Photo collages by Daniela Santa Cruz
INT./EXT. A tale on the (other) end of any given time
I made a box with grass in it!
People can come in and feel the texture and smell of nature while watching fragments of C. Rojas a film about 3 women who are trying to escape their house to explore the dangerous world outside.
This piece had a test exhibit as part of an Installation class I took at Emerson College.
Expanded Nature
We are back in the woods and this time to share some mapping on trees by Apparati Effimeri:
http://www.apparatieffimeri.com/en/mapping-on-trees/
http://www.apparatieffimeri.com/en/mapping-on-trees/
The Film Project
C. Rojas: un cuento de los confines
Little Reds: a tale at the edge of the world
Little Reds: a tale at the edge of the world
C. Rojas is a film that captures through
a lens (for the first time in my artistic life) a performance and re-enactment of a bedtime story conceived as a dream, using the
film world elements to capture what’s beyond our conscious perspective. My
approach was to discover the universe of intimacy within the original fairy tale and to
plant seeds of my personal experience facing my lesbianism, my admiration for
the female gender and my dissatisfaction with the association of inferiority
and vulnerability that women have acquire in a male dominated society. My feministic perspective translates into
trying to understand the elements moving every character female character in this piece.
As my writing transitioned from theater to
screen, I found myself working in a new version of Little Red Ridding Hood, one where I was exploring the more feminist possibilities of the original
plot.
In this work I make the
main protagonist tridimensional by having a single female character become
three and having a fourth element (another woman) that refers to the original
story. After a natural disaster, three sisters locked in a house with their mother are looking to escape and explore the dangerous world beyond their fences. "Caperucita Roja" (Little Red Riding Hood) here becomes "C. Rojas". The first letter of the three main characters represented by the "C.": Carolina, Catalina and Cristina. And the color red represented by a common Chilean lastname: "Rojas"
In the outskirts there is a wild creature who doesn't have a name but is known as "Lobos" or the "many wolves" (also a very common Chilean lastname). He is the only male
character present in this piece. This character
is a man-like creature that has lost humanity and carries old visions of a patriarchal society.
In the film I present woman as the one who can take away that power and transform it in order to generate a more spiritual relation where she captures the essence of the male. The three female characters don’t renounce to a carnal instinct but consider it a transit point to reach another stage.
In the film I present woman as the one who can take away that power and transform it in order to generate a more spiritual relation where she captures the essence of the male. The three female characters don’t renounce to a carnal instinct but consider it a transit point to reach another stage.
They need to break
traditions and beliefs in order to grow freely, that is why I also add the element
of accident into the story through the presence of earthquakes that are natural
events representing my country of origin: Chile.
This experiment can
be seen as a journey of transformation for their characters and it was written
to bring the poetry of staged performance into film, also in a way to expose my
own experience in theatre.
The text is provoking and poetical and works as a composition more than
for narrative purposes. At the time the film was shot nobody in the project had actual filmmaking training. I worked with
painters, photographers, visual artists, actors and dancers. We used a low end camera, the only one avaialble, as a capsule to capture the fictional time of the story.
Filmmaking
is my way to bring to life the parallel world of my dreams. I want to create an environment that fosters
experiences on the subconscious level and that can potentially become the seed
for another person’s experience, recognizing the world we live in but aren’t
aware of because we tend to exist rationally, rather than intuitively. Or at
least, we think we do.
Writer/Producer/Director
Anto Astudillo
Anto's background in psychophysical theater and martial arts has lead her to interweave her exploration in experimental narrative and documentary filmmaking with performance and installation. Born in Santiago, Chile, Anto worked as an International Producer for the Santiago a Mil Festival and acted and produced for the experimental theater company Compañía Interno from 2007-2012. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Visual and Media Arts Department at Emerson College. Anto organized and co-directed the New England Graduate Media Symposium during the years 2014 to 2016 with guest artists such as Sue Friedrich, Dalida María Benfield and Laurie Anderson. www.negmediasymposium.net
3 Mujeres
De los trazos de Mercedes Helnwein van surgiendo 3 mujeres categorizadas por sus propios miedos y deseos. Cristina, Carolina, Catalina.
La Carretera/The Road
Así como en "La Carretera" de Cormac McCarthy, los temblores recuerdan al lector-espectador el trastorno de la tierra como fenómeno ligado a la inestabilidad que nos subyace. Llevada al cine por John Hillcoat y cuya adaptación audiovisual estuvo a cargo de Joe Penhall, The Road es un referente obligado de C. Rojas.
Crónicas: Auto da Fé
El Auto da fé o Auto de fe, corresponde al momento en que la inquisición purificaba los cuerpos malditos en la hoguera. Pues aquí estamos entregadas y entregados a la obra sin temor al juicio de los actos.
Realizar un acto de fe. Para los menos creyentes: un gesto de confianza en quienes han decidido acompañarte y entregar lo mejor de cada uno en la tarea. Aquí no se pierde ni se gana, pues la entrega artística no obedece a la dualidad de los valores mundanos.
Realizar un acto de fe. Para los menos creyentes: un gesto de confianza en quienes han decidido acompañarte y entregar lo mejor de cada uno en la tarea. Aquí no se pierde ni se gana, pues la entrega artística no obedece a la dualidad de los valores mundanos.
Location Scouting: The House
Production Desing is an artistic job but it is also a job about energies.
To find an abandon place sleeping under zero degrees for many years and give it a new heart.
A house resting on the Yang of tectonic plates.
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Ambientar es un trabajo de artistas, pero también de energías.
Volver a entregarle un corazón a la estructura que ha dormido bajo cero por años que parecen centurias.
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To find an abandon place sleeping under zero degrees for many years and give it a new heart.
A house resting on the Yang of tectonic plates.
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Ambientar es un trabajo de artistas, pero también de energías.
Volver a entregarle un corazón a la estructura que ha dormido bajo cero por años que parecen centurias.
Una casa en el Yang de placas tectónicas.
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Hanzel y Gretel en Corea
Este es el trabajo de Pil-Sun Yim.
Los cuentos europeos están en las mentes colectivas de todo este planeta.
Creados desde el miedo, su lugar se deposita como células negras en nuestros corazones de niños.
Pertenecen a un lugar oscuro que merece algo más de luz que la entregada hasta ahora.
La palícula completa la encontrarás AQUÍ
La palícula completa la encontrarás AQUÍ
El Bosque a todas partes
Jonna Lee lidera este proyecto musical y audiovisual llamado 'iamamiwhomami'
Todo sobre este proyecto aquí: www.iamamiwhoami.net/
Todo sobre este proyecto aquí: www.iamamiwhoami.net/
Karen O. y Las Vírgenes Galácticas
Karen O. y su misión interplanetaria se hacen cita en esta nueva propuesta musical para la escena teatral. "Stop the Virgens" es por ahora un referente claro de la psicodelia en la que C. Rojas se instala.
Todo el material de la obra AQUÍ
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Todo el material de la obra AQUÍ
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