I’VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO WEDGE MY SMILES AND MY PANIC ATTACKS

Mesmerising experiments in analog audiovisual synthesis.
ack in 2017 artist and filmmaker Sara Bonaventura began an ongoing project bringing together vintage analog video synthesis and electronic music composed using analog synthesisers.

Initially joining forces with Caterina Barbieri, the first chapter of the project, As if the color was looking at you, features footage of choreographer Annamaria Ajmone manipulated using voltage controlled oscillators and patches, resulting in a mesmerising, multicolour triptych.

For the project’s second instalment Bonaventura has collaborated with Camilla Pisani, an audiovisual artist and analog synthesist based in Rome, setting another sequence of manipulated footage of Ajmone’s movements against Pisani’s seething, exploratory epic, ‘I’ve Never Been Able To Wedge My Smiles And My Panic Attacks’.

Bonaventura employs a variety of vintage analog video synthesisers, including the Rutt/Etra scan processor, a Jones coloriser and a Hearn Videolab video synth, to create multiple layers of analog effects, highlighting, blurring and at times disfiguring the form of Annamaria Ajmone’s movements.
(FACT Magazine)

  • Sara Bonaventura
    Director
  • Camilla Pisani
    Composer
  • Signal Culture
    Co-production
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 4, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Open Screening ATA Artists’ Television Access
    San Francisco
    United States
  • Muestra Internacional de Cine Experimental y Nuevos Medios La Mirada Inquieta
    Havana
    Cuba
  • Bogotá Experimental Film Festival
    Bogotá
    Colombia
  • Much of a person’s energy is radiated away... (solo screening curated by Mockjungle))
    Bologna
    Italy
  • Lacuna Festivals International
    Lanzarote
    Spain
  • Artists’ Music Video at Millenium Film Workshop
    Artists’ Music Video
    United States
  • Intermediale Festival at Ring Art Gallery
    Legnica
    Poland
Director Biography - Sara Bonaventura

Sara Bonaventura (1982) is an Italian visual artist and educator.
She works at the intersection between visual and media arts, lens based media and new media. As independent videographer she has been collaborating with performers and musicians, directing clips, ads, curating visuals.
Her video works have been screened worldwide; at the NYC Anthology Film Archives, the AXW festival, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Asolo Art Film Festival, at Studio 303 for the Montreal Nuit Blanche, the Miami New Media Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at Rome MACRO Museum, the Cinemateca do MAM in Rio for Dobra Festival, the MOMus in Thessaloniki for Videolands curated by Miden Festival, the itinerant Time is Love screening curated by Kisito Assangni, the Mexico City CODEC festival, Other Cinema at San Francisco ATA Gallery, the LA Echo Park Film Center, the Boston Cyber Arts Gallery and more.
She won the Veneto Region Award at the 10th Lago Film Fest and a merit for the 2019 Sino per NIIO Illumination Art Prizes, with one of her work displayed in one of the world biggest public screen in Hong Kong; she has been selected for several residencies, i.e. in 2016 by Joan Jonas at Fundacion Botin (Santander, Spain). Recently selected for the ISEA 2019, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, in Gwangju, South Korea.

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