Travel notebooks: Barcelona, Spain

“Barcelona is a big theater. On the backdrop buildings with strange curves move with the clouds in a clear blue sky.
Science fiction towers battle to reach the top of the sky with spires made of wet sand slipping through one’s hands.
And while the sea and the streets beat to the rhythm of life, everyone feels like an actor in a special day.”

Barcelona is part of an ongoing project on journeys to cities, titled “Travel Notebooks”.

So far it consists of a series of animated videos and prints of fifteen cities: Perugia, Amsterdam, Beijing, Taranto, Prague, Barcelona, Venice, Kardzhali, Bilbao, Marseilles, Dubai, Rome, Cairo, Vienna and Cagliari.

Many different aspect of the cities are shown, in a continuous flow that also represents traveller’s emotional and cognitive experiences.

A large digital collage is made for the printed version of the project, with details from photos collected during the journey. The collage is later reduced to a resolution suitable for a video and is then produced in an animated version.

So it is not the city itself that is represented but the image of the city that the traveller remembers. These details are like notes written in a notebook that stay in the traveller’s memory.
The animation attempts to bring together not only the impressions and suggestions experienced, but also the traveller’s different points of view. The traveller first concentrates on one detail and then on another one, as though with a sort of selective focus that takes place at the same times, where the prospective is not provided by scientific parameters but by the emotions experienced observing and discovering the cities.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:

2022 – ”Ibrida . Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali” – EXATR – Forlì, Italy – on-line – Focus

2020 – “#Videovirus” On lineVideo art marathon – United Video Artists

2018 – “Vagrant Film Festival” – Nomadic film club – Minsk, Belarus

2018 – ”Cinematica Festival – In viaggio” – Sala Box-Mole Vanvitelliana – Ancona, Italy

2017 – “The Virtual Show” curated by Fonlad Festival – Web Art Center

2017 – “17 Days (vol.9)” – Video art exhibition curated By Adriane Little – Mahoney Hall – University of Massachusetts Lowell, U.S.A.

2017 – “Fonlad – Video & Performance Art Festival” – curated by Josè Vieira – Galeria Santa Clara – Coimbra, Portugal

2017 – “Finisterra Arràbida Film Art & Tourism Festival” – Sesimbra, Portugal – In Competition

2017 – “17 days (vol.9)” – School of Art – Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo – Michigan U.S.A.

2016 – “17 days (vol.9)” – The Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery – Alfred State College (Alfred New York), U.S.A.

2016 – “24HR Cinema At Festival X-24 2016” – Athens Digital Arts Compilation@ X-Church, Gainsborough, UK

2016 – “FILE – Electronic Language International Festival” – Centro Cultural FIESP – Sao Paulo, Brazil
In Competition

2016 – “15th Festival Internacional de la Imagen” – Event of electronic arts and digital culture organized by the Visual Design Department Universidad de Caldas – Manizales, Colombia – In Competition

2016 – “12th Athens Digital Arts Festival” – Building Complex Gate Ermou 117 – 121& six d.o.g.s – Athens, Greece – In Competition

2016 – ”Danube Video Art Festival” – Stadkino Grein, Austria

2015 – “16th Rendez-Vous Du Carnet De Voyage – Digital Travel Sketchbook Prize” – “Il Faut Aller Voir” in partnership with the Videoformes Festival – Polydome – Clermont-Ferrand, France – 1° Prize

2016 – ”Danube Video Art Festival” – Stadkino Grein, Austria