Azucena Losana
출생 : , Mexico City, Mexico
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"Born and raised in Mexico City, 1977. I Live and work in Buenos Aires. I attended the Multimedia Arts Degree at the National Arts University in Argentina, the Abigail Child Found Footage workshop and Claudio Caldini's experimental film workshop. My work is related to experimental films, installations and video. I carry out and program the itinerant screening room for films called CINEMA CINICO. I'm also on charge of the mythical laboratory of the film resistance in Latinamerica: Arcoiris Super 8. I am currently working on the enhancement of the film collection of the Mexican Embassy in Argentina. Since 2012 I work with Carolina Andreetti in our project TAPP, a workshop dedicated to the construction of analog projectors with discarded materials or easily accessible for audiovisual ensambles. Received in 2009 the Third Prize of Arts and New Technologies from the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and Telefonica, in 2015 the exchange scholarship of the University of Sao Paulo / UNA. On 2016 a mention in the National Hall of Arts in Argentina. On 2017 received the Creation Grant from the Nacional Arts Fund in Argentina and the grant for the Art Creators National System Program (SNCA) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in Mexico. My films have been screened at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, BAFICI, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periferico, La Coruña, España, Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen Germany, Los Angeles Filmforum's film series Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, The Age d'Or Festival in Brussels, VIDEOEX in Zurich, Curta8 in Curitiba Brazil, PAF animation festival in Olomuc, Czech Republic, MEXPARIS MENTAL in France, the International Experimental Film Festival of Moscow MIEFF, the Week of the Experimental Film of La Plata - Argentina, UNCIPAR, among others." -A.L.
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A 16mm film performance draws inspiration from the Nanacatepec, a rock traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape. Its fruits, in the form of mushrooms, serve as creators and transformers of everything in the world.
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Electromagnetic landscapes and marginal poetry on a holiday.
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Electromagnetic landscapes and marginal poetry on a holiday.
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An imaginary place on the map of affections, where hawthorn, orange and plum trees coexist. An island and a valley which climbs stairs of all ages.
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Short film by Azucena Losana.
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During the enhancement of the audiovisual heritage of the Embassy of Mexico in Argentina we found promotional tourist material in different media. I chose some 16mm film titles published 1968–72. At that time, the National Tourism Office commissioned and distributed these short films emphasizing modernity and comfort in contrast to the exotic and almost pristine nature of our tourist destinations. This new wave of mass tourism to underdeveloped countries, which would become one of the main sources of income for Mexico and the Caribbean, was what the Cuban historian Manuel Moreno Fraginals called “the fourth plantation,” alluding to economic practices of monoculture and neocolonialism. This is a compilation of the most interesting moments to review the speeches of that time.
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In the rainy season, after several days of downpours and gusty winds, calm finally arrives. The animals leave their burrows to dry out and mushroom collection begins. Some are cut for consumption while others remain attached to the surfaces.
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This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.
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This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.
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In 1958, Le Corbusier designed the Corbusierhaus in Berlin. A housing unit surrounded with green areas with capacity for 2,000 people. This is a study of the color and movement in the building’s common areas. Almost dotting exercise, hyperkinetic but also hyperalert -doors, hallways, murals, numbers, locks, its exterior and emergency spaces. Everything that could have been ignored is instead revitalized at a pace that leaves the museum trail behind in order to focus on the day-by-day, in the ignored vigor of the simple everyday space. And here appears happy formalism, charmed by the corners (of the buildings and of Le Corbusier’s own work), that wants to share that same joy and that same demystification. JMD
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"Fragments of a few orphan films abandoned in a lab." (the8fest)
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In La hora decisiva, Azucena captures, in the midst Mexican Revolution celebrations that happened in November 2019, an improvised street photography set, with people wearing traditional garments being photographed in an elegant armchair with a rifle in their hands, imitating the photographic records of the time. Full of humor, joy and cotillón, Losana comments that, given all the multiple protests that were taking place on the continent at that time, she wondered what Zapata would have thought of our revolutions.
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The filmic support as plastic material is an investigation that in this performance proposes the formal study of perforation and that of the human face as representation, chromatic configuration and target of electronic detectors.
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With carpenters and fishermen on the coast of Valparaíso, Leonel Vasquez built a boat/sound installation following the almost extinct tradition of the craft wooden boats that still sail these waters. Through on-board wooden speakers, fishermen tell the stories of their livelihoods.
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During the evening, between 15:00 and 17:00 all of Valparaíso's hills appear almost motionless.
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In the winter, the Valley of Wolves, the southern most of America, becomes a uniform white surface. The Emerald Lagoon freezes and becomes invisible. It is possible to follow some signs, but the infallible technique is to follow our local guide.
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A duet for camera.
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"In a recurrent dream I keep on following your steps, always at your heels." A handicraft film, a travel journal where the lead character is the one behind the camera pulling the trigger regularly and composing the frame’s area and duration.
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Film loops with overlapping chromatic density and textures achieved with photochemical development experiments.
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Letraset typeset intervention and editing on the projection copy of the film Cuesta Abajo, by Louis J. Gasnier, 1934.
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This is the portrait of Cesar, the heir to a tradition of neon lights that ruled in Buenos Aires' marquees and now resists obsolescence.
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Overlapping of the monumental structures of communist East Berlin architecture.
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Roaming through the traditional Christmas stands of live carp fish on the street of Prague.
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The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical birds, Paulistas are like frenetic ants. Distances are longer and they're always in a hurry. A busy journey through this beautiful Brazilian beast which cannot help but beating irregularly.
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Roaming through the traditional Christmas stands of live carp fish on the street of Prague.
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This is the filmic portrait of Daniel Vicinos, one of the most characteristic figures of Argentina's film industry: inventor, technician, collector, ironwork lover, but above all, in love with cinema.
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Performance with live audio equalization.
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