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Alex Reynolds

Esta puerta, esta ventana

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 36:11 | Espagne, Belgique | 2017

In "This Door, This Window", choreographer Alma Söderberg and musician Nilo Gallego create a blind duet, investigating the boundaries of the individual in a relation. Where do "I" end and does "we" begin? How can we live together with our personal rhythms? How do we influence, steer or manipulate each other? How do we find or lose each other? The film sits somewhere between portaiture and sonic performance, the result of fantasizing with a calculated "and perverse" use of sound and rhythm in order to consciously invade, connect, and alter the body. It reflects on the theme of cohabitation through sound, thinking of living together as a matter of listening and of negotiating rhythms, earworms and boundaries when there are no doors or windows to keep out sound, or inversely, anything may serve as door or window.

ALEX REYNOLDS is an artist and filmmaker living in Brussels and Berlin. Honing into the intersection of portraiture and fiction, her films explore the expansive and invasive potential of point of view, empathy, and rhythm, often walking the line between tenderness and violence to insistently ask: how to live together? Recent exhibitions and projects include Querer parecer noche, Ca2m, Madrid, Every Object is a Thing but not every thing is an object, Hollybush Gardens, London; This Door, this Window, Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona; La timidite? des cimes, FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Playground Festival, Leuven; She is a Film, galería Marta Cervera, Madrid; Moving Image Contours: Points for a Surrounding Movement, Tabakalera, San Sebastián; We Can't Go Home Again, CAC, Vilnius; Elisabet, Lena, Tobias', National Music and Theatre Library of Sweden, Stockholm; A Trip to the Moon, Before and After Film, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm... Her films have been screened at festivals and programmes including FIDMarseille, Les Rencontres Internationales, Aesthetica Film Festival, Kunstfilmtage Düsseldorf, or Cinematek, Brussels.