punto y raya festival

In this special category we'll welcome all those dots and lines of a schizoid nature. That is, who suffer from an identity crisis and wish to belong to another dimension.

Their rights concession will depend mostly on:

a. our good will

b. our intuition on fractal dimensions

c. the wicked tricks of our visual perception

This edition features a delightful journey along the plane inhabited by forms and movements who push their limits trying to resignify the euclidean categories in a mathematical or poetical way.

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:: schizophrenics and monsters | fractals and their dimensions

Euclid's beautiful intuitions collapsed by the end of the XIX century when a powerful branch in mathematics known as Set Theory first appeared. Stating overwhelming definitions on nothing, infinity, indetermination and practically everything else, it left several respectable mathematicians literally frozen. Its mentor, Georg Cantor, discovered [just to name an example] that there are as many dots in a line as there are on a surface [!].

Some said that Cantor was simply mad. Charles Hermite, for instance, wrote: “To read Cantor's writings is a complete torture...”

But fortunately, by the early XX century scientists arrived to a more satisfactory definition of what a dimension really is. Main contributions from L. E. J. Brouwer, René Lesbesgue and several others, finally established a consistent procedure to compare two spaces and decide whether or not they possessed the same dimension.
These tests are based on the very subtle and abstract concepts of Set Theory, and therefore, are miles away from ordinary intuition. But they opened the way to a completely new vision of space and time.

[+ info on fractals]

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:: A U D I O V I S U A L

This is not a sentimental consultation, we're talking about good old·fashioned existentialist crisis here. What happens when a dot extends itself to technically become a surface? Or when a line is convinced that it can cover a whole surface or, on the contrary, wants to reduce its existence to 0 dimensions? What about light curving against celing corners or refracting through water? Or a wool fibre generating hipnotic representations of 2d lines on the plane?

Be understanding and stand for the cause of these poetical and mathematical freaks that redefine categories such as unity, indivisibility and infinity, among many others.

:: selection criteria

: we select short·films featuring all kinds of dots, lines and corpuscular or linear bodies moving on a plane.

: we still pursue the abscence of 3d reference systems [no perspective!].

: we include now 2d figuration [such as squares, circles and triangles] interacting with dots and lines.

[geometricals...]

[... or not]

: graphism

[lines who want to become planes...]

[... or matter]

: corpuscular and/or linear matter moving along a plane and trying to lose one of their dimensions

: and, of course, those mathematical monsters who inhabit the fractal dimensions

or their cool computer·animated representations