URSULA
29:00",
Color, 16:9,
720p,
Internet
video,
In
German.
Graphic
content
+15
Zu
Beginn
des 21.
Jahrhunderts
ist
Krebs
immer
noch
eine der
größten
Epidemien
der
Menschheit.
Die
Dimensionen
dieser
Epidemie
übersteigt
jedes
Fassungsvermögen.
Im Jahr
2010
betrugen
allein
die
Kosten
für
Krebs-"Chemo"
56
Milliarden
US
Dollar.
Die
Kosten
für die
Krebs-Epidemie
insgesamt
-- nicht
eingeschlossen
die
Kosten
für
medizinische
Betreuung
-- waren
mit 895
Milliarden
US-Dollar
die
höchsten
unter
allen
Krankheiten.
AM
ABEND,
7:55",
Color,
16:9,
720p,
Internet
video.
I
explore
the
relationship
between
different
perceptual
dimensions
through
the use
of a
handheld
camera
within a
daily-life
situation.
I find
also
interesting
the
relevance
of the
"creative"
anthropological
fact,
opposed
to an
idea of
"authorship".
Chela Cervantes, a
chicano singer
living in Mexico.
This is a short
"Making of" for her
new CD. Chela is an
amazing person:
artist, composer,
singer, painter,
dancer, teacher and
a good friend. She
lives in a relatevly
isolated
neighborhood in
Cuernavaca, near
Mexico City. The
soundtrack was
recorder with a Zoom
H4n, 24bits 96khz. I
used a handheld
canon 7D with a
18-135mm canon lens,
720p, 50fps. No
color correction. .mov
files were converted
to .avi using
MP4cam2avi and
imported as such in
Sony Vegas in my
MS-XP box.
Soundtrack edited in
Steinberg's Wavelab.
A bit compression
and reverb were used
before sync. Enjoy!
5:00",
Color, 4:3, Digi-Beta,
No
dialogues.
GRAPHIC
CONTENT
+18 Ciudad
Victoria
and
Culiacán,
small
cities
in North
Mexico.
People
celebrate
a
middle-class
weeding.
Meanwhile,
the
strident
singing
of
thousands
of birds
floods
the
streets.
This
video
refers
also to
the
sexual
life of
some
couples
in the
same
city.
Source
material
recorded
in
Ciudad
Victoria
and
Queretaro
cities.
Premiered
as
"México
3AM" in
Hamburg,
2003. I
explore the
relationship
between the
individual and
collective
discourses, the
relevance of
imagination in
the
anthropological
fact and the
popular
anonymity in
front of a
relative idea of
authorship.
5:00",
Color, 4:3, Digi-Beta,
Spanish, No
subtitles.
GRAPHIC CONTENT
+18 Some
takes on daily
life on Mexican
streets, related
to noisy toys
and crowded
street fairs.
Several noisy
balloon
street-sellers
are also
present. Here
the relationship
between toys,
sex, dance and
game is clearer,
less abstract,
more real.
Source material
recorded in
Cuernavaca,
Querétaro,
Mexico City and
Berlin, 2003-04.
Produced and
edited in
Berlin, DSP
tracks : Source
sounds recorded
in Mexico and
Germany by C.S.
1995-2004. Video
edition and DSP
tracks produced
at Sireña a.v.d.
Berlin and
Mexico.
18:07",
Color, 4:3, Digi-Beta,
Spanish, No
subtitles.
This is a
"creative
non-fiction"
based on the Via
Crucis
celebration in
Ocotepec
(Mexico) and the
poetry of
Gonzalo Rojas.
Again I
explore the
relationship
between the
individual and
collective
discourses, the
relevance of
imagination in
the
anthropological
fact and the
popular
anonymity in
front of a
relative idea of
authorship.
16:06",
Color, 4:3, Digi-Beta,
No language.
This is a
portrait of Doña
Soco and her
mother, Mexican
women living
between Mexico
and Cuernavaca
cities at the
moment I made
this recording,
in September
2003, just a
week before I
moved to Germany
— I found this
recording seven
years later, in
2009. After
finding the
right music for
it (I needed two
months) I
realized that,
at the end, the
chicken was
actually "me",
leaving my
country — This
is also a
personal
portrait of
Germany as far
as I percieve it
these days.
6:06",
Color, 4:3, Digi-Beta,
No language.
External
and
internal
spaces
(“macro
units”
and “nano-universes”)
are
synthesized
as a
single,
cognitive
unit.
Music,
sound
design
and
non-fictional
documentation
are here
mixed. I
intended
to mix
internal
and
external
spaces
without
a
sounding
differenciation.
4:09",
Color, 16:9, Digi-Beta,
No dialogues.
Selfportrait without
knowledge of my clients.
4:32",
Color, 16:9, Digi-Beta,
No dialogues.
Just inspired last
summer. Music by Veljo
Tormis: "How can I
recognize my home".
4:17",
Color,
640 P and HD 720P,
Internet
video,
No dialogues.
My first
Burka-based
weekend-project
video
inspired on
Techno
music,
Muslims and
Western
cliches. 95%
of the film
was made
with a
mobile phone and a
Steady Cam with a
DSLR.
3:30",
Color, HD 720P,
Internet
video,
No dialogues.
My
second Burka-based
weekend-project
video
is also
perhaps the first
Burka based streap-tease
ever made!
Muslims and
Western cliches.
Featuring Sofia
Torre. I played the
flute too!
4:56",
Color, HD 720P,
Internet video, No
dialogues.
Third Burka video.
Also a streap-tease
with geo-political
implications.
Featuring Charlotte
Grude. Music by
Mario Davide and
Tuff Cookie remixed
by the coolest
"Daou"
in the UK.
5:39",
Color, HD 720P,
Internet video, No
dialogues.
Inspired in Tai-Ji
Quan movements. The
whole action was
really a ritual.
Yuki was moving the
plastic by purpose
with Tai-Ji Quan
Movements and I
tried to follow with
the camera. Special
moments.
2:48",
Color, HD 720P,
Internet video, No
dialogues.
Yuki in action. We
shoot this for her
website.
1:56", Internet Video 4:3, Color,
no dialoqgues. "Tinga". A
video camera behaving as chicken. The camera man is not
to be seen by the chicken
3:10" Color, 4:3, Internet
video, Museo Universitario
de Arte Contemporáneo,
Mexico City, May 2010.