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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 Vimeo Link Here.
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
In October 2022, the Cervantes Institute in Prague hosted the abstract animation workshop «Muchos metros de película» (Many meters of film), in which a group of schoolchildren, led by artists Laura Ginès and Pepon Meneses, made a collective film emulating the camera-less animation technique popularized in the mid-1950s by artists such as Norman Mclaren, Len Lye, and Stan Brakhage.
This technique would have required 35 mm celluloid strips, which – once manipulated – would have had to be mounted and projected in situ. Due to the cost of celluloid and the technical complexity of its projection, the artists opted to simulate the procedure using paper strips, to give priority to the longitudinal treatment of the drawing with respect to the strip rather than to the frame-by-frame treatment. Thus, using cash register paper rolls as 35 mm celluloid, they worked on paper strips with markers, rollers and pads as photograms, and then photographed the pictures, edited and projected, to create an abstract and gestural collective film in which they play with the concept of dots and stripes in movement: expansion and transformation.
Screening: Con ton y son; Director/s: Pepon Meneses y Laura Ginès; Year: 2022; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 1 min; Genre: Anamation/Animación; Country: República Checa; Rating/Calificacion: SC
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.
“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.