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The schedule for the 2014-2015 season of the Cultural Center Puertas de Castilla definitely bet on the manifestations and artistic disciplines that revolve around audiovisual creation.
The center doors Castilla, without abandoning its pioneering effort reinforces and focuses its bet on audiovisual creation in different and multiple disciplines: video art, photography, film, sound installations, etc ...
Thus, the Department of Culture aims to strengthen the center as a reference in Murcia in these artistic disciplines.
SHOWROOM
The different exhibition spaces reflect the center throughout the season that turn.
The Exhibition Hall will open with an interesting collection of prestigious sound artist Francisco Lopez, who converted the room into a pure, clean and almost magical soundscape.
Ghost Forest (Spectral Forest) is a compositional transposition of a multitude of original environmental recordings made in different forests around the world.
The sound material sound installation that consists has been taken in multiple locations of Australia, Burma, Borneo, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Japan, Senegal and the United States between 1990 and 2013 The objective Ghost Forest is to create a subtly immersive and reactive three-dimensional soundscape.
BLACK AND WHITE BOX BOX
In addition, this season two new exhibition spaces that reinforce the character of the center and will open audiovisual bet: the Black, oriented mainly on their own display configuration and audiovisual creations Box White Box, an exhibition space smaller than the Exhibition Hall which seeks to enhance the cultural center and thus expanding the dissemination of artistic productions.
These spaces are looking to bet not only by local but also international artists through some collaboration agreements with different institutions and cultural organizations.
In the coming months, thanks to the initiative of Puertas de Castilla in collaboration with artists residencies the insert, various international artists such as Mariko Hori from Japan and lives halfway between Tokyo and Serbia, as well as creators of national history as consolidated Aitor Saraiba offer different cycles of workshops and master classes which cover topics and areas of research, spoken work, and then carry out pilot projects with creative Murcia.
INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
In his platform on-line training, Gates continues his collaboration with Stanford University, Maryland, Columbia or the University of Colorado Boulder, institutions that share Puertas de Castilla and develops e-learning.
The aim is to promote on-line courses to complement the process of creation, knowledge and mediation taking place in it, and in order to impart knowledge and develop skills in a personalized manner through a virtual environment.
EXPERIMENTAL SOUND ARCHIVE OF MUSIC AND SOUND ART
Another of the most relevant innovations of the new season is the SONMLAB: Laboratory for Experimental Sound the Music Library has launched.
A program aimed at supporting the development and implementation of sound projects in an environment and with unique resources.
This residency program is set permanently.
Once selected projects, a calendar with the start of the residence and action (concert sound installation and training activities) to put an end to it is created.
In addition to this new program, the Experimental Music Library continues its research, dissemination and exhibition of more experimental sound art.
This research work will be an important boost soon: the assignment to the Municipal Archives of Murcia a scanned copy of the audio file.
An action that serves a dual purpose: to the Municipal Archives, provide one of the most important files on role of our country in a collection of sound art in digital format that is worldwide reference on the other hand, for the Experimental Sound Archive , granting its relevancy sound work to be part of the catalog of such a prestigious institution.
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IBAFF
One of the flagship projects of Puertas de Castilla is IBAFF Film Festival, which will meet this coming March its sixth edition.
year's goal is to continue the successful path of the event last year.
A careful selection of the most personal film and author, who already last year harvested among the most renowned critics (Cahiers du Cinema, Cinema Papers Cayman, among other publications) the best adjectives.
Some good reviews which have been endorsed by the presence in some of the film festivals of the world's leading author of many of the films shown in the first IBAFF.
One of those directors was present in Murcia with one of his last works, the Philippine Lav Diaz, just win the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
Precisely Lav Diaz will be one of the great innovations of this sixth edition, which will resume prominently formative plot, with the organization of a laboratory film projects supervised by the Philippine filmmaker, one of the most renowned Asian directors in Today.
CYCLES IN ORIGINAL INTERNATIONAL FILM VERSION
In keeping with the spirit of IBAFF, Puertas de Castilla scheduled for the coming months three cycles of cinema give visibility to the so-called peripheral cinema in Southeast Asia, fertile and vibrant cinematography who inherit, reenact and expand the concept of film authorship that own expression arthouse brought gestated in Europe.
These programmed cycles closer to those attending the most recent productions of Chinese, Filipino and Taiwanese cinema, three of the most interesting cinematography and unknown of the current scene.
So, from 2 to 23 October, the cycle Made in China.
Jia Zhankge, bring varied and award-winning films that takes place in the Asian giant, in order to approach a vision of humanity, culture, character and spirit of a nation of more than 5000 years.
The cycle consists of recent titles cinematography Jia Zhangke, considered by many the best Chinese director of his generation.
New Philippine cinema, brings together some of the most representative works of this new generation of filmmakers Brillante Mendoza composed or Lav Diaz, among other cycle: During the month of November, from 13 to 27 this month Pinoy Generation cycle is projected.
Finally, December closed with a series dedicated to the Taiwanese New Wave cinema, from 4 to 18 December, where recent titles authors screened Hou Hsiao Hsien and Tsai Ming-liang and Edward Yang that make up the Holy Trinity New Wave of Taiwanese cinema.
Thus, the center remains committed to those unconventional film productions, even outside the channels of commerce and no place in theaters, are the subject of interest of discerning cinephile.
Similarly, Puertas de Castilla center that will meet Títeremurcia parallel activities, International Puppet Festival of the Region of Murcia, with the screening of the film "Alice" film adaptation directed by Jan Svankmajer, based on the novel "The Adventures Alice in Wonderland. "
MURCIA FILM OFFICE
Without neglecting the film world, another project of the Puertas de Castilla continues to grow every day is the Murcia Film Office.
The office of the City of Murcia filming enhances its dynamic role of the municipality through the promotion audiovisual audiovisual productions shooting.
Throughout this year has managed the shooting of 20 productions, including the hit Taken 3, which left nearly 1 million euros in the region.
850th ANNIVERSARY IBN Arabi
Another of the strengths of the program for this year will be the organization with MIAS-America, the 850th anniversary of the birth of the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi Murcia in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the University of Berkeley.
A full program of activities that will open this October with an Anglophone delegation visit to one of the seminars organized reading Mias-America.
On the occasion of this visit, the project "The Murcia Ibn Arabi," a journey through different parts of the municipality in which the footprint is very present mystical Murcia will open.
Also on the occasion of this important special day, Ibn Arabi International Symposium held its fourth edition under the Three Cultures Festival which takes place in the town in May.
A symposium will be attended by leading figures from the Universities of Oxford Berkeley, pioneers in the study of the figure of Ibn Arabi, and put your focus this time in Brazil.
As a pre-Fourth International Symposium Ibn Arabi of Murcia actions, this October Puertas de Castilla host from 2 to 5 October, the series of lectures and workshops under the theme SEMILIA Ibn Arabi and The Secrects of Jouneting (Ibn Arabi and secrets Travel) hand speakers from the likes of Stephen Hirtenstein (Oxford), Jane Carroll (San Francisco), Heba Youssry (Cairo), Kenza Benamour (Casablanca), among others.
MORE SPACES
The audiovisual programming will spread across the center promoting contamination of spaces and make Puertas de Castilla sounding great picture and sound.
Thus, the Puertas de Castilla Center promotes and encourages the sharing of different cultural and artistic events each space making the center a place of mediation articulated through the cafeteria entrance and elevator.
The cafe will host atmospheres, sound accompanied by visual cycle parts generate intimate settings of introspection and / or flight.
The Atmospheres cycle will run from 29 September to 19 December.
The lobby will greet visitors EMPHOKA international photographic project, a platform that has over 750 photographers from over 70 countries that will bring new visions of the world with thousands of photos that happen throughout the season.
Finally, the elevator will continue the cycle This is not music for elevators and again become a space dedicated to the sound microinstalación with the aim of bringing experimental music and sound art to all audiences.
The NO BULLSHIT microinstalación programming opens with a tribute to Polish-born sound artist Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013).
Through these doors instalativos formats Castilla wants to introduce sound compositions that are totally contrary to what we know as "elevator music" or "muzak" compositions originally employed in skyscrapers, in elevators, to calm occupants while getting on or off.
Our desire is the opposite, we want to agitate and the user think that the time spent on the journey have served some purpose.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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