Spain
Statement
A few years ago I heard the concept of millenary inequality, and I understood that my work, consciously or unconsciously, had always gone this way. My interests as a receiver and producer of images follow this path of the peripheral, the marginal, whether physical spaces or human presences: non-places and non-existences, and how that marginality has a political and economic utility in all societies. Marginality and inequality tend to go together. But, what is the discourse of marginalized people? And what are the right ways to represent them?
To these interests has been incorporated a personal awareness and growing in three senses: an actively feminist view, the need to speak explicitly or tangential way (or millenary) problems arising from the new geopolitics and the existence of an excess of images that end up being banalized by repetitive. At the same time, as a form of expression, I am particularly interested in the language of so-called non-fiction (between fiction and documentary, between reality and the performative), the film portrait in its multiple forms (through fragmented bodies, the close up faces, the objects, the absences) and the deconstruction of the official stories to reveal stereotypes and interests.
I work with video and sometimes photograph. I film with a little handycam or with a more professional camera, it depends on the context and the texture that I feel that each image demands. But I really build my pieces playing in the edition with synchronization between image and sound. Capturing images of the others, so distant to me, however, it also ends up being a way of self-portrait and of knowing, recognizing and vindicating my own marginality from my origins until my present.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from 01/04/2019 to 30/06/2019
GlogauAIR Project
The provisional title of my project in GlogauAIR is They are here, like those indications that there are in the bus or metro stops that indicate the exact location in the city. The intention is to carry out a reflection on migration and cities, specifically around migrant women, based on the previous study that was prepared in my city Castellón (Spain) in which I conducted in-depth interviews with some fifteen Romanian women more than 45 years old. These women who migrate to support their families in their countries of origin, are always “here”, regardless of the city we are talking about, and their social function and problems will be very similar.
Women, migration, identity, presence, corporality, spatiality, temporality … are the concepts among which my work in Berlin will pivot, mainly attending meetings and recordings with other migrant women, either outside or inside the residence, or recording plans Generals or sustained close-ups, always taking into account the importance of the sound of the moment (their isolated voices or the soundscape of the city).
CV Summary
Pilar Ramo Vizárraga (1977, Castellón).
- Licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual (Castellón, 2014).
- Freelance realización audiovisual.
- Fundadora y comisaria de Sessió Contínua, una actividad de cinefórum para visibilizar el audiovisual de la región en todos sus formatos: narrativos, videoarte, no ficción, webseries, etc. La actividad se desarrola en una institución pública y desempeña una labor importante en pedagogía audiovisual de los nuevos lenguajes audiovisuales.
Formación
- 2018 – Seminario sobre nuevos usos del material de archivo audiovisual en Hangar, en Barcelona.
- 2017 – Taller de cine independiente con Antoni Padrós, Tarrassa, en Barcelona.
- 2017 – Taller de autorretrato con Andrés Duque, impartido en el Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, en Castellón.
- 2017 – Taller Estrategias colectivas de autorrepresentación, impartido por Chus Domínguez, en Valencia (10 horas).
- 2016 – Taller Found footage: repensar las imágenes, impartido por Carolina Astudillo y Ana Pfaff , en Barcelona.
- 2016 – Curso de montaje de documental impartido por Diana Toucedo, en Barcelona.
- 2016 – Curso de diseño de sonido en Escuela Mastermedia, Valencia.
- 2016 – Taller de retrato filmado (documental) impartido por Virginia García del Pino, en Barcelona.
- 2014 – Seminario Cine de No Ficción impartido por Virginia García del Pino y Víctor Moreno, entre otros, en la Asociación de Cine Documental de Madrid.
- 2013 – Seminario de formación en documental impartido por Patricio Guzmán, en la Asociación de Cine Documental de Madrid.
- 2011-Curso de cine documental impartido por Isaki Lacuesta, en el Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, con la codirección del cortometraje “The End”.
- Licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual (2013)
- Licenciada en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (2000)
OBRAS EXHIBIDAS
VÍDEO FILM ENSAYO / VIDEOCREACIÓN
- Pieza audiovisual Mindfulness, seleccionada por Cultura Film (revista de cine, arte y política en formato vídeo) y proyectada en el Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. 2015.
- Pieza audiovisual De carne y tiempo, seleccionada en el Festival de Teatro de Almagro. 2014.
- Pieza audiovisual Como un hombre, integrada dentro del film colectivo El vídeo del minut: representació dels excessos, por la Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones en Barcelona y coordinado por TRAMA, coordinadora de muestras y festivales de cine, vídeo y multimedia. 2014.
OTRAS OBRAS AUDIOVISUALES
- El diario de Marianne. Filme ensayo. 2015.
- La parada. Cortometraje ficción. 2014.
- Las condesas de Sandwich. Cortometraje ficción. 2013.
