SEBASTIAN DIAZ MORALES - EL CAMINO ENTRE DOS PUNTOS
SCREENING - ÉCRAN D'ART
The Argentine film and video artist Sebastian Diaz Morales experiments with a wide variety of cinematographic genres, forms of expression and stylistic means. He resists categorisation and in the strict sense makes neither film nor art. Although his work sporadically tends towards documentary, it is never unequivocally illustrative.
El camino entre dos puntos shows the ‘defiled’ landscape of Patagonia, an untamed landscape which, in the course of the 20th century, man transformed into a place for the extraction of oil and which was partly urbanised. Using long continuous shots and making much use of wordless metaphors, Diaz Morales shows how man tries to tame nature. In superb images of the landscape, the camera follows an oil worker from his office to an undefined destination. On his way he will find remnants of previous attempts at civilisation, and also discover his own role in this story. This film is a modest reflection on the way nature works, as a mechanism in which man’s intervention is only a temporary phase.
Sebastian Diaz Morales - El camino entre dos puntos
2010, video, 81’, colour, English Spoken
El camino entre dos puntos shows the ‘defiled’ landscape of Patagonia, an untamed landscape which, in the course of the 20th century, man transformed into a place for the extraction of oil and which was partly urbanised. Using long continuous shots and making much use of wordless metaphors, Diaz Morales shows how man tries to tame nature. In superb images of the landscape, the camera follows an oil worker from his office to an undefined destination. On his way he will find remnants of previous attempts at civilisation, and also discover his own role in this story. This film is a modest reflection on the way nature works, as a mechanism in which man’s intervention is only a temporary phase.
Sebastian Diaz Morales - El camino entre dos puntos
2010, video, 81’, colour, English Spoken
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Thu 13.5.2010
21:30 - 23:30 -
Practical info
Location:
Cinéma Arenberg
Koninginnegalerij 26 Galerie de la Reine
1000 Brussels
+32 2 512 80 63
Entrance Fee:
8 / 6,6 euros - Artists
