Producer
The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, seceded from Moldova since 1990. Kolja is a silent witness of how borders and bureaucracy shape the lives of citizens, finally forced to lose their identity.
Post Production Coordinator
Holding in her mind Dorothea Tanning’s painting Some Roses and their Phantoms (1952) and its sickening presentation of objects as between states of being, Wardill made a film that also hovers between definitions. The architecture of the Gulbenkian auditorium in Lisbon, its colors and sense of being lost in time accompany us through a loop where a man wanders the building at night, followed by something that is not human. Through the care and paranoia with which she approaches the digital image, the artist investigates the past’s haunting of the present and the remnants of textures longing to be touched. Wardill’s work takes an interest in the appropriation of models to express ideas and the way in which fixed scenarios become exemplary. She explores the opacity of communication to deconstruct the way in which materials or the implication of the material are used to elucidate ideas.
Editor
A Moral Conjugal
Visual Effects Producer
Penúltimo largometraje de Manoel de Oliveira, que esta vez se divierte con una película de fantasmas en la que un fotógrafo emprende un viaje alucinado después de retratar a la hija muerta de los propietarios de un hotel. Sin caer en la nostalgia del que sabe que la visita de la Parca está proxima, el director nos invita a un viaje mágico en el que la realidad y la ficción se funden para darnos a entender que la vida y la muerte son una y la misma cosa. Contada con la sonrisa perpetua en los labios, la aventura de Isaac mantiene el encanto y la frescura del cine de la época silente, pero no su característica ingenuidad. Oliveira que, como el mismísimo Diablo, sabe más por viejo que por diablo, como él se divierte, manejando como un titiritero al desdichado fotógrafo.
