Carlos Casas

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Carlos Casas is a filmmaker and artist whose practice encompasses film, sound and the visual arts. His films have been screened and awarded in festivals around the world, like the Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Mexico International Film Festival, CPH DOX Copenhagen, FID Marseille, etc... Retrospectives of his films have been presented international festivals and cinematheques from Madrid, Mexico to Bruxelles, his work has been exhibited and performed in international art institutions and galleries, such as Tate Modern in London, Fondation Cartier, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou in Paris, NTU CCA Singapore; Hangar Bicocca, and La Triennale in Milan, CCCB Barcelona, Matadero Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, MAAT Lisbon, GAM Torino, Bozar, Kunsten Festival des Arts Bruxelles … among others. He has collaborated with musicians and artists like

Sebastian Escofet, Nastro Mortal
.

Biography

Carlos Casas studied fine arts, cinema and design. In 1998 he was awarded an Artist-in-residence in Fabrica, research and communication center of Benetton.

Netmage Festival[6] in Bologna and Sonar.[7] and was also presented in Multiplicidade
in Rio de Janeiro. In 2008 he founded together with fellow artist friend, Nico Vascellari Von Archives an audiovisual label publishing experimental audiovisual productions. Later in 2009 he created with partner and wife Saodat Ismailova, Map Productions, a production house dedicated to develop audiovisual projects around the world, from feature films, to documentaries. In 2010 he presented his Cemetery Archive Works in Netmage and his End trilogy was presented for the first time in Cineteca Mexicana. In June 2010 Hangar Bicocca in Milano presented END a comprehensive exhibition of the trilogy. Avalanche (overture) his latest project is a collaboration with the American sound artist and minimalist legend Phill Niblock an ongoing project based in the Pamir mountains, in one of the world's highest inhabited villages. Avalanche (overture) superimposes Casas' footage over the overtones of "Stosspeng," a piece by Niblock. It is a visual-sonic journey, an extremely intense audiovisual meditation and a sensory experience in which extremes meet: nature in its rawest state and the pure, breathtaking and heady sound of drones. Presented for the first time in its first incarnation in Sonar Festival, Avalanche is an open film, reedited every time it is shown and adapted to the space it is presented Avalanche is an organic example of film-making, an ongoing document to the disappearance of this village, a reactive film within its community, Avalanche is alive together with the village, dying and born again every time it is presented. Avalanche is a lifelong project and site-specific film project based on one of Pamir highest inhabited village has been presented in different museums, festivals and gallery spaces around Europe and the USA. Cemetery his latest project is a take on the myth of the elephant cemetery. And has been awarded in FID Marseille, and presented in festivals all over the world. He is co-founder of Map Productions and the visual sound label Von Archives. He is currently researching and working on a new project based on the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.

Filmography

Awards

  • Marseille Esperance Prize
    FIDMarseille
    2019 (FID Marseille Festival International du Film) for Cemetery
  • Meta Cultural Foundation Award
    FIDMarseille
    2019 (FID Marseille Festival International du Film) for Cemetery
  • High School Award
    FIDMarseille
    2019 (FID Marseille Festival International du Film) for Cemetery
  • Best Documentary Award FICCO 2007 (Mexico International Film Festival) for Hunters since the beginning of time
  • Special Prize of the Jury
    BAFICI
    2006 (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) for Solitude at the end of the world
  • Best Documentary Award Torino Film Festival 2004 for Aral. Fishing in an invisible sea
  • Special Prize of the Jury Documenta Madrid 2005 for Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea

Discography

External links

Galleries

References

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  3. ^ "Italian Cultural Institute in London". Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Archived from the original on 2009-03-30. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
  4. ^ "Colors Magazine". Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  5. ^ "Carlos Casas/Sebastian Escofet: Siberian Fieldworks". Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  6. ^ "Carlos Casas/Sebastian Escofet: Siberian Fieldworks". 2007. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  7. ^ "Conciertos y Dj's". 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  8. ^ "Carlos Casas, Phill Niblock and the Nelly Boyd Ensemble at Bozar- MusicalCriticism.com (Concert review)". www.musicalcriticism.com. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Phill Niblock / Carlos Casas". BOZAR. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
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  14. ^ "Cazadores, desde el principio del tiempo (Hunters, since the Beginning of Time)". 24* Festival Internacional de Cine Mar de la Plata Argentina. Retrieved 2009-04-24.[permanent dead link]
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  16. ^ "ARAL" (PDF). www.visionsdureel.ch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
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  18. ^ "Carloscasas.net". Archived from the original on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
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