12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still is a collection of experiments in animation and editing exploring the spaces where nothing happens: the liminal zone that exists between you and me, between here and there, sound and silence, movement and stillness.

 

I find forms and ideas in the doing, in the joyous energy of not planning, of throwing myself into the work. I am more and more interested in the unfinished, the provisional, the raw; in resisting the delimitation between the provisional and the definitive, between living thought and finished item.   I like to leave things endlessly open, as sketches or starting points.  The desire to make a piece of work often comes from a specific mental state I want to evoke--here, a sense of stillness, suspension, of being in-between, not quite here or there, now or then...   From then, images begin to form, as well as ideas for experiments. I make a lot of drawings, to clarify my visions and thoughts. Then I work with performers, using movement to shape these images in space.   The final work consists of playing with the photographed and printed shapes of the performers. I intervene, I trace lines, erase parts, cut things out, glue things on... I create a world in which drawn shapes and textures flirt with the moving bodies.

Royal College of Art  28th June 2010
London Film Festival 2010
Alternativa Barcelona Spain 2010
Encounters 2010 (NAHEMI programme)
EXPOTOONS Buenos Aires 2010
London Short Film Festival UK 2011
Resolució Premi Videodansa Barcelona 2011
Premier Plans France 2011
Message To Man IFF St Petersburg Russia 2011

Encounters 2010 NAHEMI / KODAK Prize for Creative Film making (#500 + film stock)
Videodance Barcelona Prize at PREMI INTERNACIONAL VIDEODANZA BARCELONA 2011