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Postapocaliptical Landscape: corporeality C100

Postapocaliptical Landscape: corporeality C100, 2021, 5 min 42, Film (MD) : C100 by Valeria Barbas is an postapocaliptical postbody landscape from the authors seria of video-abstractions, combining elements of avant-garde film, video art, and contemporary music. Parts of body, skin are binded like a score, a gestual score, interpreted in 4 hands on piano by pianist and composer Alexander Timofeev (USA), with some replics from director/composer Valeria Barbas, using also tape music, electronics.

C100 dessine un paysage post-corporel postapocalyptique, avec la série d’abstractions-vidéo de l’artiste et ce, en combinant des éléments de cinéma d’avant-garde, d’art vidéo et de musique contemporaine. Des fragments du corps, de la peau sont liés comme en une partition, une partition gestuelle, interprétée à quatre mains au piano par le pianiste et compositeur Alexander Timofeev, avec quelques répliques de la réalisatrice/compositrice Valeria Barbas, et de la musique sur bande et de l’électronique.

  • Valeria Barbas
    Director
  • Valeria Barbas
    Writer
  • Valeria Barbas
    Producer
  • valeria barbas
    Composer
  • Alexander Timofeev
    piano player
  • valeria barbas
    piano player 2
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 22, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Moldova, Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Moldova, Republic of
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Toulouse
    France
    March 15, 2025
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Valeria Barbas

Valeria Barbas, (born 1984) is a multi-media artist, based in Republic of Moldova. 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. Winner of National Youth Award in literature and art (2011). 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 ANTHILL, Alternative Cinema.
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.
PhD in study of art and culturology.
Working medium: film experimental, arthouse, video-art, sound, installation, performance.
Having a different background, Valeria Barbas is activating as a film director, and as performer of her own projects.
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Workshops selected (film)
Workshop of documentary film with M. Gilbert (USA) in the frame of Moldox Festival of documentary film, 2016, RM
Workshop of documentary film for woman directors with Johanna Bernhardson (Sweden) in the frame of Moldox Festival of documentary film 2017, RM
Telefilm Workshop of documentary film with Thomas Ciulei, Giovanni Robbiano, 1918, RM
MILAP Workshop in film production, 2019, RM
Recent activity 2020-2021:
Her films have been selected at around 20 festivals in the past four years, including:

Clujotronic – Electro Arts Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2021)
Simultan Festival, Timișoara, Romania (2021)
RADAR New Media Art, Bucharest, Romania (2021)
In-Sonora Festival, Madrid, Spain (2021)
Toronto International Women Film Festival (2021)
XXVIIIth Rencontres Internationales Traverse (2025, upcoming)
She participated in the 54th Venice Biennale in Italy (2011), as part of the GHOST PAVILION campaign with Pavilion for Rent, curated by St. Rusu.

Email: valeriabarbas@gmail.com
Tel: +373 69288077
Web: https://valeriabarbas.com/

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