En una colaboración de CologneOff 2012 el cortometraje Cartón realizado con Gina Castilla será presentado en en Festival de Cine Jónico en las islas de Léucade, en Grecia
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Entrevista para el Festival CologneOFF 2011
La entrevista completa para CologneOFF 2011 se puede ver aquí:
1. Tell me something about your life and your educational background
My education was very standard. First, I studied in a typical humble south american neighbourhood primary school without any artistic speciality. We had the usual classes: mathematics, science, history, geography… there was an artistic class: “craftworks, and drawing”. I was one the coolest guys in that class, because I made very good drawings, and later I was one of the main drawers in other classes, such as science or history. I had to draw on the board the subject of the class, for example, the inner body organs (for science), or a Simón Bolívar portrait (for history class). I had one problem: my line was kind of soft, and the tough guy (another kid like me) had a more decided line style. He was the favourite one of the girls.
Apart from drawing, we had another important issue: the language class. Our teachers considered we, eight years old kids, could read any kind of literature, and we read very powerful books. The one I remember the most: “Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada” by García Márquez. My imagination grabbed the killing of Santiago Nassar and those images, hasn’t changed since then.
Later in the secondary school, i had a lot of fun doing caricatures of the other students (I had some good enemies, they hated me) and of the teachers; these ones never complained.
This drawing skill made me think the better decision was studying Graphic Design at one of the most important universities in Bogotá. The economical crisis in Colombia (the 90’s) Made difficult those studies, but everything went well, even though i wasn’t a good student. The comic class, the animation class, the illustration class, and later working in an advertising agency, helped me to find the path of video.
2. When, how and why started you filming?
I worked in an advertising agency called “Morphos” (the 90’s) and the boss was a very interesting guy, an artist with a lot of imagination who gave us, workers, artists, the necessary freedom we needed to know what we wanted to do. We made animation, photography, and thanks to my dedication and patience, I conceived and directed the TV presentation of the only public broadcast channel Colombia had, Señal Colombia. It was a series of morphing between traditional and modern characters of my country.
My debts (i had to pay a loan to the university) forced me to abandon this agency and find a job as a graphic designer in a big factory, the creativity path ended in my country. Later, in Spain, i was very lucky to meet actors and technicians (all of us amateurs) and then decided to make my first short “simulacro” (2003). The script was written in Colombia, three years before.
... la entrevista sigue en vip.newmediafest.org
1. Tell me something about your life and your educational background
My education was very standard. First, I studied in a typical humble south american neighbourhood primary school without any artistic speciality. We had the usual classes: mathematics, science, history, geography… there was an artistic class: “craftworks, and drawing”. I was one the coolest guys in that class, because I made very good drawings, and later I was one of the main drawers in other classes, such as science or history. I had to draw on the board the subject of the class, for example, the inner body organs (for science), or a Simón Bolívar portrait (for history class). I had one problem: my line was kind of soft, and the tough guy (another kid like me) had a more decided line style. He was the favourite one of the girls.
Apart from drawing, we had another important issue: the language class. Our teachers considered we, eight years old kids, could read any kind of literature, and we read very powerful books. The one I remember the most: “Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada” by García Márquez. My imagination grabbed the killing of Santiago Nassar and those images, hasn’t changed since then.
Later in the secondary school, i had a lot of fun doing caricatures of the other students (I had some good enemies, they hated me) and of the teachers; these ones never complained.
This drawing skill made me think the better decision was studying Graphic Design at one of the most important universities in Bogotá. The economical crisis in Colombia (the 90’s) Made difficult those studies, but everything went well, even though i wasn’t a good student. The comic class, the animation class, the illustration class, and later working in an advertising agency, helped me to find the path of video.
2. When, how and why started you filming?
I worked in an advertising agency called “Morphos” (the 90’s) and the boss was a very interesting guy, an artist with a lot of imagination who gave us, workers, artists, the necessary freedom we needed to know what we wanted to do. We made animation, photography, and thanks to my dedication and patience, I conceived and directed the TV presentation of the only public broadcast channel Colombia had, Señal Colombia. It was a series of morphing between traditional and modern characters of my country.
My debts (i had to pay a loan to the university) forced me to abandon this agency and find a job as a graphic designer in a big factory, the creativity path ended in my country. Later, in Spain, i was very lucky to meet actors and technicians (all of us amateurs) and then decided to make my first short “simulacro” (2003). The script was written in Colombia, three years before.
... la entrevista sigue en vip.newmediafest.org
"cartón" en el festival Proyector en Madrid, sala OFF LIMITS
En el marco del festival itinerante CologneOFF 2011, se presentó el 14 de julio en la sala OFF LIMITS en Madrid, la pieza "cartón, acción callejera". La Artista Gina Castilla propone realizar una acción y filmarla, sin ninguna preparación. El rodaje se realizó en unas dos horas, durante las cuales Gina improvisa y juega con cajas de cartón que son abandonadas en la calle y convertidas durante esta acción en un escondite provisional.
Esta es la segunda pieza presentada por CologneOFF 2011. la tercera, 1... 2... se presentará en otoño en otra muestra del festival.
Cero Grados en el Festival Miden en Kalamata, Grecia
el Festival de Videoarte Cologne Off en su versión 2011, va a presentar en su participación especial del Festival Miden de videoarte, en Kalamata, Grecia, el videoarte Zero degrees (cero grados), realizado en el año 2010 con Francesca Mereu y Gina Castilla. Es un video que reflexiona acerca del paso del tiempo; fue realizado en pocas horas en el Edificio Nouvell del Museo Reina Sofía.
El festival Miden se ha realizado desde el siete al nueve de Julio de 2011
...cuando cierro los ojos aparecen miles de fractales compuestos de mis recuerdos más remotos...
Una de las primeras cosas que me impulsó hacia el arte fue a los cinco años de edad: un familiar le pintó con lápices de color a mi hermano mayor, un coche en una hoja de papel. Cuando yo pedí a este familiar que me hiciera uno a mí, el se negó, así que no tuve más remedio que hacerlo por mí mismo. Desde ese momento empecé a pintar mis fantasías (batallas navales, robots de la tele) o a copiar de modelos en el colegio. Siempre fui muy buen dibujante y eso me llevó al mundo del diseño, que en algún momento se quedó pequeño. De vez en cuando escribo, actualmente realizo una serie de relatos (inéditos) que hablan de una vida imaginaria en mi ciudad natal, Bogotá.
a lo largo de quince años he desarrollado un trabajo basado en mi instinto, en vislumbrar las luces del mundo, en mi interior de vez en cuando agitado por el embate del destino.
bienvenid@, para cualquier comentario o propuesta de trabajo puedes contactar conmigo
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