Carlos Casas

Carlos Casas

출생 : 1974-01-01, Barcelona, Spain

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Carlos Casas (born in Barcelona in 1974) is a Spanish filmmaker and visual artist. His work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. His last three films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and some of his video works have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions. In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet: Patagonia, the Aral sea, and Siberia. He has collaborated with musicians and artists like Phill Niblock, Z'EV, Nico Vascellari, Prurient, Sebastian Escofet, Nastro Mortal.

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Carlos Casas

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Elephant Journey
Director
Elephant journey_folded series
Cemetery
Writer
After a devastating earthquake, Nga, an old elephant and probably the last of its species, and Sanra, his mahout, are about to embark on a journey to find the mythical elephant’s graveyard. The group of poachers following them will die one after the other under mysterious circumstances and spells.
Cemetery
Director
After a devastating earthquake, Nga, an old elephant and probably the last of its species, and Sanra, his mahout, are about to embark on a journey to find the mythical elephant’s graveyard. The group of poachers following them will die one after the other under mysterious circumstances and spells.
Vesper & Madrigals
Director
The Municipality of Cavallino-Treporti, a strip of land enclosed between the Adriatic sea and the northern lagoon of Venice, invites a photographer of undisputed fame, as part of the Cavallino-Treporti Photography project, to re-read and investigate its extraordinary territory through the very personal and revealing lens of the camera and the unique sensitivity of the artist.
Vucca
Director
At the tip of Italy’s heel, lies la Vucca de lu puzzu, the gaping “mouth of the well”. Vucca (2016) is the intimate result of the artist’s field recordings inside the cave. Saline and pluvial water merge through an underwater tunnel, refracted sunlight challenges obscurity, while the rock stubbornly resists the passages of civilizations. The multilayered soundtrack and visuals echo the dizziness of the space.
1812: Cavalry
Director
A visual sound work with live soundtrack in a 6 channel stereophonic sound.
1812: Waltz
Director
A visual sound work with live soundtrack in a 6 channel stereophonic sound.
1812: Napoleon leaves Russia
Director
A visual sound work with live soundtrack in a 6 channel stereophonic sound.
1812: Napoleon's Song
Director
A visual sound work with live soundtrack in a 6 channel stereophonic sound.
Alleluia
Editor
Video 'reinterpretation' of Ghédalia Tazartès' cacophonous "Alleluia" by Carlos Casas.
Alleluia
Director
Video 'reinterpretation' of Ghédalia Tazartès' cacophonous "Alleluia" by Carlos Casas.
Vezdekhod
Director
Image by Carlos Casas. Double screen projection with live soundtrack. Images and sound captured on location. Somewhere in the tundra, Chukotka Region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation. Music by Prurient. Published by Von Archives. N 66° 37’ 916, W 172° 40’ 353, Sept 2006.
1812: War and Peace Studies
Director
1812 is an immersive audiovisual work entirely created and reworked from the classic Russian film War and Peace by Sergey Bondarchuk, from 1967. The work uses only and exclusively found footage and material from the film, and implodes it to create a new audiovisual work, a new visual sound experience. The result is an experimental vision that pretends to expand the way we perceive films and tries to push our notion of audiovisual sensations.
Istanbul Chorus
Director
Istanbul Chorus is a film composed in 5 parts: image and sound captured in location in five different key positions in Istanbul, capturing the landscape during the 5 different prayer time schedules of the city. The film attempts to map the city through its geographical coordinates and time frame division.
Zamboanga
Director
Images and sound captured in Zamboanga city Mindanao, Philippines. During sunset. Part of the Azan series & the Philippines fieldworks.
Montjuich
Director
A series of Fieldworks developed in Barcelona, an unconventional vision of Montjuich, from its cemetery to the sea.
Zeitgeist Torino
Director
A series of Fieldworks developed in Torino, Italy. Fascinated by the city esoteric symbols and presences, the film follows some of these enigmatic places.
Bardo
Director
"Developed as a research for a future film about a cemetery of elephants. The research is based on classic adventure films, Lost World literature adaptations and exotic adventure films from the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, the golden period of adventure in cinema. These archive works are experimental notes of some of the techniques and visions that will inhabit the film, they represent a new approach to sound and image. An overwhelming experiment with the audiovisual matter."
Cairo Chorus
Director
"Filmed in Cairo, in Al-Azhar Park, sunset during Isha'a praying time. The city becomes a Chorus. Dedicated to the people of Cairo. With love and hope." Part of the Azan series & the Cairo fieldworks.
Cemetery [Archive Works]
Director
Developed as a research for a future film about a cemetery of elephants. The research is based on classic adventure films, Lost World literature adaptations and exotic adventure films from the 30´s, 40´s, 50´s, 60´s, the golden period of adventure in cinema. These archive works are experimental notes of some of the techniques and visions that will inhabit the film, they represent a new approach to sound and image. An overwhelming experiment with the audiovisual matter.
Hunters Since the Beginning of Time
Producer
"Along the coast of the Bering Sea a community of whale hunters are struggling to survive keeping alive a millenary tradition. Surviving one of the most extreme environments of the planet."
Hunters Since the Beginning of Time
Director of Photography
"Along the coast of the Bering Sea a community of whale hunters are struggling to survive keeping alive a millenary tradition. Surviving one of the most extreme environments of the planet."
Hunters Since the Beginning of Time
Director
"Along the coast of the Bering Sea a community of whale hunters are struggling to survive keeping alive a millenary tradition. Surviving one of the most extreme environments of the planet."
END Trilogy
Director
"END is a work dedicated to the planet's most remote locations – a visual requiem for extreme lands, a trip through the most distant peripheries of civilisation, where people and the environment are melded together. END is a research project into the image and the imagination of the end. Given its world premiere at HangarBicocca in Milan, for which it has been specially created as part of the wider Terre Vulnerabili project, END is a three-screen installation that represents a selection of the works produced by Carlos Casas during the decades of arduous research he carried out in the Aral sea, Patagonia and Siberia, channelled into three documentary films, a lengthy series of single-channel videos and various audio-visual live events." - Excerpt from a text by Andrea Lissoni.
Choir
Director
Conceived as a manifesto for the label, Choir is an audiovisual experiment, that takes the shape of an installation and live media event, as well as a limited edition video work. The image and sound is a superposition of source material selected by the artists and overlayered in order to produce a ghostly image an "hypnotic tantric metal experience" as some of the irst viewers of the piece told. Choir is an hypnotic journey into the imaginary of this two artists.The sound is asynchronous and comes from different selection creating an amalgam of sources and inluences. This release presents the Ghostly Choir of the inluences and imaginary background of these two artist.
Reindeer
Director
Camera Edit, with ambient sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 900-663 AM. N 65˚29.534, W 171˚10.477.
White Night
Director
Camera Edit, with ambient sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 500-663 AM. N 65˚29.534, W 171˚10.477.
Whale Hunt
Director
Shot on location along the coast of the Bering Sea, Lorino. Chukotka region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation. Music by Phill Niblock. "One large Rose" with The Nelly Boyd Ensemble. N 65˚29.534, W 171˚10.477.
Bay of Dead
Director
Shot on location along the coast of the Bering Sea, Lorino. Chukotka region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation. N 65˚29.534, W 171˚10.477
Frozen Coast
Director
Shot on location along the coast of the Bering Sea, Lorino. Chukotka region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation.
Ice Edge
Director
Shot on location along the coast of the Bering Sea, Lorino. Chukotka region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation. N 65˚29.534, W 171˚10.477
Tundra
Director
A double-screen film captured on location along the coast of the Bering Strait in the Chukotka region of Northeastern Siberia-- At once, a look into the lives of a band of reindeer herders and a stunning, ambient portrait of the tundra.
Borealis
Director
Shot on location somewhere on the Tundra, Chukotka region, Northeastern Siberia, Russian Federation. N 65˚37.916, W 172˚40.353, 23:36-23:56
Radar
Director
Camera Edit, with ambient sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 100-800 AM. N 65˚29.534, W 171˚10.477.
Solitude at the End of the World
Director
In one of the least-populated regions of the world, three men lead lives in total solitude. Isolated from the world for different reasons, they survive in a suspended time all their own-- In an unforgiving, near-inhospitable environment.
Dead Sea
Director
9 minute 360 panorama sunset at sunset, shot on location on the remain ponds of the Aral sea. Sound is a SW signal of Bomdat muslim praying emission.
Tree
Director
A Selection of Fieldworks captured in location during 2005 in Hichigh, one of the highest inhabited villages in Badakhshan Autonomous region in Tajikistan. In the Pamir mountain Range in Central Asia.
Gas
Director
Captured in location with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 6098 -6638 AM SW
Lullaby
Director
A women is singing a Lullaby to a new born child on a cradle.
Transhumanic
Director
A herd descends from higher pastures to a lower river at mid afternoon. A day routine of a transhumanic flock in the summer pastures in Atbashi valley, South Kyrgyzstan.
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea
Director of Photography
A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea
Director
A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.
ROCINHA: Daylight of a Favela
Director
A documentary film about Rocinha, the daylight of brazil´s most notorious and populated favela. A jouney inside the slum through some of its most remarkable inhabitants. An alternative vision of their everyday fight against the stereotypes of poverty drugs and violence.
Glitter
Director
A fieldwork featuring the sun glitter in the only remain waters of the Aral Sea outside the former port town of Moynak, produced by the high density of salt minerals and chemical pollutants in the lake. Sound is a composition of different radio frequencies captured on location.
Pool
Director
Camera Edit, with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 5000-8000 AM SW.
Stable
Director
Single channel loop projection documentary fieldwork, captured in location with Ambient Sound.
Shipwreck
Director
Single channel, loop projection, documentary fieldwork. Captured in location with Ambient Sound.
Ox
Director
Captured in location with Ambient Sound. Aditional music Sebastian Escofet.
Fence
Director
Single channel loop projection documentary fieldwork. Captured in location with ambient sound.
Afterwords
Director
A short, drama film.
Smoke
Director
Camera Edit, with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 1000-2000 AM SW.
Light
Director
Camera Edit, with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: UTC 10000 SW.
Civilisation
Director
Camera Edit, with Ambient Sound and Radio Frequencies. Captured in location. Shortwave radio signals. KHz Range: 500-800 AM SW
Tree
Director
Captured in location with ambient sound.
Seal Hunt
Director
Film part of Siberian Fieldworks.
Condor
Director
A selection of Fieldworks captured in location during 2001-2002 in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina. Chile
Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre
Camera Intern
An indigenous tradition in the highlands of Peru where three key players take part: a wild condor, a raging bull and brave young men.