Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer.

"Both Breath and Clay. Fragments of a Ritual Prayer" is an embodied exploration of the mythical theme of the night-sea-journey.
This experimental poetry film unveils the intricate poetic rituals woven into the fabric of our chimeric bodies, embraces rhizomatic existence, and meets the wound’s space as a prayer in a perpetual state of becoming.
By capturing image physicality and texture through the lens of Digital Cameras, MiniDV, and the recording of screens and projected images, the film immerses viewers in a dreamlike sensory journey intertwined with the lyrical and spoken word of poetry.

  • Marc Samper Vidal
    Director
  • Maria Constanti
    Writer
  • Maria Constanti
    Producer
  • Maria Constanti
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 28, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany, Greece
  • Language:
    English, Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 2K resolution.
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Marc Samper Vidal

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Exhibitions, Films & Residencies

2022. Presentation and screening of the audiovisual piece - Desktop art-doc "Lost in Representation” at
the Centre D'Arts Santa Mónica in Barcelona.
2022 Participation in an Experimental Film Laboratory held at the Centre D'Arts Santa Mónica in
Barcelona.
2022 Solo Exhibition of Photography and Digital-art prints at AVIV 030 Berlin.
2020-21 Solo Exhibition of the Video Installation project “The Hanging Gardens or the Virtuality of the
Events. Haiku on Screen”. Urban Nation Berlin.
2020-21 FRESH A.I.R Residency at Urban Nation Berlin. October 2020-April 2021.
2021. Selection and screening of “If the eye were an animal, its soul would be the sight” at the III
International Experimental Film Festival of Istanbul.
2021. Screening of the Film “If the eye were an Animal, its soul would be the Sight”. Urban Nation Berlin.
2021 Group exhibition of photography at the Kühlhaus Berlin organised by the gallery BBA Berlin, as part
of the BBA photography prize 2021.
2021 Nomination for the ONE SHOT AWARD organized by the gallery BBA Berlin (BBA photography prize
2021), for one of the photos of the series Mäusebunker. 2021.
2021- Direction of Photography and Co-production of the short film “Evidència”, screened at the
exhibition of the photographer Joan Fontcuberta “Evidències”. Fundació Vila Matas - Universitat Pompeu
Fabra Barcelona.
2021. 5 channel Installation "Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?”, with
Dorit Chrysler. Urban Nation Berlin.
2020. Screening of the film Marathonas organised by CULTURA FILM REVISTA. 2020
2016. Artist in Residence at Y Residence Athens.

Studies

2011-2013 Master's Degree in “Cinema and Contemporary Audiovisual Culture”. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona (UPF)
2008-2011. Degree in Philosophy. Univesitat de Barcelona (UB).
2013-2015. Master Degree in Humanist Psychotherapy. Instituto Rogers de Barcelona.
2014-2015 Postgraduate course in Publics del patrimoni (Interpretation of Natural and Cultural Heritage).
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya- Universitat de les Illes Balears (UOC- UIB).
2019. Course in Cinematography and lighting in Cinema, Video, and TV. CIFO Hospitalet.
2017-18. Course of specialization in Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve. Escola de Cine de Barcelona
(ECIB).
2016-17. Course on editing techniques in Adobe Premiere and Final Cut. CIFO Hospitalet.
2014-2015 Postgraduate course in Publics del patrimoni (Interpretation of Natural and Cultural Heritage).
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya- Universitat de les Illes Balears (UOC- UIB).
2021. Course “Two-dimensional serial reproduction. Techniques of copying and editing of artistic graphic
work”. Escola Massana Barcelona.
2015. Specialization course in “Psychopathology and psychopharmacology. A look from humanism and
existentialism”. Instituto Rogers Barcelona.

Collaborations 2021-2022.

2022. Collaboration with the performer Mersiha Messiha recording the video of the performance:
Decolonial Listening; messiha's Sound Body, spatializing the Urban unconscious in Barcelona. Folkstaden
- ECRN - Göteborgs Konsthall - Coincidències - Terrats en Cultura Creative Europe Barcelona 2022.
2022. Recording of the video "The Tide" with musicians Christos Barbas, Ramon prats, Joao Silva and
Sasha Agranov.
2022 Recording and editing of the film "Viento" with the painter and artist Nathalie Karagianis.
2021. Collaboration with musician and artist Dorit Chrysler and Moog Europe GmbH in the recording of a
Theremin performance at Galerie im Körnerpark. Berlin 2021.
2021. Editor of the audiovisual material in the MOVEO and TESEO projects of the Pompeu Fabra
University, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the European Union.
2021. First assistant cameraman during the shooting of the short film "El Lugar Fundamental", directed by
Carolina Sourdis Arenas, and with the support of FDC (Colombian film development fund) and ICEC
(Catalan institute of cultural enterprises)
2021. Collaboration with musician Carolina Eyck on the video recording and direction of photography of
the video Mozart's Magic Flute: Queen of the Night aria on the Theremin.
2021- Direction of Photography and Co-production of the short film “Evidència”, screened at the
exhibition of the photographer Joan Fontcuberta “Evidències”. Fundació Vila Matas - Universitat Pompeu
Fabra Barcelona.

Publications

2022 Publication of several photos from the series Mäusebunker and other digital-analog photographies
in the Magazine “Tusitala”. Barcelona, 2022.
2021. Publication of several photos from the series Mäusebunker in the book "Transformation" published
by Berlin Explorer.
2013. Publication of the text "HOLY MOTORS: STORY/S, GAME AND GESTURE" in the film magazine
"Cinergia". Barcelona
2013. Publication of the text “BORGMAN, THE GAME OF EVIL” in the film magazine "Cinergia". Barcelona

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Director Statement

I am a Filmmaker and Visual Artist from Barcelona, currently based in Paris. My work is produced, in an open and integrative way, in the fields of Video Art, experimental cinema, Photography, Digital, and New Media Art, and Installation.
Having studied a degree in philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB), a Master's in Cinema and Contemporary Audiovisual Culture at the Pompeu Fabra University, and another Master's in Humanistic Psychotherapy at the Rogers Institute in Barcelona, my center of interest is in the intersection of metaphysics, technique, and phenomenology of images in the current digital context.
I like to work in a back-and-forth path between digital and analog, both in the genesis of the image and in the search for forms of reproduction and projection and thus influence both the materiality and the missing event contained in the image.
Being influenced by artists such as Nathaniel Dorsky, Stan Brakhage, or José Val del Omar, I like to consider my work as an attempt at something like "Digital Mysticism”, an experimental ontology that moves in parameters ranging from the metaphysics of Averroes (Ibn Rush) or Henri Bergson to the new theories of the so-called Speculative Realism.