13 june 2024
Fondazione IDIS Città della Scienza Planetario
THE SIXTH SUN
A film composition for a planetarium by LUIS MACÍAS
360° Immersive Expanded Cinema
Luis Macías ›› 16mm projector + 10 x 35mm projectors+ modified devices
Miguel Ángel Puertas ›› 5 x 16mm projectors + modified devices
Alfredo Costa Monteiro ›› electroacoustic sound
THE SIXTH SUN is an immersive film experience performed live for a planetarium. It explores the man’s cosmovision, the nature and the need to make sense of the world to understand how it was created and thereby control it... and destroy it.
Inspired by the different Mesoamerican legends and the myths of The Sixth Sun, this expanded cinema piece was designed for a specific 360º immersive projection device inside a planetarium and is performed by several filmmakers and musicians, exploring the incredible landscapes of suns, moons, planets, constellations, and other elements of the cosmos, thereby proposing a trip towards a future myth of creation.
Performed at Planetarium de Pamplona in March 2019 and it is exceptionally re-created for the Planetario of Città della Scienza.
Realized with the support of the Planetarium de Pamplona and the Founds Grant of OSIC - Recerca i Creación of Generalitat de Cataluña. Artist Residence Project at Crater-Lab, Barcelona. With the collaboration of Centro Huarte Pamplona, Materic.org, Barcelona Hangar, Instituto Ramon Llull.
Luis Macias (1976, Barcelona Spain) multimedia artist, filmmaker and image composer. Focused on the experimental and procedural practices of the analogue image, his works in Super 8mm,16mm, 35mm and in video format are composed for the projection, the performance and/or the installation. His film practice is related to the formal and spectral properties of the moving image, through the exploration of the cinematic device and the photochemical nature of the medium.
He studied at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos de Cataluña (CECC) and holds a degree in Art History from the Universidad de Murcia. His artistic interests focus on a number of fundamental properties: the physical creation on film, the recycling of film and the invention of new relationships between moving images. He is co-founder and member of Crater-Lab, an independent laboratory for analogue cinema, and teaches experimental cinema at CECC with special classes on the exploration of analogue formats.
www.luismacias.es
Miguel Ángel Puertas (1980, Almería Spagna), filmmaker and visual artist, he has explored the film alchemy as a self-taught artist since 2006 and collaborates with film labs in Belgium and Spain, focusing on experimental and expanded cinema. An approach in which the settings between sound and light activete the viewer’s experience to expand perception. Miguel Ángel Puertas experiments with the simultaneous projection of several 16mm projectors and the superimposition of celluloid film live-edited through filters, devices or objects.
www.vimeo.com/noctilucafilm
Alfredo Costa Monteiro (1964, Porto Portugal) sound artist, improviser and sound poet, lives and works in Barcelona since 1992, the year he graduated in sculpture & multimedia at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with the known artist Christian Boltanski. His installations and sound pieces, all of a low-fi character, have in common an interest for the unstable processes, raw materials and gestures, where the manipulation of objects as instruments has a strong phenomenological aspect. He has been working since 2001 in various projects of improvised and experimental music, using each time a different instrumentation such as accordion, prepared guitar, various electro-acoustic devices or resonant objects, in order to give these projects multiple identities and directions. In sound poetry, his work focuses on the musicality of language, creating multiple meanings that often lead to confusion and defy understanding. He has collaborated with many musicians, choreographers, video artists, and filmmakers and has played throughout Europe, Canada, the US, Russia and Japan.
www.costamonteiro.net