A video-essay capable of arousing in the observer a critical as well as a contemplative thought.

In Light / Vibration a concern emerges for those places, even anonymous, corporeal and geographical, that are responsible for momentary illuminations and visions of the soul.

The research has focused on the conflictivity existing in the interpretation of reality, along with a critique of modernity, using the duplicity of opposites (light/darkness, place/space, sacred/divine), identifying them as a model to explore different authorial videos, interviews and various documentaries.

The material used consists partly of open source videos available on the web and re-edited, some available on the desorg dot org online archive, and others created specifically for this project.

Authors and participants:

Toni Serra / Abu-Ali, Toni Cots, Fernand Deligny, Esther Freixa i Ràfols, Gian Antonio Gilli, Ariel Jimenez, Alessandro Quaranta, Jesus Rafael Soto, Laurel Swenson, Renaud Victor, Peter Watkins.

A research project by Alessandro Quaranta and Toni Cots , screened at the  Convent de Sant Agustí , Barcelona on November 11 2023, and and March 17, 2023 at the Centre Cultural La Marineta , in Mollet del Vallès.

14 December from 18:00h to 20:00h

Centre Cultural La Marineta, Mollet del Vallès

Free entrance / Limited seats

States of Passage shows an ‘alterity’ of subjects and cultures, which by constituting a radical alternative to the dominant and homogeneous thought, both in terms of socio-cultural spheres and small communities, they challenge the spatial-temporal and anthropocentric convictions of control and knowledge of any visible and invisible phenomena. It is precisely in terms of the invisibility or visibility of the apparent, that which has prompted us to elaborate this essay with images, and the word as evocation. This video-essay is a testimony of this attempt: the subjects that appear are marginalised beings or entities, self-exiles, ascetics, primitives, etc., in and from the margins of ‘civilisation’.

The material used consists partly of open source videos available on the net and re-edited, some available on the OVNI archive, and others created specifically for this project.

Authors cited in the video essay States of Passage:

Scott Barley, Philippe Descola, Federico Lanchares, Ciro Guerra, Xavi Hurtado, Gian Antonio Gilli, Toni Cots, Alessandro Quaranta, Pavel Lungin, Ben Rivers, Bruno Latour, Carlos Casas, Toni Serra *) Abu-Ali.

This video essay is a non-profit research project for educational purposes.