Blood Roots
(Experimental) a real tale with horror elements - Women empowerment Film
When the earth opens it shows the blood of our roots beating in the tree of our life...
This project is not exactly experimental, if we understand it without narrative. Although any experiment with new approaches leads to new narratives or new ways of thinking and looking at the real / imagined (as Barnett would say). This project lives in that contradiction (pointed by Liada) between the experimetal tradition, always narrated by men, where the structure of language is what gives the meaning and the forms that arise from the need to shape an emotion or fiction.
Here I have needed to put images to some emotions of a true story. This truth is stranger than fiction and, to avoid falling into the drama, I have adopted the form of a story-tale explained with titles inspired in the the silent movies.
The story-tale allows us to stand back from reality and to universalize the experience by approaching the mythical or archetypal language that speaks to our individual / collective emotions.
In this w
ay I could explain my father's life-death using elements of experimental language emotionally to show as a fiction a true story-tale.
Daniel Barnett's Coment:
Extremely beautiful and poignant. Every film of yours I see I understand better what make them unique. My only quibble was that I thought the sound in Part II was a little melodramatic. THis is a fulm I will want to watch many times. Thank you.
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Rrose PresentDirector
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Rrose PresentWriter
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Rrose PresentProducer
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short
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Runtime:15 minutes 56 seconds
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Completion Date:May 3, 2019
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Country of Origin:Spain
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Country of Filming:Spain
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Night of Drama ShortsMilano
Italy
February 15, 2021
Mundial
HONORABLE MENTION -
Mokkho International Film FestivalLawspet
June 12, 2021
Asia
Best Women’s [International & Indian Short Film] -
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA ROSHANI 2022Maharashtra
July 7, 2021
BEST OTHER PROJECT -
Bettiah International Film Festival 2021Bettiah
October 20, 2021
BEST Foreign Short
Distribution Information
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https://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/present-rrose-blood-rootsDistributor
Rrose Present was born in Barcelona where she graduated in Fine Arts for the University of Barcelona. Beca Séneca audio-visual UPV. She also holds a Masters degree in Philosophy of Contemporary Art from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Fundació Miró. She works experimental moving images with a double sense of reality: the PRESENTIAL, using the body as a tripod for her emotions, and the RE-PRESENTATIONAL, with the series of "video 'without-camera' reinterprets 'camera-world'".
Some Festivals
2019 WMMINT We Make Movies International Film Festival, Los Angeles – WVSFF West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, USA - 2019 AXW Another eXperiment by Women Film Fest Screening “Entitled” in Anthology Film Archives, NYC- 2019 April, Festival Oodaaq, IMAGES NOADES & POÉTIQUES, Saint-Malo, Rennes, France - 2019 FUSION OF HORIZONS: Daniel Barnett & Rrose Present Screening, FLUX Club (FLUX Festival) l'Antic Teatre, Barcelona - 2018 DOBRA Festival Internacional de CINE EXPERIMENTAL, Cinemateca Museu, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - 2018 LES INATTENDUS 11 Festival de films (très) Indépendedants. Ville de LYON, France - 2018 AXW, ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, New Filmmakers NY Anthology Film Archives NYC - 2018 aDifferent Festival / aCinema // Program Installations Indépendedants / Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Usa - 2018, NEW YEAR NEW WORK sreening The Filmmakers Cooperative NYC - 2018 FESTIVAL IMAGES CONTRE NATURE, Marsella, Francia - 2017 Selección l'Alternativa Hall, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, CCCB, Barcelona -
BLOOD ROOTS by Danier Barnett:
Extremely beautiful and poignant. Every film of yours I see I understand better what make them unique. My only quibble was that I thought the sound in Part II was a little melodramatic. THis is a fulm I will want to watch many times. Thank you.
Daniel Barnett
“The films of Rrose Present are like haiku: precise, ambiguous, and deeply resonant.
Rrose's films are precisely honest. Their power derives from the juxtaposition of crisply evocative rhythms and imagery that is both personal and deep.
The overall form of many of them is to begin the entrainment of thinking in one direction and then shift direction to carve a precise shape in thought. The levels of introspection this creates are like the stages in discourse.The complexity of the relationship between the direction of thought and the rhythms that propel it are wonderful.”
Daniel Barnet
Filmmaker and autor of the book “Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema”