Guillermo Braga
1 September 2023 – 31 January 2024
Guillermo Braga studies Audiovisual Communication at the University of Salamanca, the Master in Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and attends 16mm film workshops at LAV (Madrid) and Cráter LAB (Barcelona). He currently works as a filmmaker and photographer, which he combines with teaching photography and audiovisual creation.
Since January 2022 he coordinates, together with a team of six people, the Colectivo Siempre: an independent space for organising live events based in Asturias, whose aim is to give visibility to young and risky musical proposals and to explore the limits of cultural programming by crossing genres and different scenes of the national and local scene.
In his artistic projects he explores the crossovers between photochemical and digital formats, the crossovers between the sociocultural and landscape reality of Asturias and contemporary urban culture, as well as the creative possibilities of his family archive.
Project in residence
Corazón de ballena
The film project ‘Corazón de ballena’ explores the mystery of the ocean floor through an immersive visual experience.
Corazón de ballena is the name of a film performance or expanded cinema work, which uses several analogue projectors to create an immersive visual experience through the play with textures, atmospheres and the use of abstract languages, with the aim of exploring through the senses the mystery evoked by the shapes at the bottom of the ocean.
It starts from the idea generated by the heart of the whale as a poetic and mysterious motif, which constitutes an organic device capable of pumping blood to all parts of the body of the largest animal that inhabits our planet.
In this way, a metaphor is established with the cinema device itself, through the beam of light of the projector, which points to a reading of the medium beyond the discipline that we know on a daily and massive scale, and invites us to reflect on the interior of cinema, its mechanisms and the motors that intervene when carrying out one of its primordial processes: the act of projection. This work explores the heart of the giant cinema, delving into its depths by experimenting with its traditional mechanisms.
In addition, within the line of research with the use of projectors, another possibility of intervening the resulting images appears, which involves distorting or altering in a controlled way the output of the projection light beam. This alteration can involve placing coloured filters, translucent and opaque objects, mirrors, or all of them at the same time.
During the residency, the objective is the creation of analogue images, experimentation with simultaneous projection and the search for creative synergies with other artists who can inspire or complete the work with a sound part.
Project selected in the II Call for Artistic Residencies 2023.
