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L U I S A   Q U I N T A V A L L E Born in Milan, Italy, June 26th, 1969. FILMOGRAPHY
1997, SKA PROBLEM, NO PROBLEM. (Albania 1996-1997), 20 min. Finisterre Productions, Super8, Hi8. B/w and color. * Documentary about the Albanians, their cult for Italy, the power of TV, the difference between the East and the West. This epic and isolated country is described by the songs of a child, the words of a boy and the example of an Air Force pilot that had to desert not to shoot against his people and actually start a civil war.
1999, APOCALYPSE SHOW, 90 min. Finisterre Productions, Video, super 8 and 16mm. B/w and color. * A science-fiction documentary about the End of the World and the changing of the idea of future. Shot from the point of view of the 4 angels left at the 4 corners of the world, the film starts when the world was flat. Once upon time the world would End at Finisterre in Western Spain. Back in 1999 though, the Center of the world was New York City and the End was called Apocalypse. Other locations are Patmos where Saint John wrote the Revelation Book, Jerusalem, Petra, Mount Sinai, the Red Sea, Lisbon, and the cross of the Atlantic Ocean. The world is flat or round?
2001, ROK/FATE, 90 min. Finisterre prod., Le Fresnoy, Akademie Schlosse Solitude, video, super 8 and 16mm. B/w and color. * A film about Russia through the vision of a blind man. Michajil Strogoff, courier of the Zar in the year 1880 was blinded by the Tartars while delivering an important message to Siberia. When blinded he foresees the future of his country, the present of the year 2000. The novel of Jules Verne becomes a thin line throughout a reportage about contemporary Russia.
SCREENINGS 11/1997, XV International Young Film Festival of Turin, Italy. 1/1998, International Festival of Tourism, Milan, Italy. 6/1998, Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival, New York, Award "Eye on the Chameleon". 10/1998, Festival of Short Film of Pescara, Italy. Kodak Prize of complementary 16 mm film. 6/1999, Anthology Film Archives, New York. 9/1999, Void, New York. 10/1999, Cinema De Amicis, Milan, Italy. Dirottamenti, New Authors? Collective . 1/2000, International Winter Fest, Wand5, Stuttgart, Germany. Out of competition. Jury memeber. 5/2001, Expanded clips, Milano. 7/2001, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France. 11/2001, Anthology Film Archives, New York. 6/2002, Open(video)space, Milano, Italy. 10/ 2002, Centrum Szutki, Warsaw , Poland. MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATIONS 11/1999, LOST MY WINGS. Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. Site specific 3 channels projections. Face to face with everybody?s ghost in action. Trespassing a screen. A man is flying with his own arms. At the bottom someone is pulling a rope, fighting with himeself and with the viewer reflected on a mirror. 2/2000, BOXING. Expanded Sound. Tunnel, Milan. Italy. One channel projection on a walk-through screen. Multiple speeds animation of a boxeur. To be trespassed. 2/2000, SOPRAVVIVERE/SURVIVE. Galleria LFAC, Torino, Italy. One channel video on a monitor. Amplified talks of a telenovela from underwater. 3/2000, STREAM. Acoustic by Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag. Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. Site specific 3 channels projections. Innerbody sound (thorax, stomach and heart ) on 6 channels bass loudspeakers and modified seat. A river like flood fills the space. A man is lead by the stream. He appears and disappears. Further away a girl is trapped underwater holding on breath. They are not sharing the same water. The sound of her inner motion fills the air. A seat is vibrating with her heart beats. Only one point of the space allows an overall perspective and comprehensive view, the rest is anamorphosy and immersion, to dive in. 3/2000, DYSTOPIA. Acoustic by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. Metronom, Barcelona, Spain. One channel projection with headphones and modified seat. An intimate space, a seat vibrating with the heart beats of an underwater girl. In the headphones the bubbling sound of her stomach?s motion. The borders of intimacy and distance. 3/2001, DYSTOPIA. Acoustic by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. K&L Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Site specific 3 channels projections. Sound on 4 channels bass loudspeakers and modified bed.
7/2001, BALLADE FOR 3 SCREENS. Le Fresnoy, SNAC, Tourcoing, France. Site specific 3 channels synchronised retro-projections, headphones. A story happening around the viewer, a short film edited for 3 screens placed in the shape of a triangle around the spectator. The inner world of a girl that holds her eyes shut. 7/2002, BESIDE THE EVIDENCE. Sound by Cyrille Lauwerier. Le Fresnoy, SNAC, Tourcoing, France. Site specific 1 channel retro-projection, sound on 4 channels bass loudspeakers, 1 sensitive light. A man is deviating light with a little mirror towards the viewer.
EDUCATION, WORKING EXPERIENCES 2002-2001, sponsored by Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France. 2000, stipendium from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. 2002- 1996, works as a filmmaker, freelance cameraperson, videojournalist in New York and Europe. 1995, University of Milan, Master degree in Philosophy, 110/110 cum laude. Thesis based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty 's work, called " Open the concept without destroing it ". 1995-1990, working experiences as multimedia tutor with children, full-time television videojournalist, theater assistant director, film researcher and production manager.
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