| The Two Teams Team |
| Art vidéo | xdcam HD | color | 10'0'' | Spain / United Kingdom | 2008 |
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This short film is about the differences and similarities of video-art and cinema. Two actors are chatting in a film set, on a break, in the middle of props and cables. The conversation is about film sets in film and video-art projects, they are pointing out the differences of both ways of filming. They talk about budget, emotions and about the different approaches to fiction and reality that cinema and video-art have. Along the conversation the camera is getting closer and the quality of the image becomes more cinematographic. What at the beginning was a casual video in a break of a shooting is now a proper film of two characters talking. The reality becomes seamlessly fiction until the microphone irrupts on the frame and someone shouts: cut!
Manuel Saiz started working as an artist in the 1980’s in Spain, creating paintings, sculptures,
Photography and installations. He exhibits regularly since then in public and commercial galleries worldwide. In 1989, he has taken part of a group show at the Sao Paulo Biennale and in 1990 of “Artificial Nature” curated by Jeffrey Deitch at the Deste Foundation in Athens. Since 1995, he works mainly in video art and media installations. In 1998 he moved to London where he produced “Video Hacking”, honorable mention in Hamburg Film Festival. In 2005 he produced “Specialized technicians Required: Being Luis Porcar”, first Prize in the Winterthur Kurtztfilm Festival and honorable mention in Transmediale 06. He exhibited at the Intercommunication Center (Tokyo), Transmediale (Berlin), Whitechappel gallery (London), ICA (London), among others. He has also curated artist projects wordwide.
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