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GONZALO EGURZA

2017 Argentina EXP 5 '

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The scene of repression on the Odessa steps in Sergei Eisenstein’s film Battleship Potemkin is chaotically reorganized using a digital algorithm. Generating thus, a random and singular montage.

biografia

His artistic production in Film, Video and Multimedia, focuses on research as a process of creation; from where he rehearses reflections on the family archive, found-footage, tradition, socio-political processes and the history of cinema. Using the crossover between audiovisual formats, as a means for the development of critical thinking. He has been awarded with the 1st price in the 2011 edition of Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata; The prize to Argentinean creation at Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM); Honorific mention at 22.º Curtas Vila do Conde; and the public award at FEDAXV 2015. Born in Buenos Aires in 1984, he graduated at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires where he studied film direction. He works as a professor at Universidad del Cine [FUC] and Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero [UNTREF]. He is also a founding member of Colectivo ARKHÉ, focused on research, teaching, management and production of audiovisual works.

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