Svankmajer, Jean Cocteau, Maja Deren, The Quay Brothers, Czech surrealism, David Lynch, french surrealist writing (Boris Vian above all), Paula Rego and Marcelle Hanselaar’s graphic works, Borges, Calvino, Tom Waits’ and Nick Cave’s storytelling, Michael Ende, Edward Gorey, Ladislaw Starewicz, Yuri Norstein, Paradjanov, Bruno Schulz, rainy days and sunny days in rapid alternation, foxes screaming in my garden in north London at night, the confusion between dreams and reality (i.e. waking up and looking for that manuscript with a blue cover that I had written while asleep), the passing of time etched on clocks that have ceased their ticking, the unexpected harmony between found objects, the echoes that carry on through time and whisper a story long forgotten yet always alive within, Milorad Pavic, nomads, Eastern Europe, the Tbilisi Marionette Theatre, improvised music, Lech Jankowski, the dust that settles, the doors that creak open, sleeping buildings in small forgotten villages in the south of Italy, hands that look like the earth, wrinkles that turn an old face to paper, ancient stories that come find you in unexpected places, incomprehensible languages that sound like my childhood, sudden laughter, the fear of death..................
CHARON
Official Selection Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Official Selection Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge, UK
Official Selection Leeds Film Festival, Leeds, Uk
Official Selection Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
Official Selection Busho International Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Screening at Carnival of Samhain, New York, USA
Screening at Tenderpixel Gallery, London, UK
關於我： Chiara Ambrosio was born in Rome in 1980.
In 1999 she moved to London, where she gained a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Film and Theatre studies from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
As part of her MA research, she spent five months in Prague where she studied puppetry and direction with Petr Matasek at DAMU where she discovered the surreal, absurdist world of czech and eastern European animation and literature, an encounter which had a deep impact on her artistic sensibility.
Her work developed as an exploration into ideas of memory, loss and illusion through animation, photography and video installation.
Apart from her short films, Chiara collaborates with performers, musicians and dancers on multimedia events that explore the interaction between the frame and real space, mediated time and present time, the imagination and the real.
Presently, this collaborative work includes lighting design, projections and photography for Helena Hunter’s show “Tracing Shadows” (presented at the Royal Opera House, London, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow), projections and video installations for Cellorhythmics String Quartet, and an ongoing collaboration with composer MichaeL Nyman.
Chiara works as a freelance music video/documentary director and commercial photographer. Projects have included press photography for Patrick Wolf and The Scanners, music video commissions for Transgressive Records, Dim-mak Records, Southern Fried Records and Saatchi & Saatchi.
She has also directed documentaries for Kensington Palace, Bexley Arts Council and Rose Bruford College, London. Chiara frequently collaborates with sound designer/musician Mark Peter Wright (aka Hands of Sand) and cinematographer Michal Rulka.
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your Salon on Tuesday was quite exceptional, very very interesting and inspiring. Pity we had to leave earlier and to miss some of the videos. Well done for putting everything together and hope to see you soon.
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SEX AND CONSPIRACY! Swedish punkrocker and painter Karl Backman talks about his art, and the reactions to it from right wing christians, pee fetish girls and conspiracy theorists.
MYTHOLOGIES AND LIFE! French graphic designer and writer Laurent Rivelaygue discuss nightmares and a road movie in bumper cars.
GRACE AND ELEGANCE! American artist Betsy Jones talks about geometric landscapes, happiness and the arts of the geisha.
Wow! Chiara this looks like a truly wonderful evening.....I hope there will be more in the future for me to come to, as I am off to Bath that night to perform live moving images....!! It would be so great to meet up and talk sometime. Are you interested in doing a collaboration??
La redazione di MOVIEMENT ha omaggiato i grandi maestri del cinema horror italiano dedicando il 4° numero della collana agli HORROR MADE IN ITALY. Bellissimi saggi scritti da qualificati autori descriveranno il periodo d’oro degli anni ’60, e non solo… ci racconteranno dei grandi registi che hanno fatto scuola in tutto il mondo: Freda, Bava, Fulci, Argento, etc…. Non mancheranno riflessioni sulla musica, sulla sceneggiatura… verranno analizzati alcuni film e ci saranno importanti interviste a Tim Lucas (biografo di Bava), Paolo Fazzini (autore di un bellissimo documentario) e al maestro Sergio Stivaletti (che non ha bisogno di presentazioni)… per chiudere un articolo su un bellissimo incontro tenuto con Marco Werba, compositore ed esecutore delle musiche dell’ultimo film del maestro Argento. Da I Vampiri di Freda a l’ultimo Giallo di Dario Argento. Ci sarà da divertirsi!!!! La distribuzione nazionale avverrà a NOVEMBRE, vi ricordiamo a tal proposito che i libri della Gemma Lanzo Editore sono distribuiti da NdA (www.ndanet.it). Su internet lo potete trovare su www.moviementmagazine.com . Ancora una volta il prezzo di copertina della MOVIEMENT COLLECTION rimane invariato a 10E per un libro in A4 di 150-160pagine. Siamo pazzi? No… amiamo il cinema!!! Un saluto a tutti!!
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