Video Art: Laura Focarazzo

Signs of ordinary life, small particles trapped, the motion captured...
...or silently observed.

Volatile elements, barely discernible, throbbing sensuality, pulsating love...

Short moments, stills of time, grabbed. Droplets of light hitting the eyes, animated matter, carefully stored.

A huge pleasure to write again about Laura Focarazzo, Argentinian visual artist, delightful friend of Spiritual Archives.

A new post about her, a profile containing detailed info about her artistic career and an almost complete videography.

Warm thanks to Laura for her contribution to make this page as informative as possible.

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Profile:

Laura Focarazzo is a visual artist who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She works with experimental musicians of both local and international scene.
She's also member of the audio visual group "Exquisite, What?" (more info here).

Her works have appeared in exhibitions and international film festivals:  
- 13º BAFICI - International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires
- Festival Fuga Lab in Buenos Aires
- Abstracta Cinema - Festival of Rome
- AIVA - International Video Art Festival in Sweden
- FLAVIA - 1st Latin America Festival of Video Art
- Lab Galleri in Sweden
- Incubarte - International Independent Art Festival in Spain.

She was selected to take part in the Gesamt project, concept by Lars Von Trier for the collective film "Disaster 521, what happened to man?". Gesamt had its first premiere at the Göteborg International Film Festival 2013.

She participated in "String Theory", collaborative experimental film derived from a sound screenplay, whose opening night took place in Buenos Aires, in March 2013.

Here is what she says about her work: "I would like to get the audience involved in a similar way to a poem, got carried away in some kind of inner experience, stirred up somehow".

Currently she's working on a silent movie project.

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Videos:

En Un Abrir Y Cerrar




Release date: 2009
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Landform" by Terje Paulsen
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Hunting
    



Release date: 12/2009
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: Homework
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Specific Gravity
     



Release date: 02/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: Pangea
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Light Birds
     
 


Release date: 04/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Holiday Market" by Takuya Minakawa
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Quantumlove
       



Release date: 06/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Afternoon Studies" by Relmic Statute
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Y Serás Dentro De Mí
      



Release date: 07/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Test chart" by Rintaro Iwashita
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Set Time
     



Release date: 09/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Dear
   



Format: Super 8
Release date: 10/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Burn Type-E" by Takuya Minakawa
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Retrato
   



Format: Super 8
Release date: 12/2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: Takuya Minakawa
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Grey Goo
    



Series: Lights | Piece number 3
Release date: 01/2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Grey Goo" by Takuya Minakawa
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mmmmmmmh
    
 


Release date: 01/2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "mmmmmmmh" by Thierry Massard
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Other Moons
     



Release date: 02/2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Music: "Où étiez-vous ?" by Thierry Massard
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Exoplanet
     



Full screen and headphones recommended

Release date: 06/2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Notes: Promo video for Bernhard Reiss' new album
Music: "Exoplanet" by Bernhard Reiss
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Stillness
     



Full screen and headphones recommended

Release date: 09/2011
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Music: "Overture" by Thomas Raukamp
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Falls And Flips
     



Full screen and headphones recommended

Release date: 01/2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Music: "BFR10" by Daisuke Tanabe
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Tao 
     



Full screen and headphones recommended

Release date: 01/2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Music: "BFR02" by Daisuke Tanabe
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Behind The Limits 
       



Full screen and headphones recommended

Release date: 04/2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Music: "Evening Roads" by Manrico Montero   
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Unconventional Meeting
     



Full screen and headphones recommended

Release date: 06/2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Music: Takuya Minakawa 
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Going The Distance

here

Full screen and headphones recommended

Music: "Shift Dialogue" by Junichi Akagawa

Series: Lights and Movement | Piece number 4
Release date: 04/2013
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Also, here's a list of favorite releases from 2012, compiled by Laura:

• Ametsub - All is Silence (Nothing66)
• Kane Ikin - Sublunar (12K)
• Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One (Touch)
• Jonas Ruchenhever - Machines & Corners (The Pyngwen Society & Pocket Fields)
• Simon Scott - Below Sea Level (12K)
• Atom TM - Winterreise (Raster-Noton)
• Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya (Denovali Records)
• Juan Antonio Nieto - The Voice Inside (Electronic Musik)
• Martijn Comes - Wolf (Unreleased)
• Darren McClure - Into Action (Rural Colours)
• Chris Weeks - A Haunting Sun (Nibbana)
• Pjusk - Tele (Glacial Movements Records)
• Matthew Halsall - Fletcher Moss Park (Gondwana Records)
• Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet (Real World Records)
• Avishai Cohen - Duende (Blue Note Records)
• Junichi akagawa - I, All Things (Hz-records)
• Yu Miyashita - An Arc (vvhy)
• Kidkanevil And Daisuke Tanabe - Kidsuke (Project Mooncircle)
• Shigeto - Lineage (Ghostly International)
• Lone - Galaxy Garden (Japanese Edition) (Beat Records)

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Links:     
Laura Focarazzo (website) (myspace) (vimeo)