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Faro is a portrait of the lighthouse of Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy), one of the last lighthouses in the south of the Mediterranean. The lighthouse illuminates the unknown, embraces the borders of the extreme lands. Every lighthouse possesses an identity, a light’s signature code that allows sailors to identify where they are: Santa Maria di Leuca has 3 light beams; its first beam offers half a second of light, followed by two and a half seconds of darkness, then half a second of light, followed by two and a half seconds of darkness, then once again half a second of light, and it finishes up with eight and a half seconds of darkness. And then the cycle starts all over again. Casas portrays its spirit, its behaviour and its evocative power. The artist studied the light, which in the Finis Terrae begins with the horizon and ends with a contrary rhythm regarding the lights switching on and off in the lighthouse in Santa Maria di Leuca.

Carlos Casas, (b. 1974, Barcelona, Spain) Lives and works between Paris and Barcelona. His last three films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and his film works and installations have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions internationally. He has concluded a trilogy of films, END dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral Sea, and Siberia. Avalanche an a lifelong project and site-specific film project based on one of Pamir highest inhabited village has been presented in different museums, festivals and gallery spaces around Europe and the USA. His films have been shown in festivals like Venice Film festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, FID Marseille, BAFICI Buenos Aires, Jeonju Festival, South Korea, Documenta Madrid, FICCO Mexico and others. His works have been presented in museum and spaces like Tate Modern, London, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Bozar Bruxelles, Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro, MIS Sao Paolo, Center Pompidou, Fondation Cartier, Paris, Centre Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Malba Buenos Aires, GAM, Torino. Cemetery his latest project on production is a take on the myth of the elephant cemetery. He was creative director of Colors Music and Films from 2005-2008 where he developed audiovisual projects and music research in various regions around the world. He is co-founder of Map Productions and the visual sound label Von Archives. He is visiting professor at Dartmouth College USA, and ECAM Madrid, Spain.