I’m very glad to announce my participation in the Male/Female/ exhibition at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, Brazil.
My work Unpixelated will be on display between June 1 and July 1.
http://olhardecinema.com.br/en/filme/multiolhares/
/ MULTIOLHARES>
/ exposição de videoarte e cinema experimental / experimental film and videoart exhibition
Multiolhares is the segment of the Olhar de Cinema festival dedicated to audiovisual works that move beyond the limits of conventional screens. Experimental cinema, video art, new media; often regarded as a “laboratory” apart, even today these different categories of formal experimentation can be misinterpreted by orthodox moviegoers as mere exercises in language, but whose potential of expressing worldviews is, at the very least, equivalent to that of the traditional cinema.
From this mutual importance given to attitudes and procedures, we present the Male/Female/ exhibition at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum. As the name already suggests, these works come from more or less resolved dualities between genders but, not limited to that, they propose more subjective interpretations within an aesthetic-political perspective. Made at different times in the past ten years, with no previous connections with each other, the works respond to the central theme either by themselves or through new connections suggested for this occasion.
WORKS IN EXHIBITION
BLACK HOLE (BURACO NEGRO)
by Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado
Brazil | 5’ | 2008
SYNOPSIS: Two air currents create abstract shapes on rows of powder. A subtle and yet powerful interpretation of sex and maybe love.
ELEGY (ELEGIA)
by Bárbara Felice and Tamíris Spinelli
Brazil | 4’ | 2010
SYNOPSIS: A sensory experience of life and death.
THE INDISPENSABLE ONES (IMPRESCINDÍVEIS)
by Carlosmagno Rodrigues
Brazil | 5’ | 2003
SYNOPSIS: A father tries to subvert his son, who reacts and resists. Based on domestic images, the video deals with manipulation.
CLOUD (NUVEM)
by Avrore
Brazil | 2’ | 2012
SYNOPSIS: This oblivion is inevitable. And beautiful, in a way.
ACT OF LOVE (O AMOR EM UM ATO)
by Arthur Tuoto
Brazil | 7’ | 2012
SYNOPSIS: Through the appropriation of an amateur porn movie, the video reworks its images through reframing, distortion and other plastics processes.
BLOOD (SANGRE)
by Cris Ventura
Brazil | 3’ | 2009
SYNOPSIS: Mariana is 10 months old. She has a white dress and strawberries. For a woman to bleed does not mean to evanesce, this is necessary and vital. A female ferric and symbolic that is associated with fertility myths, virginity, life and death.
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN (TRÓPICO DE CAPRICÓRNIO)
by Kika Nicolela
Brazil | 30’ | 2005
SYNOPSIS: During one night four transvestites are brought in to a hotel room in downtown São Paulo. One by one, they take on the director’s game: to lie down on the bed and stay in the empty room with a camera.
UNPIXELATED: ONE
by Anders Weberg
Sweden | 7’ | 2009
SYNOPSIS: In Japanese porn, it is required by law that the male and female genitalia be blurred to obscure it from sight. The fogging of the sexually explicit area using pixelization or mosaic blurring is referred to as bokashi. In Unpixelated, a software is used on censored pornographic films in order to reconstruct the blurred area to its original state. Once the software is applied, a mosaic blur is then applied to the rest of the image leaving only the once censored pubic hair or genitalia to be viewed.
WANING
by Gina Haraszti
Canada | 8’ | 2011
SYNOPSIS: A man, a dead woman, a depleted apartment. Not your typical murder mystery, Waning takes on the visual and temporal deconstruction of a homicide in a single fractured frame.
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