Private Project

Encounters #1

Encounters.
A series of interspecies conversations.
Listen to nature and animal wisdom.

The film takes place in a forest, where a human character who is making field recordings suddenly comes face to face with a bear.

This animated short film deals with the interaction between humans and animals.
It also addresses the practices of sound exploration (Field Recordings), the technologies and materialities of these listening practices, the limits of human listening, the animal voice, and the arbitrary human interpretation of the soundscape of nature and its voices.

In this sudden encounter between two worlds, an unlikely exchange occurs when, after the initial shock, the characters begin to talk to each other. This conversation wants to reveal and highlight the view and actions of what we understand as nature, and how we approach it in an intrusive way, given the distance and lack of understanding we have about it.

  • Julio César Palacio
    Director
  • Julio César Palacio
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    nature, ecology, shortfilm, videoart, environmental, fiction
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 23 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 11, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Venezuela
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Julio César Palacio


Julio Cesar Palacio's work has a very organic and exploratory approach that is reflected in the variety of formats and forms of representation that he uses in each of his projects, since he does not seek a defined materiality, construction, or object, but rather, it is inspired by the search for new possibilities to listen and envision our existence in relation to the earth and nature.

His practice focuses on the research and study of acoustic phenomena, the expansion of the range of human auditory perception, the spatialization of sound, decolonial and non-western perspectives on sound and listening, the relationship of sound in identity and collective memory, oral history, noise pollution and the impact of humans on nature, the study of bioacoustics and the analysis of sound DATA as material for awareness and conservation of the environment and its soundscape, understood in the context of today's climate crisis and instability.

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