We spin around the nights (Photo Series) (2 new items)
[2013 - 2014] We spin around the nights. On Sunday evenings, during the winter months of 2012–13 I conducted nocturnal peregrinatory walks through the streets of London.
We spin around the nights (Photo Series) (13 new items)
[2013 - 2014] We spin around the nights. On Sunday evenings, during the winter months of 2012–13 I conducted nocturnal peregrinatory walks through the streets of London.
Conversation at CBP Part I + II + III + IV
Cecilia Brunson talks with Nicolas Sanchez about the exhibition Meditation on an ending at Cecilia Brunson Projects Gallery
Tourists Threnody (Photo Series) (11 new items)
[2007-current] A photo series about tourists being tourists. Threnody -from the Greek threnos (wailing) and oide (ode)- is a series of laments at the same time as elegies.
We spin around the nights (Video Series) (1 new item)
[2013-2014] While the city sleeps and the shadows cover everything, a few people plot their own revolutions, getting lost around the nights to be found in a new way every day, changing everything, changing themselves.
Pop corn fields (1 new item)
[2012] The industry is sold out. A film about films about corn fields. Curatorship by Marcelo Sarovic. In order of appearance: Children of the Corn IV (1996, Greg Spence), Field of dreams (1989, Phil Alden Robinson), Signs (2002, M. Night Shyamalan), Children of the Corn (2009, Donald P. Borchers), Haute Tension (2003, Alexandre Aja), Joyride (2001, John Dahl), Freddy vs. Jason (2003, Ronny Yu), Children of the Corn VII (2001, Guy Magar), Children of the Corn VI (1999, Kari Skogland), Children of the Corn III (1995, James D.R. Hickox), Twister (1996, Jan de Bont), Children of the Corn V (1998, Ethan Wiley), North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock), Children of the Corn I (1984, Fritz Kiersch), The Informant! (2009, Steven Soderbergh), Secret Window (2004, David Koepp), Children of the Corn II (1992, David Price), Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner), A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater), The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch).
Where are my dreams? (glow in the dark) (1 new item)
[2012] A goodbye film to Santiago shot in the San Carlos canal. Tired and bored, our boredom grows, we carry it from work back to home, life slip away, water murmur, our dreams underneath glow in the dark. Music by hermano-hermano.com
Life is elsewhere (1 new item)
A lyric documentary of a distant journey from Atacama Desert to Patagonia, carrying a camera and a tripod over the shoulders, from a fog oasis to a bygone estancia in a pursuit journey to find life. Horacio is a former priest, archaeologist and anthropologist who researches a fog oasis in the Atacama desert which was inhabited by primitive cultures centuries ago. Alfonso is a lawyer who chose to retire to Patagonia to revive an old sheep estancia in decline. Through lengthy conversations immersed in astounding landscapes, the documentary reveals the strong link they hold with their inhabited place, leading a life of deep connections in isolated territories. Revolving around life, modernity, resistance and change, their stories unveil unique life experiences and singular insights. Full film available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmq47_Sxvv0 Backstage
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life...” H.D. ThoreauIn January 2010, in Thoreau’s way, I went by myself, carrying a camera and a tripod over my shoulders, through deserts and steppes in a pursuit journey to find life. I had always wanted to make a movie. When I decided to start I realised that I had already made it. Two people who I had met under certain (determinant) circumstances in my life, had built through me a discourse about life in the form of a full-length documentary. Although I was once again late to my own idea about making a film, it still needed to be filmed. This is how in January 2010 I parted by myself, camera and tripod over my shoulder, to film lives at ground level within determining geographies. I carried with me the minimum equipment possible, seeking to create an atmosphere of intimacy and sensibility that allowed the landscape, and those who inhabit it in silence, speak. There began a project as long and difficult as it is stimulant, a project that today, three years later, has finally reached its conclusion. Details Country: Chile Language: Spanish (sub. in English and Spanish) Release Date: Also Known As: La Vida esta en Otra Parte Filming locations: Patagonia, San Gregorio, Magallanes region, Chile Atacama Desert, Alto Patache, Tarapacá region, Chile. Technical specs Runtime: 1 hr 42 min (102 min) Sound: Stereo Color: Color Format: 1080p HD video Copyright: All rights reserved Credits Directed and filmed by Nicolas Sanchez \ Original music by hermano-hermano \ Producer entrelaspiedras.com \ Technical advice Globo Rojo Producciones \ Production Management Nicole Rochette \ Edition and Montage Nicolas Sanchez \ Audio Post-production Camilo Artigas \ Video Post-production Nicolas Sanchez Screenings September 9-10 2015, Chile Chico, Chile
August 21 2015, Futaleufú, Chile
February 2015, London, UK
February 2015, FICA, Parque Tantauco, Quellón, Chile
February 2 2015, FECIR, Rengo, Chile
January 8 2015, Taller BLOC, Santiago, Chile
January 2015, FICA, Arica, Chile
January 2015, FICA, Santiago, Chile
January 2015, FICA, Valparaiso / Viña del Mar, Chile
December 15 2014, FICAMS, Puerto Williams, Chile
December 3 2014, FICAMS, Punta Arenas, Chile
November 7 2014, FEDOCHI, Castro, Chile
January 14 2013, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, UK
Noah's raft, (living off) the fat of the land (27 new items)
[2011] The project consists in building a raft to navigate downstream the Mapocho river, since its channeled entrance into the center-north of the city of Santiago until its mouth in the Maipo river, across the districts of Vitacura, Las Condes, Providencia , Recoleta, Independencia, Santiago, Renca, among others. To build the raft I will use only industrial waste collected around the city... to sail and navigate in search of another land, beyond this city, to survive the flood and find “where germinates the seed of a new humanity” (Wisdom 14:6 .) The phrase living off the fat of the land – also of biblical origin (Genesis 45: 17) – refers to live off the fertility and abundance of the earth. In a contemporary sense and focused in urban dynamics, this fat, once abundance and generosity, has now sadly been exploited to excess, extravagance and waste. It is precisely these excesses caused by certain ideas of progress, which I see symbolized in the waste that will be used to build the raft; excesses from which I escape by the sailing aimlessly away. The project ultimately explores the human experience in the cities, showing certain urban situations that reveal the need to recover public space for people, imagining new occupation dynamics which poetically illuminate richer, diverse and simpler ways of living
Me voy de la ciudad (aún no te he olvidao) (10 new items)
[2009] A journey in Santiago de Chile, from its centre to the outskirts countryside, following the path of the power lines that feeds the city with electricity. Music by hermano-hermano.com
Wild rosehip jam (slow food) (13 new items)
[2008] A triggered remembering when I saw the rosehip fruit -common in south Chile and wildly present on Prague's outskirts- led to the rescued of an old family recipe to prepare jam and share.
estacionamientos, vacíos (1 new item)
[2008] A film made in the underground parking lots of shopping centres, minutes before their closing time.
Algún lugar encontraré (2 new items)
[2008] Collect industrial waste around the city, build something new, search for the lost territtory. Music by Alejandro Artigas
Bonjour M. Courbet (1 new item)
[2007] A 1 day walking dérive in Valencia, Spain. A conversation on a casual encounter and a cover of Nowhere man by Camilo Artigas.
Makeshift taps (15 new items)
[2008] A 10 pages how-to manual for illegal hooking connections into a power line, a photo series from these hooks and the sabotage of ad displays to showcase the work.
From Saler to Gran Turia (6 new items)
[2008] A dérive carrying a trolley from one shopping center to another in the outskirts of Valencia, Spain
Atacama Lab (15 new items)
[2007] A ten-day fieldwork session with artists, architects, designers, and scientists, followed in the Atacama Desert visiting sites of art, architecture, infrastructure, science and made work in direct response to the landscape. Atacama Lab -organized b
Recover your city (8 new items)
[2006] A claim for the right to the city. A series of panoramic multi exposures photographs.
Antipostcards (14 new items)
[2006] With a group of friends we went out to visit our city venturing into a drift to the periphery through the eyes of a tourist. At every moment we felt a sense of being where our presence was not considered. From San Alberto Hurtado subway station (fo
Surface (18 new items)
[2005] A bike ride from my house in Las Condes to Galería Metropolitana in Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Santiago de Chile. A visual registry of the trip, a false press release, a photo of the end of the journey, a bike.
150 Blocks (25 new items)
[2005] An urban dérive with friends, from Las Condes to San Miguel in Santiago de Chile. A series of postcards taken by the participants summarises the journey. A map of the city and stickers, encourages the public to trace their own paths. Walking as a w
We spin around the nights (Photo Series)
[2013 - 2014] We spin around the nights. On Sunday evenings, during the winter months of 2012–13 I conducted nocturnal peregrinatory walks through the streets of London.
We spin around the nights (Video Series)
[2013-2014] While the city sleeps and the shadows cover everything, a few people plot their own revolutions, getting lost around the nights to be found in a new way every day, changing everything, changing themselves.