Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Monday, December 26, 2011

DOS GAJOS


"Cada tanto aparece, casi en secreto, el disco de un artista o un grupo que a todo el mundo le suena a chino, aunque esté empadronado en alguna parte de España, pero que a pesar de todo, está aquí para quedarse. Nada que ver con los artistas de la corriente dominante, y poco que ver con muchas de las bandas indie que son como otra corriente dominante en un submundo cada vez más subterráneo y segregado de la primera corriente. Suelen tener un discurso diferente para lo que es habitual por estos pagos; y, francamente, da igual si al final son muchos o pocos, somos afortunados por contar con nombres propios irrepetibles en prácticamente el resto del mundo." Rafa Cervera

Thursday, April 21, 2011

SOMNIUM


Rosa Barba produced a science fiction film based on interviews with local residents and individuals involved in the land suppletion project for Maasvlakte 2. Barba asked the interviewees to imagine what this new land could look like in the future. While we see images of the new land, the slufter: a storage reservoir for heavily contaminated sludge from the new Meuse river, the construction of the huge docksides, basalt blocks, empty containers and the mechanical movements of the transhipment process, we listen to a story apparently taking place in the future. The main character is a beekeeper who started with his first hive on the Maasvlakte, 30 years ago, and is now surrounded by silos for oil storage. Combined with archive pictures of the port, the images form a mechanical ballet of man and machine, set against a futuristic landscape.