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In this online film series, which will play throughout the month of September on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel, we bring together, in collaboration with the Punto y Raya platform, four sessions with experimental pieces that allow us to explore the possibilities of the audio-visual image and abstraction as a form of creation: a freer creation, where form, color, movement and sound compose evocative messages.
The short films will be available on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel for one week, starting at 2:00 am on September 12. Cervantes Vimo Link Here.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
Separated by more than four centuries, the two diverse technologies of theatrical illusionism and computer science meet in an audio-visual dialogue created by high school students from the Visser’t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden (The Netherlands) under the direction of Punto y Raya founders Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo, dedicated to the production, promotion and education of audio-visual arts in their purest state.
This powerful abstract film – born from a workshop held in December 2023 at the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht – was created frame by frame by drawing directly on the tablet with the free FlipaClip application and using the reflections produced by a four-sided cone with an angulation of 45º with respect to the surface of the screen.
The ghostly effect known as Pepper’s ghost, which consists of seeing the reflection of the real image through the angulation of acetate sheets and glass panels, merges with 21st-century computer technology to create Fantasmagorías abstractas, an evocative and emotive film, in which abstraction becomes a universal language (form, color, movement and sound) accessible to all.
Screening: Fantasmagorías abstractas ; Director/s: Punto y Raya (Nöel Palazzo y Ana Santos); Year: 2023; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 2 min; Genre: Animation/Animación; Country: Países Bajos; Rating/Calificacion: SC
“Abstracción en movimiento” presents the pieces produced by those attending the Punto y Raya workshops held at the Instituto Cervantes centers in Prague, Tunis, Utrecht and Warsaw, since 2021.
Young students between the ages of 12 and 16, guided by artists and expert facilitators and directed by Noel Palazzo and Ana Santos – directors of the Punto y Raya Festival – offer us for this cycle evocative films with great communicative force, created from simple forms and updated animation and illusionism techniques adapted to the new possibilities offered by the digital world.
“Abstracción en movimiento” Program:
• September 5: Live Visual Music (2021), coordinated by Aurora Gasull
• September 12: Con ton y son (2022), coordinated by Pepon Meneses and Laura Ginès
• September 19: Generations and The Country of the Future (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo
• September 26: Abstract phantasmagorias (2023), coordinated by Ana Santos and Nöel Palazzo.
All titles will be available on the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo channel for one week, from 2:00 am on the Thursday indicated until 2:00 am the following Thursday.
