the problems in the relations between ideas and reality.
The graphic representation of language in the Western World José Antonio Millán
The passionate tale of the various trials at achieving the perfect notation of human breath.
:: W O R K S H O P S
"Many meters of film" Laboratorium
It proposes the realization of various collective micro·films emulating the technique "direct·on·film animation" that was popularised in the mid·fifties by artists like Norman Mclaren, Len Lye or Stan Brakhage.
MIA MAKELA a.k.a SOLU
This renown media + live cinema artist, teacher, investigator and cultural activist from Finland, began her career in 2001 performing visuals as part of the audiovisual improvisational band DADATA. After its dissolution she continued as SOLU, collaborating with many experimental musicians such as Heidi Mortenson and Dj Rupture. Since then she has performed in several festivals around the globe, including Zagreb Biennale of Music, Cimatics-festival [Brussels], the Museum of Contemporary Art [Helsinki, 2003], SONIC ACTS [Amsterdam], SONAR festival [Barcelona], AVIT [Birmingham], MAPPING [Geneve], TRANSIT_MX [Mexico City] and Live Cinema Nights [San José].
In 2004 she launched dorkbot.org in Barcelona presenting “People who do strange things with electricity”. Her latest occupation is PUBLIC.BCN, which concentrates all her audiovisual activities under the same label [workshops, events, AVcommunity, site-specific projects, ideas....]
The style of her experimental music videos, widely exhibited in festivals around the world, ranges from minimal abstractions and strongly processed material to multi-layered ambient landscapes. She processes her visual material using MAX/MSP/JITTER and other programmes like Isadora. www.solu.org
Excerpt of the session
SOLU·SUPERCINEXCENE
[La Casa Encendida,
Madrid
September 1st, 2007]
RAÚL SANTOS a.k.a SUPERCINEXCENE
This gifted producer and composer began his career as a DJ at the mythical Maravillas in Madrid. After playing drums for Los Planetas in 95-96 and keyboards for Mercromina, he launches his solo projects as Supercinexcene, publishing several singles for the record company Yo Gano, Tu Pierdes featuring artists like Najwa and Mastreta, among many others.
Artistic producer of bands such as 995, Sapiens, Doble H, Malinche, Rekord Your Fucking Name and Najwa [he’s produced her last three albums] Raúl Santos has also collaborated in 2006-7 with The Cabriolets [Diego Postigo, Bimba Bosé and David Unison].
At present he’s working on his second solo album featuring amazing collaborations and has recently been awarded the Premio de la Música to the best electronic music song with Najwa Nimri. www.myspace.com/rsantos
Excerpt of the session SOLU·SUPERCINEXCENE
[La Casa Encendida, Madrid
September 1st, 2007]
AGUSTÍN GARCÍA CALVO
[Zamora·Spain 1926]
He is an emeritus cathedratic in Classical Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Thinker, linguist, writer, translator, poet... Awarded with the Premio Nacional de Ensayo 1990, Premio Nacional de Literatura Dramática 2003 and Premio Nacional de Traducción 2006.
Author of numerous works of diverse genres. (His complete works have been published by Editorial Lucina, Zamora). It’s worth to mention his endeavour to continue practising the Socratic method by talking directly with his audience in the many issues of his “Tertulia Política” at the Ateneo de Madrid, every Wednesday at eight thirty p.m.
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[La Casa Encendida, Madrid
September 1st, 2007]
ANTONIN DE BEMELS y HANS DE MAN a.k.a FOTON
Brussels-based leftfield collective experimenting with electronic music, performances, installations, new media and off-limits
partying. Through a physical approach to phenomena like sound and light Foton creates parallel worlds where people in the audience become submerged participants rather than passive subjects.
For Punto y Raya,Foton artists Hans De Man a.k.a Antz (dj) and Antonin De Bemels (vj) will create an intense audiovisual experience where music and images are not conceived for the ears and eyes only, but for the whole
body.
Antonin De Bemels is a video and audio artist. Interested in experimental electronic music as well as contemporary dance and video art, his main subjects are movement, the human body, and the dynamic relationship between sounds and images. He has made a dozen of short videofilms - quite a few of them being awarded - and creates soundtracks and visuals for dance and theatre pieces. His vj-performances are like a visual diary, making a connection between his work as a video artist and his everyday life: on one side carefully chosen and processed images from dancers and other "performing bodies", on the other side spontaneously taken images from his surroundings and from his own defective body. From unity to multiplicity, from light corpuscles to body parts, from abstraction to
figuration, from the inner self to the outside world, and back.
Hans De Man a.k.a Antz wears many masks: Foton founder, concert & party promotor, multimedia curator, installation artist and dj. The recurring themes in his activities are a taste for pushing borders and the transmission of positive energy. In his sound installations an implicit interactivity is incorporated, forcing the audience to become one with the installation and interact from within, rather than to start an externally triggered dialogue. As dj Antz he focuses on intense and physical sounds and rhythms, turning an ordinary dj-set into a sonic performance. The sounds he chooses go from minimal to maximal, from horizontal to vertical, from abstract ambient to brutal 'core'-madness.
Excerpt from FOTON's session
[La Casa Encendida, Madrid,
September 1st, 2007]
TRAILER COMPETITION OFFICIAL
TRAILER RETROSPECTIVE
"MANY METERS OF FILM" WORKSHOP
Addressed mainly to families, this open workshop was held within the context of our festival at La Casa Encendida [Madrid] on the 1rst and 2nd of September 2007.
It proposed the realisation of various collective micro·films emulating the technique "direct·on·film animation" that was popularised in the mid·fifties by artists like Norman Mclaren, Len Lye or Stan Brakhage.
This technique requires 16 or 35mm film·strips which, once manipulated, can be edited and screened in situ. Due to the high costs of 35mm film and its projection technicalities, we used instead S·8mm film and paper·strips.
The workshop was focused on moving, expanding and transforming dot·lines and their expressive possibilities, and was held during two consecutive days in four·hour sessions.
