Category: art
-
DIGITALIZE, REVERZE
For a pencil drawing to make its way onto a screen, it needs to undergo considerable transformation. Turning black on white into white on black is an even greater challenge—not to mention when the paper is another colour. In these instances, even more than in the previous ones, you will have to make decisions that…
-
TIME, HOPE & LOVE
Soprano saxophone and harp, in the arrangement by Asya Fateyeva and Luise Enzian, of “Spera, mi disse amore” (“Love Told Me to Hope”). The melodic lament of composer and harpist Orazio Michi “dell’Arpa” is brought to us by Deutsche Grammophon in 2024 and made available to the public. The harp introduces the story that is…
-
SONO IO? MAGNÍFICO
In the late 80s and early 90s in Chile, there was not much entertainment for children, aside from some television and a few public squares with metal playground equipment (slides, seesaws, and spinning circular seats). In Santiago there were two amusement parks, and there were probably other traveling ones, mostly machines and “corporeos” (people dressed…
-
NOSFERATU (1972-1973)
Nosferatu “una escenita criolla” (1972–1973) is a Chilean independent medium-length film made by Hernán Castellano, which remained hidden throughout the entire Chilean military regime in order to preserve it from censorship and the destruction of cultural assets during the raids of the regime’s early years. The story is about a vampire who arrives from outer…