Barbara Ghidini

H14 – Creating Expanded Cinema Performance

H14 is a collective formed by Barbara Ghidini and Antonio Bértolo, created in 2023 within the Crater Lab space, an association that has been promoting experimental and expanded film creation for 10 years.

It is a space where we continue to develop work focused on experimenting with film material to create performative proposals for Expanded Cinema.

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Our first performance is called ‘Morfologías Fluctuantes’ (Fluctuating Morphologies), with footage shot in a former industrial area of Barcelona (Las Tres Ximeneas) and in the Monegros desert. The special sound has been developped by our dear friend and artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

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This piece slowly expands into a triptych that, through pendulum movements, evokes not only a temporality without beginning or end, but also a state of transition.

This perpetual movement reveals traces of human activity in the form of post-industrial landscapes that did not survive the passage of time, carrying within them the omen of a change to come.
A change towards natural horizons that in their opposite rectilinear movements recalls the circularity of time, accentuated by the materiality and texture of the rocks that are a symbol of durability and permanence.

The sound, obtained with several oscillators connected to three photoelectric cells, adds very subtle sonic transformations, depending on each of these movements.
This device is used here in a way that does not disturb the fluidity of the images, thus creating a very intricate relationship between what is seen and what is heard.

And little by little thatmateriality is dissolving, finally becoming air.

Image

Barbara Ghidini
2 x 16mm NT projectors, zoom lenses, water, transparencies

Antonio Bértolo
2 x 16mm NT projectors, zoom lenses, image multipliers, filters, prisms, transparencies

Sound

Alfredo Costa Monteiro
oscillators, photoelectric cells, radios

 

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