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Walk at monkey town

Claim Your Place Barcelona/New York/Toulouse, 2009-
with Nuria Legarda, Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger.

"Claim Your Place" is a theater, film and video-installation created for large scale outdoor or indoor spaces that sits somewhere between filmmaking, theater-dance, digital art and sound design.
This project explores beauty, desire and violence. The three pieces (the installation, the multimedia theater play and the film-dance piece) are conceived as a whole but can also function independently. The video installation surrounds the audience with real-time projections as well as pre-recorded ones, putting them center stage. The multimedia theater play takes the audience on a unique journey by merging cinematic art, dance, photography, theater, visual arts and exposition. In the film-dance piece, the audience observes projected imagery from the outside as a cinematic experience. The various physical and virtual elements of Claim Your Place creates a sensorial landscape of storytelling.

Creation: Laia Cabrera and Nuria Legarda
Interpretation: Nuria Legarda
Artistic collaboration: Isabelle Duverger
Music: Erica Glyn, Nana Simopoulos
Video recording and editing: Laia Cabrera

is there an edge of belief

Is there an edge of belief (mixed media), 2009
Produced and directed by Laia Cabrera
Presented in the 2nd edition of the multidisciplinary festival "Jaen en Femenino", Jaen, Spain
“Is There An Edge Of Belief?” explores the relation, uncommonness and ethics of desire-belief-beauty. Where are the limits of our understanding of the emotions, how do we relate to the others and how do we handle the differences? I will combine visual images, movement, music, words and non-linear structures as a perfect juxtaposition of the subject matter and performance style. All objects and images are more than what first meets the eye, just as the visual imaginary evolves into a whole world of humanity.

New York

New York (mixed media) 2008
Created and edited by Laia Cabrera
Raw Footage by David Besora
Presented in the exhibition "NY (p) NY (f) David Besora" at the Sala Gòtica, Insitut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain, from July 3 to September 14, 2008
A 24-hour journey in New York.

Singularity (digital film) 2006
Produced and directed by Laia Cabrera
Inagurated the International Video and Animation Festival "Animac" in Spain, Lleida 2006.
Singularity” embodies and exemplifies these hybrid art-making practices and our changing sense of space/nonspace. The piece employs a 3-canvas video using the imagery and symbolism from many sources. The piece is about the transitory nature of life and our intent to grasp, capture the instant. The soundtrack has original music and a voice over of two women contrasting feeling and thoughts in order to understand their sense of strangeness with life.

Invisible (Narrative-Experimental 16mm film) 2005
Produced and directed by Laia Cabrera.
Artistic-experimental film merging a narrative form with mental-abstract states. The film intends to frame the connection between micro and macro, the invisible labyrinths that connect us with the unconscious and the sudden changes that are beyond our expectations in life. Invisible uses digital projections too as a metaphor of ideas and dreams becoming objects.

Oficial selection Milano Film Festival 2006; Kinoforum Festival “Mostra International” Brasil 2005; Spain in New York, calendar of Cultural Events January-February 2005, Consulate General of Spain; Screening of Invisible with filmmaker talk at Topia Arts Center, MA

Dropped

Dropped (mixed-media), 2003
Produced and directed by Laia Cabrera.
A multimedia essay about memory and oblivion.
We should talk about another memory. Not limited to remembrerance. A memory made body, behavior. A memory is Act. It is impossible to invent a technique of forgetting, because it is impossible to forget an act of will. Without memory there is no survival. To remember is to select.

Knowledge Union, Media Studies Screening program, NYC

Under Influence

Under Influence (Experimental film 16mm color film) 2001
Produced and directed by Laia Cabrera.
Best Cinematic Film at the 23rd. Annual Invitational Film Festival, New York.
Experimentations on how light affect the emotional and mental state of the viewer. This piece was shot in 16mmm and was presented in landscapes among other festivals accompanied by a symposium in which the artist was invited to talk.
"I wanted to talk about making choices in life - choices that are under some sort of influence and that we must accept as a part of our nature. The main character decides not to get up from bed because "being afraid of deception", she prefers to live her life in her mind. But being in bed is a choice in itself. It is not bad or good, it is just a choice. I wanted to point out that living in a mental state is not necessarily a form of escape. In this case, it is the character personal way of approaching existence." Laia Cabrera

Land Escapes Mount Desert Symposium in the Arts. Bar Harbor, Maine, USA; The 23rd Annual New School Invitational Film Festival. New York, USA; Enfoque en NY. Quito, Ecuador. New York, USA; Screen Addictions Exhibition of video creations, Barcelona, Spain

Falling Apart

Falling Apart (digital film) 2004
Co-direction and cinematography. Produced by Vertiginosas islands, NY.
Cast: Jordi Rico, Carme Poll
"Relationships and the difficulty to communicate. In this case, the problem is not the lack of communication, but over-communication. When are we really saying what we want to say? When are we being understood as we would like us to be understood? When are we really listening when we are just thinking that we are listening? Words are a tricky thing, especially when we over-analyse them. The couple in "Falling Apart" is just an ordinary couple, their problem starts when they want to be so specific about what they are saying that they actually miss what they are saying." Maria Litvan

Lines

LINES (Narrative-Experimental film 16mm color film) 1998
Co-direction and film editing. Produced by Vertiginosas islands, NY.
"Lines is entering into an imaginary space in which everything "is the truth and nothing but the truth", but at the same time "it is all lies". It is a journey in which there are no clear limits, time and space are all at once - there is no past, no present, no future, no here, no there. It is a journey in which our need to organize and understand things is left without explanatory cues. We are then free to interpret anything and anyone just as we want; perhaps as we do in "real" life." Maria Litvan
Lines is a short-film production. There are plenty of technical challenges presented by the film and its concept: presentation of the unpresentable, erasure of boundary between past and present, nostalgia, parody, voyeurism, sexual ambiguity and the characteristics of an independent short film: anti-theatrical, thought provoking and emphasis on the structure of individuals shots.