Carlos Casas is a filmmaker and artist whose practice encompasses film, sound and the visual arts. His films have been screened and awarded in festivals around the world, like the Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Mexico International Film Festival, CPH DOX Copenhagen, FID Marseille, etc... Retrospectives of his films have been presented international festivals and cinematheques from Madrid, Mexico to Bruxelles, his work has been exhibited and performed in international art institutions and galleries, such as Tate Modern in London, Fondation Cartier, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou in Paris, NTU CCA Singapore; Hangar Bicocca, and La Triennale in Milan, CCCB Barcelona, Matadero Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, MAAT Lisbon, GAM Torino, Bozar, Kunsten Festival des Arts Bruxelles … among others. He has collaborated with musicians and artists like Phill Niblock, Z'EV, Nico Vascellari,

Prurient Ian Dominick Fernow is an American experimental musician, poet and multimedia artist. He is best known for extreme music released under the stage name Prurient, as well as numerous other aliases including Vatican Shadow and Rainforest Spiritual ...

, Sebastian Escofet, Nastro Mortal.

Biography

Carlos Casas studied fine arts, cinema and design. In 1998 he was awarded an Artist-in-residence in Fabrica, research and communication center of Benetton. In 2000 his short Film “''Afterwords''”, produced by Marco Müller and Fabrica Cinema was selected for

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

International Film Festival Rotterdam The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...

and Reencontres du Cinema in Paris 2001. In 2001 he started a series of documentaries for Colors Magazine, and a series of Fieldworks, an ongoing experiment with ambiental video and radio frequencies, a sort of landscape video notes, in 2003 he developed a 52 min documentary,” Rocinha. ''Daylight of a favela''” Shot on location in one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro.He also publish a compilation of Funk Carioca in collaboration with DJ Marlboro and Irma Records. In 2004 he finished “''Aral. Fishing in an invisible sea''” about the life of the three remaining generation of Fishermen in the Aral sea, which won the best documentary award in Torino Film festival 2004, and was selected for the

2005.

Visions du Réel Visions du Réel (Visions of Reality) is an internationally renowned documentary film festival held in April each year in Nyon, Switzerland. Established in 1969 as the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, the event adopted its current na ...

documentary film festival, Nyon, Switzerland 2005, ''One World''

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2005, and Documenta Madrid 2005 where it received the special mention from the jury. In May 2005 he finished a 52 min version of the Patagonia research “''Solitude at the end of the world''”which received the special prize from the Jury in

BAFICI The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of ...

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2006. The Siberia project ”''Hunters since the beginning of time''” is the last chapter of a trilogy of films dedicated to the most extreme environments in the world. (Patagonia, Aral, Siberia) was awarded Best Documentary Award in

FICCO ''Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival'', or ''FICCO'' (''Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo'') for its initials in Spanish was an annual film festival founded by film producers Michel Lipkes and Paula Astorga in Februar ...

Mexico International Film Festival 2008. In 2008 he published a selection of forbidden funk [Proibidã
Proibidao CV
Forbidden Gang Funk From Rio de Janeiro for the labe
Sublime Frequencies
In 2007 he presented in different festivals in his latest work ''Tundra'' from the ''Siberian Fieldworks'' series, a live media project premiered at Netmage Festival in Bologna and Sonar. and was also presented i
Multiplicidade
in Rio de Janeiro. In 2008 he founded together with fellow artist friend, Nico Vascellaribr>Von Archives
an audiovisual label publishing experimental audiovisual productions. Later in 2009 he created with partner and wife Saodat Ismailova
Map Productions
a production house dedicated to develop audiovisual projects around the world, from feature films, to documentaries. In 2010 he presented his Cemetery Archive Works i
Netmage
and his End trilogy was presented for the first time i
Cineteca Mexicana
In June 201
Hangar Bicocca
in Milano presented END a comprehensive exhibition of the trilogy. Avalanche (overture) his latest project is a collaboration with the American sound artist and minimalist legend Phill Niblock an ongoing project based in the Pamir mountains, in one of the world's highest inhabited villages. Avalanche (overture) superimposes Casas' footage over the overtones of "Stosspeng," a piece by Niblock. It is a visual-sonic journey, an extremely intense audiovisual meditation and a sensory experience in which extremes meet: nature in its rawest state and the pure, breathtaking and heady sound of drones. Presented for the first time in its first incarnation in Sonar Festival, Avalanche is an open film, reedited every time it is shown and adapted to the space it is presented Avalanche is an organic example of film-making, an ongoing document to the disappearance of this village, a reactive film within its community, Avalanche is alive together with the village, dying and born again every time it is presented. Avalanche is a lifelong project and site-specific film project based on one of Pamir highest inhabited village has been presented in different museums, festivals and gallery spaces around Europe and the USA. Cemetery his latest project is a take on the myth of the elephant cemetery. And has been awarded in FID Marseille, and presented in festivals all over the world. He is co-founder of Map Productions and the visual sound label Von Archives. He is currently researching and working on a new project based on the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.

Filmography

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'' (2010) *'' Hunters Since the Beginning of Time'' (2008) *'' Solitude at the End of the World'' (2005) *'' Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea'' (2004) *'' Rocinha. Daylight of a Favela'' (2003) *'' Afterwords'' (2000)

Awards

*Marseille Esperance Prize

FIDMarseille Marseille International Film Festival (in French the Festival international de cinéma de Marseille or FIDMarseille) is a documentary film festival held yearly since 1989 in Marseille, France. The festival awards grand prizes in international and ...

2019 (FID Marseille Festival International du Film) for ''Cemetery'' *Meta Cultural Foundation Award

2019 (FID Marseille Festival International du Film) for ''Cemetery'' *High School Award

2019 (FID Marseille Festival International du Film) for ''Cemetery'' *Best Documentary Award

2007 (Mexico International Film Festival) for ''Hunters since the beginning of time'' *Special Prize of the Jury

2006 (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) for ''Solitude at the end of the world'' *Best Documentary Award Torino Film Festival 2004 for ''Aral. Fishing in an invisible sea'' *Special Prize of the Jury

Documenta Madrid ''documenta'' is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultural ...

2005 for ''Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea''

Discography

Mutia (Matiere Memoire)Pyramid of Skulls (Discrepant)Vucca de lu puzzu (Canti Magnetici)Patagonian Field Recordings (Musica Moderna)Aral Field Recordings (Musica Moderna)Siberian Field Recordings (Von Archives)

Galleries

angels barcelonae/static, TurinGalerie Davide Gallo in Berlin

References