Geo – GP & DP

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Audiovisual Concerts by Giorgio Partesana and Duncan Pinhas
 
In between science and contemplation, analytical and synesthetic approach, Geo aims to give a non-exhaustive, immersive, meditative, audiovisual representation of three ecospheres of the planet, namely hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere.
 
Geo is planned as a trilogy which chapters are drafted to confront matters in their evolving natural states with some of the interactions mankind have with them, so that natural forces are confronted to mastering work employed by mankind.
 
The concerts are drafted as an exploration of micro and macro landscapes created with matters recorded in specific environments. The destination of the journey is an imaginary land where natural and artificial geometries, symbols of our habitats merge into hybrid patterns.
 
Time-based manipulation and amplification of recorded matters evokes a physical sensations allowing abstract geometries to acquire a personal meaning. The project, will to stimulate a reflection about the environment that we inhabit, alternating lulling to uncomfortable moments.
 
 

Geo, Opus II – Solid Matters
 

Geo, Opus II – Solid Matters [Stills]

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This, most recent, second opus focuses on solid matters such as stone and concrete, on which cutting and arranging movements are opposed to aging and breaking.
 

Here is the Full Length Demo.
 
Concerts (selection)
 
Nov 10 – Festival Access, Pau (Residence+Concert)
Oct 10 – Festival Tec Art Eco, Como
May 10 – Podere Casetta, Ravenna
May 10 – Medionauta, Milan
May 10 – Festival Cronosfera, Turin
May 10 – Festival Vision’R, Paris
Mar 10 – Soirée IRL Performance, Paris

Geo, (Study for) Opus I – Liquid Traces
 

Geo, Opus I – Liquid Traces [Stills]

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This preliminary work (yet to be finalized) is focused on liquid matters which fluidity suggests, in some of its forms, the ever mutating flow of things as well as the traces these flow leave.
 
Concerts (selection)
 
Jun 07 – Festival ASC, Turin 
Apr 07 – Mal au Pixel 2007, Paris
Apr 07 – Galerie Librairie En Marge, Paris
Oct 06 – Festival Le Placard, Milan
Mar 06 – Apt au 21e et. de la tour Boucry, Paris
Mar 06 – Villa Mais D’Ici, Auberviliers (Paris)

Shot by Cyril Teste

The journalistic image fill the news on television and paper. This redundant images, once picked up by the brain, lurks somewhere between consciousness and subconscious, between memory and experience. Their realness loses its meaning to attain a properpictorial dimension.
 
As layers laid upon by the time, the images left by the everyday life shuffle in an informational magma, that take after the notion of non-image. Everything is in it but nothing is distinguishable.
 
The collective memory, explored in its depth, swing between the swarming of composed and decomposed forms, the slow dissolution and the perceivable emergence of a form over the others. The boiling informational liquid dissolves into shapeless mental images.
 
 
Critics
« Shot clings to the anatomy and the radiography of the social body though photography, the black box of the last fifty years. Endlessly repeated, the cut and paste deflects the signals emitted by the half-length photographed presenter. A poetic scenic installation intended to disenchant of media hypnosis, to bring to life again the very last images of the history. »
Libération, 23rd July 2004

Theme of the piece

Zeurope by Natacha Kantor

Zeurope relies on a myth, the one of the kidnapping of Europa by Zeus. Europa, the ancient texts reveal, was a young Phoenician princess by whom the big Zeus was interested. Zeus, metamorphosed in a bull, both to hide himself from his jealous wife Hera and not to scare the young maiden, kidnapped and brought her, on his bull-like back, through the Aegean See to Crete. It’s where, under a platan, that the act was consumed.
 
Among other divine honours, Zues willed that Europa, after her death gave her name at the continent, where she was not born.
 
 

Video stage
The video system is circular, but the perception of the spectators is limited and related to their position. As the metopes in Greek temples, the screen beneath the fronton, where the action has place, visualize the iconic data underlining the narrated theme.
 
Sixteen screens are arranged by four colors. Red for earth : the labyrinth and the hole in the ground. Green for tree : metamorphosis and evolution. Blue for voyage : from Tyr to Gortyn, and through killed time. Gray for the crown : floral and royal. The inner movements of the images suggest circularity and continuity of the subjects. Their concatenation is characterized by slow metamorphosis. Screens are employed as light sources. They function as thermometers transposing the stage temperature.

Synopsis

Bit of Human

Before being, act is free. It implies different possibilities. It constantly sculpts the present. The inner manicheism of human being becomes a dialogue between ancestral counterparts. You are what you do. In facing reality, freedom becomes just an ideal.
 
 
Description
The film analyzes the daily routine of a being separated in two halves. It focuses on the freedom to choose between possibilities, on the rituals of daily surviving in a metropolitan area and on the lack of confrontation in nowadays life.
 
The split screen is used to sustain the scattered main narrative. The synchronization of the images, shot with multiple cameras, echoes the duality of beings and the possible choices.
 
The score as well, reflects the echoing of the days. It’s based on some repeated harmonic-loops, which goes parallel with the repeated actions of the characters. Sound samples from the rushes compose the rhythmic of the music, underlining the environment.
 
 
Festivals
Festival Nemo, Paris
Festival du court-metrage de Brest, France
Mostra Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Festival Arcipelago, Roma, Italy
Festival Playtime di Johannesbourg, South Africa
Festival Internacional de Jovenes Realizadores de Grenada, Spain
Festival International Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
Festival Invideo, Milano, Italy
Festival International du Court-métrage de Clermont Ferrand, France
VIII Milano Film Festival, Italy
Festival Ars Nova, Paris, France