Mariana Dianela Torres
2021
Shadow of our forgotten montages
Mariana Dianela Torres
Video essay that explores the relations between montage and music in Sergei Parajanov’s film Shadows of our forgotten ancestors (1965). Parajanov seems to perceive montage as an organic form, in this case, linked to death and grieving. The audiovisual perception is layered in a sensorial sequence that is associated through rhythms (visual and sound). The montage is shown as a dialectical thought. Every shot, sequence and montage is expressed as ancestors.
Shadow of our forgotten montages
Bliss
Mariana Dianela Torres
«Bliss» is about the end of the world and the end of the internet. The music created by Edgar Mondragón reflects about the saturation of digital files in post-internet world. So the images are intended to simulate chaotic atmospheres. Starting from the disintegration of various visual symbols, a campfire is superimposed on materials found on the internet mixed with personal audiovisual material that also simulates being part of the digital archive. Each layer is rhythmically and counterpoint interposed in order to think about the destruction of the world.
Bliss
