Media-ecstasy.
UntitledINTERVIEW AGENCY An exercise that explores the interview format– as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity.
UntitledSemana Santa de Sevilla- Holy Week in Seville [1993]. Processional music, electroacoustic music, and "cante jondo" converge; color and black and white; the topical point of view and the particular point of view. A visual "Fiesta" seasoned with verses from the "Poema del cante Jondo", by F.G. Lorca. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.
UntitledThe Santo Daime ritual. Syncretism in Brazil, combining Catholic popular beliefs of Portuguese origins, the traditional practices of African slaves, and Amazonian indigenous culture. With the use of Ayahuasca.
UntitledAt first glance, SecondLife appears to be a videogame, but it is more than that: it is a virtual world. Over a million people are registered inhabitants of this place, where they can meet, chat, walk together... In The Cave and The Double, José Saramago had written about the importance of reality and human beings' eagerness to find places to which they can escape. Here, the Portuguese intellectual reflects on SecondLife on radiocable.com
UntitledMusical notes have the power to affect and enhance our feelings. From birth to death, life in northern India is punctuated by music. The hindi/urdu word « rag » means colour or passion. Therefore a raga can be defined as an accoustic method of colouring the mind of the listener with emotion. For centuries, its oral transmission has maintained the essential qualities of this remarkable tradition.
Video made from a conversation recorded in the 70 in Mumbai (India) .. between a traveler and Nisarghadata Indian philosopher, author of "I am That", one of the most recent and important examples of Advaita Vedanta. Satsanga is a Sanskrit word, which means: (Sat = truth, reality, Sanga = company) describes in Indian philosophy: 1. in the company of truth. 2. company in reality 3. accompanied by an assembly of persons who listen, speak and assimilate reality. This practice also takes the form of hearing or reading scriptures, reflections, discussions and assimilating their meaning, meditating on the source of these words.