Carlos Casas, End

Filmmaker and visual artist Carlos Casas, from Spain, presents a selection of Fieldworks films from his award winning trilogy End. These pieces are audio/video documents of location recordings and radio frequencies captured in some of the most extreme environments on the planet - Patagonia, Aral, Siberia; the single channel films are followed by a two screen projection and live soundtrack of Tundra, a film about a day in the life of a reindeer herder community in Siberia.

About his work, Casas has written:
Using image and sound as a sort of spatial instrument, I am interested in short waves signals and VLF, their atmospheric qualities and sound, capturing the radio waves in each of the landscape I portray, allowing me to grasp another dimension of it. A sort of enhanced perception. I am interested also in the asynchronous randomness of the relation between soundtrack and film. I see this work as a sort of post structural film, where documentary and experimental film manners meet.

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