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In this online film series, which plays 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 5. Cervantes Vimeo Link Here
Abstracción en movimiento: Punto y Raya at the Instituto Cervantes
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the emergence of abstract animation through what was known as “Absolute Cinema“, in which European avant-garde visual artists such as Hans Richter, “Viking” Eggeling or Walter Ruttmann sought to expand their pictorial practices using the incipient language of the cinematograph, the first Punto y Raya workshop was held in June 2021.
Organized by the Cervantes Institute at its headquarters in Warsaw in collaboration with the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Techniques, the Catalan animator and visual artist Aurora Gasull Altisent proposed to re-signify this beautiful practice through the eyes and hearts of hearing impaired children from the Głuchoniemych Institute in Warsaw. The participants, aged 12 to 13, created and performed multiple live silent pieces using a visual instrument built by Gasull and programmed in TouchDesigner: an instrument that allows the real-time generation of simple geometric shapes (triangle, circle, rectangle) that change color, size, rotation, line thickness, opacity and persistence through MiDi Korg NanoKontrol2 controllers.
Live Visual Music is the compilation of the works resulting from this workshop, which aimed to provide useful tools to this group, and thus develop a potential professional career in the field of the art of painting music (VJing) and the visualization of music and its vibration.
In short, with the aim of generating visual scores in the minds of the spectators, a group of 12 and 13-year-old hearing-impaired schoolchildren from Warsaw let themselves be guided by the Catalan animator and visual artist Aurora Gasull to animate formal and rhythmic compositions of abstract forms that move and evolve in time: silent works in which the language of cinema, light in movement, stands out.
Screening: Live Visual Music; Director: Aurora Gasull; Year: 2021; Format: Digital; Running time: Cortometraje – 20 min; Genre: Animation/Animación; Country: Polonia; Rated/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.