Alberte Pagán

Bs. As.

Alberte Pagán

Gloria González, Jesvir Mahil

"Bs.As." is an experimental documentary film that reframes the history of immigration from Galicia (Spain) to Buenos Aires (Argentina). A Galician man's curiosity about his long-lost relatives who immigrated to Buenos Aires takes him on a surreal journey across times and space. Through travel, photographs, letters, and phone calls he explores the unpredictable ways in which immigration creates both bonds and distance between people and places. "Bs.As." received various awards including the Premio Foco Galicia (Tui, 2007).

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español

Andrés Hispano

Frederic Amat, Adolfo Arrieta

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.

Uluru

Alberte Pagán

Images taken with a mini iPad, following the 11km perimeter walk going clockwise and under a temperature which reached 107ºF.

Walsed

Alberte Pagán

Walsed is a film study on the experimental classic “Visión fantástica” by Eugène Deslaw. Where Deslaw negativized, I negate —while recovering the original positive images—, drastically reducing the film’s 60 minutes’ length and reversing the images in space and time. I kept the same soundtrack, although equally compressed into 3 minutes’ length and divided into two channels: one, in the original direction; the other one, reversed. This negation of a negation is far from being an acceptation: the folk images and songs from a fascist country, underlying the NO-DO shots touched up by Deslaw, are negated; the filmmaker’s intentions when negativizing/negating them are understood; but, seeing that the effort is not enough, this film goes beyond his proposal on the way to total destruction. - Alberte Pagán

Lume

Alberte Pagán

In this new installment of the series “Superficies”, an anti-fascist demonstration held in Santiago de Compostela on November 20th, 2007, in homage to the 16-year-old Carlos Palomino, assassinated in Madrid a few days before by a neo-Nazi is projected on roots with live sound.

6x9

Alberte Pagán

Seventy-five 6x9cm portrait photographs bought at Hietalahti's Market in Helsinki presented at a rate of one every seven seconds and a half in a double "soft (filmed) + hard (scanned)" screen version.

Pons minea

Alberte Pagán

A piece included in the series Superfícies II (a continuation of Superfícies I, initiated in 2014), in which Pagán induces a clash of textures and meanings by projecting images onto different surfaces and refilming them. In this case, the Francoist symbology of the Belesar’s reservoir (under which disappeared the old village of Portomarín) is projected onto an ombu tree as a tribute to Antón Alonso Ríos and in memory of Ínhigo Berriochoa.

A mosca

Alberte Pagán

A pedra do lobo

Alberte Pagán

Nature is cruel. Life is cruel. A stupid race to escape death, a more stupid flight to death. A jungle of feelings. In the jungle there is no perspective, there are no straight lines, there are no perpendiculars or horizontality: only a mass of organs and exuberance. Cruel life The sound of death. The music of death. Nothing is true.