Carlos Casas
Barcelona 1974.

Carlos Casas filmmaker and visual artist. his work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. His last three films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and some of his video works have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions.

In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral sea, and Siberia.

DIRECTOR’S BIO:

Carlos Casas, Studied Fine Arts, Cinema and Design. In 1998 he was awarded an Artist-in-residence in Fabrica, research and communication center of Benetton, In 2000 his short Film “Afterwords”, produced by Marco Müller and Fabrica Cinema was selected for Venice Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and Reencontres du Cinema in Paris 2001. In 2001 he started a series of documentaries for Colors MaGAZine, he traveled to Patagonia to do a fieldwork that later in 2002 became a 24 min documentary “Patagonia”, in 2003 he developed a 52 min documentary,”Rocinha. Daylight of a favela” Shot on location in one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 he finished “Aral. Fishing in an invisible sea” about the life of the three remaining generation of Fishermen in the Aral sea, which won the best documentary award in Torino Film festival 2004, and was selected for the Rotterdam film festival 2005. Visions du reel Nyon 2005, One world Prague 2005, and Documenta Madrid 2005 where it received the special mention from the jury. In may 2005 he finished a 52 min version of the Patagonia research “Solitude at the end of the world” which received the special prize from the Jury in the Buenos Aires International Film festival 2006. The Siberia project is the last chapter of a trilogy of films dedicated to the most extreme environments in the world. (Patagonia, Aral, Siberia) was awarded Best Documentary award in Mexico International Film Festival 2008. He is currently working on a film about a cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
To work with the material of my own experience of the world, concretely and ethically on the verge of contemporary anthropology and modern visual arts. To create documentaries, installations and video works that present new ways of approaching other realities through new forms of narrative, in between fiction and reality, Focusing on deep human themes, bluring the stereotypes of contemporary cinematic experience, as well as trying to capture the poetry of our everyday life.

FILMOGRAPHY:

*HUNTERS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
Documentary 87 min DVCAM 2007
- Mexico International Film Festival FICCO 2008
Best Documentary award
-Festival du documentaire Marseille FID 2008

*SOLITUDE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
Documentary 52 min 35mm/DVCAM 2005
Directed by Carlos Casas and Fernando Zuber
- Torino Film Festival 2005
-Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo. Mexico FICCO 2006
-Festival de cine Independiente de Buenos Aires.2006
Special prize from the Jury
-Jeonju International Film Festival 2006, Korea
Competition Digital Spectrum.
- Rotterdam Film Festival 2007

*ARAL: FISHING IN AN INVISIBLE SEA
Documentary 52 min DV 2004
Directed by Carlos Casas and Saodat Ismailova
-Torino Film Festival 2004 Winner Best Documentary
-Filmmaker Film Festival Milano 2004
Competition Best Documentary
-Rotterdam Film festival 2005 Official Selection
-Visions du Reel Nyon 2005 Competition
-One World Prague 2005, Competition
-Documenta Madrid 2005,
Special Mention from Jury
-Fotografia Festival Rome.
- Leipzig Film Festival 2005.
-Fabrica Cinema Festival Centre Pompidou oct 2006 Paris.

*ROCINHA: DAYLIGHT OF A FAVELA
Documentary 53 min. DV 2003
Directed by Carlos Casas.
-Festival dei Popoli 2004
-Forum Universal de las Culturas 2004 Barcelona
- Trieste Film Festival 2005 Alpe Adria
-Fabrica Cinema Festival Centre Pompidou oct 2006 Paris.

* PATAGONIA,
Documentary Pilot TV series 24 min DV. 2002
Directed by Carlos Casas and Fernando Zuber
-Presented at London Fabrica Film Festival 2002
-Buenos Aires Malba Contemporary Art Museum 2002
-Forum Universal 2004 Barcelona
Broadcast: la 7, Planete

*AFTERWORDS
Short film 19 min 35mm, 2000.
Directed by Jean Sebastien Lallemand, Carlos M.Casas and Gianfranco Rosi.
-Presented at Biennale Venice Film Festival 2000 New Territories section
-Rencontres du Cinema Paris 2000
- Rotterdam Film Festival 2001
-Larchipelago film Festival Rome 2001
-Forum Universal 2004 Barcelona

EXHIBITIONS:

2008:
Ways to nowhere
Thomas Koner, Carlos Casas
Curated by Carlo Fossati
e/static Blank,
Torino
Nov 2008

Siberian Fieldworks
videoREPORT ITALIA 2006_07.
50 lavori video realizzati nellultimo biennio in Italia
Curato da Andrea Bruciati
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone
October 2008

Vezdekhod
Siberian Fieldworks
Giornata dal Contemporaneo
Collezione della Galleria
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone
October 2008

Montjuich
Checkinarchitecture
Centro Arte Contemporaneo Pecci
Prato
September 2008

Montjuich
Checkinarchitecture
Biennale of Architecture
Venice
September 2008

Seal Hunt
Siberian Fieldworks
Fieldworks#10
Sign of the Times
Centre of National Arts,
Tashkent
September 2008

Siberian Fieldworks
Fieldworks#10
Galerie Davide Gallo,
Berlin
June 2008

Daydream Fields
Badakshan Fieldworks
Fieldworks#9
curated by Andrea Lissoni
Fondazione Buziol,
Venice
May 2008

Clouds of sounds, innerparks
Carlos Casas, Borealis
(Fieldworks #10),
curated by Andrea Lissoni
Atelier K-10,
Lugano
May 2007

2007:
La Guerra , la Pace e l’estasi
Curato da Cecilia Alemani
Artissima,
Torino
Nov. 2007

Il velo
Curato da Andrea Busto
CESAC di Caraglio (IL FILATOIO)
Ottobre-Febbraio 2007

Pan Screening. Opere E Documenti 2005-2007
Curated by Julia Draganovic, Laura Barreca
PAN | Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli
October 2007

Siberian Fieldworks
Tundra and Ice sea
In collaboration with musicians Sebastian Escofet and Miguel Marin
MP7 Music in progress: Soundtracks
CCCB / Centre d’ art Contemporani de Barcelona
19 October 2007

Play Forward
Ballads from our invisible parks
video selection by Andrea Lissoni.
Carlos Casas, John Duncan, Thomas Köner, Marcellvs, Nico Vascellari.
La Rada ,
Locarno Film Festival 2007

Siberian Fieldworks (Fieldworks#10)
With Nico Vascellari and John Wiese
"ART RADIO LIVE", a project of PAN | Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli in collaboration with PS1 MoMA,
Perna Foundation at
52 Biennale di Venezia.
Curated by Julia Draganovic,
Laura Barreca

Tundra, Siberian Fieldworks (Fieldworks#10)
Sonar 2007 Giugnio 26-27-28 2007

Vezdekhod, Siberian Fieldworks (Fieldworks#10)
Abracadabra Festival Moscow April 2007

Forward Fendi
Curated By Andrea Bruciati, Fondazione Alda Fendi,
Roma
27 March - 1 April 2007

Tundra, Siberian Fieldworks (Fieldworks#10)
Netmage 2007
January 26-27-28 2007
A double screen projection with live soundtrack in collaboration with musician Sebastian Escofet

2006:
visionair-06:
"Fieldworks #9" by Carlos Casas
Curated by Carlo Fossati blank,
Torino
23 November 2006

Cabiati, Carré, Casas, Fox, Inverni, Julius, Kuhn, Petitgand, Piscitelli, Roden, Suzuki, Vitone, Yui:
découpage blank,
Curated by Carlo Fossati e/static
Torino
11 November - 22 December 2006

videoREPORT ITALIA 2004_05.
50 lavori video realizzati nellultimo biennio in Italia
Curato da Andrea Bruciati
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone

Parti di realtà/Realtà di parte
When videoart encounters documentary: Zbynek Baladran, Carlos Casas, Alice Guareschi
Curated by Antonio Grulli
Neon gallery
Milano.

Videopassages
Careof Milano
Careof - La Fabbrica del Vapore
Milano

Untitled
Diciassette giovanni artisti
Curated by Alessio Ascari, Edoardo Bonaspetti
Milano

2005:
Transhumanic
Domus Circular,
Furniture fair Milan
Curated by Andrea Lissoni

Fieldworks 2005
Codalunga,
Vittorio Veneto, Italy

2004:
Rocinha
Spazio Lima,
Milano, Italy

2003:
Patagonian video works
Electrograph Festival.
Athens . Greece

Fieldworks 2003
Fude Center,
Hiroshima, Japan

Patagonia
Malba Museum of contemporary Art
Buenos Aires , Argentina