pun t o y raya f e s t iv a l
vuelve a las bases back to basics
Punto y Raya Festival is the brainchild of the Barcelonan non-profit association MAD [Moviment D’Alliberament Digital]. The proposal is as simple as universal: “No representation, only dots and lines. Can you take it?”. This was the challenge launched in 2007 through our first call for entries (distributed entirely via the Internet). To our amazement, we received near 90 dot·line films from 20 countries. The participants turned out to be animation students, renown animators, filmmakers, video-artists, special FX designers, scientists, architects, composers, Vj’s, anthropologists, graphic designers… We soon realized that the concept’s universality had aroused the interest of various collectives; it was self-evident that the dot and the line affected the way everybody interested in the creative process thinks of representation. Under the motto “Back to basics”, Punto y Raya reflects upon what constitutes the essence of form and movement, and explores these building blocks as ends in themselves. From Beijing to Vancouver, from Reykjavik to Buenos Aires, thousands of people were able to attend the festival’s reruns organized in each city thanks to our associated groups and venues. In barely two years of existence, we had already gained the recognition of the experimental audiovisual community and the critic. An article published in Seattle (WA·USA), has described our festival as “a broad spectrum of works of powerful imagery, which will make us wonder about the essence of time and space beyond language itself”. And in 2008, the Japanese press gave us the title of “most abstract festival in the world”. Punto y Raya now constitutes a creative platform based in over 35 cities all over the world. It has four editions under its belt: · La Casa Encendida (Madrid 2007) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/mlce07_eng.php · Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona 2009) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/masm09_eng.php · Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid 2011) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/mmrs11_eng.php
· CCCB (Barcelona 2012) | JUNIOR www.puntoyrayafestival.com/junior/mcccb12_eng.php : W E B S I T E | w w w . p u n to y r a y a fe sti v a l . co m : B L O G | w w w.p u n to y r a y a fe s ti v a l . co m/ b l o g (spanish · english) All the information in the world of abstract art and various technological/scientific applications related to abstraction. : SOCIAL NETWORKS w w w . f a ce b o o k . com/ p u n to y r a y a fe st i v al
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M A N I F E S T This festival explores the ultimate synthesis of the form·movement duality in different spheres of art, science and thought. Due to the simplicity of its criteria, it uses abstraction's prime matter to reveal the limitations and achievements of our representation systems. The dot·line is the ultimate grain of our universe and of the sense we make of it; it's the primordial identification of all that exists; the essence of that which is matterless but builds up matter, of what is imperceptible but allows us to recognize all perceptible things. But in the symbolic dimension the dot·line ceases to be an end in itself to become a representation of human thought.
The dot·line dwells beyond religion, sociocultural environment, age, gender and language. We invite people from all over the world to explore the creative possibilities of these two basic elements, which make human expression and communication possible.
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: S C R E E N I N G S : OFFICIAL COMPETITION Through our online call for entries we received 94 dot·line films from over 20 countries. The following are the 52 selected to take part in the official competition; they were organized in four 60-minute modules.
REEL Rayas Blancas y Rojas | White and Red Lines Calpurnio 5’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Valencia·Spain
infra_ Judith Nothnagel 1’12’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2006 · Germay
mar de los humores | sea of humours Juan Alcon Alegre_ANJú 1’00’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2000 · Madrid·Spain
Freedom of Perception Piero Glina 6’31’’ · b&w · cgi · 2005 · Karlsrühe·Germany
Tribute Angela Anastasia Diamos 2’06’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Los Angeles·CA,USA
De Sindh a Bezoar | From Sindh to Bezoar Iris Joval Granollers 1’37’’ · color · scratch · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
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(SoundToFrame 2.1) National Anthem Matthias Fitz 5’06’’ · color · cgi · 1999 · Berlin·Germany
Guerrilla Flies Michele Castelli 4’08’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Palermo·Italy
Mercurius [1º prize] Bret Battey 6’10’’ · color · cgi · 2005 · UK
sense from nonsense Mateo Marin_ iamblichi 2’15’’ · b&w · 2006 · Berlín·Germany
Symmetry [finalist] Aleksandra Dulic · Kenneth Newby 2’00’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Vancouver·BC, Canada
Syclops Iván Bayo Vigo 1’40’’ · vid. comp. · b&w · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Velocity [2º prize] Iconish & Foraudiofans 6’20’’ · color · cgi · 2002 · Barcelona·Spain
Asperity [finalist] Tom Jobbins 1’58’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Bristol·UK
REEL Circle [Audience Award] Laurie Gibbs 3’14’’ · b&w · cgi · 2006 · Bristol·UK
glia Nashla Abdelnour 3’29’’ · color · scratch · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Study For TestTone And Retinal Burn [finalist] Thomas Bey William Bailey 4’34’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Oklahoma·USA
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Phollymorph Joaquin [Kino] Gil 3’04’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · Los Angeles·CA, USA
Esmolades | Sharp Albert Callejo Amat 4’40’’ · color · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
21_Elastic_Pings Mattias Arvastsson 5’49’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2005 · Bergen·Norway
watch Iconish & Foraudiofans 4’58’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Electriquity Ian Nesbitt 1’21’’ · color · drawing · 2007 · Nottingham·UK
sin contenido | without a content Xavier Guix Bonás 1’00’’ · color · video comp. · 1999 · Barcelona·Spain
Cinético Mantra Rafael Miralles Sánchez 5’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona–Alicante·Spain
Bagatelle 1 Lou Cohen 2’01’’ · color · cgi · 2004 · Massachusetts·USA
Paciencia Uno: Karim | Patience One: Karim Javier Calvo Fernández 3’20’’ · color · vid. comp. · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Terra Incognita Danielle Ye 6’30’’ · color · drawing · 2003 · USA
REEL TaMura / MuraTa [finalist] Katsuyuki Hattori & Yusuke Shinmura_Goldenshit 8’00’’ · color · cgi · 2005-07 · Tokio·Japan
Ritmo Propio Tryand 3’17’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Berlin·Germany
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RayasCurvasNew_MATKA Calpurnio 3’34’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Valencia·Spain
feeding the moon Mateo Marin_iamblichi 6’55’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · Berlin·Germany
The Ghost of John Nancy Herman 1’ 33’’· color · cgi · 2007 · Pennsylvania·USA
guix-0 Xavier Guix Bonás 6’50’’ · b&w· video comp. · 1999 · Barcelona·Spain
4004 Gustavo Daniel Kortsarz 1’18’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · France
Videolightwork one Clemente Calvo 3’34’’ · color · op·art · 2007 · Zaragoza·Spain
tinto 1.0 Daniel Schulze 1’40’’ · vid. comp. · b&w · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
shhhhhhhh op#1 & op#2 Chiaki Watanabe_c.h.i.a.k.i 2’54’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · NY·USA
Punto y línea sobre el plano | Dot and Line on the plane Dina Caball Olivet 1’31’’ · drawing · b&w · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Mecanismo [finalist] Joaquin [Kino] Gil 4’56’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 · Los Angeles·CA, USA
REEL raindrops Iconish & Foraudiofans 3’00’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
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desequilibrio 1 equilibrio 0 Xavier Guix Bonás 3’10’’ · color · video comp. · 1999 · Barcelona·Spain
Bolle (IV·V·VI) | Bubles Stefano Giannotti 8’48’’· color · vid. comp. · 2005 · Italy·Germany·Poland
Contrapunto | Counterpoint Laura Nillni & Ricardo Nillni 3’07’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · France
Vídeo nº 12 Iván Hernández Montero_Klee 4’30’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Evolution John Osborne 2’30’’ · cgi · color · 2007 · Canada
Drawn 0.0 Solange Morello Z. 1’02’’ · b&w · drawing · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
Fleshtones Philip Sanderson 2’53’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · Londres·UK
Puddle Jumper [3º prize] Chris Casady 2’10’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · Los Angeles·CA, USA
Viento | Wind Bruno Bresani 0’55’’ · b&w · scratch · 2007 · Barcelona·Spain
loop 12/06 [finalist] Astrid Hagenguth 5’17’’ · color · scratch · 2007 · Braunschweig·Germany
Detritus Rubén Rivera 2’35’’ · b&w · drawing · 1991 · Puerto Rico
r.g.b. Chiaki Watanabe_c.h.i.a.k.i 7’20’’ · color · cgi · 2006 · NY·USA
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AWARDED FILMS FIRST Prize
SECOND Prize
THIRD Prize
Mercurius Bret Battey 6’10’’ · cgi · color · 2005 · UK
Velocity Iconish & Foraudiofans 2002 · 6’20’’ · cgi · color · Barcelona, Spain
Puddle Jumper Chris Casady 2’10’’ · color · cgi · 2007 · L.A., USA
Premio de la AUDIENCIA
Circle Laurie Gibbs 3’14’’ · b&w· cgi · 2006 · Bristol, UK
Obras FINALISTAS
Loop 12/06 Astrid Hagenguth 5’17’’ · color · scratch · 2007 Braunschweig, Germany
TaMura MuraTa Katsuyuki Hattori & Yusuke Shinmura aka Goldenshit 8’00’’ · color · cgi · 2005-07 Tokyo, Japan
Study for TestTone and Retinal Burn Thomas Bey William Bailey 4’34’’ · color · cgi · 2007 Oklahoma, USA
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Mecanismo Joaquín Kino Gil 4’56’’ · b&w · cgi · 2007 Los Angeles·CA, USA
Asperity Tom Jobbins 1’58’’ · b&w · 2007 Bristol, UK
Symmetry Aleks Dulic · Kenneth Newby 2’00’’ · color · cgi · 2007 Vancouver·BC, Canada
JURY
L A R R Y C U B A [Atlanta·USA 1950] Larry Cuba is widely recognized as a pioneer in the use of computers in animation art. His four films First Fig (1974), 3/78 (Objects and Transformations) (1978), Two Space (1979) and Calculated Movements (1985) explore the visual perception of motion and musical structure, and are already classics. In 1994, he founded the iotaCenter, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to abstract animation and visual music. His ongoing software development project continues his research into the connection between algorithmic and choreographic patterns. www.iotacenter.org
B Ä R B E L N E U B A U E R [Klagenfurt·Austria 1950] She studied film and stage design at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. In 1987 she moved to Munich·Germany where she currently lives and works. Bärbel has been making about 40 animation films and experimental films since 1980 and composing music and film-music since 1991. She serves as a member of juries for international animation, feature and short-films festivals, teaches workshops and courses in Europe and US, and is currently working in her two new films: Airwaves and Morphs of Pegasus. www.spiralsmorphs.de
E U G E N I B O N E T [Barcelona·Spain 1954] Eugeni Bonet is active in the areas of film, video and digital media as a writer, curator and artist. His selected videofilmography include Duchamp (retard en vídeo)(1986-87), U-Session (2002) and Throw Your Watch to the Water (2004, 35mm feature film). Presently in phase of editing, he is working in a medium-length video, eGolem, as the germ of a possible feature film. As a curator, his activities include the circulating programme Calculated Cinema (1999 and 2001) and the film series Coming Soon: Lettrist Cinema, in between of discrepancy and uprising (2005).
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L U K A S Z L Y S A K O W S K I [Gdansk, Poland 1974] As an artist and a designer, Lukasz explores the cybernetic relationship of the human and the machine through the shared interface of the mediated screen. Utilizing his own custom software that draws upon imagery created by himself and his partner Lael Gerhart, Lukasz developed real-time improvisational and generative audio visual performances. In 2000 he started the video-impro-trio 242.pilots together with Kurt Ralske and HC Gilje, which realized the performance “Live in Bruxelles” in 2002. In this context Lukasz created his piece “Solo”. http://lukasz.wildlifeanalysis.org LAURA GINÉS & PERE GINARD_LABORATORIUM [Girona · Palma de Mallorca, Spain 1975] Pere Ginard studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and Laura Ginès, Art and Design at l’Escola Massana (linked to the UB). In 2001 they establish their production micro-company Laboratorium. Since then they have combined the realisation of experimental films with various illustration and graphic design works. They have participated as curators in Xinacittà, an open-air screening of quality animation in Barcelona. http://laboratorium.cat
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RETROSPECTIVE SECTION [1923-2006]
16mm
An amazing tour-de-force through over 80 years of the history of cinema, featuring pioneer works in abstract animation from its very beginnings to cgi pieces from the 60’s and more contemporary works created with top notch software. On DVD, 16 & 35 mm. Norman McLaren Mosaic | Mosaico 1965 · 5' · 16mm · color · op·art · Canada
D·Fuse Earthquake Weather 2005 · 4’26’’ · color · cgi · UK
Pierre Hébert Opus 1 1964 · 4’ · b&n · 16mm · scratch · Canada
Jordan Belson Allures 1961 · 7’30’’ · 16mm · color · op·art · USA
Oskar Fischinger Studie nº 9 | Stufy nº 9 1931 · 3’ · b&w · drawing · Germany
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Lukasz Lysakowski Solo 2002 · 4’31’’ · color · cgi · USA
Viking Eggeling Symphonie Diagonale | Diagonal Symphony 1923-24 · 8’ · b&w · 35mm · Germany
Bärbel Neubauer Mondlicht | Moonlight 1997 · 4’ · color · scratch · Switzerland
Larry Cuba Two Space 1979 · 7’30’’ · b&w · 16mm · cgi · USA
Chiaki Watanabe_c.h.i.a.k.i One Over Three 2006 · 7’ · b&w · cgi · USA
Oskar Fischinger Kreise | Circles 1933 · 2’ · color · Germany
Len Lye Free Radicals 1979 · 5' · b&w · 16mm · scratch · UK
Alexander Rutterford Monocodes 2000 · 3’13’’ · color · cgi · UK
Robert Breer A man and his dog out for air 1957 · 3’ · b&w · drawing · France
James Whitney Lapis 1963-66 · 10’ · color · 16mm · USA
Amit Pitaru & James Paterson_Insertsilence August 16th 2001 · 2’52’’ · b&n · cgi · NY·USA
Larry Cuba Calculated Movements 1985 · 6’20'' · color · 16mm · USA
Norman McLaren Synchromie | Synchromy 1971 · 7’30’’ · color · 16mm · op·art · Canada
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PYRFORMANCES Realtime dotline imagery. Vj’s are invited to play with the new dimensions emerged from the audience’s interaction, plain chance and the venue’s characteristics.
MIA MAKELA_SOLU RAUL SANTOS_SUPERCINEXCENE This renown media + live cinema artist, teacher, investigator and cultural activist from Finland, began her career in 2001 performing visuals as part of the audiovisual improvisational band DADATA. After its dissolution she continued as SOLU, collaborating with many experimental musicians such as Heidi Mortenson and Dj Rupture. Since then she has performed in several festivals around the globe, including Zagreb Biennale of Music, Cimaticsfestival [Brussels], the Museum of Contemporary Art [Helsinki, 2003], SONIC ACTS [Amsterdam], SONAR festival [Barcelona], AVIT [Birmingham], MAPPING [Geneve], TRANSIT_MX [Mexico City] and Live Cinema Nights [San José]. In 2004 she launched dorkbot.org in Barcelona presenting “People who do strange things with electricity”. Her latest occupation is PUBLIC.BCN, which concentrates all her audiovisual activities under the same label [workshops, events, AVcommunity, site-specific projects, ideas....] www.solu.org This gifted producer and composer began his career as a DJ at the mythical Maravillas in Madrid. After playing drums for Los Planetas in 95-96 and keyboards for Mercromina, he launches his solo projects as Supercinexcene, publishing several singles for the record company Yo Gano, Tu Pierdes featuring artists like Najwa and Mastreta, among many others. Artistic producer of bands such as 995, Sapiens, Doble H, Malinche, Rekord Your Fucking Name and Najwa [he’s produced her last three albums] Raúl Santos has also collaborated in 2006-7 with The Cabriolets [Diego Postigo, Bimba Bosé and David Unison]. www.myspace.com/rsantos
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ANTONIN DE BEMELS & HANS DE MAN_FOTON Brussels-based leftfield collective experimenting with electronic music, performances, installations, new media and off-limits partying. Through a physical approach to phenomena like sound and light Foton creates parallel worlds where people in the audience become submerged participants rather than passive subjects. For Punto y Raya will create an intense audiovisual experience where music and images are not conceived for the ears and eyes only, but for the whole body. Antonin De Bemels is a video and audio artist. Interested in experimental electronic music as well as contemporary dance and video art, his main subjects are movement, the human body, and the dynamic relationship between sounds and images. He has made a dozen of short videofilms - quite a few of them being awarded - and creates soundtracks and visuals for dance and theatre pieces. His vj-performances are like a visual diary, making a connection between his work as a video artist and his everyday life: on one side carefully chosen and processed images from dancers and other "performing bodies", on the other side spontaneously taken images from his surroundings and from his own defective body. From unity to multiplicity, from light corpuscles to body parts, from abstraction to figuration, from the inner self to the outside world, and back. Hans De Man a.k.a Antz wears many masks: Foton founder, concert & party promotor, multimedia curator, installation artist and dj. The recurring themes in his activities are a taste for pushing borders and the transmission of positive energy. In his sound installations an implicit interactivity is incorporated, forcing the audience to become one with the installation and interact from within, rather than to start an externally triggered dialogue. As dj Antz he focuses on intense and physical sounds and rhythms, turning an ordinary dj-set into a sonic performance. The sounds he chooses go from minimal to maximal, from horizontal to vertical, from abstract ambient to brutal 'core'-madness. www.foton.be www.periactes.be/antonindb info@foton.be
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CONFERENCES AGUSTÍN GARCÍA CALVO Either Line or Dot His conference confronts the definition of a straight line by two dots with the creation of a dot by two straight lines, and fathom thereof the problems in the relations between ideas and reality. Agustín García Calvo [Zamora·Spain 1926] He is an emeritus cathedratic in Classical Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Thinker, linguist, writer, translator, poet... Awarded with the Premio Nacional de Ensayo 1990, Premio Nacional de Literatura Dramática 2003 and Premio Nacional de Traducción 2006. Author of numerous works of diverse genres. (His complete works have been published by Editorial Lucina, Zamora). It’s worth to mention his endeavour to continue practising the Socratic method by talking directly with his audience in the many issues of his “Tertulia Política” at the Ateneo de Madrid, every Wednesday at eight thirty p.m.
JOSÉ ANTONIO MILLÁN The Graphics representation of Language in the Western World The passionate tale of the various trials at achieving the perfect notation of human breath. José Antonio Millán [Madrid·Spain 1954] Linguist interested in signs (about which he published ¡No! and ¡Contra!, Gustavo Gili) and in etymology (El candidato melancólico. De dónde vienen las palabras, cómo viajan, por qué cambian, y qué historias cuentan, RBA). Regarding punctuation he wrote Perdón imposible. Guía para una puntuación más rica y consciente (RBA) and an introduction for children: Me como esa coma. ¡Glups! Parece que la puntuación es importante... (Serres) His website verses about this and many other things: http://jamillan.com
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WORKSHOP
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Addressed to school children, this open workshop proposes the realization of one or various collective micro·films emulating the technique "direct·on·film animation" that was popularized in the mid·fifties by artists like Norman Mclaren, Len Lye or Stan Brakhage. Pere Ginard studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona Ginès, Art and Design at l’Escola Massana (linked to the UB). In establish their production micro-company Laboratorium. Since have combined the realisation of experimental films with various and graphic design works.
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They have participated as curators in Xinacittà, an open-air screening of quality animation in Barcelona. http://laboratorium.cat
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ORGANIZED BY
MAD is a non-profit association based in Barcelona. For over nine years we've been working on cultural engineering through projects development involving art, science and technology. We curate experimental cinema & animation screenings, as well as live cinema performances at various venues in Spain and abroad. We also develop social projects such as the Sound Library for the “Digital Alphabetization Plan at the Catalonian Penal Centers”, coordinated by the Justice Department. : we devise new ways of maximizing technologic resources and applications in various contexts. : we digitally release documents/works through the development of a creative and collaborative platform addressed to all audiences. : we facilitate the access of minority groups to various resources and tools through the organization of workshops and the development of new technological applications. : mad is based on the Internet, where it keeps record of its various projects and actions. MAD are: Ana Santos. BA in Graphic Design and Photography. She works as a freelance art director and web designer. Founder member of MAD. Nöel Palazzo. Feature film and animation serial's writer. She also writes narrative, mostly scifi and gothic fantasy novels. She has a couple of internationally awarded films and occasionally lectures and writes articles as a film critic. Since 2008 she's been a member of the iotaCenter’s Advisory Council (Los Angeles, CA) and coordinator of the Spanish speaking community at the Visual Music Village. pyr@mad-actions.com | www.mad-actions.com
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
We heartfully thank: Eugeni Bonet | Jaume Bosch | Larry Cuba | Helena Febrés | Pere Ginard | Laura Ginés | Laboratorium | Lukasz Lysakowski | Bärbel Neubauer | Lluís Ribalta Coma-Cros | Javier Romañach.
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