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One of the great concerns that we have had in times of pandemic, has undoubtedly been how much it would affect us physically and mentally to be confined, not being able to see our loved ones. Under this concern, and reviewing some articles on the web, we found an experiment carried out by Donald Hebb in the 1950s where he decided to isolate a number of volunteers (separated from each other) in a space that was completely devoid of stimuli. Under these extreme conditions, volunteers began to experience multiple auditory and visual hallucinations over time. Sombra is a video that was made under confinement due to quarantine, where we have also been deprived of significant human contact. Hence, Shadow explores in a metaphorical sense, about the effects of isolation in relation to our sense of body, time and space. As mentioned above, our sensory perception can be affected as a result of confinement, causing our minds to create a science fiction world, questioning the idea of authenticity or whether what we see or hear is real or not. In the realization of Sombra, we have used a video game platform, in which we re-use scenarios and characters that have been previously created / simulated, modifying certain functionalities and aesthetic elements typical of these video games, and reorganizing them within the virtual scenario, with the objective to produce a cinematographic short film under what is known as Machinima. Characters and fictional worlds are digitally cloned, multiple versions of a trapped and duplicated character an endless number of times, which sometimes manages to "escape" from her mind by projecting her body onto more simulated information, generating various layers of representations. *Project in collaboration with Pedro Sabatini.

Bárbara Oettinger (Santiago, 1981) has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the University of Chile and a Master of Arts degree from the Catholic University of Chile. She has participated in various exhibitions and screenings in cultural centers, galleries and museums in Chile, Perú, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, U.S., India, Indonesia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Spain, France, Portugal, Korea and Taiwan. Currently, she holds a Master of Fine Arts in Integrated Practices degree from Pratt Institute, New York, U.S, funded by the chilean government / CONICYT. My current projects are encounters with dialogues, with a focus on testimonies that retain historical meaning, while telling of the psychological experience. Testimonies not only based on the supposed immediacy and accuracy of the historical source, but also on the subjective construction of different narratives. Pedro Sabatini (Santiago, 1979) has a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema. During these last 3 years he have been working on advertising film production. He has experience in adapting to all kinds of budgets while remaining competitive. His contributions are linked to the fascination for independent cinema and the search for new languages. His work has been recognized as best fiction short film UNIACC (Santiago, Chile), best international documentary ARCOS (Santiago, Chile), and official selection in Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine (France).