STUDENTS EXPERIMENTAL 2022
Biography:
Lorena Flores, 22 years old. Borned in Irapuato Gto and graduated in Audiovisual Production degree at the Universidad de Artes Digitales UAD in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Lorena focuses her work in audiovisual direction and photography, generally for video dance. Since 2017 she has worked as a photographer and director. Her most outstanding projects are: Nudos director (post-production-2021): gender perspective video dance that shows normalized gender violence in women's daily lives. It's also part of the first generation of Impulsa Labs incubation program by Ciudad Creativa Digital (2021). Mascaras director (postproduction-2019), a fiction short film that portrays the dark sacrifices behind the search for perfection in the world of ballet. Resiliente/Umbral 1st director's assistant (Miriam Mendoza-postproduction-2020) videodance about the conversion of pain into resilience of a girl with chronic anxiety. She is currently a producer in the production company CaixaPro.
Knots | Nudos
México | Mexico | 17’31’’ | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Lorena Flores
Produção | Production: Lorena Flores, Miguel H. Quezada, Abigail Marquez, Raúl Padilla, Kovu Kapuccino
Escola | School: Universidad de Artes Digitales (Guadalajara)
Synopsis:
Ema's limbs are tied by long ropes that control her movements. Flowing between knots and water is how she finds the physical and metaphorical origin that keeps the strength of these knots, a past full of abuse.
Biography:
Sofia Tavares is a graduate of the Soares dos Reis Art School, having completed her Audiovisual Communication Course in the Cinema and Video Specialty. She is the director of the short film Ma Mer (2021), which was produced as her Proof of Artistic Aptitude.
Ma Mer | Ma Mer
Portugal | Portugal| 11’10’’ | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Sofia Tavares
Produção | Production: Sofia Tavares
Escola | School: Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis
Synopsis:
A girl has an obsessive dream of seeing the sea. She spends her days drawing it. When, one night, she wakes up at sea and projects her memories onto it, that dream becomes something she doesn't want to face.
Biography
Victoria Catarino was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1996. Currently lives and works in Porto, Portugal. She has a degree in Social Sciences from UFRRJ and in Fine Arts from FBAUP. During her first academic experience, she approached political activism, mainly related to gender issues and reproductive rights. Collaborated with associations and activist groups in the context of Southeastern Brazil for social policies with a progressive bias and feminist awareness. She works mainly with sculpture, analogue photography and poetic writing; currently developing projects within sound experiments and experimental audiovisual, often funneled by concerns at gender level, race, capitalism and colonial history; having these aspects as essential for the creation of her artistic universe.
Skin | Pele
Portugal |Portugal | 15’00’’ | 2022
Realizadora|Director: Victoria Catarino
Produção | Production: Victoria Catarino
Escola | School: Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
Synopsis
Skin explores the poetry withholding gender experience in a migratory context, where living in one world quantum or another can and will have an effect on a woman's life, at the same time being affected by her personal female power.
Biography
My name is Dayan Romero, born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. I started my studies in a University of business in Guayaquil. I Traveled to Paris for a semester as Erasmus in 2015, then I realized that I wanted to be a photographer. I came back to Guayaquil and started to study Profesional Photography. I always loved to travel, so I did know for a long time that I want to study abroad. When I finish the career of photography I applied to a Master in Madrid, Spain for Realization and Directing for cinema. I started from zero with this new career, always with full of dreams. I lived for three years in Spain. Actually I came back to my country of birth where I still work in projects for cinema and photography. My biggest influencers in cinema are Chantal Akerman, Michael Gondry, Gaspar Noe and Catarina Vasconcelos. I love to write about everyday subjects that are categorized as very human. Life, death, memory, dreams, and above all femininity.
Soledad | Soledad
Espanha | Spain | 07’45’’ | 2021
Realizadora | Director: Dayan Romero
Produção | Production: Dayan Romero
Escola | School: EFTI - Centro Internacional de Fotografía y Cine
Synopsis
Ana makes a decision to have an abortion in her apartment. The wait is timeless.
Biography
Alissa Sophie Larkamp studied politics and media, completing her master’s degree in media studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Keen to make her own film projects, she attended Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, taking the film & sound degree programme at the Faculty of Design. She specializes in cinematography and montage and has been director of photography as well as editor for various film projects.
Women of My Family | Frauen (m)einer Familie
Alemanha | Germany | 12’00’’ | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Alissa Sophie Larkamp
Produção | Production: Alissa Sophie Larkamp
Escola | School: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
Synopsis
A film as a personal stream of memories - the biographical fragments of a great-grandmother, grandmother and mother are marked by simple circumstances. It is precisely in these that the socio-political circumstances for women of the time are revealed: a lack of interest in medicine for female medical conditions, a lack of education for women, and the obstacles to a self-determined life in the working class. It's about how the big story inscribes itself in the small - but most of all, it's about love. Love and gratitude.
