back to Sonic Acts

Ya estoy de vuelta de una semana estupenda en Berlin! 
No he tenido internet en el apartamento así que no he podido actualizar hasta hoy.

Los dos días de la instalación "Eucariotic Punk" en Paradiso, Amsterdam, durante el festival Sonic Acts fueron bastante bien. Un gran aprendizaje. No pude ver nada más del festival ya que estuvimos todas las horas de nuestra instalación acompañando la. 

Como siempre, había gente entusiasmada por la pieza, otros que ni fu ni fa, gente que venía solo ha hablar con los demás en la sala, etc. Un poco de todo!

Sonic Acts openning

Ayer estubimos en el openning del festival Sonic Acts. Ahora iremos para alla para montar nuestra instalación Eucariotic Punk en la sala pequeña de Paradiso!

Oskar's exhibition

In the train on our way to Amsterdam

Oskar Fishinger's exhibition

at Eye, film museum

with Vera.

The Dark Universe Exhibition

Ayer estuve en el oppening de la exposición The Dark Universe la cual forma parte del festival Sonic Acts que se celebrará del 21 al 24 de Febrero de 2013, en Amsterdam. Normalmente el festival es bianual pero este año se han adelantado. He asistido 3 veces y tengo que decir que esta exposición es la que más me ha gustado. Todas las piezas son muy minimalistas, abstractas, todas basadas en el sistema perceptivo, sin concepto, la experiencia lo es todo. 

"Ai Mi!" Screening

Screening Programme for kunstvlaai, Amsterdam

SAT 24.11.2012
19:45 WORM.FILMWERKPLAATS: HAND-MADE 16MM FILM PROGRAM

Initiative: Worm.filmwerkplaats

Location: Doubling Time (Artists' cinema)
Time: 19:45 - 21:00

Screening with a conversation between Worm.filmwerkplaats and Kunstvlaai curator Fleur van Muiswinkel

Esther Urlus, Deep Red (7:00)
Deep Red is an investigation into additive colour mixing on film. Handmade by a d-i-y silkscreen printing technique. Starting point are on black and white hi-con filmed trees shorn of their leaves. As if they're the reminiscent of branches seen flashing past in the night from the back seat of a car. Transformed into thirty six layer deep technicolour.

Klara Ravat, Ai Mi (1:30). Direct animation with printer sticker sheets taped direct on transparent film. A transfer of poses on Renaissance paintings.

Ferenc Sebök, Gebouwen (2:00). Made during a workshop by Tony Hill (UK). The workshop was about building (DIY) tools to get special effects. The film is made animation wise frame by frame. Going from far left 1 frame to far right 1 frame.

Daan de Bakker, Pinhole (5.:00). Daan make's camera films.All effects are in-camera effects. Shown are two films shot pinhole style: The camera has no lens, just a tiny little hole in a piece of tin-foil. Including some double exposure with different coloured filters in front of the pinhole.

Joost van Veen, Interlude (2:45). Originally shot on Super 8 in the Rotterdam zoo for a filmwerkplaats installation project. Blown-up to 16mm using cheap high contrast b/w material, treated with a no longer available Tetenal photographic kit officially made for reversing photographic papers; used on film, it does weird things. This film is entirely made in the filmwerkplaats; first Joost made a sound negative on our special printer, put this undeveloped material into the optical printer (J-K) and refilmed his material. The film was ultimately developed as b/w positive. It therefore only runs 2.30 minutes: the maximum we can hand-develop in a 30 meter tank. The film won the first price at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Esther Urlus, Idyll (6:00). Using a printing technique in which negative and positive are printed on the same  piece of color material. The originals are black and white. Esther has been working for several years on color films based on original b/w footage, reinventing old film techniques from the beginning of (analog) film where color only could be created with experiments on b/w.

Dirk de Bruyn, Bridges (4:00). Australian artist Dirk de Bruyn knows how to make “cinema without costs”. Since there is few 16mm equipment available for artists in Australia (everything has to be shipped in and is therefore costly), he buys "found footage" from Ebay, bleaches away the original image  and makes direct animation-style films using tape, ink, stamps etc.

John Price, Portraits Project (2:00). Made for the “Starting from Scratch” program of the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2008. Filmmakers were invited to make a portrait of fellow filmmakers on 16mm. John created a self-portrait in his Rotterdam hotel room. Working as a camera operator for commercial film productions, he always shoots his work on left-over materials from his regular jobs or cheap print material that is not meant to be used in a camera. He always films subjects close to himself, using in-camera editing and hand processing. He could be called an obsessive  filmmaker who mostly sees the world through his camera’s viewfinder.

Lichun Tseng, Grass Tree (2:00). Shot on high-contrast b/w material to reach the extremes of black and white. All effects like double exposures and dissolves were done in-camera (on a Bolex wind-up).

Ingrid van den Boogaard, Providence (1:30). The negative of this film, shot during a camera try-out workshop, appeared to be a completely black. After scratching it so that it would gain at least some kind of visuals, the positive print came out with a romantic image that had been seen by the camera, latent on the footage, but too dark on the negative. An example of the enormous flexibility of film.

Helene Martin, Running Time (6:30). Made entirely in the darkroom with no equipment whatsoever except a torchlight and some color filters. Found footage originals. Won the jury prize at the $100 Film Festival.

Jutu van der Made, Pony Girl/NYC (pinhole film) (3:00). Made with Robert Schaller’s pinhole camera; a camera made from scrap materials. Jutu got obsessed with this DIY camera and has begun to make a whole pinhole film oeuvre.

Peter Max, Zeebra (2:00). Mathematical composition of a street crossing, with a certain number of frames filmed forward and some frames filmed backwards so that superimpositions appear.

Christelle Gualdi, Color Writing Me Out (6:30). The soundtrack is from her close friend’s band. The film is made by freaking with our optical  (J-K) printer late at night. Good that I wasn't there because it looks like she quite mishandled our precious printer. The original footage she used is from a film by Joris Ivens, a Dutch master of film. The film was found in the garbage.

última semana 2011, NL

En la última semana del curso fui a una cena en WORM, que Esther organizó, reunió a la gente que estamos más por allí para plantear como salir del paso: los recortes culturales en arte en toda Holanda también afecta a Worm, y así a nosotros.

Ayer viernes, fuí con Photo Reserach Lab, dentro del departamento de foto en KABK, a casa de Coorine, nuestra profa. Hicimos una clase regular en su estudio y luego nos estubo enseñando los libros que compró en su último viaje en China y toda su librería :D

mediamatic

Mushroom diner  @Mediamatic, Amsterdam with Tactile Reserach Lab.

guapaguapaguapa

And here it is, my mum, the one who couldn't get pregnant science she was, and here I am! And now she has to pay my studies in The Netherlands just to make me happy... and clever! And a good artist, of course!

muamuamua (L) her.

confundiendo la realidad

Cada día en una realidad más cercana al sueño.

+ cap de setmana

Absolut Raspberri
Electro chillón en local antisquating
Okupación y desalojo en casa de Sílvia
Subida al ring, nº1, y espero que la última
Sobada inesperada con ropa incluida en mi propia cama
Amsterdam museumn8 + Trouw (dark electro, por fin...)
Buenas charlas sobre todo y nada con "la chica que nació un día antes que yo".


Nota: nunca imaginé que iba a bailar rock'n'roll a tan sólo la 1 am en un jardín botánico.

KLIK!

Laura, Gerttu and Gretta, from Stonia!

Sobre las 16 pm aterrizamos en la estación de Ams Central dispuestas a arrasar el festival de animación.

Vimos las animaciones de Brasil, Open competition, Musicophillia y XXXtrem anime! Es la primera vez que veo porno en un cine, y además anime! Fue muy divertido.

A las 2am acabamos con las películas y nos fuimos en busca de un bar, unas cuantas cervezas y acabamos en Melkweg, uno de los clubs más famosos en Amsterdam. ¿Y sabéis que pienso? Que es una p. basura. Dios mio, no había visto más adolescentes juntos bailando al ritmo del descompás del Dj y de las pesadillas del Vj en mi vida.

Y esta noche me toca ponerme las pilas con el research group que tengo que hacer cosillas para mañana y aun no he empezado! Larga noche...

back from Amsterdam

Ayer después de empadronar me en La Haya (al fin!), ir a la uni por los supuestos problemas de papeleo (que nunca existieron) y comer en casa me fui para Amsterdam a ver a un amigo de la uni.

Muy contenta de que alguien de allí me llevara por los baretos chulos, pequeñitos y con poca gente.

Esa ciudad embruja, encanta, te lleva fuera de si...