2021
USELESS OPERA SINGERS
FILM 28'37''
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USELESS OPERA SINGERS
FILM 28'37''
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THE ARCTIC CIRCLE ARTIST AND SCIENTIFIC RESIDENCY PROGRAM GRANT
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE / SVALBARD
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE / SVALBARD
AWARDS:
19* BOGOSHORTS Best Documentary Short Film (Int.) Award
50* ALCINE Welab Best Photography Award
50* ALCINE Best Original Music Award (Guillermo Farré)
15* KUSTENDORF Vilko Filač Award Best Cinematography
2022 VIDEOFORMES Prix/Award du Conseil Départemental du Puy de Dôme (ex-aequo)
28* San Giò Verona Video Festival Best Cinematography
34* Fano Int FIlm Festival Fano ITA Best Documentary
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
44* CLERMONT-FERRAND ISFF, Clermont-Ferrnad FRA
22* PÖFF SHORTS (Black Nights Film Festival) Tallin EST
19* BOGOSHORTS Bogotá Short Film Festival, Bogotá COL
50* ALCINE Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares SPA
15* Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival SER
2022 VIDEOFORMES Int. Digital Arts Festival, Clermont-Ferrnad FRA
5* Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino ITA
19* Millenium Docs Against Gravity, POL
24* FICMEC Festival Int. de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias (Adventure Section) SPA
37* CINEMA JOVE. Festival Internacional de Cine de Valencia SPA
28* San Giò Verona Video Festival ITA
21* Concorto Film Festival, Piacenza ITA
19* Curtocircuíto Int. Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela SPA
20* Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris FRA
34* Fano Int Film Festival Fano ITA
SCREENINGS:
2024 LOS RAROS, Collective Exhibition The Weird Show Valladolid, SPA
2023 Semana Cultural de España. Cine 23y12 La Habana, CUBA
2023 Altered Logistics. Dowd Fine Arts Center Cortland, NY USA
2023 LABOCINE Scientific Musicals Jan Issue, ONLINE
2022 Art and the Anthropocene Q&A, Whitman College, USA
2021 FILMIN Alcine Sessions, ONLINE
Useless Opera Singers is a short film wandering around the idea of the North, its limits and the construction of landscape through measurement. An unknown force pushes a man to embark on an expedition to the high Arctic, a place of extraordinary characteristics. In his quest of "measuring the North", a peculiar set of measurement tools will try to help him understand that force. In its limits, is where he may find the answer. Between an introspective adventure and the poetry of the absurd.
The project takes place in the high Arctic, while immersed in the expedition program known as The Arctic Circle; a nexus where art intersects science and activism aboard a specially outfitted Tall Ship, sailing just ten degrees off the North Pole.
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Useless Opera Singers (algo así como Inútiles Cantantes de Opera) es un cortometraje que deambula por la idea del Norte, sus límites y la construcción del paisaje a través de la medición.
Una fuerza desconocida empuja a un hombre a embarcar en una expedición al Ártico alto, un lugar de características extraordinarias. En su idea de “medir el Norte”, un peculiar conjunto de herramientas de medición intentarán ayudarle a entender esa fuerza. En los límites, quizá encuentre la respuesta. Entre la aventura introspectiva y la poética absurda.
El proyecto tiene lugar en el Ártico alto, durante el programa de expediciones conocido como The Arctic Circle; un nexo donde el arte se cruza con la ciencia y el activismo a bordo de una embarcación de vela especialmente equipada, navegando tan solo diez grados del Polo Norte.