Experiencing Interruptions?

Beyond the red lines

Logline
Beyond the red lines explores what is outside, beyond the borders, geographical and
physical, intimate and public space, interior and exterior.
SYNOPSIS
Sometimes there is a thin line, a red-white line that is making delimitations, seclude and divide. The symbol of boundaries is referring not only to geographical borders, political and social perspectives, but also to a very personal, body condition - physical, mental, perceptional, approaching the isolation from the green world and humans. In new postpandemic world- disconnection and un/presence in-between people, as well as with nature become critical nowadays. How much are we prepared to isolation and how to maintain the connection or to reconnect with the world, and not to lose ourselves? The impossibility of going out is however building new paths to go outside, to go beyond the lines, further.
Description
Film use and follows in a phenomenological perspective the symbols of border, questioning what is beyond borders, revealing a postapocaliptic esthetics, emptiness, and in the same time documenting the interventions made by artist Valeria Barbas in 2020. The interventions were developed in public space at countryside of Moldova, as well as in Chisinau, the capital. The movie was filmed in May, 2020, with the phone as a medium and with found materials, during selfisolation of the artist in countryside of Moldova – it goes beyond the topic, extracting from pandemic landscape specific elements, reintegrate them, creating a peculiar space/time sound score – using filed recordings from Ciorescu and Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, and sound excerpts of corona engine spike protein spectra including interaction with human ACE2 receptor elaborated by Markus J. Buehler.

  • Valeria Barbas
    Director
  • Valeria Barbas
    Producer
  • Valeria Barbas
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    experimental, videoart, conceptual, short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Moldova, Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Moldova, Republic of
  • Language:
    English, Romanian
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Simultan Media Art Festival XV ”Unseen”
    Timișoara
    Romania
    Official Selection
  • International Moving Film Festival
    Khouzestan
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    December 28, 2020
    Semi-finalist
  • Direct Monthly Online Film Festival

    January 5, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Luleå International Film Festival
    Lulea
    Sweden
    Finalist
  • Stockholm City Film Festival
    Stockholm
    Sweden
    January 8, 2021
    Finalist
  • Imaginary Mind Film Contest

    Official Selecion
  • Sweden Film Awards

    January 20, 2021
    Semi-Finalist
  • Essex DocFest
    Essex
    United Kingdom
    November 4, 2021
    selection
  • Moscow International Experimental Film Festival / online programm
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    August 11, 2021
    selection
  • Open Window International Film Challenge
    Kolkata
    India
    December 2, 2021
    Winner/Quarantine Best Film
  • Toronto International Women Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    November 18, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Valeria Barbas

Valeria Barbas, (born 1984) is a multi-media artist, based in Republic of Moldova. Having multidisciplinary artistic background, she studied for a B.A. and a M.A. in music composition, Moldovan Academy of Music, Theatre and Art. B.A. in painting, State Pedagogical University, V. Barbas combines in hers projects different mediums. Her art-investigations, also have an scientific realm, she is also PhD in study of art and culturology, author of a book dedicated to contemporary music: new music from Moldova. Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Patrimony, Academy of Sciences, Moldova. Member of Moldovan Union of Painters, Union of Composers and Musicologists, Association of women in moldovan cinematography.
Collaborates from 2008 as an artist with moldovan Center for contemporary art KSAK. Author and director of TV program ”Zona Ars” about moldovan contemporary art scene 2019-present at Moldova Public Company TV Moldova 1.
Having a different background, Valeria Barbas is activating as a film director, and as performer of her own projects, the exploration of audio-visual field in (dis)connection, co/presence with the body are one of her main interest.
Working medium: painting, performance,video-art, sound, installation, film.
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Projects: video-art and performance at European Cultural Festival TANDEM of performance, RM (2012);video-art, performance at GHOST PAVILION campaign, part of ATLANTIS’11 and HEICO project at Venice Biennale (ed.54, 2011, IT);performance at SPACES project- sustainable public areas for culture in Eastern countries,Oberliht Association, RM(2013);video-art at Art as Civic Action,Citizens of Europe,2014 Berlin;Video-art ”Amitie” at What are our ruins?project Moldova-Russia-France,KSAK,RM&Les Ateliers du Vent, FR; Claxymphonie short doc.film, selected at Cronograf Documentary Film Festival, R.Moldova; sound project at contemp.art group exh., Zacheta Project Room,Warsaw; Wärmepol installation project, collab. with Frank Schulte (DE), organised by [KSA:K]Center for contemporary art&Goethe Institut, R. Moldova. She participated in workshops of documentary film in the frame of Moldox Festival of documentary film 2016, 2017, Republic of Moldova,tutors: Melody Gilbert (USA), Johanna Bernhardson (Sweden); workshops for directors and producers of documentaries, organized by TELEFILM Atelier, USA Embassy, Republic of Moldova (tutors Thomas Ciulei,Giovanni Robbiano, Peter Badac).
- New media art residency , ”CoLaboratory” from Goethe Institut, Romania/ German Cultural Center Akzente,Moldova, project in tandem with german artist G.Stockmann. (august-september, 2020)
- Art/text residency Verbarium Covid-19 story research edition 20-21, organized by Center of Cultural Projects Azart, supported by Swiss Cooperation in Moldova, curated by Ariane Koch. (january-february, 2021)
- School of New Practices of Coexistence, Tok Curators, Sankt Petersburg (march-june, 2021)

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Director Statement

I investigate borders as phenomenon, as process, inside and outside, physical and imaginative.