Private Project

River bank

The trilogy Study about movement explores the tensions that occur between figures, forms and color when summed together in layers, in an almost chancy way. The work tries to capture the vital and invisible forces, the pure movement, as the one present in a sensation. I chose two main tools to work with: the multiple exposure of layers in the same negative film and the use of primary colors.
River bank was the first work of the series. In this work I counterpoised the movement, light and color of two different spaces that are being seen by the same observer. A trip to Delta del Tigre, Buenos Aires and a highway trip. Both melt under an extreme slow motion of the images.
Post War man and Tides are the following works of the trilogy.
(2014-2017)

  • Luján Montes
    Director
  • Luján Montes
    Producer
  • Luciana Foglio
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Litoral
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Shooting Format:
    8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4.3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2014 - London Analogue Film Festival

    United Kingdom
  • 2014 - UNTREF ENLACES

    Argentina
  • 2014 - MARFICI, sección "Tren de sombras"

    Argentina
  • 2014 - "El cine es otra cosa", muestra "Estrategias por una diversidad visionaria", MAMBA

    Argentina
  • 2014 - 29° Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata - Panorama Super 8

    Argentina
  • 2015 - Muestra "Film[S]cend - Heaving upward on a swell of bits".

    Italy
  • 2016 - 6ta Semana del Film Experimental.

    Argentina
Director Biography - Luján Montes

Luján Montes (1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina) studied filmmaking at the film school CIEVYC and Color Correction at the school of Post-production PuntoCine.
She has filmed numerous short films since 2002. Currently, she is producing her third feature film “Landscapes” supported by the Argentinean Film Institute (INCAA). Her works have taken part in national and international festivals (BAFICI, Festival Internacional de Mar del Plata, Semana del Film Experimental, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, London Analogue Film Festival, Montevideo Cine Experimental, Festival Signes de nuit, Festival Internacional de Cine Icaro, Festi Freak La Plata, Festival Internacional DerHumALC, Festival Lima Independiente, among others) and have been shown in many art venues and museums (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires MAMBA, Museo de Arte MBA-MAC de Bahía Blanca, Palais de Glace, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario dependiente del Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, Casa de Cultura del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, galería de arte Big Sur, Club Cultural Matienzo).
Since 2012, she is part of the filmmakers´ group “Club del Súper 8”, which works with super 8 formats. In 2014, they shot their first collective short film, “Delta”, and, in 2015, they edited a short films compilation named “Club del Súper 8”.
Also, she studied Photography and took particular interest in analogue Photography and experimental processes in photo lab. In 2012, Luján started the photo lab “Potosí Laboratorio ByN” where she worked as a teacher and copist. In 2016, she starts a new photo lab Project on her own called “Laboratorio Periférico”, a lab specialized in experimentation with film. Currently, she’s editing “Self Portrait” and “Traces”, black and White photographs taken between 2006 and 2016.

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