VIDEOARTE - Sebastian Diaz Morales

País: Argentina

Ano:

Duração: 01:21:08

Even if the title suggests a synthesis of the story that would take it back to its most basic, abstract logic, that´s not necessarily the path chosen by this film. Because, first of all, the action takes place in a very concrete and defined territory: Patagonia; and it conducts a deep exploration of that landscape by using audiovisual resources in the most liberating way. But, also, because in the film there is a wandering character who sets an itinerary that, rather than accumulating incidents, goes for an adventure that’s free from conventional limits, even those of minimalist portraits. However, Sebastián Díaz Morales’ film doesn’t rest at all on the beauty of the landscapes; instead, it leads to junctions that range between realism and strange performances, from aerial travelling shots to extended fixed ones, from visual and verbal poetry to unaffected descriptions. In the end, those crossroads are where the film finally manages to find its vanishing points.

País: Argentina

Ano:

Duração: 10:00 min

Sinopse

País: Argentina

Ano:

Duração: 02:15 min

Sinopse

País: Argentina

Ano: 2009

Duração: 11:00 min

The alluring images in his films speak clearly for themselves, for they usually lack of dialogue. This aspect lets the artist give the audience all they need to create their own individual and personal story, without imposing any set structure. The video installation Oracle alternates a series of apparently random images that are not linked one to the other. They just follow on, like the tesserae in a mosaic that is still to be completed. The title seems to allude to the tradition of the Greek Oracle as a source of wisdom and prophecy, capable of offering a vision of the future through a combination of elements from the present. A plastic bag moved by the wind, a solitary man staring at the sea, and a solar eclipse are just some of the images that appear on the screen as propitiatory signs, and with which the audience can create their own free response.

Cecilia Alemani

País: Argentina

Ano: 2012

Duração: 12:30 min

Buenos Aires appears in this video series as an endless maze where an optional image to reality takes shape. This is the geography of a story expressed in an alteration to the normal, which arises from a montage of urban spaces. The urban reworking of the story is an attempt to regenerate the body of a city and its images in the form of an alternative geography.

País: Argentina

Ano: 2013

Duração: 15:00 min

Buenos Aires appears in this video series as an endless maze where an optional image to reality takes shape. This is the geography of a story expressed in an alteration to the normal, which arises from a montage of urban spaces. The urban reworking of the story is an attempt to regenerate the body of a city and its images in the form of an alternative geography.

País: Argentina

Ano: 2004

Duração: 39:00 min

You could ask yourself, who is that man? The man we hear about in, for example, 'The man who knew too much', 'The man who wasn't there' or the German one in 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften'? In this film by Sebastian Diaz Morales, it is 'The man with the bag' and, just as the men in those other stories, he is the man who is there so that we can identify with him. The man who embodies more than just himself, and who is usually the subject of the 'human condition'.
The wind is blowing hard and incessantly over the barren heights of Patagonia; the deserted landscape is merciless and, as if to emphasize this, a shining white line accentuates the unbelievably-shaped horizon. The man is wearing a raincoat and hat, and is running as if someone is on his tail, but what creature or idea is chasing him is hard to say. On and on he goes, stumbling over rocks and becoming entangled in barbed wire. Slowly but surely his luggage changes from a smart suitcase on wheels into a frayed bag holding the remains of a previous life. Two cameras register his flight, while two pianos are playing the ever-continuing story of his journey. In the centre of the image is the spot where there is a gap in the horizon, into which he sometimes partly disappears. If there are two worlds, two realities existing along side each other, then he is the man who is moving faultlessly to and fro from one to the other.