Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
NIGHTLIGHTING
Night Illuminations
Cristiana Miranda, Igor Cabral
Brasil
2022
Performance
Curta-Metragem
“Night Illuminations” is an expanded cinema performance that aims to create an environment of immersion and expansion of consciousness through an audiovisual experience. With images made directly on 16mm film, the work harks back to the origins of cinema and the primordial ecstasy experienced with moving images.
The work appeals to the essential aspects of the cinematic experience, where images do not require a film camera and are created by the continuous succession of drawings on the film. “Night Illuminations” recognizes the unexpected and mysterious that is always present in the cinematic experience, this kind of intoxication that the materiality of cinema, in the permanent rotation of the film through the toothed gears of the filming or projection machines, communicates directly to the brain.
The installation aims to combine an original sound environment with film images that dialogue with abstraction and indigenous geometries, creating a trance-like atmosphere capable of shaking the viewer.
general information
edition
8° Festival ECRÃ
date and
time
Cinemateca do MAM
30/07/2024
19:30
Live session
duration in min
20
debut
Première Internacional
trailer
classification
indicative
L / Free for all audiences / Livre Para Todos Os Públicos
festivals where he performed
tags
animation, art, spiritual, fantasy
Cristiana Miranda, Igor Cabral
Visual artist from Rio de Janeiro. Through cinematographic practices with 16mm film, he investigates the gaps in colonial memory, seeking in the gesture of revealing the image the emergence of reminiscences of the past. In 2017, he held a retrospective of his films at the Cinemateca do MAM-RJ, ‘Pequenos Poemas - Filmes de Cristiana Miranda’. He has participated in several Art Exhibitions and Experimental Film Festivals in Brazil and abroad. Among the galleries and museums where he has exhibited in Brazil are Centro Cultural São Paulo (2023), Paço Imperial (2022) and Gentil Carioca (2011). Among the international festivals, he participated in Mientrastanto CINE (Montevideo, 2022, 2021 and 2020), 1666 International Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, 2019, 2020 and 2021), Festival de Cine Cámara Lúcida (Quito, 2020). Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, USA, 2019 and 2017), Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA, 2022 and 2019), XIX Función Cinema Cínico (Buenos Aires, 2019), Alchemy Film & Art Festival (Hawick, Scotland, 2019), Féstival des Cinémas Différents de Paris (Paris, 2009). PhD in Arts from PPGARTES-UERJ.
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